...godmother, Miss Emma, assigns Grant Wiggins, a young educated man, to teach Jefferson human dignity. Although she has given the job to Grant, she takes part herself in the teaching of Jefferson, along with the local reverend, Reverand Ambrose. Grant and Miss Emma both care about Jefferson’s fate, but they have different views on how to approach him, therefore, it takes a combination of different views to teach human dignity. While Grant cares about Jefferson, he thinks that...
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...The book “Invisible” by Cecily Paterson is about a high school girl named Jasmine Crawford and her life. She goes through a lot of drama, hard decision making, and breakdowns. Her choices affect’s everything around her and her being deaf make it harder for her to fit in. In her life she experiences things that make her struggle in school and when she’s home. It’s hard for her to open up to people and that’s her main problem. In the first chapter, Jasmine starts off by saying “I have a way of becoming invisible. I sit in my hammock chair in my room at home and take out my hearing aid, start a gentle rock and slowly close my eyes. I begin to melt until I am no one. I don’t exist. No one can see me” (Paterson 1). Jasmine has a hard time interacting...
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...‘’Summer people’’ is about a sixteen year old boy named Julian, who lives in a Holiday village called Sheringham it is more like a holiday resort. Which means that there are many tourists during the summer but in the winter the village Sheringham reverts to its ‘’antique state’’ (s. 1 l. 13). When the summer time comes, the three summer months May, July and August the ‘’Summer People’’ arrive to Sheringham. They shall stay there until September where the summer time is over. . It is only when summer time comes the village is lively and it is filled with people. Julian lives with his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Holroyd. Julian don’t know what to do, He is facing a huge quandary about his future. Julian doesn’t know if he should follow his dream of becoming an artist or he should listen to his father’s advice and continue school? It is really a tough decision for Julian because on the one hand he is really talented at drawing, making art and making experiments with his art, it is just want he wants to do and he loves it. But on the other hand there is his father’s wish for his education. His mother and especially his father who is a newsagent-cum-stationer aren’t happy with his interest in painting and making art. They think Julian should continue his scientific career, although his mother tells him that he can always keep up his drawing and artwork ‘’as a kind of hobby’’ (s. 3 l. 96-97). But the parent’s attitude to their sons’ painting changes after they meet Miss Hoare. Mr. Holroyd...
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...other students, sleeping in class, and yelling throughout the class. Some of the disruptive behaviors can increase if students do not have consequence and behavior is not corrected. Some behaviors can be even threatening to the safety of the students and teachers. Teachers need to be able to identify all different type of behaviors and know how to address the behaviors when they occur. The teacher should always address the behaviors when they first happen so that the student will know what not to do. When the teacher stop the behavior it will show the other students in the class that behavior is not acceptable and will not be tolerated. The Canter’s Behavior Management Cycle has worked for teachers that have disruptive behaviors. In Miss. Rodgers’s third grade class at Green Leaf Elementary School she had a student name Bailey. For the last month Bailey has been showing disruptive behaviors in class. Bailey’s uncle is his guardian because his mother was murder by his father in front of him. His uncle is currently a single parent now and work two jobs and barely making ends meet. Most of the time Bailey is left in the care of his cousin Matt...
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...students or teachers in the classroom. The first step, and most important for a teacher is to identify the disruptive behavior and address the inappropriate actions of the student in a professional manner. Moreover, a teacher should take action as soon as they first notice the student misbehaving. Stopping one student’s disruptive behavior will demonstrate to the other students that misbehaving in the classroom will not be tolerated or they will face consequences. There are many ways to effectively manage disruptive behavior in a classroom. Although, one method has proven to be most successful for teachers and that is Canter’s Behavior Management Cycle. Ryan is a fourth grader at North Star Elementary School and his teacher is Miss Smith. Lately, Ryan has been misbehaving in class. Ryan’s father is a single parent and works double shifts just barely scraping by. The majority of the time Ryan is left in the care of his 14 year old brother Rick. Rick is usually in his room listening to music or...
