... I chose Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna be Average”. I am hopeful my writing will provide you with a summary and response as directed in writing project 1. My peer review by one classmate was quite helpful. In her review she stated which sentences, and where to find them, that needed the most help. She commented on the fact they were hard to follow and confusing. She also pointed out that I needed to elaborate more on the summary. I only mentioned Ken, a classmate from the excerpt, once in my paper. I need to introduce him in my summary to understand my reference in the conclusion. I should also explain more of Mike and Jack MacFarland’s relationship and why that reference is so important to this story. She mentioned, I should use more quotes and details in my response to back up my opinion. My second review was not very helpful. That peer review was vague. It echoed the first review without a lot of details that will help better my paper. I made an effort to revise my paper. I incorporated my peers review into it. I gave more details about the relationship between MacFarland and Mike. I also included Ken into my summary to help with the confusion of who he is. I also reworded sentences that were confusing. I’m hoping my revised final draft will give insight into this excerpt by Mike Rose. Ashley Reuzenaar Professor Hickman English 111 05D 2 September 2015 Summary and Response Educational scholar Mike Rose authored I Just Wanna be Average excerpt from Lives on the Boundary...
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...Comparing and Contrasting Backgrounds of Authors Mike Rose and Richard Rodriguez The biggest similarity between Mike Rose and Richard Rodriguez is they both love books and reading. Personally, I enjoy reading. Reading soothes the mind; it also reduces stress by distracting you from over thinking. From my experience I also came to realize reading increased my vocabulary and spelling. It forced me to come across new words, consequently improving my writing skills and analytical thinking. Rose and Rodriguez became writers mostly because they read all kinds of texts and became critical thinkers and at the same time motivated to pursue higher education. Their stories have common messages about literacy. Mike Rose’s “Lives on the Boundary” and Richard Rodriguez’s “Achievement of Desire” focus on prominent issues of education in society. The former tackles the problem of personal struggles and achievements of student, while the latter tackles cultural differences between home and school most especially for the working class children. Both authors came from a similar background with parents who were immigrants and poorly educated. Their family backgrounds were characterized by poverty and as a result of their upbringing; their top priorities did not include academics. Both use their personal experiences as examples of what they want in life. Mike Rose recounts his personal experiences describing his experiences in vocational education and elaborated on the problems of such a system...
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...The United States has become one of the most culturally diverse countries as the increase in minorities immigrating to the states rises. As more minorities come to the states, educational institutions should be restructured to include minorities. Due to their personal experiences, Mike Rose and Richard Rodriguez view education as a place that excludes unless you conform. It is alienation either way, if you do not conform, you miss opportunities available to other Americans; if you do conform you may lose touch with the past, culture or your family. This should not be the case though; students should not have to get rid of their cultural ties in order to succeed in life. By looking at Mike Rose’s Lives on the Boundary and Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, I will explore how the education system hardly benefits immigrants as well as the price some pay for their education. In Mike Rose’s Lives on the Boundary, Rose starts out by mentioning that there are language and cultural barriers that can stop students and graduates from reading...
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...In Mike Rose’s short essay “From Lives on the Boundary” he introduces two disadvantaged students who he is trying to help overcome their problems. The First student Marita, was accused of plagiarism for failing to properly cite her source. Marita had cited her source, but she was never taught how to cite them correctly so she plagiarized. Rose understood that it was not entirely her fault so he was going to try and talk to the instructor for her. One thing that the instructor could do for Marita to help her overcome her disadvantage is offer her tutoring on how to properly cite, that way in the future she can do it properly and not get accused of plagiarism. The second student Lucia also had a big disadvantage. She was a returning student...
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...Joshua Lecour 15 October 2015 Essay #2 The majority of adults today have a stable home life, which helps to build a stable foundation by the time they reach grade school. That’s all in thanks to having loving and caring parents, grandparents and caretakers to guide kids so that they can preform at the highest levels in life, especially scholastically. In a perfect world having a solid system like this to build on would be the perfect catapult for success in America’s school systems. Unfortunately, most children in the inner cities aren’t blessed to have a stable home because of the absence of consistent parental figures in the house. Sometimes these households have one parent within them because of divorce or other more saddening circumstance like the death of a parent. Death leads to an absence within a child life that will persist into their adult life. Despite the timing or reason behind these situations they greatly affect a child’s confidence, self-esteem and self worth. Instability within the household causes a child to suffer anxiety disorders and self-confidence issues, depending on the situations that occur like physical or substance abuse by the parent, which is taken with them into the classroom. This kind of conditioning at home also shapes the ability to interact with other students in a positive or negative way, which also leads to poor academic and social standing within a school setting. The easiest way to remedy the issues of poor performance in school due...
