Imagine being someone who doesn't know anyone, where anything is, and how to do most things. “Schooled” is about someone named Cap who was raised in a hippy commune and ends up moving to the city where he barely knows anything. In the story, Cap meets many people that change throughout the story, and they get “Schooled.” Being schooled is being taught something. “Schooled” is an appropriate title for this book.…
Joyce Meyer once said, “We don’t grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenges”. The message behind this quote is evident throughout the short story “Extraordinary Little Cough”. The group of boys that decide that they are going to go on a camping trip and find themselves going through new experiences the entire time. “Extraordinary Little Cough” shows the journey of a group of friends as the set out on their first journey all alone. Throughout the short story, “Extraordinary Little Cough”, the group of friends that set out on the camping trip show growth in different situations and in a variety of different way.…
Hi Peeps, Today's Quote "The Good Missions Act spotlights the Good Deeds of the many Wonderful Grandparents who are involved with the lives of their Grandchildren-- bridging the gap and filling in the missing information of family values, History, solid work ethics, and God's Commandments with vigor, enlightenment, excitement and experience. This is hard to do for the disobedient and inexperienced Missing in Action Grandparents." ` Jon Barnes Missing in Action There are many reasons why people are missing in action on their assignments, but the scope of this is not to address the excuses; we are focusing on the Actions. Grandparents who are doing the Good Missions Act are engaged, involved, inspired, and courageous to pick up the Cross,…
Entering into unit two of the Math 1201 course, I find that the concepts in the reading crystallize in my mind after an average of two to three readings. Failing to employ proper use of fundamental mathematical concepts appears to be the major bane that deters my ability to comprehend the material any faster. For example, neglecting to execute operations in the proper sequence caused me initial problems when converting from the general quadratic form to the standard form, specifically completing the square. Furthermore, my neglect resulted in personal doubt in my ability to perform the operation as I would arrive at an answer different than the solution contained within the textbook. Realizing the error in my conversions was a result in my…
Student Analysis Introduction This writing assignment, was completed at Sharpsville Elementary, in Mr. Anglin’s Third Grade classroom. The beginning of an Independent Read Aloud was conducted with the students. The book was a story about an immigrant family’s journey called; “Lost and Found Cat” by: Doug Kuntz and Amy Shrodes. The lesson started by asking the students if they owned or had a pet. Leading into the assignment, the students were asked to brainstorm what they think the cat has to do with the story.…
7th hour 8th grade matthew.peek@learn.shps.org 7th hour 8th grade Corey Cole STREAM CLASSMATES ABOUT Woohoo, no work due soon! VIEW…
High School Confidential by Jeremy Iverson is the true story of a 24-year-old man who decides to go back to high school as an undercover student. He attended a prestigious prep school and college, and all of his classmates were moving onto excellent careers, such as lawyers, doctors, or working on Wall Street. Jeremy did not know what he wanted to next, until the idea came to him. He had a difficult time getting a school to take him. Finally, he was able to go to Marauder High School in southern California.…
Call me old fashioned, but I love when my husband opens the door for me or gives me his jacket when I’m cold. To me, this signals his affection for me and a desire for my well being. He does it because it honors me and makes me feel special. Flowers are also a big hit with me. Leon can be a real charmer, and I soak it up like a plant soaks up water on a hot day.…
I had the pleasure of teaching Sara in her 11th grade honors English class at Mark Twain High School. From the first day of class, Sara impressed me with her ability to be articulate about difficult concepts and texts, her sensitivity to the nuances within literature, and her passion for reading, writing, and creative expression- both in and out of the classroom. Sara is a talented literary critic and poet, and she has my highest recommendation as a student and writer. Sara is talented at considering the subleties within literature and the purpose behind authors' works. She produced an extraordinary year-long thesis paper on creative identity development, in which she compared works from three different time periods and synthesized cultural and historical perspectives to inform her analysis.…
The Power of Music: Classical Vs Comical The text “Rebel Music” by Daniel Felsenfeld and the text “Weirdly Popular” by Sasha Frere-Jones deal with the main idea of music and the affect it has on people. “Rebel Music” is about Daniel Felsenfeld’s transformation and discovery as a musician. It discusses his time as a child playing piano and listening to punk music, to later finding classical music and dreaming of becoming a composer, he even says in his article that “..., having long ago colonized this planet and gone native, and active member of a community I once admired from what seemed like an impossible distance”. On the other hand, “Weirdly Popular” discusses the success of Weird Al Yankovic in the past 38 years.…
How could a textbook have it wrong? How could the information all students learned be missing key information and not even reflect the reality of most historical events? Throughout this class we have been asked to question and challenge the way history has been told and to challenge everything that has been told to us for so many years. This course accomplished that thought process for me and made me look at information given to me in a different way. Speaking from a high school perspective, most previous teachers had believed exactly what the textbook had said and didn’t question it at all as they went teaching from chapter to chapter, and having us to repetitive book work to memorize terms.…
The past eleven years at Seton Catholic School have offered me the opportunity to hone my teaching skills. I have been involved in several different aspects of education, such as implementing the 1-to-1 laptop initiative. Middle school students are a unique group of learners. In addition to academics, they are also experiencing a lot of emotional and social growth. A middle school teacher must recognize the unique challenges of each student to maximize their academic growth.…
In A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines, the idea that guidance is needed to help people who have falling in despair and they need to regain their sense of purpose. Chipping away at ignorance is needed so that the true potential of the individual is revealed. This ignorance is caused by the submission of the portion of society to a higher power who abuses said power. Grant Wiggins in the book A Lesson Before Dying, has started to lose his purpose of staying in his little town and teaching in the plantation school. The kids seem to have no progress with his teachings and even though he has gained some power through an education his social relationship with the whites has not changed.…
Since I started at Indiana University Kokomo I have taken summer courses every summer semester. I have learned firsthand that the benefits of taking summer courses are twofold. First, taking summer courses help me graduate faster than if I just went the traditional fall and spring route it would take me even longer to graduate. Next, being a psychology major there are a series of special topics courses that are only offered in the summer here. These special topics courses are always very fun and interesting courses to take.…
I have been wanting to write a advice post for high school freshmen for about a year now, so much that I wanted to start a blog focused on high school advice. Right now, I am well into my sophomore year of high school, and unfortunately, this isn't a common time to post an article like this, because most, if not all students, have gone back to school. But I couldn't not post this, because I think a lot about giving well-written, helpful advice that isn't cliche. (And by "a lot", I mean A LOT, as in almost every single day.) My next post will explain the weird timing, and also, there is no way I would want to post this during the upcoming summer, or as a junior, because I won't relate to it as well, and I'll definitely be more into the college stuff.…