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...New York. Her neighbor, Miss Moore, brings Sylvia and a group of her friends to F.A.O. Schwarz and while there, they come face to face with the injustices they face because of their backgrounds. Miss Moore does this to teach them a lesson, one that she feels that they need to learn in order to succeed in life and overcome any obstacles they may face. Bambara identifies with race through class and demographics, using a trip to a pricey New York toy store to expose Sylvia and her group of friends to the reality of their classed society. Sylvia tells us "Then we check out that we on Fifth Avenue and everybody dressed up in stockings. One lady in a fur coat, hot as it is. White folks crazy." (89). She discovers that the rich, upper class whites don't dress like African Americans, even though the weather is the same. She realizes that they have money and a tendency to flaunt just how wealthy they are. "'Must be rich people shop here,' say Q.T. 'You are a very bright boy,' say Flyboy. 'What was your first clue?'" (92). One of the children in the group was able to identify with the demographic of the area, recognizing that only people with status and wealth would be able to buy the expensive toys in the store. Bambara gives the reader an insight about the 1970s and what life was like in both societies. White people (those in the upper class) could easily afford the costly toys at FAO Schwarz, while the African American society (including Sylvia and her friends) could not. Sylvia herself...
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...More Than A Friend Girls? They’re nasty. All they do is stalk their crushes, fangirl all the time, spread crazy rumors, gossip everywhere, every time. Girl best friend? Why would I even bother. Why would I even want to learn girl stuff or listen to their boyfriend problems 101? But who would even imagine, that in just a blink of an eye, I would be best friends with not just one but five of them. Girls who became, somehow, my reason to wake up every morning. But not all of them are the subject of this composition. The girl almost all males have crush on. The girl who is very talented in almost all aspects. She may be chubby, but she’s beautiful. She may own a face of a baby, but she’s strong. She is my “bestest friend” among the five. She is my human Barbie, my guidance counsellor, my older sister, and God’s definition of true friendship. She is Kathlyne Mei Pua. Our kind of relationship is unexplainable. Our eyes talk like we had our own secret club. We fought rumors like army soldiers, and share food like hungry dogs. We may be weird, but we’re the best kind of weird. All I know is we’re best friends trying to cope up with each other’s thoughts, trying to do the best yet the most fun way to live life. Not a day goes by without I thinking about her. Now that she graduated and left me behind, not a day passes by without I missing her by my side, without I thinking how lucky I was to have met her. I miss her every time something really good happens, because she’s...
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...of others. Therefore, the central symbol in the novel is kneeling/ crawling. Moreover, the central symbol of the novel, A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines is kneeling/ crawling. Grant kneels and asks Jefferson to eat Miss Emma’s cooking. On page 190-191, “‘Jefferson, I want us to be friends,’ I said. ‘Not only you and me but I want you to be friends with your nannan. I want you to be more than a godson to her. A godson obeys, but a friend- well a friend would do anything to please a friend.’ . . . ‘It would mean so much to her if you would eat some of the gumbo.’ . . . ‘Will you be her friend? Will you eat some of the gumbo? Just a bit? One spoonful?” This quote shows Grant crawling for Miss Emma so she can stand. Grant understands that Miss Emma is running out of time, she wants to see Jefferson stand before she goes. In the past, Miss Emma has made many sacrifices by crawling and kneeling for Grant and Jefferson, she can no longer crawl and kneel. This metaphically shows that she has given so much to other that she has no more strength to kneel. For the first time someone crawls and gives back to Miss Emma for all she has done by crawling and kneeling for others all these years. In this case, Grant realizes that the only thing he can do for Miss Emma to show that he cares is to crawl. Finally, Grant realizes that to show his love for others, he must crawl to bring them up, also showing selflessness. This represents Grant’s strength, when he is able to crawl for another...
