Capricorn Anderson is a 13 year old hippie from the novel Schooled by Gordan Korman. He lives in Garland Farms with his grandmother, Rain, because his parents died from Malaria in Africa. Rain is his teacher and caregiver who wants to keep him sheltered from the outside world. After Rain fell out of the plumb tree, Cap needed to live somewhere else while she recovered. While away from Garland Farms, he realized that there were many things about his new home that he needed to learn. At the beginning of the story Cap is an isolated and shy boy, but by the end of the story he becomes more confident and popular. Cap was first introduced to the outside world when he went to Claverage Middle School. He was given a tour of the school by a popular boy named Zach Powers. According to Zach, “The weirdest thing about Capricorn Anderson was this: he was looking at me like I was a freak, like he’d never seen another kid before.” (p. 15) There were many things Cap had never seen before. He did …show more content…
After being injured badly at a pep rally, he returns to Garland Farms to be with his grandmother. As he looked around Garland, he thought: “I knew it was the best place for me. But the quiet, the dull beiges and greens, the familiar farm chores, the complete lack of other people- this used to be my life; it used to be enough. Before.” (p. 180). His classmates at C Average Middle School thought he had died when he left. They gathered in the school parking lot dressed in clothes like Cap would wear. When he returned to the school, he was surprised to hear the nice things being said about him. He surprised the crowd not only by showing up, but by knowing all their names and speaking to each one. When Rain sold Garland, she told Cap he could return to C Average Middle School where she could “think of eleven hundred kids who are going to be really happy to have you back.” (p.
Through the article, "How the School Shortchange Boys," by Gerry Garibaldi implies that the school setting has experienced a transformation towards feminization. In the past, the child faced numerous conditions that vindicated her trouble in a male dominated society. However, after the deceitful discharge processes, the woman was finally free and all institutions welcomed her input seeking to create a fair society. According to Garibaldi (2006), the modern school setting deprives the boy child freedom to interact and relate in a natural environment (Garibaldi 54). Girls are kind, complacent, understanding and conform to salient regulations without emphasis. With these elements, girls comply with school regulations delivering assignments on time. The boy child is inquisitive, rational and desires logical explanations explaining the reason behind every instruction. The modern school setting does shortchange boys as it creates an unequal platform where teachers favor girls and victimize boys because of their inherent traits.
In Schooltalk: Rethinking What We Say About - and to - Students Every Day, Mica Pollock provides readers with fact-based information to “flip the script” of the misrepresentation of students in the education setting. Pollock demonstrates how race, gender, and ethnic labels can be detrimental to student achievement. She, then, dives in to 600 years of myths regarding social race labels and how they continue to affect humans today. By correcting race, gender, and ethnicity label myths in our minds, we can effectively advocate for these students. To conclude the book, Pollock focuses on how to devise a plan to correct our own misconceptions and foster a supportive environment for diverse students. Throughout
No one would talk to her, recess was spent in anguish, and she would find garbage and spoiled food in her book bag. As she progressed into 5th grade, some of the social atmosphere began to shift in subtle but profound ways. Being accepted into a clique is all that matters. Instead of being admired for class participation, as in earlier years she was laughed at and labeled as “teacher’s pet.” She said the rules were simple “shun or be shunned—if you weren’t willing to go along with the crowd, you would become the reject.”
“But then some of us saw the king of person Cap was… Some of us appreciate how he devoted his heart and soul to the school.”(C25, P166, #5) This shows how Capricorn Anderson changed the kids at Claverage Middle School, and students start to like him and are now doing tai-chi and wearing tie-dye just like him. Cap is meant to be a spotlight character which other characters are affected by. ”All at once, she put a death grip on my shoulder. ‘Look around-ponchos, tie-dyes, peace signs. Cap, they are in costume. They are dressed as you!’”(C27, P185, #9) Near the climax, a memorial for Cap Anderson is held, and all 1100 students are there. This shows how Cap has affected the students of Claverage Middle School from his first day till
...s feeling of achievement at completing school is shown. There are close ups of the Tuohy’s with Ms Sue and Sam showing feelings of attachment with Michael. Moreover, the mid-shots of the teacher’s face highlights that he is accepted in the school community too. As such, Michael, like Billy has achieved a new sense of belonging due to connections with new people and places.
In the text, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, author Diane Ravitch explores her ideological shift on school reform and the empirical evidence that caused this shift. Once a proponent and contributor of testing, accountability, choice, and market reforms, Ravitch’s support began to diminish as she realized that these current reforms were not viable options. She came to realize that the new school reforms focused entirely on structural and managerial adjustments and that no focus was given to actual learning.
