Monday, May 3, 2010

H.W #52

Everyone in life is trying to be excepted by others and in socity, now why do we care if we get excepted by other? I think its because we were rasied on seeing are parents and everyone in front of us caring of what others think and being excepted by others and mostly because if a lot of people say someone is bad or good then its what they decide because if it was one person that said someone is bad then we won't believe it, but when a punch of people do then I think everyone do believe it.

Having a friend means to feel comfortable being with and telling your stories to, In life there is 2 type of friends, the first one is the real friends we see and hang out with and talk to a lot, and the second one is the people we call "friends" but we barely talk to you or hang out with and there like FaceBook friends. And we like to have a lot of friends on FaceBook, even though we don't know half of them, but we like it when others see that we have a big number of "friends".

The way we should treat people: it should be the same way they treat us, so if someone nice to me, I should be nice back, if they be mean were obviously going to be mean back, and i also think that we should treat people the way we like to be treated, treating people is like a mirror to the way u treat them.

Everyone love there family, and I do too, why is it like we have to love are family? I think its because they are the one that toke care of us when we were little babes and there the one who helped us to be what we are right now.

Monday, April 26, 2010

H.W #49

I think the idea of are movie was a good idea, because a lot of student likes there teachers and like to help them if they have any bad things going on in there life, because teachers are helping us to become better people and with out teachers there would be no tomorrow and no future.

The movie we made in class is (this teacher that snort cocaine and get caught by his students and they ask him to stop it and he does for a little while and after a while they caught him again doing it but he promise them again that he wont do it, and in the end the teacher close brother dies and it really effects on him)
I think are movie message was to show how there is some students that still care about their teachers and like them, and that the relationship between the teacher and the student can be a friendship relationship.

The differences between he film we made in class and the movie we watched “freedom riders” that in are movie we are showing that the students is helping the teacher but the “freedom riders” the teacher helps the students in there problems.

I connect are movie to are general life that there is always someone there in life to help people that are feeling not good and try to help people by telling them to stop doing the bad habits (like how the students helped the teacher to stop snorting cocaine) and I think its always worth the try to help people that have bad habits even if were believing it wont work.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGMENT

The movie “the class” is showing how it is in class for both sides the student and the teacher, and its showing that in class the troublemaker of the class are always sitting in the back of the class and those or one student is the student that the teachers be talking about like Suleiman in this movie and they talk about what they can do so this kid can do better.

The movie started where the teachers welcoming each other for the new year there starting and then the teachers starts to talk about themselves and what they teach, from the behavior of the students in class I noticed that they were not interested in school and one of the girls was showing attitude to the teacher like in that part were the teacher asked them to write there names and this girl told him “I wont wrote my name, if your not writing your name” like that’s not a way to speak to a teacher with.

To answer your question “Do you hold the teacher responsible for the damage done to Suleiman?” I don’t think MR. martin is responsible for the damage done to Suleiman, and if MR. martin had to find ways to deal with Suleiman I don’t think it would be easy for him, because Suleiman don’t let the class know about him that much so how can the teacher know how to deal with him if he doesn’t know the way he think, I liked when the MR. martin put Suleiman pictures on the board so everyone can see, Suleiman was saying “ ohh there not good” and the MR. martin was like “no you have good work” and you can tell that Suleiman liked it that the teacher had his pictures on the board so everyone can see them even though he was saying “ oh don’t put them on the board”. This way from the teacher makes this type of students think that there doing good work, and it makes the student feel like doing more work and probable even think of doing homework.
I don’t think a 14-15 years old are responsible for their own choices , they might know what’s right and what’s wrong but even if they know themselves doing something wrong but there having fun then there okay with it, like as an example playing video games and not doing homework

In the beginning of the movie the principle was welcoming the student in front of the class, it reminded me of how MR, fanning be in the lobby every morning, and another thing got me thinking of SOF is when they compared students with Wei, it got me thinking of how some teachers in school compare us to other school student as the other school is better than us.
Overall I enjoyed watching this movie and it got me thinking of the situation and relate to it.

Monday, April 12, 2010

H.W #48

Scene one
Student are waiting in front of there class’s to go in with the new cloths on and you can see it on there face’s that there so excited for the new year. The class starts so they go in the classroom. And the teacher starts taking about what there going to do on this semester and a normal class period goes on.

