The topic sentence that stood out to me the most was, "the teachers aren't motivated to teach the poor students properly," because I feel like a teacher should not base if their going to really try and push students based on where they come from and how they live. Teacher don't try motivating those students because they feel as if they will get no where no matter what, but who are they to determine that? Every child should get the same opportunity in education. Wealthy or poor, white or black, it does not matter. A teacher should give them all equal support to whatever dreams they have, even if they seem impossible. In Savage Inequalities the author Jonathan Kozol writes, "A child is not born to the station of its parents, but with an indefinite claim to all the prizes that can be won by thought and labor. It is in conformity with the theory of equality ... to give as near possible to every youth an equal state in life." (101) which supports the idea of equality and fairness to every child regardless of everything else. Yet teachers dont bother trying, they give poor kids no options in life.

3  paragraphs on part III of Rule of 3:
               

               This world is becoming highly competitive, good preparation is the key to success. Good preparation mainly comes from school and teachers. I feel like the job of a teacher requires the most dedication and the most responsibility. The problem is that there are many passive teachers out there that lack passion and don't care about the students. A teacher holds a good piece of the future in their hands because we, the students, are the future, and their job is to shape us and form us into the best that we can be. Many teachers don't realize, but our future lies in their hands. Many students need support, support that some don't get at home, support that they can only get by their teachers. While many teachers are making the best of every individual student they have others are really hurting their future letting them fall into failure or just simply not giving them the guidance they seek for, thus letting them fall into a world where eventually their only allies become drugs and crimes.

                A class room should be a place for students to get their first glance at the real world and at what they want to become in life, and a teacher should be a type of mentor. That is where a successful student arises from, that is where he starts off with good support and guidance from the teacher. The teacher should also make the students surrounding easy for for them to open their minds into knew things and that can help them acquire knowledge and it can help them set their dreams and find their correct paths. If a teacher does not help their students out in this way that can make them struggle a lot and make them want to give up, when they truly have the initial potential they need to become successful. That can ruin a good head start to what could have been a successful person in life.

                 Also, teachers are our role models, we look up to them and admire their knowledge. When we see a passionate teacher full of positive energy, we in some way become passionate ourselves and become eager to learn form them. But what happens with a passive teacher that is only there looking forward to their paycheck at the end of the month and not looking forward to teaching their students and hoping to make them blossom into successful people of tomorrow? We begin to question why we are even there in the first place and we begin to loose our desire to learn. We make the environment among us unpleasant and negative because a teachers mood and passion really affects the whole class. A negative teacher's sends out negative energy to the students and sometimes even out to the whole school.

              

             

Francisco Martinez

M. Williams

Eng 1A

9, September 2013

              A Passion for Teaching

                 I read an article called A passion for teaching, it was a very interesting article for me because i felt that it related to the Passion Project. It supported what i thought was one of the best and most important concepts of the script, the passion teachers/instructors have for their job. I personally think teachers play a huge roll in our education and our academic decisions and passions. In The Passion Project, Ray says “Students have to feel like they're at home so if they wanna be comfortable they gotta get comfortable with the teacher… We gotta feel like the teacher is real, like he or she really truly wants to help us.”, I feel like this is true because in all my school years I've had them all ,good teachers and bad. And those who truly take the time to help us on the side whenever we need, those who actually seem interested in us, have made the biggest impacts in my life. They have helped me out the most in every sense and i feel like thats exactly what a teachers job is. A passionate teacher can motivate us, they can push us, they can make us think more positively, thus they can direct us to our own personal success. “He is the most passionate teacher i have ever had in my life, he flies around the room and makes every lecture enjoyable to attend. He helps us individually and pushes us to success”, this is shows how important a passionate teacher is to us students. And more than just teach, they need to interact with their students, help them each individually because every student is different therefore learn differently. Its the teachers job to find the right way to interact with every student and give them the support and attention they need.

1. Blog space reflects me because it shows who I am and what I like. It lets everyone view my dearest passions and it gives them a glance at what I'm all about.

2. I have many passions, i love anything that has to do with water and the lake. I'm very passionate about riding atvs, though the most important thing to me has nothing to do with any of that, the most important thing to me right now would be my education.
3. I'm in school because I love learning and although I'm not the smartest man on earth I like to learn and I want to have a strong education and become something in life.
4. From this class I hope to gain better writing skills as well as better thinking skills. I want to be able to analyze any script thrown at me and find the deepest meaning into it.