Secondary orality

Pg.1-50: The main character, Ruth Anne McCabe, better known as Roo is a senior in high school and is ready to go to her dream college, Yale University. Roo has a younger sister named Tilly, she is a freshman in highschool and one day when she was at a museum doing research for a school project texted Roo to pick her up from the museum minutes before they were about to close. Roo was running a little late and Tilly was really impatient so she kept sending her lots of text messages telling her to…

Imagine, as an impressionable high school student, that your teachers do not care about your education or your well-being because of a label: “at-risk” or “unteachable”. This is an issue that many students have faced, and a few outstanding individual teachers have attempted to erase this label for the progression of these students’ lives. Freedom Writers, a movie that heavily involves this problem in education, is a 2007 movie directed by Richard LaGravenese and stars Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn,…

How Embarrassing! Because I am African, people have expected me to be less intelligent in school or in a professional environment. One day in college, I had anatomy class on a Monday morning by 9:30am. I will not forget that day in my life, because I had never been humiliated in class before until that day. My colleagues and I were to engage in a discussion about Cells, and our professor divided us into groups of six, where one person from each group had to present for 5 minutes, the part of…

School is an extraordinary journey that prepares us for life’s challenges in the future. I knew middle school wasn’t going to be filled with coloring activities and jigsaw puzzles like what I had experienced in elementary school. My junior high years were unexpectedly difficult. In order to reach my goals and be successful, I had to mentally prepare to be determined, focused and responsible. 6th grade began on August 10th; I felt nervous but confident. I expected my new classes to be a breeze…

Few people know that I was bullied. In my freshman year of high school, I joined the tennis team. As a newcomer, I found myself towered over by much older teammates. Bullying doesn’t always mean being beat up or teased. Instead, I was humiliated by their persistent taunts. They masked their verbal abuse towards me with “tough love” meant to enhance team performance. However, they accomplished the opposite. The dread of being ganged up on haunted me in the hours of the school day before practice.…

After making the mistake of hanging with the wrong crowd and spending close to two years at a community school I returned to regular school and decided I’d never let anyone in like that again nor would I ever be bullied again. I came into high school five feet nine inches two hundred pounds and ready to fight anyone who tried to bully me and I did. I got into a few scuffles during my freshman year of high school but still made the varsity football team due to how aggressive I was as well as the…

“One of the most damaging messages of educational romanticism has been that everyone should go to college.” – Charles Murray. Growing up neither of my parents graduated college, while it was a struggle to make their way into the job market due to the recession, they were able to do it. While my mother eventually went back to college, my father was able to find a job that didn’t require a college degree but was able to support a family of five. Nearly everyone knows someone who didn’t graduate…

It was one week before auditions. Seven days, one-hundred and sixty-eight hours, and what felt like millions of seconds between me and an audition room that would decide my fate. Since the beginning of freshman year, girls would dream about the day they would have the opportunity to sing as a member of the most elite choir at Wayzata High School: Concert Choir. From ten minute Mozart masses to twelve part harmonies, there was not a single student who didn't salivate over the perfect chords and…

For the purpose of confidentiality, the informant of following narrative will be referred to as Benji. All other people mentioned will also be given aliases to protect their identities. Probability dictates that as an individual goes through life, they are bound to face rough patches which make that person change for the better or for the worse. I began to understand this idea during my interview with Benji. I asked Benji to come to my room so I could ask him some questions about his life,…

basics of STEM, demand for engineers, and programs for women have been essential to the development of keeping the attention from women. Consequently, the problem for a career in secondary education in math is the lack of interest from young women. Since there is a large demand for women in STEM careers, jobs in secondary education specializing in math can become a vital step in the development of young women pursuing a career in engineering. Currently, the demand for…