History of ideas

The lesson I observed involved the ideas of addition, operations, and counting. Currently, I am a student teacher in a second grade class. The classroom is located in the Happy Hallow School in Wayland. The teacher in the class is named Deborah Niles. This particular lesson I observed was during the ‘math shuffle block’. During this time the children from the 3 different 2nd grade classes, are broken into ability groups. The children in each group then move to a different class room. This means…

socially different. Critical thinking is needed everyday in order to make the best decisions for different aspects of your life. The decisions can be which job offer you will accept or what would be the best lunch for your body. One of the most important ideas of critical thinking is having the ability to take your experiences and thoughts to connect them socially. From experience I can support the statement that critical thinking is used every day in everyones life. It is something that we all…

In “Saturday the Small Pox,” one pattern that is used throughout this passage is the use of objects or ideas to indirectly describe her beauty. In line one, Montagu describes how no one would ever acknowledge the idea of betraying her. This could be indirectly implying that men would never do such a foolish thing because her beauty is so remarkable and is the fairest of them all. To explain her contraction of smallpox, she also writes about how her beauty has fled. In line 9, she notes that her…

order to learn how to be independent ...and there are huge advantages to multi-generational living.”(Grossman) Multi-generational living is when you have people for every generation of your family living in one household. This might seem like a good idea but it does in fact increase infantilization which is bad. This is because by never leaving the nest they never venture out into the world which can cause a closed mind a well as a teen who can’t function outside of their family. An important of…

A young boy runs screaming down a long dark hall; afraid of the monster that he just witnessed coming from his room. As he runs towards his parents room he thinks of the his mother telling him that there is “no such thing as monsters”, however the fear overshadowing him right now tells him that his mother’s words were clearly false, and as he opens the door to their room he screams “Monster! Monster!”. Calmly the boy’s mother takes him down the dark hall, back into the room where he first…

Discoveries allow some individuals to experience powerful transformations whilst others remain rigid and inflexible in their thinking. The process of discovery allows one to discover the unknown or reconsider the known whilst having a positive or negative effect on them. Transformations can bring change in one’s attitude and thinking. This is certainly applicable to Ivan O’ Mahoney’s documentary, Go Back to Where You Came From, Judith Cofer’s short story, An Hour with Abuelo and James Devaney’s…

Sections IV and V of The Impossible Will Take a Little While had a multitude of deep, interesting, and entertaining pieces. Section IV focused on the use of imagination and creativity to better situations in unexpected, often unbelievable ways. Section V focused on people taking action and the resulting effect of a community bringing about change. Although the decision was difficult, I selected a favorite piece from each section to focus on. In “To Love the Marigold” Susan Griffin discusses the…

Elbow talks about his ideas on the process of writing. He says, “think of writing as an organic, developmental process in which you start writing at the very beginning – before you know your meaning at all – and encourage your words gradually to change and evolve” (Elbow). Elbow believes that you can’t know what you are going to discuss or to comment on until you are done writing and all of your thoughts finally come together to make sense. He also goes against the idea that writing is only a…

do not read blindly. You have a goal or an objective when reading. The purpose of why someone is reading will determine how they will read. When reading we are trying to translate what the author has written into the original meaning using our own ideas to aid us. To read for pleasure the reader is not stuck on fully understanding the text but instead just reading for personal amusement. For a reader that has an objective or goal behind why they are reading it is very important for them to…

teacher’s need to deliver information to the students to learn and understand, but then it is up to the students to decide what they are going to do with that information. They can memorize and regurgitate it on the next test or they can think and develop ideas that will push them to ask questions and generate opinions. The teacher’s job is to guide the questions, understand the opinions and learn from the inquiring students. When a teacher stands in front of the classroom and speaks at the…