Mandy Dean 02/01/2011 Midterm Reflection Letter Renee Gurley English 090 My journey as a writer has not been as difficult as I thought it would. I have always had a passion for writing and telling my thoughts or stories. However‚ I have learned many things so far in this class. When writing the first essay there were many steps I used. The topic of our essay was already selected‚ so I simply built off of the topic. I used brainstorming to select my different thoughts I wanted to share
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Freedom Writers Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) is a first-time teacher who wants to make a difference. She has little idea of what she’s getting into when she volunteers to be an English teacher at a newly integrated high school in Long Beach‚ California. Her students are divided along racial lines and have few aspirations beyond basic survival. When Erin discovers how much of their lives are blighted by racial prejudice‚ she introduces them to books like ’The Diary of Anne Frank’ and begins
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Summary – Preschool Readers and Writers This book is very helpful and contains all kinds of ideas to get children to start reading and writing. It talks about how we need to incorporate reading in all aspects of learning. It talks about how to handle the child that is disruptive when you are reading to a large group by reading to him or her at other times when it’s just the two of you and encourage parent reading at home. This book also gives you different ideas on what to read to preschool
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This semester I think I’ll learn how to become a better writer by strengthening my knowledge in the use of advanced rhetorical devices‚ adding more depth and analysis to my body paragraphs‚ and by attaining a higher level of maturation in my writing. I’m hoping that taking this class now will translate into successes later in life when it’s required to exercise the abilities I have and will continue to develop. My definition of nature would be anything that exists without the innovations man has
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Together By Education Segregation has been a problem for quite some time‚ and it has trickled down from generation to generation‚ influencing younger and younger children every day. The problems the teenagers were facing in this book‚ The Freedom Writers Diary‚ were simply because of the segregation they were either taught or learned from the people around them. With the help of Ms. Gruwell‚ these teenagers became more open-minded about their peers and realized they needed an education. “You can’t
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The amount I have changed as a writer is unbelievable. The biggest change is that I no longer loathe writing a paper. I feel as though it comes more naturally than before‚ and I can now make complete sentences easier than ever before. Another thing that has changed is how quickly I can write a paragraph before I would struggle getting a cohesive thought on a page‚ but now writing a paragraph that relates all together in some way is easier. All of this brings me onto my next point. I have changed
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A deeper perspective on the “good teacher” myth Movies make up part of the dominant discourse reflecting and at the same time affecting society (Farhi‚ 1999). The mythical portrayal of the good teacher in Freedom Writers supports the idea that urban schools are in need of a “good teacher” (who is portrayed as being perfect) to save the unruly children in this locale from their limited and culturally inferior worlds. The students are expected to cultivate new academic skills and cultural values with
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Growing up‚ I was never a writer or a reader. Nor did I enjoy either. I was never very confident in my writing ability even though I have all the tools I would need to write an exceptional essay. In my early childhood I was equipped with a strong vocabulary but I couldn’t find a way to use it to improve my writing. Growing up there were certain aspects of my life that made me enjoy the process of writing and reading. Thesis: to be done after Basic thesis: Writing development Before I started
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as a writer. Although I was required to do these things this semester in English‚ I so much more to do and in return‚ I feel that I have grown immensely as a writer. Through IWA’s‚ Freewrite’s‚ and other writing techniques taught by Professor Pretorius‚ my writing skills have grown tenfold versus what they previously were. I feel that this class has greatly prepared me for the future writings I may have to do in the rest of my educational career. One thing that has helped me grow as a writer this
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Riots‚ they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.” More than sixty people died during the L.A. riots on April 29‚ 1992. Gangs erupted afterwards‚ due to the apparent discrimination of African-Americans from Caucasian officers. In Freedom Writers‚ written and directed by Richard LaGravenese‚ a high school named Woodrow Wilson‚ suffered in the aftermath of the L.A. riots‚ turning a once prestigious school into a school for the ‘bad kids’‚ or kids who had been to juvenile detention. Erin Gruwell
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