The Hidden

In the book Hidden Roots, by Joseph Bruchac, an 11-year old boy named Howard, also known as Sonny, lives with his mother and short tempered father in upstate New York. His father works at the local paper mill but is injured and must stay home. His mother stays at home and works around the house. Sonny is a curious boy who always wonders about his heritage but his parents never really tell him much. The plot is not revealed until the end of the book where Sonny’s Uncle Louis, tells him about his…

system works this way. However, children are yet to follow the teacher’s procedures. Some children struggle in class when teachers don’t influence in the kids learning environment, and children perform lower than other students. In the article The Hidden Curriculum of Work by Jean Anyon explains how schools get students ready to work and not educated. For example, “The procedure is usually mechanical, involving rote behavior and very little decision making or choice. The teachers rarely explain…

strive to pursue as many degrees as possible, some voices stand out erectly and reveal important shortcomings in the education system. Gerald Graff, a professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago is one of them. In “Hidden Intellectualism”, Graff clarifies how the education system fails to recognize the non-academic knowledge, such as sports as the other means of intelligence – street smart. Graff implies that if colleges guide young minds how to…

Jarrett Strickler Deborah Syrdal Hidden Figures 6 March 2018 Hidden Figures In the movie Hidden Figures, numerous acts of brutal racism and sexism are displayed throughout the film. During the movie Katherine and her two friends, Dorothy and Mary, overcome the struggles of working in a racist and sexist environment. Whether it be the male co-workers deeming the African American women incapable, or the other characters in the movie directly segregating the colored women in this film. Every…

not only affected Jewish people, it also targeted homosexual, women and children. A topic I found interesting about the holocaust was the idea of hidden children. It has rarely been talked about how they hid the identities of Jewish children by given them fake papers and hid them in different places during the holocaust so they could survive. The Hidden children of the holocaust is a topic I never learned about throughout my education career. I chose this topic because I am really interested…

What is hidden curriculum? How does it affect teachers’ practices? There are various roles that are intended to be achieved by the current education system. Education mainly aims at enabling the youth to acquire skills that are essential for the success of their lives. Education is designed in a manner that the learners will have varied ways of thinking that are better in enhancing their lives. Education enables learners to have different perspectives on life. There is a curriculum that is used…

Nominated movie Hidden Figures? II) In hidden figures, there were three African American's who contributed to the Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) fields. III) Hidden Figures Is one of the untold stories of African Americans who contributed to society and there are many more untold stories of prominent African Americans that are not taught in the history curriculum. IV) There is another Documentary that is not well known in which the documentary is called Hidden Colors 3…

The Hidden Hero Do you know the whole list if Civil Rights activist, whom risked their lived for your education and voting rights? Well you may have heard Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, etc. That list gives you names of famous Civil Right activist, leading you to believe that those are the only people who had an impact on this movement. Though, there are people known as Hidden Figures, some of which are people who had a huge impact on the Civil Rights movement. These people don’t…

Hidden Figures Extra Credit Questions: 1. Choose a moment (or two) in the movie that stuck out to you. Explain what that moment was and why it stuck out to you. I was already emotional within the first 3 minutes of the movie. The film thoughtfully began with an impactful scene. It showed Katherine’s teachers encouraging her parents to move so that Katherine could begin studying at an institute with a full scholarship. Her teachers believed in her enough to gather money for her family. This…

The Hidden Concentration Camps According to the government, it was a “War Relocation Center” and was used to “evacuate” and help the Japanese Americans. According to those unjustly incarcerated, it was a concentration camp; its purpose was to keep watch over the aliens and citizens. In one photo from Manzanar, three Japanese girls are huddled in front of a poorly made barrack with tar paper and wood starting to chip and tear away. Although two girls are facing towards the camera and smiling,…