“Teaching is a performative act”‚ and it is for that reason that it is crucial that teachers teach beyond the textbook (hooks‚ 11) . The textbook merely supplies the student with information‚ data‚ and serve the core curriculum agenda that has been set up by the state or district. The teacher’s job is not to reiterate what the textbook says‚ although there is a responsibility upon the teacher to ensure that students understand the assigned readings‚ but the teacher’s job is to relate the text to
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Writing A Descriptive Essay To write a descriptive essay you first need to choose a character. It may be heroes‚ monsters‚ or none of these. You need to search for a book or poem. After you read the book or poem you choose the character that creates a distinctive impression on you. It may be from major characters to minor characters. You have to focus in the one scene where the character you choose attracted your attention. Use all information you can find from that scene in order to make
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Peter Gets Hooked In the film "Hook"‚ Robin Williams plays the fictional character Peter Banning. "Hook" is another look in to the popular story of Peter Pan. This new look into Peter Pan is interesting even for someone who has never seen the original movie. This movie at times seemed to be a little cliché and a little childish‚ but to some extent it was kind of the purpose for it to be childish. This childishness in itself is a hidden messages‚ as are many key ideas throughout the movie‚ which
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chapter seven Hooks talks about feminism in the realms of class. Hooks explains that the focus of feminism came to be about the wealthy white upper class women who wanted the same opportunities as men of their own class rather than the focus of women receiving the same benefits to sustain themselves. Working class and middle class women were able to work‚ but they did not make enough money to support themselves. I liked this chapter because Hooks gave a resolution for the problem. Hooks explains that
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bell hooks: “Seeing and Making Culture” Summary In the essay “Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor”‚ hooks proposes a different perspective on issues regarding people of higher class compared to those of lower class. In doing so‚ she clarifies and illustrates assumptions made about the poor‚ how they are viewed in popular culture‚ and in the media. To further validate her points‚ she utilizes ideas that stem from her own personal experiences with poverty‚ as well as examples from pop
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If you are not familiar with the whole Sandy Hook ordeal. It was a school shooting that happened in Connecticut were 20 children were killed by a gunman. Many blame the death of those children on the assault rifle which was used. The gun was not what killed them children‚ it was a man that was not right in the head. After Sandy Hook there have been plenty other school shootings at high schools‚ colleges‚ and all schools. This has become
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Stanford bell hooks experienced things that only an education can provide‚ from different social status to keeping ties with her community and her heritage even though she went far in her studies. Education changed bell hooks life in many ways from the experiences at Stanford having her values collide with others values‚ being introduced to the intellectual circles and having others try to press upon her their beliefs . By going to Stanford to continue her education‚ bell hooks experienced a
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Hook up culture is new trend which is very popular and used among large number of young people today. People start to hook up while they are still in primary school and high school‚ and later on‚ of course at the college. Older people keep telling that this generation leads to nowhere and that is completely lost. The question is what is the purpose of hooking and is it really bad and inappropriate like they sad so? The main purpose is just having fun and young people should enjoy in their lives‚
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Hook sentence(s): Growing up in the heroic path‚ Beowulf was divided in such a differenct ways of one’s point of views. B Set-up/Hints: Burton Raffel‚ an author who translated this book‚ shown how Beowulf structured though his journeys‚ or his quests‚ to be a real hero for everyone. C Focusing theme/idea: Beowulf have been in many many fights shaped his thoughts and his behaviors which related to the theme of the books. D Thesis statement: According to the theme of the work as a whole‚ Beowulf
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he is a phony. So why would this Wang Yan not join the 35 legitimate Chinese Animal activist organizations that condemned what Marc Ching had done in Yulin 2016? Why would a man‚ who as far as we know can not speak English hook up with a guy who can’t speak Chinese? Why hook up with Marc Ching? Marc Ching
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