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...of true guilt, and, secondly, Pip's kindness warms the convict's heart. The convict, however, waits many years to truly show his gratitude. | At his sister's house, Pip is a boy without expectations. Mrs. Joe beats him around and has nothing good to say about her little brother. Her husband Joe is a kind man, although he is a blacksmith without much ambition, and it's assumed that Pip will follow in his footsteps. Only when Pip gets invited unexpectedly to the house of a rich old woman in the village named Miss Havisham, does Mrs. Joe, or any of her dull acquaintances, hold out any hope for Pip's success. Indeed, Pip's visits to Miss Havisham change him. Miss Havisham is an old woman who was abandoned on her wedding day and has, as a result, given up on life. She wears a yellowed wedding gown and haunts around her decrepit house, her only companion being Estella, her adopted daughter. Estella is beautiful, and Pip develops a strong crush on her, a crush that turns into love as he grows older. But it is unrequited love, as Miss Havisham has made it her dark life's project to raise Estella as a cruel-hearted girl who will break men's hearts, satisfying Miss Havisham's own desire to spurn love. Pip frequently visits Miss Havisham, until one day she tells him never to return because the time has come for his apprenticeship with Joe to begin. Having tasted the spoils of a better life, Pip is miserable as a...
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...Dragonwings Have you ever thought about how important friendship can be? Laurence Yep writes about how friendship can get you through tough times in life. Eight year old Moon Shadow sails from China to meet his dad in America. He got to meet his father for the first time and worked in San Francisco with his father and friends. He even survives the great earthquake by his father’s side. Daily life was very difficult for the Tang people during the Gold Rush. In the book Dragonwings, by Laurence Yep, one learns the importance of friendship when you are away from your family, when you have hard times, and when you need others to be there for you. First of all, friends can be significant even as close as family. When Moon Shadow gets to know the landlady, Miss Whitlaw, he feels that she is part of the family. “I even toyed with the idea that perhaps we had been close to each other in some former life—a mother and child, even.” Moon Shadow felt really close to Miss Whitlaw, even thinking that in a former life she could have been his mother. It is obvious that friends can be as close as family and is really meaningful when you miss your family. Secondly, friends are great during hard times. During Moon Shadow’s first year in America he had to work really hard to help build the Tang’s people’s village with a strange group of men. “We were brothers: strangers in a strange land who had banded together for mutual help and protection. There were...
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...story —“Hearts and Hands”, we can reach a thorough understanding of the short story. II. Support A. O•Henry uses irony to carve the characteristics of Miss Fairchild. 1. Miss Fairchild’s changing facial expressions when she saw the handcuff bound at the wrist of Mr. Easton shows reveals that she is a vainglorious person. 2. Miss Fairchild did not have any doubt when the roughly dressed man told her that Mr. Easton was taking him to the Leavenworth prison. It reveals that Miss Fairchild tended to judge people by their appearance and outfits. 3. Miss Fairchild has a fair name and face, but her heart is not that fair. When her father was ill, she did not go home to take care of her father instead of continuing her journey. B. O • Henry uses irony to make this story more dramatic and sarcastic. 1. When Mr. Easton said, “My butterfly days are over”, he hinted that he is put in prison later and not being free while Miss Fairchild thought that he's talking about social days. 2. When Mr. Easton answered, “Yes, I must go on to Leavenworth.” he did mean he must go to the Leavenworth Prison and stay there while Miss Fairchild thought that he just take prisoner to Leavenworth, as a marshal. 3. When Mr. Easton said that tobacco is the one friend of the unfortunate. It sounds a bit sarcastic because he just sought joy amidst sorrow. C. O • Henry uses dramatic irony to make a surprising but acceptable...
