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This paragraph should contain five sentences only. Write about your culture, something about your family generation before your parent's generation, how are you connected to the generation prior to your parent's generation, tell us about your parents and siblings, your community when growing up and your current community, and something about yourself. All paragraphs with over five sentences will receive a minus five points per extra sentence. Please only five sentences.
A culture was not really told to me the only thing that my sibling and I were told was to not get pregnant before we are married and have a career and to always get a good education. The only …show more content…
thing I know about my grandparent’s generation is that my mother’s parents did not finish elementary and that my father’s mother was held back a grade because of her height. I am very connected to my grandparents, they just do not talk much about their past. I have a little sister, who is 18 years old and a little brother that is 6 years old; the community we grew up in was in the suburbs and was very quiet, the neighbors were friendly and we all got along, we never had break ins because it was a gated community. The community I live in now is the total opposite it is always loud music playing, homes are getting broken into, people are always arguing; I am 21 I am a senior, I am funny, smart, and goofy.
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Write about your major, why you have chosen the major and what have you done prior to college to prepare for success in your current major.
There must be five sentences. Why are you taking this course? Please do not say as an elective. Tell us how it fits into your overall academic goals. All paragraphs with over five will receive a minus five points for each extra sentence. Please only five sentences.
My major is Special education. I originally was a elementary schools education major but I had gotten a job that involved working with individuals who had special needs and I enjoyed it I still do till this day, I decided to change my major to special education. Prior to attending college I did not really do anything to prepare for success in my major because I started out as a nursing major. I am taking this class not only as an elective, but so I can get the content I need to know to be able to successfully teach early childhood students as well as students with special needs. This class fits into my overall academic goals because without this class I cannot get my endorsement to teach early childhood students.
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From the readings in "Current Readings in Nursery School/Kindergaten Education" - pages 129-141 "The New First Grade: Too Much Too Soon?" share with us, what your experience was like in the first grade. Combine the readings with your real life experiences. You must include citations from the readings for credit. List the page number and paragraph number of the citation. 10 sentences required.
What I can remember about my experiences in first grade where that we had these little white books that had 5-7 words on each page.
We would receive a book every day and were required to read it that night to a parent or guardian and have them initial a paper saying that we had read the book to them. In the book, it state “Kids are tested every eight weeks to see if they are hitting school, district and statewide benchmarks”(pg.133P 3). I remember having to take these benchmark tests, because the class that had the highest benchmark test scores would get a pizza party or extra time at recess. In the middle of the school year the teachers would stop teaching all the other subjects and would start teaching us what was going to be on the TAAS test. My parents did not believe that I was getting challenged enough in the G.T program (Gifted and Talented), so they moved me to a private school. I remember this because my first day of school I felt so behind because for one I was moved on the middle of the school year and two the students were already learning how to subtract. At the school I had just left we were only adding single and double digits and subtracting single digits. My new school the students had already been taught how to subtract double digits and they were learning the hundreds place value. After my first week of school I was so far behind that they asked my parents about putting me in remedial classes my parents were upset that someone would ask them that and got
me a tutor, since then I have received excellent grades.