A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech JE CREECH
In an effort to make his school even 'finer,' Mr. Keene decides to have the students come to school more often, declaring school open on Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, and even in the summer. How does Tilly explain to DEAR Mr. Keene that not everything a child needs to learn is taught in school?
Splat the Cat by Rob Scotton JE SCOTTON
Splat is worried about his first day of school. He goes reluctantly, but brings his best friend Seymour, a mouse, for company. To his surprise, the teacher insists that all cats chase mice. Not Splat! That day Splat learns that school can be a great place and also proves to the class that a mouse can be a friend.
Niagara Falls, Or Does It? by Henry Winkler J WINKLER
Hank Zipzer tries to do the right thing, but somehow it always ends up wrong. At the start of fourth grade,
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Vaughan JH VAUGHAN
Christopher is down on his luck and running out of chances. When he is visited by a mysterious man from the Ministry of Education, he finds out that he may have more potential than he ever dreamed. He is whisked away to a new school, where he and his new classmates discover that they have 'The Ability,' which is a set of amazing powers that they will only possess while they are twelve. Little do they know, they aren't the only children with 'The Ability,' and not everyone is learning to use their powers for good.
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute by Jarrett Krosoczka J 741.5 KRO
What do you suppose lunch ladies do when they aren't serving lunch at school? Right below the Lunch Room is their secret laboratory. In this series debut, the pair investigates a suspicious substitute teacher using several of their own inventions, like a lunch tray laptop, a spatu-copter, and fish-stick nunchucks. Follow the lunch lady after school and find her fighting an army of kicking, stomping cyborgs. Holy Guacamole! Cauliflower! This action-packed adventure is full of laughs and
In Lynda Barry's essay “The Sanctuary of School” the author addresses the ongoing issue of funding for public schools in America. She is trying to persuade her American audience, such as the school board, and parents, that we need to keep the public schools. Barry is the perfect person to argue the importance of public schools and art and the children who attend them because she was one of those children. She is now a famous cartoonist and author, and she thanks her public school experience for her success. Her essay was intended for the people who believe they aren't important, people who work for school boards, maybe some parents, and the United States Department of Education. In “The Sanctuary of School,” Lynda Barry uses a sense of
In the essay “How the Schools Shortchange Boys”, author Gerry Garibaldi addresses the concern of boys’ behaviors in school. Garibaldi first starts out by stating the feminist complaints that girls were “losing their voice” in a male-oriented classroom have precipitated the school’s establishment to be more in their favor. This has led to boys becoming increasingly disconnected inside the classrooms. Garibaldi claims that “only 65 percent earned high school diplomas in the class of 2003, compared with 72 percent of girls.” He continues by mentioning about how girls are outnumbering boys on most university campuses in the country.
In her short memoir ‘Sanctuary of School’ Lynda Barry remembers her early childhood years at home, feeling somewhat invisible. Growing up in a rather crowded home, which was occupied by relatives who would come and go, and parents who spent the late hours of the evening fighting over shortage of money, Barry and her brother grew accustomed to such a lifestyle. Learning to make the best out of this, the siblings would lay in the living room and watch television until the morning crept in. Feeling such anxiety to rush to school, Barry would make her way there lifelessly, as the sun would slowly rise. While waiting on the playground before making her way in, young Barry states “In a perfect world my absence at home would not have gone unnoticed.”
The meaning of the word education is defined as an enlightening experience in which one receives or gives some form of systematic instruction. This definition is further facilitated through John Taylor Gatto’s utilization of the literary techniques pathos and logos within his own article Against School. While this specific work strives to describe what an ideal education would include, it also presents a more encapsulated view of how flawed some contemporary schools have become to this very day: using fifth column determination and other techniques to suppress student creative ability and efface motivation within students.
The reader gets quite a tale in Gordon Korman’s classic tale Schooled. The protagonist, Capricorn “Cap” Andersen, is a boy raised up by his hippie grandmother, Rain, on a hippie community. His life is turned upside down when his grandmother falls out of a plum tree attempting to harvest plums. Now, having never heard of a pizza, watched a television show, or even handled money, Cap must face the “horrors” of the modern civilization. To make matters worse, Zach Powers, most popular boy on campus, spots Cap, and makes him 8th Grade president. To survive, he has to adjust to the outside world, and quick, before the Halloween dance, which has to be planned entirely by him.
