...What Happened To The “SLAVE” Who Wrote The Letter Everyone is Talking About Added by blacklikemoi on February 6, 2012. Saved under Black History, Inconceivable Tags: Big Spring, Colonel Anderson, David Lee Child, Dayton Daily Journal, George Carter, girls, Jordan, Jourdon Anderson, Lydia Maria Child, shooting A letter written by a freed slave to his former master has surfaced again after almost 150 years and is creating a lot of buzz. The letter was written by former slave Jourdon Anderson to his master Colonel P.H. Anderson in August 1865. According to Letters of Note, Colonel Anderson had written his former slave, asking him to return to work as a freeman on the farm on which he had spent 30 years as a human tool. The former slave’s response to his former master’s request surfaces again after the book, The Freedmen’s Book, compiled by Lydia Maria Child almost 150 years ago, was reissued this month. Child was born in 1802. Her husband David Lee Child, was an abolitionist who also campaigned for Indian rights and women’s rights. Jourdon, in the letter replied to his master that he and his family had moved from Big Spring, Tennessee to Ohio, after being emancipated and now he had a job and was being paid, for the first time, for his labor. The letter starts out heartbreaking and somber but by the letter’s end, it is revealed as one of the great, all-time, understated sarcastic missives, with the final sentence, “Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him...
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...Reading Assessment I once again chose a child to work with that I am familiar with. The student is a male child of Hispanic decent. The student comes from a household which is considered middle class and both parents that reside in the household are working parents. The mother is a college graduate and works in the education field as a high school teacher. The father did not attend college and is the head of the maintenance department at a local area school district. Both of the child’s parents have worked since the child was born and the child stayed with grandparents or at a daycare facility until the child reached the age to begin school. The child has a younger brother who will begin school the next school year. In talking with the parents the feeling was the grandparents treated the child very well and read to the child on a daily basis when the child was in the grandparents care and the child has a great love for school and strives to be the very best in his class. The male child is about to turn seven years old and is in the first grade. The child attends a school that the mother and father are not employed and the grandparents are responsible for picking the child up after the school day is complete. The parents are very involved in the students’ school work and provide support for the student every evening when they are at home. In visiting with the student before we began our reading assessment I found the student to be very mindful and attentive. We discussed...
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...AED/202 Reading and Writing Development Sandy Mackey June 28, 2013 Kristen Weiss Reading and Writing Development As a future educator I believe that reading and writing is the utmost import thing in a child’s education. Without these two skills a child will not be able to succeed in school. For my essay, I chose two age groups that I want to teach; middle childhood, ages six through ten, and early adolescence, ages ten through 14. The reason I chose these two developmental ages is because I believe that children enjoy learning; they are like sponges, always trying to absorb as much as possible. The reading development in middle childhood children and early adolescent childhood children seem somewhat different. Middle childhood children start by identifying letters and matching letters with individual sounds, knowing what a word is, and interpreting spaces and punctuation are the earliest building blocks for reading skills (www.education.com). Early adolescent childhood children, usually do not have an issue with reading; they can identify vocabulary words in a book and sound out the words. Children of this stage usually enjoy reading. Writing skills for both middle and early adolescent children develop in the same way as their reading skills. Middle childhood children are more focused on what they are writing, their spelling, spacing, punctuation, and coherence has improved (www.education.com). As for the early adolescent children...
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...Magical Solution for Urban Schools Reading Intervention Programs Reading can be the gateway to a new world. Unfortunately today there are large numbers of inner city elementary school children who struggle with reading daily. For example, “According to the 2012 Maryland School Assessment, 34.5% of Baltimore City 3rd graders are reading below grade level, a figure that is double the state average” (Baltimore City Library Project, 2014, para.1). It’s the duty of inner city school districts to make changes that will embrace the issues which are effecting the academic growth of children. The letters in words are symbols and those letters make sounds. Putting them all together equals reading, and reading is the key to a child’s future independence. That independence allows them to be positive contributors to society. As well as prepare them to maneuver daily technological advances in our society. A child without a solid reading foundation could be led on a path to becoming a high school dropout. “One in six children who are not reading proficiently in the third grade do not graduate from high school on time” (Baltimore City Library Project, 2014, para.1). Many children have low to poor academic achievement. Multisensory reading intervention can be the solution to help break the cycle of poor reading skills amongst children in urban environments. A multisensory reading approach such as the Orton-Gillingham Method of teaching can be the possible solution for elementary school children’s...