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...When (Mike Rose, 1989) is sharing his personal schooling tale, he recalls his behavior in the classroom when he was unmotivated, “I would hide by slumping in my seat and page through my reader, carried along by the flow of sentences in a story” (Rose, 1989 p. 19). After reading the article by Almy and Genishi and the article by Carini we know that you should persistently be aware of your students and clearly Mike Rose’s teacher was either unaware, or uninterested. If it was normal for him to slump and hide his head every day, this teacher is expected to pick up on his body language. As Almy and Genishi said “The children’s movements, their gestures all their responses offer some clues about what they are learning with hunches as to how learning may be facilitated and what kinds of learning may be most important for a particular child at a particular time”. (Almy& Genishi, 1979 pg....
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...Mike Rose present in his story “From Lives on the Boundary,” two ladies Marita and Lucia who does not have anything in common, but are particularly related. Those two ladies are going through difficult situations in life, which one of them is working hard to get a better life. Lucia is the one who tries not to give up on her dreams, by making things possible for her and staying positive. Marita instead makes things worse for her by not trying hard and putting barriers in front of her. The base of Marita’s issues comes from her background. She was raised in a place where “expression of Opinions” (1) Counts. With her brain set in that particular way, is it difficult for her to change while growing up especially in school. Marita in class does not have the ability to translate the work giving by her teacher because her mind is set in a way that, “[she] was not a scientist, and [] was not consider[ing] herself to be a particularly creative person like an artist or an actress.” (1) There is the first barrier she created herself. Because she...
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...One of the most sought-after goals in the world of marketing is a high degree of consumer satisfaction. But in the world of education, satisfaction by itself should not be the criterion for success. If both satisfaction and performance are high, we have cause for celebration. If satisfaction is high and performance is low, as is currently the case in the United States, we have cause for serious alarm. According to Stevenson and Stigler in "The Learning Gap", American parents whose children generally score below Asian children on tests of academic achievement, gave the most positive evaluations when asked about their children's schools and how their children were performing. If the children are doing well, such high levels of satisfaction would be justified. Experiential learning theory draws on the work of many 20th century scholars who have given experience a central role in their theories of human learning and development- notably John Dewey, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Williams James, Carl Jung, Paulo Freire, Carl Rogers and other- to develop a holistic model of the experiential learning process and a multi- linear model ( Kolb 1984). Maintaining high levels of satisfaction with poor performance creates a huge obstacle to the improvement of education. Before you can solve a problem, you have to admit that you have a problem. Why should children study hard if their parents already express high levels of satisfaction? Why should schools pursue reform with enthusiasm and resolve...
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...Standardized Testing: Its Impact on American Education and Society: Schools all over the U.S are composed of many different types of students with diverse backgrounds. The goal of state officials is to improve education for students, regardless of their socioeconomic backgrounds, through the use of standardized testing. Its primary purpose for electing service officials in ancient china has led to its adoption in the U.S as a method for seeking improvements in the education system through testing students. However, holding schools and teachers responsible for annually increasing the average scores has shifted the curricula to teaching to the test, in addition to, putting the well being of both teachers and students at risk. Although standardized testing in the U.S. has been in place for over a century, its initial use is associated back to ancient China where the public was selected for jobs through testing. The purpose for standardized tests has always been to measure the knowledge and ability that one acquires. According to Osman Ozturgut, this purpose for testing was originally illustrated in 605 B.C, during the Sui Dynasty. Government jobs were administered to those with fairly high knowledge of Confucian philosophy. However, this would not guarantee a job. In addition to being tested on Confucian philosophy, they were also tested on “military strategy, civil law, revenue and taxation, agriculture, geography…” (3). Standardized tests were used as a method to give applicants...
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...To Teach Effective Writing, Model Effective Writing ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: JUNE 10, 2014 | UPDATED: JULY 14, 2015 * ------------------------------------------------- 8.1KSHARES * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- I strive to teach my high school students the value of criticism, especially when it comes to improving their writing. To do so, I model how criticism continues to help me become a better writer. Earlier this year, for example, I shared a draft of one of my education feature articles, which included detailed feedback from an editor at a prominent media company. I asked my classes for advice on how to address several edits, dealing with sources, transitions, terminology, and structure. A few days later, I directed my budding writers to the much-improved final draft. This easy but worthwhile activity helped more of my students feel comfortable receiving criticism, and not view it as an affront. As a result, they improved their writing by taking the time and care to consider and respond to reader insight. I want my students to feel secure in the knowledge that nobody is beyond criticism (even their teacher), and that the bigger challenge is developing the good sense to acknowledge and successfully respond to feedback. Along those lines, I also offer the suggestions below...
