Praise

After perusing the NES website, the article “Use Specific Language for Feedback and Praise” written by Naomi Poindexter caught my attention (2017). When I observed my videotaped lessons, I noticed how I give students praise and repeatedly use the phrases, “Great job, awesome, and way to go.” I realized how these words provided a positive response, but did not give students specific feedback about what they did. This article acknowledges how these phrases make students feel good, but they don’t…

When it comes to failing, our egos can be our worst enemy. After reading Mary Sherry’s essay “In Praise of the F Word” she argues that students do not have the skills they need to succeed in school or in life. It is very important for parents and teachers to start using the “threat of flunking” as a positive teaching tool to make students understand the importance of education. Even though, flunking may cause a student temporary emotional distress, the lack of education is continuously placing…

The “In Praise of Snail’s Pace” is an essay written by Ellen Goodman. This essay is about a man in his experienced with the technology; how much online contact prevent face-to-face contact. This paper will exanimate how the author highlights the indifferent, valued, and removed that technology had cause it on human relationships. The term indifferent means without interest or concern; not caring; apathetic. The author embrace how much attention they gave at the technology, but how…

Diane Ackerman adores bats. In fact, she shows her depth infatuation for these infamous creatures in her nonfiction essay, “In Praise of Bats.” Ackerman strives to persuade her audience to appreciate the existence of the winged animal, and to use that sense of appreciation and apply it into the daily lives of others. By doing so, Ackerman paints the image of bats in the highest approbation, and conveys her message with sinuously developed, complex sentences. Ackerman made sure that her imagery…

In Praise of Fake News and Alternative Facts! Virginia Woolf is a liar. The whole truth and nothing but the truth is rarely written or spoken because truth is universally seen through the prism of our own making. It is human nature to see what we see what we want to see. Sometimes, as in Woolf’s case, the prism glass is purposely tilted to reveal a different picture of the truth. The use of satire in literature is often used to mock our long-held beliefs, beliefs that we often only trust…

In the essay "In Praise of the F word" from the book Models for Writers, Mary Sherry argues that failing or flunking students is a positive teaching tool. She poses a strong argument by saying that failing a student expresses the confidence that teachers and parents have on the ability of a student to pass the presented material. According to Sherry, passing students who have not mastered the presented material cheats both the student and the employers. At times, teachers and parents make it too…

and be handed meaningless diplomas”(1). According to Sherry, for any job a diploma is useful, but in the other hand a diploma would be “meaningless” if the person don’t show the effort and the basic things they supposed to learn. In the article “ In praise of the F words”, Mary Sherry, explains how some High Schools give diplomas to some people who don’t know anything, or vise versa, how some students don 't get any diploma because they didn’t have the support of someone. Sherry is a teacher who…

Trent Jones and Carlton Stowers states in “The Praise Method” about the positive and negative reinforcement teaching methods. A boy called Rodney, and his sisters and mother think he is not a smart child, so the negative reinforcement leads him has a poor academic performance at school. After he transfers to another school and meets Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones believes that Rodney is on the same level with other students, and he uses “the praise method” to help Rodney to become one of the best students…

everybody does. There is a debate out there right now concerning how kids should be treated in regards to rewards and praise. Many parents think that giving a child as much praise as they can is the best idea possible. They believe that helping them improve their self esteem by giving them extreme positive affirmation is beneficial. However, many people argue that adolescents need less praise in order to help them understand life a little better. If kids receive too much of this, they may not be…

be edited, but one never knows what images slip past this editing process and make it into the documentary. This is not the case with written works, which can be seen in James Agee’s and Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Agee wants the reader to know that Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a “book only by necessity. More seriously, it is an effort in human actuality” (xi). Throughout the novel, Agee writes…