Introduction Sergio is a Spanish-speaking student in 2nd grade. He speaks both Spanish and English fluently, so he can engage in verbal communication by comprehending directions and responding to questions. After school, he goes over to a family friend’s house to learn more Spanish. Although Sergio continues to learn Spanish, he is not classified as an English Language Learner and gets pulled out during the 30-minute intervention period. His favorite topic to talk about is dinosaurs and is most engaged during science instructions. Pre-study Assessments Sergio’s struggles begin during any reading and writing instructions, for his works shows he does not invest time and effort into completing his assignments. His writings lack clarity and details and are often unorganized with lots of invented spellings. Some of his writings show misspelling of sight words, which shows that Sergio does not take time to reread and revise his writings. If he extends his writings, his writings are often dull and repetitive, which means he does not take risks in expressing his thoughts and ideas. Some of Sergio’s written responses to written prompts demonstrate that he does not comprehend the texts that he read prior to the writing. For example, one of his writings was to connect big …show more content…
However, it was a very short meeting, for I was only able to pull Sergio away from instruction during the last 10-minute of class. There was not enough time to explain the purpose of the meeting, discuss possible writing topics, and write about a topic that Sergio enjoyed. Once Sergio and I found a topic that Sergio was excited to write about, his new baby chicks that he and his mother picked up from the post office that morning, it was already time to pack up for the day. As a result, Sergio was only able to start a sentence for his writing. He did not even have the opportunity to finish
Lucy Calkins described the writing workshop as a deliberate predictable environment with three basic components: teaching time, writing time and sharing time (Rog 2). Children need structure
Even from an early age, Rodriguez is a successful student. Everyone is extremely proud of Rodriguez for earning awards and graduating to each subsequent level of his education. But all his success was not necessarily positive. In fact, we see that his education experience is a fairly negative one. One negative that Rodriguez endures is his solitude. Education compels him to distance himself from his family and heritage. According to Richard Hoggart, a British education theorist, this is a very natural process for a scholarship boy. Hoggart explains that the ?home and classroom are at cultural extremes,? (46). There is especially an opposition in Rodriguez?s home because his parents are poorly educated Mexicans. His home is filled with Spanish vernacular and English filled with many grammatical errors. Also, the home is filled with emotions and impetuosity, whereas the classroom lacks emotion and the teachers accentuate rational thinking and reflectiveness.
Racism has resided within the Dominican Republic for centuries after the defeat of the Haitian Empire. Yet, the profuse racism came from the Presidency of Rafael Trujillo. Rafael Trujillo yearned to withhold the prevalence of white skin-tone in Dominican individuals. Trujillo initiated an anti-Haitian regime as he was determined to whiten his country. To present himself as a white Dominican, Trujillo wore makeup to lighten his appearance, to uphold his standards. Yet, the horrific, defining moment of his presidency was the Parsley Massacre. Trujillo started the massacre in 1937, as he sought to deceive his people by claiming the Haitians were practicing witchety, while claiming they kept a Dominican opponent in hiding. Dominican troops slaughtered
Many countries have the pleasure of celebrating Independence Days. These historic holidays are filled with nationalistic celebrations and delicious traditional food. In Chile, the natives celebrate their break from Spain with Fiestas Patrias. In Mexico, the president begins the celebration by ringing a bell and reciting the “Grito de Dolores” and he ends his speech by saying “Viva Mexico” three times.
...he gets them confused with the Spanish alphabet. Then we would go around the apartment getting familiar with everything and its' name. At first I was just tutoring Jesica, but then slowly members of her family where adding to the study group and soon everybody was trying to learn English. I didn't care because it was fun and I like the feeling of helping all of them learn something. Not only was I helping them, they begin to start helping me learn Spanish as well. It was sort of like I tell you and you tell me. They were always laughing at me because I spoke Spanish horribly and they thought that my accent was funny. It was funny to me that I know basically no Spanish and they knew no English but we were still able to communicate. That is an experience that I will never forget and I plan on tutoring them and they tutor me until I graduate college in May 2006.
There’s approximately 25.6 million of teens in the U.S. Only 40% of teens say they save
Mr. Rodriguez is dealing with 5th graders; sometimes the students don’t want to listen, and they want to be moving all the time. While I continued to observe his class he is usually a nice man. Mr. Rodriguez doesn’t scream, that’s how he talks, because even when I asked him a question he “screamed at me”, he has a loud voice, and can give a bad impression. But with time, you will notice he has a big heart, and he is very nice.
Writing a decent essay can be nerve racking, time consuming, and can be accompanied by many trial and errors such as an art project. First you have to generate an idea, which can be the biggest challenge of them all. Then you have to decide on what details to incorporate and the placement for it. You begin to throw colors and shapes together in hopes that it will transform into a pleasing design. This all takes time, being challenged to create artwork, whether it be an essay or a painting, in sixty minutes becomes even more nerve racking and mind boggling. After last week’s timed writing practice, I was able to experience the dreadful event of producing a piece of artwork, which in my case was to deliver an essay,
Richard Rodriguez, in his “Aria, Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood”, uses imagery to illustrate the major changes in his personal and social life. He does that by telling us a story on how his parents decided that Richard should speak in English more; they had him talk in English at home, because the nuns told his parents that he was uncomfortable in school. The purpose of this passage was to show us that because of what had happened during that talk between nuns and parents changed most of his life.
this area but I’m going to improve on it. The process of using multiple drafts has
Writing for me has always been a love and hate relationship since I could remember. Depending on the subject matter that I was writing about I would enjoy it because it suited my style or I loathed it because that specific style was uninteresting and boring to me. Learning certain writing formats were absolutely the worst part about writing when I first started learning in high school. As time pushed on and I grew older I began to develop an appreciation for writing that I did not have before; which is what led me to taking Writing 101 as my first full-fledged college course. I began this course with minimal writing experience because of what I failed to retain before, but now I am a stronger writer than I could have imagined with new skill sets that enhance my professional portfolio.
Over the course of the semester, I feel that I have grown as a writer in many ways. When I came into the class, there were skills I had that I already excelled at. During my time in class, I have come to improve on those skills even more. Before I took this class I didn’t even realise what I was good at. This is the first class where I felt I received feedback on my writing that helped me to actually review my work in see what areas I lacked in and where I succeeded. Some of the skills I had shocked me as I didn’t think I had those capabilities in me.
Therefore, exposing students to the language of the real world helps them acquire an effective receptive competence in the target language (Guariento & Morley, 2001). As stated in the unit from Bachillerato Made Easy, the reading passage is about friendship, which is a meaningful topic for adolescents, and students of all ages, so this promotes the use of the target language. Likewise, in the unit Botellon, students are required to listen to several points of view on the Botellon issue form different types of
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The writing class session I observed is a packaged program in which the students have been participating in for 5 months. They all know the routine of the reading and writing workshop and understand “the Daily 5.” The student’s movements are purposeful and there is little time wasted in transitions. The books used by students become more complicated as the students ability strengthens. At the end of the workshop, Mrs. Rammond praised those students who used their time efficiently during “the Daily 5.” She spoke directly to the students who wrote in their journals and asked them to share their entries. The students learned some new trivia about insects, practiced writing and then had some time for art.