Many individuals have been affected negatively by trouble makers in school. Troublemakers have either disrupted classes or bullied other students. Yes, trouble makers may harm one’s learning environment, but should they be kicked out of school? Though many individuals argue that troublemakers will not change and hold the class down, they should not be kicked out because they need help. Most of these kids that are disobedient do not know the distinction between right and wrong. We should not withdraw trouble makers from school, rather, we should help these troublemakers and teach them right from wrong. In the article “Let’s Really Reform Our Schools” by Anita Garland, she states that American high schools are disasters because there are troublemakers (694). She asserts that the withdrawal of troublemakers in schools would make the learning environment peaceful for students who want to learn
Claire Standish was known as “the princess”. She dressed in pink and acquired many material items because of her rich parents. Many students envied her life, and considered her to be stuck up and snobbish because she received whatever she wanted. Andrew Clark was known as “the athlete”. He wore a letter jacket with all of his accolades displayed and seemed to discriminate and bully kids whose social statuses were below his. This is especially apparent in his reason for the detention: bullying a fellow student in the locker room. In addition to this, both Claire and Andrew’s reference groups and family social contexts guided them to the detention that day. Andrew’s father and friends encouraged him to perform the bullying act that landed him in detention. His father was happy that Andrew was attending the detention because he believed it would give him a better reputation in the athletic world. Claire’s father allowed her to skip school one day to go shopping. It seemed that Claire’s family believed that material items and wealth was more important than school. Claire displayed this belief and landed a spot in detention. Although Claire and Andrew did not reside in the same high school cliques, their cliques were near the top of their high school hierarchy. Their cliques defined what everyone thought they wanted, but the stereotypes that surrounded these two individuals was a façade. They also discovered through the journey of the film which was the realization that everyone is the same on the inside, even though their outsides are
Summary: Milo is a boy in the fifth grade, who lives in Seattle, Washington. His dad is a college professor who took psychedelic drugs and tried teaching him about philosophies. His mom worked part-time and she taught Milo most of the things he knew, from hammering a nail to how to play football. One day, his parents had a fight and his dad moved out. His mom consulted a life coach and she was going to move to Kangley, Washington so she could go to college and become a dental technician. There was a block party that Milo and his class attended right before he moved away, and his teacher, Ms. Swinford, gave
“But then some of us saw the king of person Cap was… Some of us appreciate how he devoted his heart and soul to the school.”(C25, P166, #5) This shows how Capricorn Anderson changed the kids at Claverage Middle School, and students start to like him and are now doing tai-chi and wearing tie dye just like him. Cap is meant to be a spotlight character which other characters are affected by. ”All at once, she put a death grip on my shoulder. ‘Look around-ponchos, tie-dyes, peace signs. Cap-they are in costume. They are dressed as you!’”(C27, P185, #9) Near the climax, a memorial for Cap Anderson is held, and all 1100 students are there. This shows how Cap has affected the students of Claverage Middle School from his first day till
The ability for all children from varying walks of life to receive a well-rounded education in America has become nothing more than a myth. In excerpt “The Essentials of a Good Education”, Diane Ravitch argues the government’s fanatical obsession with data based on test scores has ruined the education system across the country (107). In their eyes, students have faded from their eyes as individual hopefully, creative and full of spirit, and have become statistics on a data sheet, percentages on a pie chart, and numbers calculated to show the intelligence they have from filling out bubbles in a booklet. In order for schools to be able to provide a liberal education, they need the proper funding, which comes from the testing.
What would you expect to be the mindset of a misfit kid who isn’t really that popular who is playing baseball with the other kids because he wants to fit in with them instead of being himself? There is such a boy in a first person short story that was written by a worldly-renowned author. In “Eye Ball,” Spiegelman uses characterization to develop the theme of be yourself and don’t try to fit in with others at the expense of showing your true self.
In today’s ever changing world people must adapt to change. If an organization wants to be successful or remain successful they must embrace change. This book helps us identify why people succeed and or fail at large scale change. A lot of companies have a problem with integrating change, The Heart of Change, outlines ways a company can integrate change. The text book Ivanceich’s Organizational Behavior and Kotter and Cohen’s The Heart of Change outlines how change can be a good thing within an organization. The Heart of Change introduces its readers to eight steps the authors feel are important in introducing a large scale organizational change. Today’s organizations have to deal with leadership change, change in the economy,
In “The School Days of an American Girl,” by Zitkala-Sa, she writes about her childhood struggles to adapt into the white American society. The author who recreates a story of her younger self’s journey attending a paleface school in which she had a hard time adjusting to. She left behind her Native American culture and tried to conform to the national body, not by choice but by subtle pressure. Her new self and what she had become after attending boarding school would later alienate her from native ways and make her different than her mother and brother who were living on the plains. This change in herself would ultimately affect the relationship she cherished with her
“Changing Educational Paradigms” is a video where Sir Ken Robinson explains why he believes the current educational system has to change in order to stop the rise of American students being treated for ADHD. Robinson reveals that schools haven’t changed since the 18th century where the enlightenment and the industrial revolution had a lot to do with how American schools were designed to work. American schools are still organized based on the production line mentality, and intelligence was based off deductive reasoning and knowledge of the classics, all of this is deep in the academic gene pool. Robinson states that while they are trying to change the educational system they are doing so by doing what they did in the past. Which is something