Mr. Graham's Clover The Teacher

As stated above Lombardo gives the reader an insight on Graham’s daily activities and his characteristics inside his classroom. One of Graham’s rituals inside the classroom is that on Mondays he will let the students share what they did over the weekend. In paragraph one the passage states, “was an informal Monday morning circle in which each student shared the best moment of her weekend with the rest of the class.”

In the passage, “Clover”, a young teacher named Graham Koglin, who, albeit close with his students, must keep a strong arm over their wellbeing. He is explaining his house to his students, and his interactions are unique and fit with the characteristics of how his students react to him. The interactions bring Graham to learn respect from his students, while also maintaining a strong, friendly relationship with them.

A seventh grader whose school is largely divided between Catholics and Jews. But, because Holling is a Presbyterian, he has to stay alone with Mrs. Baker on Wednesdays. Causing him to think that Mrs. Baker hates his guts. During these Wednesday's, Mrs. Baker makes Holling do extra work. Each time, he thinks that she was making him do things because she hated him. First she makes him do physical work, but after a while she has him learning Shakespeare. Games were being played between his dad’s company, Hoodhood and Associates, and other nearby corporations. Holling dislikes the fact that his dad will never care about what he asks if it might have the slightest chance of disrupting a deal. In a short amount of time, Holling starts

Charles Baxter's short stories are well-known for the strong presents of ordinary people encountering extraordinary strangers who disturb their lives. “Gryphon” written by Charles Baxter is not an exception. The story is filled with characters that are awaken from their boring lives and transported into a world of possibilities. As a central idea of the story, Baxter's critics often mention “middle America's” conventions, and the effect it has on anyone who does not fit the mold. Within “Gryphon” the reader experiences a few days in the life of fourth grade class; specifically, a few days spent with a unique substitute teacher. The narrative outlines, on many occasions, the unsureness in the face of the unknown. Is the society ready to

Authors often depict their characters in a story through direct and indirect characterization. Direct characterization is simply portrayed through the author or speaker of the story stating actual facts of a character, such as, “She was kind and plump.” In the case of indirect characterization, many authors will use the dialogue of other characters of the mannerisms and actions of the character to display them. This is exemplified by the following: “Lucille then grabbed her napkin for fear of appearing messy.” These different types of characterization are used together and a part. These character identities are often what bring about the end of a character in a story, the demise or the survival. In Flannery O’Connor’s short story, “The Life you Save May Be Your Own,” she relates the title, different types of characterization, and the plot to bring about the end to each character, while much of this end can be assumed or found out by the reader. There are three major characters in “The Life you Save May be Your Own,” they are Mrs. Crater, Lucynell, and Mr. Shiftlet. Mr. Shiftlet is given a name very appropriate for his character, as he is very shifty. Lucynell is recognized for her innocence, which the dainty and little-girl-like name display. Last, is Mrs. Crater, who is also recognized for her name because of her momentous acts throughout the story, which could be referred to as a

Tim wanted to know more about the students because he wanted to not only get to know them better, but see where they were heading in life. He implied that he was first confused on the fact of becoming a writer or a teacher, so he decided to become both. He wrote over 60 children's book and now is a feature writer for the Buffalo News. “Why I wrote so many children’s books? Because I could.” Tim said with a soft smile. When going around the room, he came across a young freshman girl that announced that she wanted to become a news anchor. Then Tim went on talking about who he taught on Channel 7. “I felt like I taught half of Channel 7.” He expressed with a chuckle. Then continued going around the room. When finished, he began explaining what he does and expressed that the biggest part of his job is writing long form narrative scripts, which is a magazine like stories, but in a newspaper and personality profiles as well.

In contrast, Rose’s relationship with his teacher in his vocational classes is unlike Rodriguez’s. Rose explains that his teachers could care less about teaching their students and instead of trying to talk to the students calmly, they use physical violence to control them. Richard states, “When the class drifted away from him, which was often, his voice would rise in paranoid accusations, and occasionally he would lose control and shake or smack us. He also states, “The physical education teacher routinely had us grab our ankles to receive his stinging paddle across our butts.” Rose’s relationship with his vocational teachers was not successful and had the effect on him of trying to be an “average” person.

She is extremely effective in supporting her main idea by supplying the reader with descriptive detail on how she grew up and how certain things took place in rural North Carolina during the 1960’s. These details grasp the reader’s attention immediately by implementing such detail that while reading the words on each page, a visual picture can be envisioned by the reader.

They were to ignore him when acted out or became disruptive and praise him when he behaved in an acceptable manner. In a sense, this made every one of the kids in his class one of Sean’s teachers. They were forced to accept that Sean could get away with doing things that would have landed them in the principal’s office. Kathy would have to spend significant amounts of extra time working with Sean when teaching him how to do something the other children had learned in five minutes two weeks ago. The academic gap between Sean and the rest of his classmates continued to widen as the school year continued.

At school, Charlie finds a friend and mentor in his English teacher, Bill. He also overcomes his chronic shyness and approaches a classmate, Patrick, and his stepsister Sam, become two of Charlie's BFFs. Charlie’s new found friends – Sam, Patrick, Mary Elizabeth and Bob - aren't exactly popular and are outcasts themselves. They are all seniors and often hang out at the Big Boy except Bob who doesn't go to school.

In this story, Graham talks to them about his hair. He talks about how it got messed up earlier that morning. Graham interacts with his students by letting them in on his home life.

In the story Clover, Graham who is a teacher has unique characteristics in his classroom and at home. In his class, he is unorganized and informal. Unlike his characteristics in his classroom, at home Graham is hardworking and conscientious while he is remodeling his new home.

Initially the professor is dignified and elevated – described as an “honored guest” and “humble”. Through this technique the responder is able to recognize his importance and is also able to see his egotistical nature, as he compares himself to great artworks such as “Rodan’s Thinker”. As he surrenders to his temptation for the young school girl, though, a subtle shift in power is evident. Like the boy in The Glass Jar the professor is seduced by temptation and falls from grace.

What makes this character feel real? There are many things Hugh Winkleman does that make him see more believable. Hugh Winkleman is a character in the novel Schooled by Gordon Korman. Schooled is about a thirteen-year-old hippie who goes to a public school for the first time after being homeschooled by his grandmother until she's sent to the hospital due to a bad fall. But, when Capricorn Anderson(Cap) joins the new school, almost everyone there torments him and tries to break him so that he will stop being so nice. But that all stops once everyone realizes that Cap is a much better person than the rest of them. Everyone else begins to appreciate Cap as they try to become more like him. This paper discusses Hugh Winkleman round as a character through his path and purpose in the text, his interactions and effect on others, and his change over time.

When Mr. Holland takes the position of music teacher he didn't realize how important he will be to his students. But later on he begins to give it his all to his job, and realizes his students don't give it their all in school. He then finds different ways to encourage his students to find an appreciation for music. Through the process he find out his love for music and for his students and becomes an influential person in his students life.