This article “Terrific Teaching Tips” by Laurel Borgia and Carol Owles, with contributions by Julie Frisch, Louise Stearns, and Lindsay Craig, are all inspired teachers looking to improve effective strategies to produce better instruction methods. Educators are constantly researching to discovery how to create a better setting which benefit the students in acquiring learning skill. By motivating a childs mind with the use of manipulatives in order to better grasp understanding. What do good readers do? They discuss what they have read, what better way to use manipulatives to engage in class discussion. Furthermore, these technic of using visual icons guides the reader in connecting the story to the theme and the plot. This article touches several grade levels by giving specifying strategies according to grade level. In order to, be able to combine different methods and technics according to grade level and distinguishing from Kindergarten Primary and Secondary. Frish’s, …show more content…
“This strategy involves having the reader record three things that he or she has learned or discover about the particular topic. Next, the reader writes two things he or she finds interesting about it. And finally, the reader writes one question he or she will ask about the topic."(p.48) For my teaching practice I would introduce the story of Charlotte’s Web and have students use the 3-2-1 idea to compare and contrast the difference between farm animals and domesticated animals. I would instruct the students to writing down three similarities, two differences and one question between the animals. This will help students get more familiar with comparing and contrasting other subjects. By practicing the compare and contrast students would also learn to research on topics at hand and at the same time acquire more
In “The Lesson” written by Toni Cade Bambara, the kids exhibit behaviors that suggest that they are uneducated. Aside from living in the “slums” as Miss Moore says, they also use words and phrases that are less than respectful. The kids seem to be uneducated because they use improper language, they look down on education, and exhibit bad behavior. The first way the kids indicate that they are uneducated is by using foul language and poor grammar. For example, at the beginning of paragraph two Sylvia says, “And the starch in my pinafore scratching the shit outta me and I’m really hating this nappy-head b*tch and her god*amn college degree.”
In “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, Sylvia was presented as a character with outstanding traits. Bambara was able to reveal these traits by telling this short story from Sylvia’s first-person point of view. Although Sylvia’s character might seem rude and childish at first, Sylvia actually is tough and has a sense of righteousness. Sylvia is a tough character.
“The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara is a first-person narrative that takes place in the slums of the Harlem in New York City. They seem to live in poverty as one gets the idea from Sylvia’s explanation of her neighborhood, “hated the way winos cluttered up our parks, and pissed on our handball walls and stank up our hallways and stairs” (Bambara Pg-304). The story begins with a group of children standing in front of the mailbox ready to go on an educational trip. Sylvia, an African American girl, and her friends visit an F.A.O Schwartz toy store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan with Miss Moore, a college graduate, “woman with nappy hair” who frequently takes kids on educational trips. Sylvia disregards the lessons given by Miss Moore “I’m really
“The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara is not just an original story about a poor girl out of place in an expensive toy store. The short story is based on an African-American girl named Sylvia who was trying to be a normal girl but she always thought she was better than anyone else. Sylvia was an ignorant, and an abusive girl who thinks Miss.Moore as an unsolicited educator. Sylvia’s classmates had agreed with Sylvia’s opinion, people such as Fat butt, Junebug, Sugar, Flyboy, and Rosie. Miss.
In Chapter 14, Graff and Birkenstein argue that readers must understand several strategies in order to distinguish the writer’s view. All authors do not engage with readers the same way. Many authors use the “they say/I say” pattern with different strategic approaches . Graff and Birkenstein want us to look for what motivates the thesis oppose to just looking for it. For example, we must understand the author’s argument and the one they are responding to.
It dedicates the last section to the opinions and answers to questions from the interviews that aren’t as related tot the topic as the other essays and articles within the book. The structure of the book was not complicated but the flow of it was. It wasn’t like most texts that slowly move into the following topic this book jumped right into it and often only provided two to four essays or articles within each section to describe events and
Oppression, Education, but Not Stupidity “The Lesson”, a short story by Toni Cade Bambara, features a young African American girl, Silvia, in New York during the 1960’s or 70’s. Sylvia is strong-headed, to say the least, and the story follows her and her friends on an outing into uptown New York. An older and well educated woman from their neighborhood, Miss Moore, takes the children into the city to a very well-to-do toy shop called F.A.O Schwarz. As the children look around the shop, Silvia becomes more and more frustrated and angered by the extravagant toys and the price tags whose numbers could feed her family for a year or more. After the children leave the store and return home, Miss Moore asks a crucial question, “what did you think” (Bambara 103).
IPTS 1C: understands how teaching and student learning are influenced by development (physical, social and emotional, cognitive, linguistic), past experiences, talents, prior knowledge, economic circumstances and diversity within the community Performance Activity 22: How does the teacher relate content to students’ lives? Ms. Boerema relates content to students; lives by asking students questions relating to students’ lives. The strategy she uses is relating content to prior knowledge. An example of this is asking a question relating to the Outsiders, “Which one of your parents are you most like? What similarities do you share?”
Exercise four -six requires the readers to now examine what they wrote, to understand how to
If you were to change something about the education system in the U.S, what would you change? How would you critique the quality of education? Education historian Diane Ravitch answers these questions in her excerpt that was published in 2014, “The Essentials of a Good Education.” In her text Ravitch argues that the education system is flawed and that the vision of a good education is unfair and unequal. Ravitch supports her claim by providing examples of the negative effects of the educational system and using historical context.
Home is Where the Learning Starts Children start to love reading at a young age, but when reading textbooks the love for reading slowly starts to deteriorate. Most kids hate to read in school because it’s nothing they are truly interested in when in all reality children need to understand how important reading is. In the essay “My Literacy History” by Dedrick Skinner and “The Lonely Good Company of Books” by Richard Rodriguez he explains how he did not know why reading was so important, but as he grew older he understood its values. I also developed a love for books at young age when my mom began to read to me, but as I grew up I felt reading was a struggle because I didn’t understand its values like Rodriguez.
Intro BP 2a. Audience -tone (Text evidence+text evidence) 2b. Purpose-repetition 2c. Context-organization 3.
“The Lesson”, by Toni Cade Bambara, is a short story which shows that while education is a powerful and essential tool for changing one’s circumstances when it comes to social status, it is ultimately how we are affected internally by the things we learn that matters the most. It isn’t as simple as merely being educated or working hard. Hard work doesn’t necessarily guarantee success, and education doesn’t necessarily influence change. The psychological effects of poverty can lead individuals to feel trapped in their circumstances, and oftentimes an equal amount of luck is needed in addition to hard work, emotional and mental resilience, and education to overcome the obstacles to financial security. Economic status can cause people to feel
You can compare and contrast items you come across in life. Movies, stories, and even people can be compared. The story "The Most Dangerous Game", which is written by Richard Connell, and the movie High Noon, which is written by Carl Foreman, can be compared and contrasted in multiple ways. High Noon is a movie about a sheriff being hunted down by a murderer that he sent to jail. He was released and plans to hold up his promise of coming back to kill the sheriff.
Books about students learning, may provide insight into how students learn. Since students will be able to relate to it. Author and narrator of my Freshman Year Cathay Smalls, also known as Rebecca Nathan uses this nonfictional book to help us understand her life as a freshman in college. This text is an excellent tool to demonstrate how students learn. Although nonfictional books helps us understand how students learn, there are also fictional books too, such as Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets demonstrates how students learn through the eyes of the students at Hogwarts.