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The Daily Grind Lessons In The Hidden Curriculum Summary

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In “The Daily Grind: Lessons in the Hidden Curriculum,” by Peggy Orenstein, the reader is shown the extremely different personalities of the boys and the girls in Mrs. Richter’s class. Orenstein interviews Amy, an eighth grade honor roll student to get a better understanding of the classroom. Amy is a very self-confidant popular young girl but when she enters Mrs. Richter’s math classroom she becomes invisible. She is one of the top dogs in the eighth grade reigning elites but is portrayed as a totally different person in the class. When she enters a classroom with boys who are more confident then her she hides in her shell. This essay has gender inequalities portrayed by showing the boys as more intelligent and intimidating than the girls. Basketball has always been an easy sport for me. I was the team captain and one of the carriers of the team. I was quite confident in myself and knew the consequences of not playing. But when I became a freshman in high school and could not play on the middle school team I had one option, to play on the varsity team. I was nervous because I had made friends on the middle school team but did not know the dynamic of the varsity team. When the first practice rolled around I was anxious. …show more content…

She was a reigning elite and a star actress, which shows that she is comfortable in her own self. She is in the center of all the conversation and is never afraid to be herself. When she enters the classroom her behavior changes. She becomes a self-conscious and inaudible. She shrinks into her desk and becomes invisible. When she tries to be a part of the classroom she answers the question incorrectly. The incorrectly answered question makes Amy less confident than she was before. She said, “ That’s abut the only time I ever talked in there. I’ll never do that again.” Because she answered one question incorrectly made her self-esteem lower than

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