In Lives on the Boundaries‚ Mike Rose claims that developmental English classes that are meant for remedial students are not actually helping them to become literate. The curriculum is actually hindering students from becoming literate. Rose states that those kinds of remedial classes teach the students that writing is about structure and being grammatically correct instead of being a way to express meaningful ideas. Because of these “corrective teachings”‚ the students see writing as tedious. Rose’s
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In Mike Rose’s “Lives on the Boundary” he describes the lives of two students outside of the classroom. The first student he talked about was Marita‚ who was accused of plagiarism by her English professor on her first writing assignment. Mike Rose‚ her counselor‚ then talks about the circumstances in how she plagiarized when she did not mean to. The next student‚ Lucia‚ who was a nontraditional type of student. Mike Rose talks about the many different things that have to come into place for her to
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Possible Lives Mike Rose In the reading Possible Lives by Mike Rose‚ Rose talks about an education and community in Calexico‚ California. He started out by mentioning that Calexico is a Bicultural city where they speak two languages‚ the city residents is of 21‚000 with majority Spanish speakers. Calexico was originally not a city but a surveying camp with the name of Mexico and California put together. It was until 1908 that it became a city and no longer a surveying camp. Rose then focus on
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Desolation Desolation and its effects on students educated in the United States is a recurring theme in Lives on the Boundary by Mike Rose. The reasons he provides varies. Three students that Rose uses for illustrations are Laura‚ Rose himself and Ken Harvey. Laura‚ a Mexican immigrant and student in Rose’s remedial English class‚ has a completely different frame of reference than California born UCLA students she finds herself in class with. She remembers in detail how her father made a meager living
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Mike Rose‚ in his essay‚ “I Just Wanna Be Average”‚ claims that in order to see reality and reach success one must cut ties with all biases and look at life through a neutral perspective. He supports his claim with a story about how he got rid of the personal bias he had of himself belonging in voc-ed and moved up to college prep. The Authors purpose was to inform readers of his experience in order to help them see how to reach their success with their outlook on reality. Rose establishes a very
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Question: Discuss the benefits one may obtain form reading Mike Rose ’s book citing specific examples. How may this book be used to help shape a teacher ’s philosophy and effectiveness? The book Lives on the Boundary‚ written by Mike Rose‚ provides great insight to what the new teaching professional may anticipate in the classroom. This book may be used to inform a teacher ’s philosophy and may render the teacher more effective. Lives on the Boundary is a first person account composed of eight chapters
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Lives on the Boundary Mike Rose’s Lives on the Boundary is an Educational Autobiography. The book begins at the beginning of his life and we follow him up into his adult years. The book focuses on the "struggles and achievements of America’s educationally underprepared" . The Alien In order to understand Mike Rose‚ and his book Lives on the Boundary‚ you must first understand where Mike is coming from and examine his past. Mike was born to a first generation immigrant family‚ originally from Italy
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I just want to be Average by Mike Rose The essay by Mike Rose made me really think about the purpose of education schools have to offer us. He talks about how a basic exam can determine your whole life; it made me really think about how accurate these tests really are. The purpose of this essay seemed to be how he feels students failures isn’t because of us‚ its because of the school system overall. He shares how the vocational track is basically portrayed as students who are not motivated to learn
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Lives on the Boundary September 19th‚ 2011 In Mike Rose’s book‚ Lives of the Boundary‚ Rose explains how people in America have a good education and that unlike immigrants; American’s have an easier time learning than they do. Living in America‚ we have a great system of education that sets us up for the future‚ but in other unfortunate countries they are not as lucky and have other problems to deal with than to get a decent education. Being in America gives us opportunities that many people
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To begin‚ the quote from "Lives on the Boundary‚" by Mike Rose reads "More often than we admit a failed education is social more than intellectual in origin." To me when Rose states this he gives examples of people like Caroline and Thuy Anh. They came from two different social backgrounds and their in the same class for the same reason. It’s not because they don’t have the intellectual knowledge to read and write. It’s because of there childhood. They had to put other things first rather than they’re
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