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Shor made some really good points in this article, But I wasn't interested in it while reading it. It was pretty Blah and not that interesting, it was a hard article to get thru as I was reading it, it didn't keep my interest. What I found interesting was when it said Primary grade teachers, devote time to problems of socialization. One of the things I didn't really realize until I read this article was that the most important things that children learn are NOT the 3 R's, its socialization. I agree with the author that one good way to start off the school year is asking students why we go to school? For High Schoolers and middle schoolers teachers should be asking this, I was asked it like every year in the beginning of school years. Then as I got older we had to write a paragraph or a paper on why do we go to school and why is it important. It Shows students that they can trust you. I know that every teacher that asked me that question they are the ones that helped ...

I attended the movie "Matt Shepard is a friend of Mine." It was a few weeks ago but I have not had the time to write about it yet. This documentary was about a gay young man. He was tortured and was murdered. Matt died in 1998. He was Dolly Parton one year for Halloween which was probably a huge hint for people that he was gay. His guidance counselor was one of the first people he has told before his own parents, and friends. Matt was afraid that his parents would disown him and reject him. Matt to me I feel like he was a pretty popular boy. He had a lot of friends and he traveled the world so much. He was very adventurous. He loved people and loved making people happy.  Matt loved politics, he wanted to become a actor, he was in many plays. He wanted to change things about the world. He wanted to build a Church. When Matt died his friend still feels guilty and angry because she didn't get to do anything to help him. She has saved all his stuff pictures and letters for me...

In the Kliewer article Mia noticed that she didn't like the classes she was taking. She had to go thru special education her whole life. She wanted to take classes that interested her. I agree with Mia. I hate taking classes that are not interesting to me. It makes the semester and days go by so slow. Mia felt mad and like she wanted to cry. I don't feel that way unless its math class. Math classes bore me and I cant stand math and it stresses me out so much. Success in life requires ability to form relationships with others who make up the web of community. We all have to learn how to get along with others. If we don't get along with others our lives would be miserable. Just think about it. I know most of us probably have had coworkers that we can not stand and once you don't get along going to work is a struggle. Even when we don't like each other we should still try to get along with one another. It will make your lives better. Shoshone is a parent run scho...

Blog 9 " Tracking why schools need to take another route"   I haven't done a blog about responding to a peers blog yet so I am going to do it this week since I know that Emily is ahead of all her blogs! The first article is about how they tracked two schools. Some parents are for keeping track of students scores because they want their kids to be successful.  I basically agree with everything that Emily says. I totally think that tracking students is so unfair. I agree that they probably will end up quitting school and they probably will feel like such a failure. If parents just minded their own business and gave their child some space it would be a lot easier for the kid. The parents are just stressing out their child. I agree with Emily that college is not for everyone. I hate school myself, I am not good at it, I work my butt of for my good grades. I think of how much I hate school and how much I work my butt off some days I feel like just quitting some days. B...

Blog #8 The Problem We All Live With Video             This video was very interesting. It was hard to follow because I am a visual learner rather than just hearing a person talk for the whole time. In the Audio it said in 2003 there are good schools, bad schools, and this is when No child left behind came out. Bad schools never caught up to the good schools, which makes sense because bad schools have bad quality of teachers. In the audio that I listened to they quoted “Bad schools are black, and Latino and the good schools are mostly white.” I don’t think that its right to even say that. They have been trying to get black and white students to go in the same schools for a long time. Now a days all schools are combined with all different nationalities. Data shows in the subject reading blacks were tested 39% worse than white kids.             Data also shows that when...

Connections : The politics of Service Learning While reading this article it reminded me of Amazing Grace By Johnathan Kozol. This article was talking about poor people just like Amazing Grace was. However in this article they were talking about how high school kids do community service and help out the poor. When in Amazing Grace it was talking about the poor people and how the poor people get free lunches at school. Another article that I can bestly connect it to is the Kristof Article. In the Kristof Article they talked about parents incomes and children's poverty. I think that all high schools even middle schoolers should do community service hours for the poor. I think it would make poor families feel better and make them feel happy that people want to help them.  I think it was great for students to interact with those less fortunate than themselves. They experienced things that I have not even experienced. I had to do community service for a graduation requirement b...