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...Russian Federation Learning Team B COMM215 June 10, 2010 Nancy Erickson Russian Federation The Russian Federation is the largest country in the world. At 6,592,800 square miles it covers more than a ninth of the Earth’s surface. It is a great and proud country. Up until the 1990’s it was the only surviving superpower in the globe after World War II along with the United States. The Russian Federation is located east of Europe and north of Asia. Russia has boundaries with fourteen other countries, like China in Asia, Kazakhstan in the Middle East, and Finland in Europe. In this country there are only two distinct seasons winter and summer. Spring and autumn are brief periods of change between extremely low and extremely high temperatures. The coldest month is usually in January. The warmest month is usually in July. Russia has a pretty broad population but mostly by Russians and the main language there is Russian. Russia is the ninth most populous nation in the world with 139 million people. The currency is the Ruble. One dollar is equivalent to 30 rubles. The capital city of Russia is Moscow. Russia is home to the famous St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow which looks like a castle with onion shaped domes. The Kremlin is also located in Russia which is where government business is conducted. Some famous Russian ornament is the Fabergé Egg. Made by Peter Carl Fabergé o nly 65 eggs were ever made and they are worth millions. Russia is also famous...
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...Edexcel AS Politics Edexcel AS Politics ExamBuster 2009 Introduction to Unit 1- People and Politics Understanding the Examination and Exam Technique Choosing your questions In this unit you are presented with four questions. They are of equal value and each question covers one of the four sections of the specification. These are: Democracy and political participation Party policies and ideas Elections Pressure groups There is no significance to the order in which questions appear. Each question is divided into three sections (a), (b) and (c). When choosing which questions to do, the following principles are recommended: It is almost certain that you will be better off choosing your strongest question to do first. You should choose questions on the basis of how well you can answer the section (c) part. The (c) part carries 25 of the 40 marks available for the whole answer. Do not choose a question simply because you can do part (a) especially well. The (a) question is only worth 5 marks. It would be illogical to choose your strongest (a) part if you cannot do well on section (c). If you cannot decide between several (c) parts, i.e. you can do more than one equally well, make your choice on the basis of part (b) which carries 10 marks. But remember, it is the (c) parts that will determine most what your overall mark will be. So, when you first look at the exam paper, look at the (c) sections first. Assessment Objectives Each question is divided into three sections,...
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...What Is the Internet of Things? Mike Loukides & Jon Bruner ISBN: 978-1-491-92180-7 THE O’REILLY INTERNET OF THINGS CONFERENCE “The future has a funny way of sneaking up on you. You don’t notice it until you’re soaking in it. That was the feeling at O’Reilly’s Solid Conference.” — Wired The traditional boundaries between hardware and software are falling. It’s a perfect storm of opportunity for a software-enhanced, networked physical world. The new products and services created from the melding of software, hardware, and data are built by people who work across disciplines and industries. A vibrant new community is emerging, made up of business and industry leaders, software developers, hardware engineers, designers, investors, startup founders, academics, artists, and policy makers—many of whom have never come together before. They gather at Solid to be inspired, to make connections and launch conversations, and to plug into the future for a few days. Will you be a part of it? Find out more at solidcon.com What Is the Internet of Things? Mike Loukides and Jon Bruner What Is the Internet of Things? by Mike Loukides and Jon Bruner Copyright © 2015 O’Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472. O’Reilly books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions are also available for most titles (http://safaribooksonline...
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...Resources for Teaching Prepared by Lynette Ledoux Copyright © 2007 by Bedford/St. Martin’s All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. 2 1 f e 0 9 d c 8 7 b a For information, write: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA 02116 (617-399-4000) ISBN-10: 0–312–44705–1 ISBN-13: 978–0–312–44705–2 Instructors who have adopted Rereading America, Seventh Edition, as a textbook for a course are authorized to duplicate portions of this manual for their students. Preface This isn’t really a teacher’s manual, not, at least, in the sense of a catechism of questions and correct answers and interpretations. Because the questions provided after each selection in Rereading America are meant to stimulate dialogue and debate — to generate rather than terminate discourse — they rarely lend themselves to a single appropriate response. So, while we’ll try to clarify what we had in mind when framing a few of the knottier questions, we won’t be offering you a list of “right” answers. Instead, regard this manual as your personal support group. Since the publication of the first edition, we’ve had the chance to learn from the experiences of hundreds of instructors nationwide, and we’d like to use this manual as a forum where we can share some of their concerns, suggestions, experiments, and hints. We’ll begin with a roundtable on issues you’ll probably want to address before you meet your class. In the first section of this manual, we’ll discuss approaches to...
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