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...the day when I graduated High School meant a lot to me. It meant that I now had a choice in my life. I did not have to pursue a higher degree of education. I could’ve been done with schoolwork for the rest of my life if I wanted to. Or, I could go to college and get a degree. Graduating made me feel like I was an adult. It made me think about life in a new way, and it also made me change the way I spent my money because my parents gave me less. In today’s world a college degree is needed for a decent paying job. When I graduated, I was ecstatic that I would no longer have to step foot into my high school ever again. The administration was becoming really strict, and it was a tough thing to get used to. Also, the study hall monitors acted like they were the best things since sliced bread, always giving people detention for the minor things. I always said that I would never miss it; I always said I would never look back on the days of South High Senior High School. Now that all of the underclassmen that I was friends with are now back at school, and playing sports, I have come to realize that I do miss it. I miss playing High School soccer. I miss the feeling of knowing everyone that I saw on a daily basis, knowing all the teachers, having...
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...and never caused her any trouble Jane Taylor had been employed with the branch for the past four years, since leaving sixth form college. Her main duties were those of a cashier and assisting with mortgage advance accounts. Two weeks before Jackson was due to start work Mary Rogers asked to see her. ‘From now on, Jane, I would like you to ast as senior branch assistant. I need someone to take some of the weight off my shoulders. Your main task will be to be responsible for the quality and accuracy of the work of the staff and to look after things when I’m not here.’ ‘Well...er...thank you, Miss Rogers. This is unexpected. It sounds exciting, but I wonder if...’ ‘Oh, I know you can manage, Jane,’ continued Mary Rogers. ‘You know I tend to rely on you already. Anyway I’ve arranged for you to attend a refresher course at head office the week after next. It’s all about our systems and procedures, and new ideas on automated technology, I think they call it. I am sure you will cope. And I know the extra money for the job will be helpful, won’t it? ‘Yes, that’s true enough - the money will certainly be helpful - but...’ ‘Good, that’s fine then. I’m glad we got that settled. Now you must excuse me,’ said Mary Rogers standing up. ‘I have to attend to these...
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...XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII II. LETTERS(1887-1901) INTRODUCTION III: A SUPPLEMENTARY ACCOUNT OF HELEN KELLER'S LIFE AND EDUCATION CHAPTER I. The Writing of the Book CHAPTER II. PERSONALITY CHAPTER III. EDUCATION CHAPTER IV. SPEECH CHAPTER V. LITERARY STYLE Editor's Preface This book is in three parts. The first two, Miss Keller's story and the extracts from her letters, form a complete account of her life as far as she can give it. Much of her education she cannot explain herself, and since a knowledge of that is necessary to an understanding of what she has written, it was thought best to supplement her autobiography with the reports and letters of her teacher, Miss Anne Mansfield Sullivan. The addition of a further account of Miss Keller's personality and achievements may be unnecessary; yet it will help to make clear some of the traits of her character and the nature of the work which she and her teacher have done. For the third part of the book the Editor is responsible, though all that is valid in it he owes to authentic records and to the advice of Miss Sullivan. The Editor desires to...
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...right, we’re going to talk about To Kill a Mockingbird but more specifically how the characters are related to us. Jemma: So first, for those of you who didn’t pay attention in class, here’s a few things you need to know. Georgia: To Kill a Mocking bird is written by Harper Lee, and was published in 1957. This book is from a “first person” point of view and told by a young girl called Scout, living in a small county called Maycomb in Alabama. Jemma: This novel is set in the 1930's. Scout’s father is a lawyer and he has to represent an innocent black man accused of rape. At that time, black people were frowned upon and accused of all sorts of things. Scout and her brother Jem are frightened of a neighbour they have never met called Arthur Radley, who ends up saving their lives in the end. The title of the novel comes from something Scout's father said that Mockingbirds are harmless and sing and you should never kill one. Georgia: One of the first characters that I think related to me would be Atticus. One of the things I can draw a connection with is that Atticus is doing what’s right despite what others say or think. When I was in primary school, book week story… this can be drawn to the part in the book where Atticus defends Tom Robinson, white people were quite sceptical of Atticus and mortified of themselves in a way. Whereas Atticus knew that he was doing the right thing by defending Tom even though everyone in the town started talking about him. Jemma: Standing up for...
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