I choose option one for this week. I read about Gender and the 2018 election. I thought that these articles would have been more interesting than they actually were. I found them pretty boring. We have been learning and reading about Gender so I wanted to read more about it.      The first article I read was Soloways article. This was about locker rooms and what goes on in locker rooms. It was kind of interesting because I am a girl and reading what goes on in a men's locker room you would have never known what goes on in there. As the article stated when men are alone together, they assess and talk about and point to women and girls that they don't know. The article mentioned that most violence done on this planet is done by men. Which I think is true. What I found so funny and didn't realize it until I read it. But on Sundays what do you think of when you hear the word "Sunday." First word that popped up in your head was most likely not God. It was probably foo...

Lesbian, LGBTQ, and Metrosexual -- Amanda, Marissa, and Scarlett Lesbian Women who have the capacity to be attracted (romantically, emotionally, sexually, etc.) to other women    Ellen DeGeneres  - Came out on the  Oprah Winfrey Show - Married to Portia de Rossi   LGBTQ Umbrella term for all folks who have a non-normative gender or sexuality Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or questioning  Laverne Cox - Trans woman - First trans person nominated for an  Emmy - LGBTQ activist  Metrosexual A man with a strong aesthetic sense who spends more time, energy, or money on his appearance and grooming than is considered gender normative                                               ...

Journal number 5    Quotes    There were some quotes in this article called Safe Spaces,  that really stood out to me and I feel like they need to be shared to others.    “ Youth who struggle with Lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender identities or who are bullied for the perception of being different often feel as if they have nowhere to turn.”  With this quote I feel like children should just feel  like themselves. Sometimes I see teachers in daycare setting making fun of little boys who play with dolls and they even tell them to go play with the  blocks. I feel like they should just let them play where they want to play.    “Death should NEVER be an option. ” If you know someone who is sad and says they want to kill themselves, you need to speak with them. Ignoring the problem will make things worse.    Another quote that stood out to me was, “For many youths people suicide feels like a b...

Blog 4 Hyperlinks             In the article “Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us” talked about a lot of myths that cartoons do and people believe it all. People think that cartoons actually mess up the child’s brain. I mean as a child I don’t think ANY cartoon made me a different person, I don’t think the princesses made me realize that life isn’t like a fairytale. I honestly don’t think kids understand until they get a little bit older what the story is really about then by that time they know it’s just a movie and life isn’t really like a fairytale. In the article it said that there’s never any Asian or Hispanic people in cartoons. Honestly growing up I never realized there was no black princess until Princess and the Frog came out. Now we have Moana that children now love.   I have a link here that I never knew what the show really was about until like just now while reading them and they are all shows that were pop...

Aria and teaching multilingual Children Blog number 3 Argument These authors both argue that speaking two languages in households is a good thing and it needs to happen. According in Richards’s article in Aria, the three nuns that went to a house to ask parents if they only spoke Spanish to their children while at home seemed to be upset that they only spoke to their child in Spanish at home. I don’t know why they would be so upset that they only speak Spanish with them at home. It’s how they are raising them. Maybe the parents don’t know English that well. Why should nuns go out of their way to go to a house to speak to a child’s parents? If a child can’t pick up on English at school there’s programs at school that can help the child learn more English than their parents know. But then I can see why the nuns were mad that they only speaking Spanish to them at home. When they are at school most likely their teacher doesn’t know Spanish. They probably only know a few words i...

  Johnathan Kozol Amazing Grace Thinking Piece number 2 Reflection                   This was an interesting article to read about New York. I always loved New York, but never really knew or thought about the atmosphere. It’s really interesting how they said from Manhattan to the South Bronx. that your one of the richest when you jump onto that train to go there, but by the time you leave your one of the poorest. It’s pretty sad to be reading about these children who go to church just to get food, comfort and to play, as their parents are praying at the church. It’s said to be that they are the poorest people in New York. I never knew that poor people go to church to pray.                 I honestly think that it’s a really good idea for children to receive free/reduced lunches. I have some poor families in the ce...

                                                                               Kristof Article Blog #3 This article was interesting to read. It mentioned a lot of different topics such as how parent’s incomes matter to their future children’s incomes. Which I agree to this article but then I don’t. I know families who have kids and their income are better than what their parent’s income was. It also talks about a dead man named Rick and talked about how his life was an uphill struggle from birth. He was smart, talented, and hard working. He died of a heart disease. The writer of the article went t...

Hi I'm Marissa Florio. I am 23 years old. I am currently at Rhode Island College studying early education. I have an Associates degree from CCRI. I work at a daycare and currently a Preschool teacher. I love exploring new things and go on vacations. I did a lot this summer I went to Universal studios, then went on a cruise to the Bahamas and a private island from Florida. I also went to new Hampshire to watch NASCAR which was pretty boring. I rather go to a football game or baseball game. Lastly I went to Lake George New York. Which these photos are from there.