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...Language lies at the root of that transformation of the environment that we call ‘civilization’. How is language encouraged in the Montessori prepared environment? Language is something that I can’t explain. It is absurd for me. What I know is I am able to speak to communicate what is on my mind to other people, but the process how did it happen I barely remember it. Before I learn about Montessori, I used to think that language is something that comes naturally. I thought it was something ridiculous if children learn how to write and how to read in early age because I was thought that eventually children could done it easily. Well, I guess I was wrong all this time and sure I am taking for granted that I was underestimate how we can speak, read, and writing. Human needs practice to be fluently in speaking, to be understood in reading, and to be able to writing a simple note. In fact, human being learns language from he or she was an infant. An infant is first exposed to language through sounds generated by the environment and languages spoken by the adults surrounding him. As I observe my 9 months old son, he starts babble when he was 6 months old now he is more talkative event tough he can only say baba papa mama or dada. But I always replying what he says in order to make him feel respected, to teach him Bahasa and I don’t want to lose his sensitive period. Language is goes a long way in establishing a people’s identity, somehow showing people’s artistic, economic...
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...Philosophies, Theories, and Concepts Jamie Field ECE 311 Early Childhood Curriculum & Methods Prof. Terri Surrency 08/26/2013 My goal for the future is to open my own in-home preschool and provide a positive and healthy learning experience to all that attend. I want to help guide and prepare our young children for their future in academics and life in general while having fun at the same time. My goals for the children are to teach them positive social skills, to be respectful to all people and things, to give them a voice and allow them to input their own ideas and opinions, give them a sense of pride and accomplishment to build self esteem, and to just love learning. Kindergarten today is not what it used to be and unfortunately, most children are not prepared for this. It’s important that our children feel comfortable and capable of entering into Kindergarten, which is where I come in. Although I do not have a concrete teaching philosophy I think I am leaning towards student-centered and progressivism. I think that teachers and students should work together to create learning experiences and opportunities. Progressive education is a form of education advocated by John Dewey in the early twentieth century. The basic idea of this philosophy is that students learn through experience, rather than through memorization. “Dewey believed that students, facing and ever-changing world, should master this scientific method: (1) Become aware of a problem; (2) define it; (3)...
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...modes of literacy instruction and the effects they have on students. I have examined my own experiences as an early reader as well as the DeFord Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile (TORP) to develop my own emerging philosophy of reading. First, I explore my personal experiences as an early reader. My earliest experiences began before I even entered school. My parents often read aloud to me as a child. I remember my mother stopping to point out words, the letters in them, and what sound each one made. As I entered Kindergarten,...
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...baby, just like my sister Ali?” said an awestruck 4 year old Katie vonErden. Before I can even remember, my parents have always sensed my adoration and passion for the miracle of life, babies specifically. No matter the setting, I was always toting my own baby dolls in pretty pink, floral carriages and feeding them generously from miniature baby bottles. Eyes beaming and my mouth never losing its delighted smile, I’d always love “playing mother”. Never missing a beat, from the sunrise to sundown I spent most of my hours pretending to read fantasy stories to “my baby” and create my own baby care/personal schedules. No matter where I happened to be, whether in a busy-bodied grocery store or in the confinement of my princess-themed room, I absolutely loved making up colorful stories about unicorns and rainbows—literally—and adding in my own noises and expressions to “make my baby smile”. Bubbling over with a constant energy imagination, my stories always had happy endings and dramatic plot twists. I wanted to be the caregiver that made one laugh hysterically and dance with anticipation. As I arrived at the ending of my stories, I felt it. I felt the story, its energy and excitement, bringing me closer to “my baby”. My 41 inch height and even tinier physique defied the independent, motherly spirit and passion I had for babies. I wanted to teach, open up to, care for and love all my baby dolls and the real-life babies I excitedly saw at church, school events and my favorite place...
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...Self-Efficacy The skill that will help a child go troughs his or her education journey is self- efficacy. How well the child develops this skill will help for many other such as self-regulation. The concept of self-efficacy is how well we know ourselves and how confident are we to complete certain task. For instance when baby learn to walk for the first time we the parents and teacher help and contribute to build the self- efficacy on the child. Just the simple fact that we encourage them every day that yes you can do it. Or taking them by the hand and helping the child with his or her first steps that builds their self-efficacy to go beyond and do more than just walking. In a first grade setting class by teaching the students the sounds of the alphabet that builds their self-efficacy that students eventually learn how to read and write and that makes them want to learn more new things. Influence Growing up what help me develop my high and low self-efficacy would have to be the fact that I am the seven child of ten siblings. Everything my older siblings were learning I wanted to do as well. By the time I started school my self-efficacy was so high that I was ready to conquer the world. There were times that I did have low self-efficacy and they were pretty much in my middle school years and high school years. I think this happen because all my elementary school years were done in Spanish. By the time I was expose to the English language I was 12 years old so it was hard to...
