Roger Sherman was an early American Lawyer, Who was a Statesman as well as a Founding Father of the United States. He was also the first Mayor of New Haven Connecticut. He was in the group of men that drafted the Declaration of Independence along with the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. Along with all of his other accomplishments he was a judge on the Superior court of Connecticut. The well-known “Connecticut Compromise” was the idea of Roger Sherman’s as well, he also was the representative for Connecticut in the United States Senate.…
Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939. His father was a professional soldier and his mother worked at a munitions factory. His parents did not make a whole lot of money, so Paulsen had to work at several different jobs. He learned to read at a very early age and developed a passion for it. Paulsen was excited about reading and decided to take a trip to the library for a new book.…
In 1776, Amarillo Lestoat was born to a powerful magical family in America. His parents were rarely around and spent most of his time with nannies, none of whom stayed very long. He was a rather rambunctious child. He was very energetic, constantly on the move, and nobody could keep up with him. The only thing that kept him quiet was reading him a story.…
In society there are various categories we were put into during the midst of our adolescence, and they are used to define us as not only students but citizens as well; Outliers: The Story of Success gave statistical explanations on how these categories either helped or harmed us. Children were and still are categorized from a young age through gifted testing, fitness testing, and standardized test testing but I could never understand why certain students performed better than others when they had the same opportunities education wise. Even applying this to my own primary school days and how well I was performing on these standardized tests, I was written off as ‘lucky’ or ‘gifted’ and I couldn’t figure out an explanation either so I went along with it. That is what the book explained to me, it explained to me why I was able to accomplish certain things others weren’t, and why others were able to accomplish things I wasn’t.…
In the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch represents pure innocence, but loses this by the end of the book. As the course of the book takes place, she comes to face with the harsh realities of life; Scout gains wisdom and understanding of these experiences at the expense of her innocence. She ages throughout the book: starting out as a naive six year old, and over three years and very real, life events, she ends the book with a very mature nine year old. Scout loses her childish image of life, and replaces it with a hardened understanding of acceptance. Taking the major and minor life events of Jean Lousie "Scout" Finch that helped shape her from innocence to understanding.…
In the children's book Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco Trisha is excited about the idea of learning how to read, but by the end of the school year she notices that some kids have already started learning to read, but she didn't. In first grade the kids could get the words right, but when Trisha looked at a page she only saw weird shapes. While the other kids were on their second or third book she was still on her first. She soon began to feel dumb. Trisha's mom got a job in California.…
He talked about how his parents read out of necessity and did not spend a lot of time on it. His parents told him that he…
¨We never Asked for wings¨ is a story about personal development, motherhood, and young love. Letty is a woman who became a mother as a teenager. She never told Wes, her love of adolescence. Letty’s parents, undocumented immigrants, raised her children while Letty combines three jobs to support her family. She loves her children, but she has been left out of raising them.…
The author thinks that there is no perfect person to be able to get into college, he expects you to be as real as possible and to show that you have failed, because it takes a lot to admit that, especially on an application. Failing helps you to better yourself and learn more about what you failed at. On your application, it makes the admission officer weary of you because they dont want to know just what you do amazing at, they want to know how you have failed and learned from it. Some kids have grown up their whole life with their parents telling them their life is all about school work, and that's not what colleges want you to think. Colleges want you to stand up for your achievements but they also want you to stand up and face your failures.…
Literacy has always been an important part of my life, but in my early years, reading and writing was a tremendous challenge for me. When I reflect back on my childhood, I’m reminded of a variety of things, moments like going camping or riding a bicycle. But most importantly, being the oldest one and having to set an example for my sisters. It’s what I had to do since I was the oldest. If I didn’t advise my sisters on the right path since the beginning, then they wouldn't be as far up the trail of education as they are today.…
Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, writes a letter outlining her opinion of the importance of literature and reading. She writes that, “[we live] in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms.” In her opinion, the minimal exposure to literature and reading are the main causes of unimaginative and prosaic minds of people these days. To begin with, she believes the amount of reading she does as a kid has an impact on the endemic precocity in her village of childhood.…
While reading the essay “I Just Want to be Average,” by Mike Rose, I noticed how his schooling experience was opposite of mine, there were few similarities between the education aspects and drastic differences. It’s not fair how the public education system works to prophet those students who have already been deemed successful before becoming an adult. Looking back, I can see how I was treated; being outgoing, energetic, academically inclined and lettered in four sports. I was passed along, seen to be successful in my educator’s eyes, I was “going somewhere,” despite coming from a poverty-stricken household. I utilized school as my escape from my home life, in specific sports.…
I had already started writing and learning to read before then, so I was already running with my understanding the magic of letters. From a young age, reading became my life. Something about growing up in a toxic environment changes people. Childhood was not a particularly easy time for me.…
“Mom! Mom! What’s her name again?” “Amelia Bedelia, Mag”, she reassured me, providing momentary relief for my frustration as I tried to read the picture book on my own. I would “read” a few pages, narrating my own version of the story and until I forgot the main character’s name.…
I heard somewhere that thinking about thinking is a sign of higher intelligence. But just thinking alone never gets done these days, much less thinking about thinking. Of course, we think about what we are going to wear to that special event, we think about all the work that we need to get done before tomorrow, we think about that really cool gadget that we saw at the store yesterday, and my personal favorite, we think about what we are going to eat later today. But is this the kind of thinking that is linked with higher intelligence? No, because then people like me would be titled as geniuses which would not be true, because we do not think critically and therefore we believe know everything when, in fact, we truly do not understand anything.…