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In summation this article speaks to the fact that students who come from families that have economic means are exposed to early opportunities for literacy development. While students who come from families who are not economically stable or who have the means to expose their children to opportunities for early literacy development.
In my opinion its not about the child's ability its all about the exposure and the means. We still see it when it comes to the Specialized High School exams. Most of those students who do pass the exam have been the opportunity to start being groomed for the test at an early age. On the other hand you may have a student who is smart who attends a Title 1 school who do not have the resources in order to prepare their students for the Specialized High School exams.
If all children had the sam educational opportunities no matter if your an ELL, a student with a learning disability or a student who live in an impoverished area then those schools like Styvesant would be attainable
The opportunity Gap. Wolter Deborah.

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A Poem about Dyslexia

Words are hard

I don’t mean talking

I don’t mean chats,

I mean when words are walking

All over the page.

Then they’re hard

they’re bats

I’m in a rage.

Letters are mad things

they swirl about

daft as brushes

in and out

they won’t stay in the book

they stops, they they rushes

there goes one! Look!

I’m think carefully how

I might just catch an ‘a’

I think I’ve seen one now –

But zaaaaaap. It flew AwAy.

I’m going to creep up sneakily

Now watch , as I lasso a ‘b’

MayBe if I tread carefully

I can make it Be friends with me

But it’s gone, see?

It’s gone all hazy

into a ‘d’

No NO NO I’m not lazy

It isn’t me

THe ALpHaBEt is crazy.

Dyslexia is a specific learning disability in reading that often affects spelling as well. In fact, reading disability is the most widely known and most carefully studied of the learning disabilities, affecting 80% of all those designated as learning disabled.
Dyslexia and the Brain. retrieved from www.Idonline.org/article 1407. Hudson,R;  High, L; Otaiba, S.

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INDEPENDENT READING LOG

Name:  Chantell Mays

Title of Book: We Beat the Streets

Author: Davis, Jenkins, Hunt

Date | Pages Read | Two sentence summary! | Respond in two sentences
2/14/18 | 9 | Sampson age 6 wanted to hang out with his older brother and his friends. In doing so he wanted to show his brother and his friends that he could help fix the park bench by trying to hold up a heavy slab of concrete and it fell on his foot. | Sampson just wanted to fit in. He wanted to show the big boys that he could do what they do.

2/15/18 | 8 | Rameck age 9 was know for getting in trouble in his catholic school. Rameck was a smart boy who loved school | Rameck took for granted that his mother worked hard for him to attend catholic school. He got in trouble because the school work was easy for him.

2/16/18
| 7 | George age 8 loved school. His school was located in the “Ghetto”. He was fascinated with learning about Shakesphere. His teacher Ms. Johnson often stayed after school to help with building projects or making cookies. | Although George lived in Newark NewJersey, he had this appetite for learning. Ms. Johnson had George thinking about attending college.

2/17/18
Sampson and his friends were playing outside and decided that they wanted icees. Although they did not have money to purchase Icees from Jacks they were determined to steal it.
I remember as a child I would steal from the store. My vice was glazed donuts. I did not get caught like Sampson and his friends.

2/18/18
Rameck is attending a gifted and talented program afterschool in plainfield,nj. He has a close relationship with his grandmother. She gave him money for his portfolio.When he walked in his house he noticed that the lights were off. He gave his mother the money in order to have the electricity turned back on.

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

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Arnold Spirit, Jr., or Junior, is a fourteen-year-old boy who lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington; Alexis loosely based the character on himself. Junior is a budding cartoonist who also enjoys playing basketball. Like the other members of the Coeur d’Alene tribe who live on the reservation, Junior has grown up impoverished and surrounded by alcoholism. Yet Junior strives to pursue his education and transfers to Reardan, an affluent school with a mostly white student body. As a result, he suffers from extreme alienation both at his new school and on the reservation, leading him to question where he truly belongs.
I can relate to Junior because growing up in the south living with my dad and then moving to New York to live with my mom also had my questioning where I truly belong. Most of the students that I went to school with in New York had already had their friends and my mannerisms and my accent made me stand out and also the butt of many jokes. I was determine to fit in. I started to change the way I talked, dressed and acted. Looking back in hindsight I do regret giving up the parts of me that made me, me.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Alexie, S.(2007).

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How does your positionality bias your epistemology

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How does your positionality bias your epistemology

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In the article, “How does your positionality bias your epistemology?” the author argues that our experiences shape the way we think. The way we think has to do with the way we have lived our life and therefore we convince others to adopt our views. We communicate with others through monologue and we try to convince others to understand and adopt our own views. Most of the time we think that each of us live through different experiences in our lives, so we have different perspectives. What we fail to realize is that if we communicate effectively, we can compromise with each other and improve in our dialogue. Often we get caught up in our own lives and ideals that we keep a constant dialogue within ourselves, and we avoid compromising to other ideals that do not match with our own.

I feel that one of the hardest senses to develop is the skill of understanding, because it is not easy to listen to other peoples point of view. If we do not listen then we truly can not understand what the other person is trying to tell us. The most useful insight that I learned in this article is that it is important to know that we do not always know everything, and that their is always room for improvement. If we listen to others we can become aware of others perspectives and experiences through their lenses. In listening to others we can identify the universal truths of the world and community in which we live in.

Takacs, David. “How Does Your Positionality Bias Your Epistemology.” The NEA Higher Education Journal (2003): 27-38. National Education Association. 2003. Web. 26 Feb. 2015.

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The two articles that I choose was watch what you teach and The trouble with the normal. I can honestly say that after reading these two articles it has made me take a step back and re-evaluate how I view the LGBTQ community. Growing up in the south Being non-heterosexual was taboo and it was simply not discussed. This generation is not ashamed of not being heterosexual. Its put out there right in your face. You can either deal with it or not. Now it is safer to be out of the closet with your sexuality. How do you discuss these issues in your classroom without causing an uproar? I did not realize or fully understand how incorporating social issues that relates to students in that capacity will allow of students to be able to critically think and challenge what is current in their lives and in the world in which we live.
This subject is a grey area because some students, or school personel may not be willing to want to speak about issues that will explore issues or make reference to LGBTQ. Outside the home, schools are the primary vehicles for educating, socializing, and providing services to young people. Schools can be difficult environments for students, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, but they are often especially unwelcoming for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. Infact some people will not want their children to learn about that issue at all. I believe that students should have the opportunity to be able to discuss how they feel. In the article The trouble with normal it states that "stories can break dignity of people but stories can also repair that broken dignity". People are often afraid of the unknown but if they are willng to have an open mind and heart they will be suprised at how many things you will have in common.