I Wanna Know

their students. In my construction class, I know the importance of effective lessons and preparing my students for the next chapter in their lives. Regardless of the course an educator teaches, there is a list of standards provided by the state and districts that teachers must follow. Effective teachers look at those standards and narrow them down to the power standards or what a student needs to know to be successful. In addition to the power standards, I need SMART goals, learning outcomes and…

In 2017, men still get paid more than women do, which is not fair. For the past hundred years women have fought to get the same rights as men. Women have made it pretty far, but still do not have all the same rights as men do which is ridiculous.Women get paid 77 cents to every dollar a man makes working the same amount of hours at the same job. Therefore, we should stop the wage gap by protesting, by getting more people aware of the issue and killing the stereotype that women can not do the…

senses as human. People rarely spend times to social outside of homes, they cut off their lives from the reality and try to immerse themselves into a virtually world, one that can collapse easily if there is no Wi-Fi and bandwidth. People need to know that when they are depending on something too much other than themselves, it can never be good for humanity. This is clearly illustrated in the movie Wall E, where people just lying there on their floating chairs, being lazy all day.…

It is no secret that leaving behind a life you’ve invested in is a struggle. However, in John Green’s novel Paper Towns, Margo Roth Spiegelman leads Quentin Jacobsen on a wild goose chase, teaching him the secret of moving on and starting a new chapter in your life: “Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you...But you can’t do that until your life has grown roots” (234). Her ability to completely push aside her life in Orlando is…

However, knowing what your audience knows can save you from having to rewrite the material again. when using background material, you should be able to bring the audience up to…

for the females, whose bodies were beginning to change...” (Lowry Page 47) This also shows how clothing is better in Jonas’ world because the community rewards kids for dressing properly and growing up. That is the third and final reason behind why I believe Jonas' world is enhanced compared to our…

Ten people. I’ve been working here for four months and I only know the names of ten people. Out of every person in the Hamill City Police Department I can only muster up enough brainpower to keep ten names in my head. I can’t blame myself though, I was only supposed to be here a month before I went back to my home in New York, where being a detective doesn’t mean doing crossword puzzles to look busy all day. I came down here four months ago to help with a case, everyone was out of ideas and the…

“How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” is a personal memoir of John Holt’s recollections of being an English teacher. Holt remembers the times when he was the teacher that made children dissect books until their minds no longer held the real meaning of them. Their minds were drilled into finding the ‘correct’ answer and moving on as fast as possible. After multiple arguments with his sister telling him his approach to teaching reading was wrong and hurting the children's love for reading, he…

days in a year. Every time I try to rephrase a sentence it gets progressively more severe; how do I sound less eccentric, how do I tell people what I mean without rambling? I believe that if I get my point across it doesn’t matter in what time frame, if it takes me a year and a half to tell you about the time my dog ran across the road and almost got hit by a car, then it does. No matter how I think about how I’m going to say something, it always comes out differently, I ramble and mutter and…

They used to say they loved me, that I was theirs forever. I miss that. I honestly miss that so much more than I ever thought I would. I didn’t think it’d stop either, I couldn’t even imagine it gone. It’s the little things, the tiniest things you forget happen day in day out that you’ll won’t ever see again that pains above everything else. Like when Mum would wish me “sweet dreams” each night, or when I’d find notes in with lunches or when Dad would, [Speaker pauses, next sentence is notably…