Leave it to Beaver was one of the most popular television series of the 1950’s where June Cleaver was the personification of a traditional wife. The show depicts a traditional family where Ward Cleaver, the father, with his wife June raise their two sons: Wally and Beaver. You giggle at the antics of their two boys as they grow up during an innocent time with problems that would seem laughable today. In the Leave it to Beaver series episodes “Teacher Comes to Dinner” and ”Teacher’s Pet” you see June take on the feminine gender role and Ward take on the masculine gender role (“Teacher Comes to Dinner” ”Teacher’s Pet”). Upon deeper analysis of both episodes you observe June gaily take on the traditional role of caretaking the family yet absent from both episodes is the reality of being a traditional wife that is women in these lives often have a limited life, no income and are mostly alone.
As a woman in a traditional role you are limited in what you can do as your job is monotonous and repetitive; however, June appears to never tire of performing her domestic duties. For example, cooking would be a role a woman would have. To shop, prepare and clean-up for every meal seven days a week three times a day for 30 years adds up to over 32,000 meals is an overwhelming thought. In the episode “Teacher Comes to Dinner,” Ward grills the meat which is an “unofficial duty of a man” when Beaver’s teacher comes to dinner while June takes on all the other responsibilities regardless of the fact that June may be better at grilling meats (“Teacher Comes to Dinner” ). Although June gets a respite from her duties when Ward grills the meat, it is unrealistic she is truly happy having to do all the cooking.
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The story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter is about a boy named Tommy who attends Five Oaks Elementary School. His teacher, Mr. Hibler, develops a cough and is absent the next day. The person who takes his place is a woman named Miss Ferenczi. Since Five Oaks is a normal town with substitute teachers that “fluttered, provided easeful class days, and nervously covered material we had mastered weeks earlier,” Tommy thought that Miss Ferenczi was something special. (pg. 43, l. 43-45)She is a strange substitute and Tommy wants to believe everything she says, but other people, like Carl Whiteside (which Tommy observes, has bad breath), don’t believe her. Once Tommy gets home, all he talks about to his mother is Miss Ferenczi, but his mother doesn’t
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On the first episode that aired, viewers are introduced to widower Andy Taylor, the sheriff of a small country town, and his son Opie. The roles of men and women are much stricter than those of today. Opie has a live in nanny named Rose that gets married so she can no longer be his nanny. Men aren’t seen as capable of looking after children alone since they don’t do any cooking, cleaning or other household chores. Aunt Bee must come and live with them so that Opie and Andy have a women to look after them. As with most norms, it would be out of the question for Opie and Andy to cook and clean for themselves. Opie even demonstrates male ignorance on the issue by making a very horrible attempt at cooking breakfast. He’s laughed at by Andy and patronized for this deviant attempt. Aunt Bee comes in to save the day, i...
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Cable shows qualities of an experimentalist teacher, she was also professional and had a positive attitude. Mrs. Cable shows qualities of an experimentalist teacher in a few different ways, she did hands-on activities with the kids and she develops rapport with her class. Mrs. Cable had the students play the matching game where they found two cards with the same amount of dots. This is a hands-on activity because the students are literally using their hands and participating in the activity (Farris 2014). Mrs. Cable also develops a rapport with the class because she has a relationship with every student (Farris 2014). For example, while the class was lining up for special Mrs. Cable had a conversation with one student about her new puppy (Farris 2014). In First Year Seminar, the class discussed the evaluation of professional and personal dispositions, these are the requirements a student at York College of Pennsylvania must meet to be accepted to student teach. These requirements include having a professional attitude, organization, personal enthusiasm, etc. (Hesson 2015). I believe these dispositions should not only be for student teaching, but for all teachers; I also believe Mrs. Cable met every one of these dispositions. Particularly, I found Mrs. Cable to be exceptionally professional, she wore professional attire that was modest for early elementary schools and she had a professional attitude. Mrs. Cable was
In the story Gryphon, by Charles Baxter, a boy named Tommy who goes to Five Oaks elementary meets an interesting new teacher. As the story begins, Tommy’s teacher, Mr.Hibler, tells his class that he has been feeling sick today and won’t be coming to class tomorrow. The next day, someone amazing comes in the classroom and turns out to be no ordinary substitute teacher. As the day goes on, she tells her students unusual stories and everyone loved the stories/facts. In the story it says “There was not a sound in the classroom, except for Miss Ferenczi’s voice, and Donna DeShano’s coughing. No one even went to the bathroom.“ The next time Miss Ferenczi came to their classroom was early December. This time Miss Ferenczi brought tarot cards so that she can determine her students future and unfortunately she got in trouble. Later that day Miss Ferenczi was fired and left the school. Tommy defended Miss Ferenczi because she made school interesting, was different than other teachers, and really cared for her students.
marathon; this is an old 50's TV show. There is a boy called David and
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In the early fifties, young people watched TV more hours than they went to school, a trend which has not changed greatly since that time. What was portrayed on television became accepted as normal. Shows like What's a My Line debut on CBS, Your Hit Parade premieres on NBC in 1950. In April of 1950 5,343,000 TV sets are in American Homes. In May of 1950, 103 TV Stations in 60 cities were operating. In September 7,535,000 TV sets in USA. In October there were 8,000,000 TV sets.
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I read the book Killing Mr. Griffin, by Lois Duncan. There was an English teacher, Mr. Griffin, which nobody liked. He was a tough teacher, and didn’t give anyone an A. Not even the smartest student, Susan McConnell. They disliked him so much that they wanted to try and scare him by kidnapping him.