...Should the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian be taught? The book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian should be taught at Douglas High School. It has a lot of good life lessons in it for people to learn. It has many themes that are relevant in today’s society such as, loss, addiction, alcoholism, hope, and many more. The book may have many inappropriate things in it, but it’s still worth taking a lesson from it. If taught at a high school, those inappropriate things might actually keep people reading and get a kick out of it. The book itself is pretty short, so it’s a short and sweet lesson teachers can do with their class if they can look past the inappropriate humor, harsh language, racism, talking about sexual things,...
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...Mark Twain’s first successful piece of work was a book about a young boy named Tom Sawyer. Tom and his best friend, Huckleberry Finn, went around, getting in trouble and going on exciting adventures. It was a popular children's book. So, when Mark Twain came out with his next book; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a story of Huck running away from home and going on new adventures with a slave, everyone was surprised by its controversial topics and offensive racial slurs. Now, 130 years later, the book is the number one most banned book in America. The question of whether it should still be taught in school is being brought up again. The themes in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain are still relevant today, and therefore, the book should still be taught in school. Some of the themes in the book are argued to be inappropriate. A boy running away from home, the bad language, a white boy and a black man being friends, the scheming and scamming; these are all topics that some may think shouldn’t be taught in school. These are themes that need to be addressed because they are real life topics. They may have been hard to talk about in the past but now, they are good teaching devices. The controversial topics in the book...
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...Should the book, Huckleberry Finn,be taught in schools today? This question is very controversial across America. Because Mark Twain’s,Huckleberry Finnwasset before the Civil War, in the mid-1800s, Twain writes about slaves and blacks as they were saw in that era. Even though this was just a time in History that the whole world went through, people now want to try and erase that time in History. Huckleberry Finn was written during a time in America that should not be forgotten, but studied and used as a way to improve life today.Huckleberry Finn should be taught and read in schools. Huckleberry Finn is a book written by the famous author, Mark Twain. This book follows the adventures of a young boy named Huckleberry Finn. This book is...
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...Jameson 24 January 2016 Prose Essay In the article, I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Sing by Francine Prose, she feels uncertain about the process of teaching through selected books. Prose gives a few examples from To Kill a Mockingbird to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as well as various textbook short stories. Prose is questions the effectiveness of using literary works to teach values through different traits that certain characters exude. She writes, “The narrator of Caged Bird is good, her rapist is bad; Scout and Atticus Finch are good, their bigoted neighbors are bad.” This is a twodimensional way of looking at the characters and their development. Another point found in this article is that teachers plant their own interpretation of a work in their students heads. Prose adds “ … this moving, funny novel (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is being taught not as a work of art but as a piece of damning evidence against that bigot, Mark Twain.” Which changes Prose’s initial excitement upon finding that work on the list. Overall, on this topic Prose conveys that she does not believe that values can be taught through literature in a school setting. However, I believe that novels can teach a lesson. Prose writes about how lessons are taught to high school readers as if they cannot draw their own conclusions about what they read. Some may be unable to think for themselves, but it is from the point of view of an avid reader that I draw my conclusions...
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...Evolution in our Public Schools Student Name PHI 103: Informal Logic Instructor: Date Evolution in our Public Schools I. Introduction A. Thesis Statement One of the major concerns in the scientific studies of biology today is about evolution being taught in our public schools. This has been an ongoing concern for the religious sects, teachers, school board members, students, parents, and state officials. It has been the talk of the courts since the Darwin Theory came along. Many issues have risen over the years since evolution was introduced to the world and into the school system. The questions of whether mankind evolved from a monkey or the way of creationism, that man was created by God as stated in the book of Genesis (Bible). Other issues that came up were with the teachers themselves and having to teach evolution in their biology classes, when not fully understanding evolution itself. In this essay we will discuss the arguments of evolution versus creationism that is being taught in our public schools and whether it is acceptable to teach evolution to our school children. II. Body paragraph # 1 – Topic Sentence # 1 The disputes of evolution started back in the late 19th century, some years after Charles Darwin came to the conclusion of linking human ancestry to lower animals by his evolution theory. This evolution of reasoning caused a stir in the public schools when it was put into the biology text books and required to be taught to the students....
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...The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a great book. Also called the most racist novel ever. is it racist i don't think so. Others say the book is racist because the book states the n word 217 times by a white man. In my eyes when twain wrote this book he did not care what people were going to think thats why the book turned out as great as i did. most authors think too much about what other people are going to think. when twain wrote the book its was made in 1884 during slavery the word nigger was used very heavily. People focused how much the N word was used but didn't look at how a slave was a friend with a young white boy at the time. The author of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain some say he is racist some say he is just a great author. Is mark twain racist? Most people who read the book say OH! he is racist because he uses the n word and he is white to me he was just creating a good book during a slavery time. A white boy friends with a slave you will never find that in 1884 but in this book...
