Don’t Drink the Water: The Persecution of Native Americans in the 1800s When first hearing Dave Matthews Band’s “Don’t Drink the Water‚” you might believe the song is about the apartheid having knowledge of Matthews’ country of birth but when you continue to listen to the song the listener will discover a different story behind the song. Matthews moved to The United States when he was two leading him to write about different events in America’s history. Through the different stanzas Dave Matthews
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Connection to Self: Tears of a Tiger I can relate the situation from the novel Tears of a Tiger to my own life. For example‚ I can relate to Tyrone’s story because in the story he had to hold his best friend back from another friend to keep from losing both of them and he did not want that. Also in the book he had to let the police officer know what occurred that night. According to the text the author states‚ “ Me and B.J. grab Andy then‚ and we have to hold him back‚ ‘cause the whole car is in
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Summary Tears of a Tiger is the first book in Sharon Draper’s Hazelwood High trilogy. The novel begins with a brief newspaper article about a fiery automobile accident in which one Hazelwood High student‚ Robert Washington‚ was killed. The article also notes that Andrew (Andy) Jackson was injured in the wreck and that he had been drinking and driving. The next chapter consists of a flashback locker-room conversation between Andy Jackson and Robbie Washington from the night of the accident. The boys
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Will Carnes Into to Education My thesis statement was developed after reading Herbert Kohl’s book‚ Stupidity and Tears. Mr. Kohl wrote this book after years in the education field. He reflects on his experience as a young teacher in the inner city systems of New York‚ his sabbatical year in Italy stretching himself to write about his experiences‚ many of them about students that he had taught. He then describes his current efforts to create a new kind of teaching program associated
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Trail of Tears DBQ The Cherokee Native Americans had to move to the west of the Mississippi River from where ever they were. They had to move from their original homes because they were “in the way” of the growing states. Document H2 is a graphic of where the Native Americans started and trail they took to Oklahoma. All of the Native American tribes were originally in one of the growing states. It was a problem for them to be in the states because they were not under the United States leadership
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Handwriting Without Tears Putting pen to a paper processes the brain like nothing else. In this age of tweets‚ e-mail and texts‚ it’s proven that learning to write in cursive improves brain development in areas of language‚ thinking and working memory. Cursive handwriting triggers brain synapses and synchronicity within the left and right hemispheres. Something absent from printing and typing. It was said that students who wrote in cursive for the essay portion‚ on the SAT‚ scored slightly higher
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In both “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare‚ and Tears of a Tiger‚ by Sharon Draper‚ both of the protagonists commit actions that would result in them both being placed in the Hall of Shame. The protagonist in Tears of a Tiger is Andy‚ a Junior in High School. After one of his high school basketball games‚ he is driving under the influence of alcohol with his three friends and crashes his car‚ resulting in his best friend’s death. This story is about the recovery process Andy takes to overcome
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According to Close Reading Without Tears‚ many teachers are following the scaffolding suggested by the Common Core language arts standards (Boyles 1). Teachers are using less frontloading before reading. This allows students to dig deeper into the text without teacher prompts. Thus‚ allowing students to develop the necessary skills to become independent close readers. Frontloading or pre-reading‚ has been the topic of many educational discussions. Is it necessary? Many teachers prefer not to use pre-reading
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Is it possible that one decision can change a person’s life? In Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper‚ Andrew Jackson chooses to drink and drive after a basketball game and regretfully kills his best friend Rob Washington. After the accident Andy must live with the guilt and face his family‚ friends‚ and teachers each day. The guilt becomes so heavy that Andy contemplates taking his own life. Three events that lead to Andy’s suicide are being turned away by his parents‚ breaking up with his girlfriend
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experience that the Trail of Tears were presented‚ yet the difficulties that these Native Americans faced were misconstrued throughout the Trail of Tears site. Andrew Jackson’s pledge to forcibly move the Native Americans to a location west of the Mississippi River resulted in the Indian Removal Act in 1830. One of the largest tragedies in history‚ this act of relocating tribes such as the Cherokee‚ Chickasaw‚ Creek‚ Seminole‚ and Choctaw is known as the Trail of Tears. These tribes passed through
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