Scene two
Students go from there first class to there second class and where there is a new teacher is going to teach them that subject, they go in and the teacher introduce her self to the class and tells them what there doing this semester and her techniques in teaching this certain subject.

Scene three
The new teacher thinks that she got the class under control based on there behavior on the first day. But the second day when the teacher started teaching, side conversation goes on and students not behave anymore, she tries to get the class under control but it doesn’t work with her.

Scene four
It shows the new teacher asking other teachers in the school how she could relate more with students or connect more with them and what can brings there attention to her, and other teachers tells her to try and talk about grades and how if they don’t listen to her they wont graduate and another trick was to bring candy and who ever answer her questions right, she gives him a piece of candy.
And she tries those tricks and it becomes that the candy trick works better with the students, but they are still not like how the teacher wants them to be in class.

Scene five
This scene should focus on students more than teachers so we can see how the students feels, and there will be love going on or crushes between student in class that causes fight. I think the crushes and love and fighting between student, makes the film more interesting to watch.

Scene six.
In this scene a guy comes from outside the school and see how the school is running and how’s the new teacher doing

Scene seven
The students start to like the teacher with the time and everything goes well and that would be the ending.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

H.W #47

-1 Students are un-behaving in class in the beginning!
-2 There should be a class punk!
-3 There is a class leader or student leader!
-4 Teacher tries to be tough in the beginning but it doesn’t work and they try to get closer to the class leader as another choice and then it works.
-5 There should be comedy going on so it be nice to watch.
-6 Students in the end start to behave and they start to study and do homework which they didn’t from before!

Monday, April 5, 2010

H.W #46

The chocolate war by Robert Cormier is talking about a boy name jerry Renault who goes to a same sex school, and that school has a gang that named the vigils and that lead by Archie Costello, Archie gives homework assignments to boys in the school and Jerrys homework assignment was to sell a number of chocolate box’s , the gang decided to stop Jerry’s assignment, but he refused and they decided to make his life terrible , they did many terrible stuff to him, like calling his house and getting rid of his homework and even beating him up…

In chapter 7 it shows that Emile Janza is the school thug., Janza a proud trouble maker, sits in the front of classrooms instead of the back, always messing with people asking for trouble, largely because he knows most people to avoid it.
I connect this to my topic(comparing same sex school to mix school) on how boys act in same sex school and mix school as thugs.

From my own experience I saw that in same sex all what boys care about is who’s the tougher than the other since there is no girls in the same class to pay more attention to them more than being tough on my friends and being able to beat everyone or hanging out with the toughest guys.
But in mix school boys care about being around the cutest girls or having the cutest girlfriend in the school more than being tough on kids from my school(thinking of the other sex ”girls” makes the boys not think of being tough or beating up other students) . There is probably some guys like that in mix school but not as much as same sex school.

Monday, March 22, 2010

H.W #45

Both agreed that testing results reflect reading levels in elementary grades, but Sizer questioned further uses of tests. Telling reporters that they haven't asked what tests suggest about students, he gave his strong opinion: "They correlate with rich parents and not much else. We have to stop equating serious education with test scores."

These are 2 different theories about school one (Sizer) that is teaching you how to think better and ask good questions, the other (Hirsch) is asking to memorize stuff! In my own experience I wont through both of these theories since I went to 2 different school during high school, and I think both of them has some good stuff and some bad stuff, the good think about memorizing stuff is you know a lot of information in your head that is important, as Hirsch says "Students should be able to read and know basic number facts by the end of the first grade". But the bad think is that it doesn’t teach how to think of things better and develop new ideas which is important!

The other theory (Sizer) helps me to think better and ask better question. And its good because it helps you to think better of everything. But the thing that I don’t like that its more focusing on teaching on how you need to think and it doesn’t give you this much of information of stuff around the world.

But if I was to pick which one is better.I think Sizer is better because in my own experience, when I first got here to America coming from school that teaches Hirsch’s way and went to a school that teach in a Sizer way, the school in the U.S (Sizer way) helped me to learn English in a year because its talking and thinking. As Sizer states, “Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for them to flourish, and then get out of their way.” This is why I was able to develop the language faster more than if it was focusing on memorizing stuff.