In chapter one titled “The Meaning of a School,” Mara Casey Tieken begins her book and the chapter by providing a vivid account of her experience in Vanleer, Tennessee, a rural school district, and how living there influenced her as an educator. During this time, Tieken became acquainted with ‘country living’ and adapted to many lifestyle changes. Through her experience, the author challenged the written misconceptions that educators and politicians create due to their lack of knowledge regarding rural school systems. Tieken further discussed the lack of attention that rural schools received in the political and educational sphere. Unfortunately, legislative policies, politicians, and educators geared their attention towards urban school
In There’s A Reason They Choose Schools, Timothy Wheeler argues that mass murders aim for locations with “gun-free zone” school campuses. He also states that the shooters are usually students who hold “school-related grudges.” He also believes that the shooters take in consideration that schools do not have a high security system. Wheeler believes that there should be responders stationed at every school. These responders may be trained security guards, teachers, or students. Wheeler is definitely accurate when he argues that schools should have armed first responders because the student’s safety is what’s important. He is also correct that mass shooters aim for schools because they are an easier target than most.
Mandatory, enforced schooling is common all over the world, and is generally seen as a public good, and a privilege of first world countries. However, author and teacher John Gatto argues that mandatory schooling destroys your ability to be free thinkers and therefore should not exist, in his piece “Against School”. Despite his effective use of ethos, Gatto’s argument fails to be convincing due to logical fallacies, and a lack of evidence or first hand experience.
“The School” is a short story written by Donald Barthelme and published in 1974 in The New Yorker. Donald Barthelme is a post-modernist writer known for his deceptively simple yet powerful and insightful short stories. “The School” is a story that takes a good hard look at the sensitive topic of death. The theme of this story is about the cycle of life and how death is an integral part of it. The story is written in first person narrative. The narrator here is the teacher and he talks about how he and his young students of 30 kids encountered death throughout their time together in class. He uses edgy humor and a conversational tone in his seemingly complex plot with a surprising effect that will stick with the reader long after they are done reading it.
In Lynda Barry's essay “The Sanctuary of School” Barry gives her own personal feelings and experiences about the school system. She points out the fact that when times are “lean” the first things the government eliminates from the school systems is the art, music. and other creative programs. In her essay she gives her readers insight on her childhood, explaining how going to school was her get-away from her financially and emotionally unstable home. Barry points out how she and her brother weren’t noticed by their family while at home. For example, at the age of seven Barry sneaks out of the house while it was still dark because she feels a sudden urgency to get to school; when she gets close, she feels a sense of peace come over her. When
Let’s do away with the school system. In “Against school, John Taylor Gatto says, “They said the work was stupid, that it made no sense, that they already knew it. They said that they wanted to be doing something real, not just sitting around” (Gatto 608). Gatto uses his article “Against School” to talk about how the school system is not necessary. He uses certain rhetorical strategies and personal experiences to do so. In “Against School”, John Taylor Gatto uses his personal experience in his thirty years of working in the school system and some rhetorical strategies to convince people who have children in the public-school system that kids do not need to be put in the system to have an education.
Personally, “The Sanctuary of School” offers the strongest conflict. Namely, the conflict of Man v. Society, because troubled children like Lynda Barry contend with those who think before and after school programs are unimportant.
Today is "Movie Day" in an elementary school classroom. All of the children are watching Disney's Snow White, a tale about a girl who lives with dwarves and whose beauty is envied by the queen, who eventually tries to kill her ("Snow White"). While the children are watching the movie, some of them get bored and begin playing patty-cake. The teacher sits back and eats an apple that a student left on his desk that morning. Two girls are texting each other things like "lol" when something funny happens during the movie.
The two pieces I will be covering in this essay are “ I Just Sued the School System” and “Somewhere in America”. The first one consists of a man named Prince Ea who created this short movie/slam poem where he is in court and suing the school system for being unfair, cruel and old school. Prince backs up his ideas completely with examples in history. The other piece I am comparing is three girls, Belissa Escobedo, Rhiannon McGavin and Zariya Allen, who share their unspoken high school eperiences.
Education is needed in the life of the people of God. True education means more than a preparation for life that is now. It has to with the whole being and with the whole period of existence possible to man. It is the harmonious development of the physical, mental, and spiritual powers. The world has many great teacher but God stands higher than them which is the real soiuce of knowledge. The holy scriptures are perfect standard of truth and should be given the highest place in education. He who desire to reach God’s ideal will presents education as high as the heaven and as broad as the universe, an education that can’t be completed in this life but will continue for the life to come. In Eden, personally directed the education