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...think that the teachers I’ve had over the years have done a great job preparing me for college and the work force. While we all know that no public system is perfect and improvements can be made in many areas, I feel that one area that has impacted students negatively the most is the way teachers make us learn to read and write. I am confident that most students who are currently in high school, or recently graduated, would agree that the way most teachers force students to read and write has a direct result in many students’ unwillingness, or lack of desire to read for recreation. I personally have felt like every time the teacher would make us read some obscure book or story that had little to no interest to a pre-teen or teenager, I was being “force fed” like a cow being lead to slaughter. I understand that the teacher’s job is sometimes very difficult to try and make the boring books enjoyable, and that sometimes school boards only approve books that they feel are “culturally important” or the books are being dictated by the state, but the students have no say in the types of books that are laid in front of them. If I were forced...
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...American-Eurasian Journal of Scientific Research 6 (1): 28-31, 2011 ISSN 1818-6785 © IDOSI Publications, 2011 Inquiry Method and Student Academic Achievement in Biology: Lessons and Policy Implications Jacinta A. Opara European School Science Project, 18140 Granada, Spain Abstract: Three research questions with null hypotheses guided the study with the aid of a quasi experimental research design. These students were randomly assigned to two groups (treatment and control group). Treatment group were those taught biology using the sensitized inquiry teaching method while conventional method (lecture) was used for the control group. (1) Biology Achievement Test (BAT) was developed on the following units in biology, flower pollination, muscle structure and function and seed germination. All these were drawn from anatomy and physiology of flowering plants and animal physiology in the biology textbook of SS1, to measure the initial and terminal academic achievement of the students. (2) Lesson notes were prepared on the above mentioned units using the inquiry teaching method and the conventional method using a pre - test, post - test experimental treatment. Thus, it is the contention of the author that the inquiry approach would enhance students’ achievement in biology, hence the thrust of this study. Key words: Inquiry teaching method Conventional method INTRODUCTION Achievement Biology Gender Location explanations from their observations (evidence) by integrating what they...
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...Who is Responsible for Sex Education? Writing 291 Joseph A. Marco 22 July 2010 Public schools systems have been implementing sexual education into their classrooms as a regular part of instruction for decades. Ongoing controversies exist when dealing with this issue whether sex education being taught in the public schools or whether it should be considered the responsibility of the parents. It seems most parents are either for or against it and very rarely are they standing on middle ground. Given the statistics does it matter who teaches the children of the United States the basics of sex education? Children should receive a basic unbiased and informative sex education in school, from their it should be the parents responsibility. By their 18th birthday, six in 10 teenage women and more than 5 in 10 teenage men have had sexual intercourse. Of the approximately 750,000 teen pregnancies that occur each year, 82 percent are unintended with more than one quarter ending abortion. The United States continues to have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the developed world – almost twice as high as England, Canada, and Wales and eight times as high as the Netherlands and Japan. In addition to the teen pregnancy rate, the teens in the United States contract roughly nine million new sexually transmitted infections (STI’s) each year. Though teens in the United States have levels of sexual activity similar to levels among their Canadian, English, French, and Swedish...
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...Teaching Creation and Evolution in Schools Why are we here? Many people ask that question at some point in their life. The answers are different no matter who ask. Some people believe a higher power created the universe and our purpose here is to serve that higher power. Others say we exist because of the Big Bang and our purpose for living is to survive. The first theory for this is known as creationism. The other is evolution and most schools have encouraged this. Why is one not right and the other false? Is there no balance between these two issues? The lack of evidence makes creationism hard to believe, and many holes in the evolution link makes that hard to believe. Theories of human evolution cause disagreements. Each theory has its own evidence to prove that its right, but lack of enough evidence to prove the others errors. Most of the theories that try to explain the human existence are labeled as creation theory, naturalistic evolution theory and theistic evolution theory. Naturalistic evolution theory states that evolution is a force and not controlled by a god, goddess or some other type of deity. Theistic evolution is a combination of both creation and naturalistic theories. To understand the struggle between creationism and evolution you must first understand creationism. Creationism is the theory that all life was created by God. In the book of Genesis you will find the story when God formed man from the dust of the ground. God also created...