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...information sources the child might have been using. In Clay's analysis, cues refer to the sources of information. There are three major categories: Meaning- The teacher thinks about whether the child's attempt makes sense up to the point of error. She might think about the story background, information, from the picture, and meaning in the sentence in deciding whether the child was probably using meaning as a source. Structure-Structure refers to the way language works. Some refer to this information source as syntax because unconscious knowledge of the rules of the grammar of the language the reader speaks allows him to eliminate alternatives. Using this implicates knowledge, the reader checks whether the sentence "sounds right." Visual information- Visual information includes the way the letters and words look. Readers use their knowledge of visual features of words and letters and connect these features to their knowledge of the way words and letters sound when spoken. If the letters in the child's attempt are visually similar to the letters in the word in the text (for example, if it begins with the same letter or has a similar cluster of letters), it is likely that the reader has used visual information. Readers use all these information sources in an integrated way while reading for meaning. For each incorrect attempt and self-corrected error, the letters M S V are indicated in the Error column and the SC column, as appropriate. If the child probably used meaning,...
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...Graduate School Application Cover Letters: Paper applications and supporting material sent via the post to graduate schools require cover letters. Cover letters should be approximately 1-2 paragraphs and contain: 1) What is enclosed in the envelope and why. Do not make the reader guess why you are sending the following materials. State what program you are applying for and for what year/semester. 2) Tell specifically how you heard about their program. Write if their website impressed you, if it was a family member, friend, advisor, faculty, recruiter or mentor. It is appropriate to mention the name of that person in the cover letter, especially if it is a recruiter or someone who works in that program. 3) Convince them to really take a look at your application. Make sure the cover letter is well written and targeted for that program. The department website is a great way to incorporate the main points and goals of that program, 4) Take the opportunity to really show them your attitude. Success in the application process is 80 % attitude. The cover letter should state how excited you are about the prospect of becoming a student in the graduate program. 5) Provide or refer to any information that you would like to highlight about your application or anything you feel you were not able to mention in your application. Work and on-hand experience are great points to focus on. Sample Cover Letter: Hunter Thomas 14 Breakers Way Pacifica, CA 97854 hunterthomas@email...
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...The second child I observed was the complete opposite. She was able to complete the alphabet activity in about five minutes max. She would pick up a letter, look over the letters on the table and was able to find the connection. It was harder to observe her multiple intelligence because she understood the concept with ease. Even though it was harder, I would have to say she had two very strong multiple intelligences. She’s a strong spatial learner. Unlike the other girl, I didn’t hear her sound out the letters, but I could see her mouth the letters to help her make the connection. I would also conclude she has strong intrapersonal multiple intelligence. She was able to work independently so well and complete the task in record time compared...
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...1) First impressions of child within initial 15 minutes: The child was very friendly to me right when I came into the classroom she greeted me saying hello. My target child is very quiet she did not speak at all to anyone she would just do her assigned class work. Indeed she is very neat. She had no papers on her desk and inside of her desk was very organized. 2) Describe the activities the child participated in during your observation. During my observation for my first time visit she was seeing her occupational therapist. The first assignment she told me target child to do was to get four marble balls out of silly pudding. She completed this lesson fully and this was a great hands activity. The next activity she did with my target child...
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...Public Interest/Government Resume and Cover Letter Tips All of the general rules that apply to resumes and cover letters to prospective employers apply equally to public interest and government employers. Your materials should be error-free, clearly organized, easy to read, and concise. However, there are some additional qualities that public interest and government employers are specifically looking for. You need to demonstrate your commitment to the mission and work of the organization and that you have the skills for the position. Your resume and cover letter must convey your interest, enthusiasm and knowledge of the specific employer you are applying to. It is imperative that you customize your materials to show that your education, experience, and volunteer work have provided you with the skills that relate to the duties of the position. You can convey this commitment by carefully tailoring your materials to the job description. If there is no job posting, use the website to learn all that you can about the organization’s work and the clients they serve. Talk to other students who have worked or volunteered with the organization. (You can find this information by looking at the lists of where students worked in previous summers). Use this information to highlight your relevant experience and illustrate that you can “hit the ground running.” In your resume, you may want to highlight relevant coursework from law school or undergraduate...
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... 1. In this outline of the various attitudes towards the Reality Show, we have three texts. Text 1 consists of two letters. Both letters have been published in The Times the same year as the reality show was sent: The first letter is written by Andre Mackenzie from Channel 4, the second letter is written by a Lecturer in Psychotherapy named Dr. Richard House. Text 2 is written by a journalist Georgina Reid there is introducing a mother to one of the children in the show. Andre Mackenzie is trying to convince everybody there is reading it, that the children in the show are hundred percent safe and is under protection 24/7 during production. He starts by introducing the purpose of the show, which is to give the children the chance to make decisions about their lives in a safe environment. They also want the parents to see how their kids handle them self with out them, and offer the audience an insight into both childhood and parenting. Then he explains how they have carefully chosen the kids, he says that they are ‘’screened by experts’’ to make sure that they could cope in the show. He says that they follow Safety protocols to ensure that the children’s well being remains there top priority, to make sure of that there is trained child chaperones to prevent injuries, and to help disarm any upset or fighting between the children. He ends his letter by telling that the parent’s response to the series is very positive. As a matter of fact Andre Mackenzie is Head of Factual...
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