The Student Will Watch The Teacher Crumble Up A Blank Piece Of Paper

Not all that long ago, it was dismissed as an unfortunate rite of childhood.” He then uses logos to further push his ideas. He begins to explain that bullying is not as big an epidemic as expressed. He continues on saying that educators are “divided on how effective they are on actually helping kids.” Cloud then provides statistics that contradict bullying as a growing problem. His essay then talks about how Thirty-seven percent of students do not feel safe at school and how this statistic “remained stable” for decades. His use of statistics helps him use logos, showing the reader his logical reasoning behind what he is saying. He then explains that many students are both bullies and “victimizers” saying that “the Josephson institute’s Center for Youth Ethics Found that 47% had ‘been bullied, teased or taunted’ at school but that 50% had been bullies themselves.” Cloud’s use of logos helps the reader understand and believe his

Bullies run rampant through the halls of schools across America, but fellow students are not always the problem. Teachers bully their students by using verbal abuse, causing unnecessary stress, or putting the student in harm's way. Students need the help and support of their mentors to achieve their academic goals. When the teacher becomes the bully, students cannot get the most out of their classes. Personal cases from students of Tinora High School and Karen Eubank show different ways that a teacher can cause more harm than good.

One of the first things that this author would do is to teach students how to make connections while reading. When students make personal connections with what they are reading by using their prior knowledge, it helps them to retain information. There are three main types of connections we make while reading text; we can make connections to what we are reading and our own experiences in life, we can make connections from one book to another (like reading a Nancy Drew book and reading a Trixie Belden book), and we can make connections to what we are reading and things that are going on in the world around us. By helping Jose learn to make connections while he reads, Jose will be able to more readily remember what he has read and make sense of it (Comprehension Strategies, n.d.).

We flip-flop between ignoring bullying altogether, considering it “normal” and implementing “zero tolerance” policies that don’t address the relationships among students and between students and adults. (Friedman)

Intertextuality is everywhere. Many texts, whether as a book or a movie, has a “connection” with each other. During class, we discussed many times on how one book relates to another. But what does all this work done in class have to do with anything in life or one’s future? A person may not know it, but the truth is, all these efforts are extremely helpful in one’s life. If they can make compare texts and see their association with one another, then he or she can make lots more assumptions on other various writings. This can be helpful if the person wants to understand the compositions that they are reading. As I was reading, I noticed that the writings shared a lot of the same perspectives and themes. These include the topics of vampirism,

When it comes to bullying in schools it has plenty of negative effects on some individual students. There are some kids who don’t have a problem with bullying because they are the problem.

Bullies may grow up and lead a life of ultimate rebellion or crime. These students start off with bullying and advance into acts of vandalism, theft, and alcohol and possible drug abuse. Left unchallenged, the bully will never understand that their behavior is inappropriate. The bully will grow up, victimize, and start a family of budding, pint-sized oppressors. Bullying is a learned behavior. Whereas, the victim may live a life of depression and anxiety. The victim may never reach their full potential because of fear and uncertainty. The victim has a difficult time making and keeping friends, and seeks to stay clear of confrontation. The victim loses his/her control or voice and lives in the shadow of the aggressor. Over time, the victim may begin to miss class, fake illnesses, and believe that he or she deserves bad treatment. In the end,

The everyday acts of bullying in schools is often the result of peer pressure. Peer pressure is exerted when an individual feels they must join in the behaviors of a particular social group in order to fit in. The most common types of bullying in middle and high schools include the sending of meanly worded notes and name calling. On the more extreme side of the spectrum people might casually ruin another person's relationship with gossip, lies and rumors. Many people give into peer pressure in order to be liked or to fit in. Even the sweetest and kindest kids will give into peer pressure as a form of self preservation. Those people who are able to muster the courage to go against the grain and not give in, will most certainly be happier for it in the long run. Instead of complying and buckling under peer pressure, they are free to be

Children in learning settings may come across various types of experiences like bullying, cyber-bullying, discrimination, etc. These types of experiences where perpetrator could also be a child or a group of children can disturb the process of learning. It also has long term effects on the child being bullied and the child/ group of children who are bullying.

In the “Meme World” this specific picture ridicules teachers for their illogical ways of classroom management. For this myth of how teachers handle bullying seemed more than fitting for the point I was trying to get across. The second reason why I chose this meme is because of my one liner. “Getting bullied by peers, you should toughen up”. From browsing websites and reading articles on bulling, nearly every website said to avoid phrases such as “Boys will be boys and toughen up”. According to the 50 Myths and Lies book (Berliner& Glass, 2014), “[bullying] is detrimental to the academic, physical, social, and emotional development of all parties involved-bullies, targets, and the bystanders who witness it.” If this statement is true, then why do teachers continue to fuel the fire of this

“We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.” said once by author Kristin Martz. If you’re ever in the library one afternoon, do you connect to the profiles in your book? You may not know it, but our lives are connected to what we read on the daily, in several different techniques as well. Myself, I feel my personality reflecting onto a story or text that I may be reading. Literature and life connect to each other through characterization , conflict, and narration because of relative personalities and characteristics between the reader and the character.

High school bullying has been a trend in America since Mark Twain was learning how to tie his shoes. It has been depicted in many movies and books how the antagonist (the bully) downgrades and picks on to the protagonist (the victim) throughout the protagonist's high school life in order for him or her to stand up to their bully and defeat them in a triumphant conclusion. Students in high school have been made aware of this tasteless trend in various ways during their school years and are very knowledgeable on the fact that bullying is wrong. Thus, informing this argument's readers on why bullying is fallacious is as ineffective as a person informing another person that the sky is blue. This public argument is going to attempt to persuade its'

Many kids all around the world are abused by their parents, peers or even by complete strangers. One of these types of abuse is bullying. At a first glance, we might think that it is an older kid beating/teasing a younger classmate however; bullying consists of much more than this. The basic definition of bullying is when your behavior hurts or harms another person physically or emotionally. There are many different types of bullying, which may lead to a victim becoming violent later on. There is teasing and name calling, there is also picking and shoving the kid. However, the most extreme one would be beating up the child, hurting them physically and mainly, emotionally.

The author does not give any results on what happened because it is an ongoing process. She did however, manage to give plans on what she and her colleagues plan to do in the future to attempt to put a stop to all the bullying that goes on. She plans on having more conventions and putting a plan into motion to get teachers and counselors better training on how to pick up on and handle bullying situations. She also explains her

During lesson, the teacher will ask the students to make a connection between the story and their life. The teacher is looking for students to explain their connection and how this connection helps them better understand the text. If the student can make a clear connection and give an explanation about what they learned from the connection they will pass. If the student does not, the teacher will write down their name and meet with them after the lesson to work one on one with clarify the connecting strategy and work on building the skills needed through further instruction.