of us, having good teachers means getting good grades in school. In the documentary, “Waiting for Superman”, it demonstrates the importance of good teachers and the impact they have on students. If schools get more involved in the education of their students, children’s future would be affected greatly. Schools main focus needs to be providing a better education for children. In “Waiting For Superman,” the superintendent was trying to do away with bad teachers in his school due to them not teaching
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Waiting for Superman Watching the documentary Waiting for Superman was extremely eye opening and almost depressing. I feel that I have been blessed with a good education and so has my daughter. She was able to attend one of the best elementary schools in Stevens Point because of the neighborhood we lived in. Watching these parents have to play “the lottery” is a feeling I can’t even imagine. Before watching this documentary, I was unware that things like the lottery even existed. It is very obvious
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Music: Play Superman main theme audio, from live orchestra. (0:00-1:26) {Fade music out} Narrator Trevor Withers: Music has always been an important part of film. Soundtracks in Film allow the mood to be set for a particular scene, or In the beginning stages of film before the invention of “talking film” music was used in silent films to demonstrate mood, event or element. Music: {Fade in Music from Birth of the nation} Narrator TW: The first film to have a specific score written for it was
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Alexie RR#1 Superman and Me written by Sherman Alexie. This is a short story explaining on how he grew up teaching himself how to read at three years old with his family on an Indian reservation in Washington State. It was hard for him and his family both of his parents working minimum wage jobs and receiving government assistance. He still managed to fight through all this and make it in life as an author. This is intended to reach to the other young Indians still living on Indian reservations
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Reading Sherman Alexie’s “Superman and Me” not only opened me as the reader up to a new and unfamiliar culture but gave me insight to another’s way of self-teaching and embracing the arts of reading and writing. Throughout his narrative, Alexie details his living style and standards, a brief insight into his family, the historical and modern looks at his heritage, an astounding viewpoint on how he found his passion for reading and how his future in writing came into play. The piece is beautifully
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animals from burning buildings. Doctors and nurses are heroes they save people who are severely injured. Anyone could be a hero, if they’re willing to risk their lives or something personal for someone other than themselves. A well-known hero is Superman. A villain is someone who doesn’t help others, and in fact tries to hurts or hinder others. It’s someone who is rude, not well liked, and viewed as an enemy. They don’t really care if they hurt others. They pretty much only care about themselves
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There are many claims in Waiting for Superman. One claim that they make is standardized testing is important for schools. What Waiting for Superman means by this claim is that they think all students should have to take tests and quizzes to see how they improve their learning and to see what they have to work on. Diane Ravitch would say that there is no need for testing the children. Diane believed that it was possible to succeed not just by test scores. “Is it possible that we succeeded not because
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In his short autobiographical essay “Superman and Me,” Sherman Alexie uses powerful sentences, visualization, and repetition to create a well-written vivid story. Alexie addresses his own childhood experiences with education. He was a young boy that lived in poverty on an Indian reservation where Indians were derided for being educated. He states that “Indian children were expected to fail in the non-Indian world” (Alexie 584). His parents would be considered poor in most western standards, but to
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“Superman and Me”: A Rhetorical Analysis Sherman Alexie, an award-winning Native American novelist, short story writer, filmmaker, and poet, studies intensively in writing about his personal experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from multiple tribes and relates with others about his time on the Indian Reservation in his childhood. In all of his works, he chooses to write about the distress, brutality, and alcoholism in the lives of Native Americans on and off the reservation. After
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Is a life lost when kept within boundaries? For Sherman Alexie the answer is yes. He is a Spokane Indian and also a prominent writer. He is the author of “Superman and Me” a short essay first published in Los Angeles Times, April 19 1998, as part of the series “The Joy of Reading and Writing”. In this piece Alexie describes how he taught himself how to read at the age of three and how he manage to literally read his way out of the reservation in which he grew up. By narrating his own story, he illustrates
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