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I Just Wanna Be Average
Amy Clark
English 111
Professor Nevins
February 2nd, 2012

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In this summary I will target the Jr high and high school audience. I feel each of them should hear this because this is the time they are deciding to go or not to go to college. I feel each of them need to feel important at this time because they have low self of esteem and they need to believe they too can do anything they put their minds to. I hope to influence a few of them to go for it become what they want to be not what someone else see for them. I wish this was a book that all 7th and 8th graders would have to read. I think this would give some of them the hope that they need to become great people.

For many children in the past, present, and future may be hard for them school for many
Different reason; teacher students and students and student not getting along happen a lot.
Adolescents: is just hard for most children their bodies are changing they have mood swings. So anyway Mike Rose in the “I just Wanna Be Average” is an example of this. Mike Rose according to http://faculty.kirkwood.edu/site/indet.phd?p=24929 he has published poetry, scholarly research, a text book, and a widely praised book on America’s educationally
Underprivileged Live on the Boundary. He is associate director of UCLA writing programs
And has won a wards from National Academy of education, the National council of teachers of
English, and the John Simon Guggeheim Memorial foundation. It is really hard to believe that
Teacher paddles and smack and shake their students. But my mother would tell us stories as we where growing up that she had a teacher that used a ruler and would have them lay their hands on the desk and slap the ruler across them. We have a big thing now about being bullied I could not think that teachers being on the bulling side of this. But even as an 8th grader in school. I had a student counselor give me advice about pre-college



Cited: Rose, Mike “I Just Wanna Be Average” Live on the Boundary 1989, Kirkwood community college 2011 Friday, February 03, 2012

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