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...Essay High school students are not learning and passing a course due to how the teaching material is organized. Teachers follow and teach their material to students by following what the book says. Due to the fact, that students learn exactly what is taught from the book, their teachers believe the student is capable of answering their own questions based off the book. Furthermore causing the student to score poorly in that class, due to not teaching the student personally and effective. In my point, I believe teachers need to stop relying on the students to learn by themselves using the book, and change their teaching material by personally teaching the student based on the teachers knowledge of the material. Given this argument, I will introduce a pro and con statement that will provide two different standpoints about my argument. After proving both pro and con statements, I will provide how John Stuart Mill will choose either statement by using his moral perspective theory. As a pro statement, teachers who teach their students the correct material upon their own knowledge, without consulting a book as guidance in their class, will have successful passing students. Most high school teachers who have received degrees don’t teach students upon themselves, but depend on book. Unfortunately, when a student needs help, they have to consult to the book, and rely on the practice problems the book provides as help. Consulting to the book at all times through the school year simply...
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...we must learn, such as, reading, writing, listening and speaking. What actually reading is? Reading means the action or skill of reading written or printed matter silently or aloud. Moreover, it is also mean as the process of constructing meaning from written texts. Hence, it is not a skill that students must learn separately from other processes. Reading skill combines many complex activities include categorizing, building key terms and concepts for a subject, measuring one’s reaction to a subject, making new connections, abstracting, figuring out significance and developing arguments. In learning English Foundation subjects, there are some reasons for us to read. By reading books, we might become an interesting person. This happens because we can use information that we get from books or magazine to impress ourselves to friends or future employers. Besides, reading also can help us to learn how to write correctly. In this case, we will get good grades and also can impress our future boss who will promote us because we can express ourselves 3 correctly. The next reason for reading is to help us in developing our imagination to write many excellent stories. For doing some event, we also can look up a lot of funny ideas for friends to prepare something outside our expectation. If we read, we can get the information which can take us to some places that we do not know. For example, when we see newspapers write good articles about travelling places which we...
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...Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools Part one “Savage Inequalities: children in America’s Schools” was written by Jonathan Kozol in the year 1991. Jonathan was born in the year 1936 in the United States of America and he is a renowned educator, activist and a writer. During his teaching career, he was able to study the lives of students, parents and teachers. He has written many books, including “Rachael and her child: homeless families in America,” “Shame of the nation” and many more. His books mainly focused on the social life experienced in schools. In the book “Savage inequality”, the writer argues that segregation is the main challenge facing American schools today. He believes students are facing segregation more than it was in the year 1954. The issues that Kozol discussed are from interviews and observation with students, parents and teachers during his teaching career. These observations showed how the urban schools were different from the private schools in terms of resources and methods of teaching (Kozol, 196). In the books, he tells his story as a teacher. He explains all the school he taught and the challenges he observed. In the year 1964 he began his teaching career in segregated public institution in Boston. The institution faced some challenges; the school lacked enough classrooms, and teachers were not permanent and would leave any time of the year. Students had never experienced a chance to be taught by one teacher from one level to the...
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...Ethical Influence Paper September 18th, 2015 Brandon McConnell To Kill A Mockingbird If you were to ask me about a book or a hero that was an ethical influence on me, I would tell you that both come from the same book/movie. It would be Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird, it is a classic example of heroism and doing the right thing and there is many readers who would agree with that statement. I read this book at the young age of 14 in middle school when I was still developing my feel for the ethics of right and wrong so it made a lasting impact on me growing up and developing as a person. Summarize the book or hero’s life in a few paragraphs; Everyone should know the story of To Kill A Mockingbird but if you don’t, let me share it with you. It happens in a little town of Maycomb, Alabama in the heat of all the racism in the South. In this little town everyone knows each other and everyone knows what happens. The main characters are the Finch family with Atticus, Scout, and Jem in their small house in the middle of Maycomb. Scout is a young girl who grew up with a lot of boys and acts that way in the way she deals with conflict. Jem is the older brother who isn’t really isn’t in the picture a lot but is in a crucial incident of the story with Scout. Atticus is a very well known coveted lawyer; everyone in town knows him and looks up to him as a person and a professional. That was short lived when Atticus did something he knew was right but society...
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...“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them”-William Shakespeare. To me, Shakespeare’s books has been very enlightening, to others like highschool students they fine Shakespeare’s books are very very boring. The one question English spectators been asking is; “Should Shakespeare be taught in school”? Some might say yes, some might even say no. For the past 450 years Shakespeare books, plays, poems, etc has been read mostly to get people’s attention, Why is that you might ask? Well, most English teachers believe that Shakespeare’s books teaches us some life lessons.For example; In the story “Merchant of Venice” by William Shakespeare, on Act III Scene I, there is a quote...
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