Year Five

4/18/2004 Grade: Third / Fourth Native Language: English School: P.S. 55 Family Background: Joseph Smith is a nine year old boy. He has recently passed the third grade and will be starting fourth grade in September at P.S. 55. Joseph lives at home with his mother and two older brothers. His brother Michael is 15 years old and attends Tottenville High School. Matthew the middle child is 11 years old and attends Intermediate School 34. Joseph’s father, John, lives in New Jersey with his…

the past thirteen years, many different areas of my life have changed, and with that, my levels of responsibility and what I take responsibility of. In education, friends, family and even in musicals, I’ve taken responsibility for myself and others, which has helped develop the picture of who I am as a person…

Methods Participants Participants will include first graders from ____ Elementary School. Students with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) and students who are classified as level 1, 2, or 3 English Language Learners will be excluded from the study. Students who score below benchmark on mCLASS: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills Next (mCLASS: DIBELS Next) will be assessed by their teacher for elevated inattention rates. The students who have both below benchmark reading scores and…

Anyone can go to seventh grade but, first you must finish sixth grade. I think that I should be able to move up to seventh grade since I have gotten amazing grade through out this whole school year. In social studies, E.L.A, and, math I have learned many new things. Some of the new things that I have learned are algebra, perfect paragraph form, and about the economy. I think that I am eligible to go to seventh grade. I think that in Social Studies I have excelled greatly since the first marking…

achieving EFA but, more broadly, for reaching the overarching goal of reducing human poverty” (p. 19). The development of this document was based on an assessment of the West Gate Hills Schools performance which showed no progress in literacy for the years 2013 and 2014. Knowing the importance of literacy for human development the balanced approach to literacy will be the basis of the intervention in order to reinstate the school’s mastery performance in literacy. Statement of Problem…

normally associated with a basal reading program” (75–76). Initially SSR termed for a school-wide daily reading time for students in which reading material was not monitored nor were students evaluated on their reading. SSR first was proposed over forty years ago by Lyman C. Hunt, Jr. of the University of Vermont in the 1960s (Trelease 2001). Manning-Dowd (1985) reviewed research on SSR and concluded that SSR has a positive effect on reading comprehension and reading attitudes at all grade…

In in the black comedy novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut recalls and discusses the destruction of Dresden through the narration of the main character Billy Pilgrim, in order to highlight his perspective regarding the horrors of the war. When Dresden gets bombed, Vonnegut— who injects himself in his own novel as Billy— experiences sadness and sympathy rather than anger and resentfulness. Billy’s misery— due to being ambushed and witnessing the gruesomeness of the war— leads him to…

that make death the easier choice. Yet this evil, is sometimes a necessary one, that can be justified by the balance of good it could bring to all of mankind. Over the years, war has certainly caused an enormous amount of evil in the lives of many people involved, such as the life of Billy Pilgrim. Depicted in the “Slaughterhouse-five” by Kurt Vonnegut as well as that of civilians. The murder of civilians is not admissible in any war. Acts of war are cataclysms caused by the distressed egotism…

Areté, the process of becoming man, is the major theme of the two Hemingway novels, The Old Man and the Sea and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The class discussions which analyzed the theme of the novels gave me a strong reminder of my own such experience. I am a cellist and playing the instrument is definitely the most enjoyable, yet very serious and important part of my life. However, it has not always been this influential; until my areté was sparked by major events which…

Slaughterhouse Five is narrated by the author in both first and third person. Mainly the first person sections being narrated confine the first and last chapters and are occasionally in the present tense when speaking from the personal point of view as Kurt Vonnegut. The tone of the narration is ironic and familiar to the reader. The narrator uncovers some dark humor in the novel as well as emotional material. He also prefaces a passage with “Billy says” to make a distinction between Billy’s…