English Categories by Celeste https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s by Mia, Ariana Cruz, and Celeste en-us 2018-05-10 19:09:37 UTC 2018-05-15 19:28:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Optimplaces.png John Gardner "Personal Renewal" cruzariana123 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259763271 Speaker:  John Gardner
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Main Argument:  How to deal with things in life. To learn what is important ]]> 2018-05-10 19:21:15 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259763271 James Baldwin "A talk to teachers" cruzariana123 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259763633 Speaker: James Baldwin, American novelist and social critic 
Occasion: delivered a speech to a group of New York City school teachers  in 1963, the height of the Civil Rights movement for African Americans
Purpose:  Baldwin wants to stop the affect segregation has on a child's education.
Main Argument: Teacher;'s must found a way to make kids find their own positive way to success amidst the odds presented to them in America's current situation. ]]> 2018-05-10 19:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259763633 "What is a Man" on Esquire acostcel000 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259763686 Speaker:  Esquire
Occasion: teaching us on how men should be
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Main Argument: men shouold be at the pot of the top. There are specific ways to be a real man. This is the guidlnes to how to be a real man and if you dont do this you are not a real man. ]]> 2018-05-10 19:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259763686 Chris Hedges "American the Illiterate" cruzariana123 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764037 Speaker: Chris Hedges, an American Journalist 
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Main Argument: teaching and telling people and the literacy rates are falling in America. There are many statistics on ]]> 2018-05-10 19:23:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764037 Personality Development acostcel000 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764060 Based on Gender ]]> 2018-05-10 19:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764060 David Foster Wallace "This is Water" cruzariana123 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764360 Speaker: David Foster Wallace, American novelist and essayist, professor at Pomona College 
Occasion: A commencement address to college graduates 
Purpose: To make the college students think beyond their "default setting".
Main Argument:  His main argument was that one needs to actually address their reality in order to realize that there are greater things and purposes in life than we subconsciously think. ]]> 2018-05-10 19:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764360 Sherman Alexie "Superman and Me" cruzariana123 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764433 Speaker: sherman alexie 
Occasion: 1990s in California 
Purpose: is to indicate how ones does not need to be affluent to learn. 
Main Argument:  education and reading can help you pave your way out of societies stereotypes for minorities]]> 2018-05-10 19:24:35 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764433 "Being a Man" by Paul Thereaux acostcel000 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764473 Speaker:  Paul Thereux 
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Main Argument: the idea of being a man in this society is so overwhelming and had to come by. men should not have to prove themselves. The idea of being a man is ridiculous 
]]> 2018-05-10 19:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764473 Ralph Waldo Emerson "Education" cruzariana123 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764485 Speaker:  Ralph Waldo Emerson, transcendentalist, American essayist, lecturer, philosopher and poet 
Occasion: Excerpt taken from his essay 
Purpose: To explain the flaws of how and why things are learned. 
Main Argument:  Education must be pursued by a child's own curiosity and in a forced and automatic way. ]]> 2018-05-10 19:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764485 Malcolm X "Learning to Read" cruzariana123 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764550 Speaker: malcolm x 
Occasion: 1963 civil right movement 
Purpose: to inform people i the united states of the struggles african american faced just to be able to get simplest form of education 
Main Argument: African Americans stood be able to live just like white people getting the benefits that they deserve and need. ]]> 2018-05-10 19:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764550 Amy Chua "Chinese Mothers" and other readings cruzariana123 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764627 Speaker: Amy Chua, American lawyer, academic, and writer. 
Occasion: A book she wrote about parenting, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Purpose: To show the effects of strict parenting in certain situations
Main Argument:  Chua's main argument is that in order for kids to become successful once they're independent a parent must not be soft on them. ]]> 2018-05-10 19:25:14 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764627 "I Want a Wife" by Judy Brady acostcel000 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764729 Speaker: Judy Brady
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Main Argument:  to explain that the role of the woman is much bigger than initially thought. That men always diminish women and should be taken more into consideration ]]> 2018-05-10 19:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764729 Pico Iyer "The Joy of Less" cruzariana123 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764975 Speaker: Pico Iyer
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Main Argument:  The main argument for the Joy of Less is that we should enjoy the simple things in life and that we should know what is important in life.

]]> 2018-05-10 19:26:15 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259764975 "Sex, Lies, and Conversation" by Deborah Tannen acostcel000 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259765009 Speaker:
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Occasion: new york times
Purpose: to never give up on the goals u want to achieve always work hard and things will work out
Main Argument:  try your hardest and never give up an also having family can make u happy ]]> 2018-05-10 19:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/259765139 "Our Deportment, Or the Manners, Conduct, and Dress of Refined Society" by John H. Young acostcel000 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260058828 2018-05-11 18:52:01 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260058828 Persistence acostcel000 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260060401 2018-05-11 18:57:04 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260060401 Reforming education acostcel000 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260063613 2018-05-11 19:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260063613 Malcolm Gladwell "Examined Life" cruzariana123 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260064649 about SAT
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]]> 2018-05-11 19:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260064649 TED Talk: "Let's teach for mastery - not test scores" by Sal Khan acostcel000 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260064783 Speaker: Sal Khan 
Occasion: Ted Talk to students, teachers, and adults
Purpose:  To introduce a new form of education and also address the flaw of our current education system. 
Main Argument: His main argument was that the core for learning is based on two ideas, mastery and mindset. Mastery being the sole purpose of education and not just test scores or grades. ]]> 2018-05-11 19:14:41 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260064783 Becoming Your Best Self acostcel000 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260065563 2018-05-11 19:18:03 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260065563 What to avoid when becoming your best self acostcel000 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260068023 2018-05-11 19:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260068023 TED Talk: "Grit: The power of passion and perseverance" by Angela Lee Duckworth cruzariana123 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260068861 Speaker: Angela Lee Duckworth, former consultant, seventh grade math teacher in a  New York Public School 
Occasion: Ted Talk to a group of students and adults
Purpose: She explains her theory of "grit" as a predictor of success 
Main Argument:  Success is not determined by intelligence, talent or IQ. It is determined by passion and perseverance for a long term goal and the hard work done in order to get to that goal.
]]> 2018-05-11 19:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260068861 "Allegory of a Cave" by Plato acostcel000 https://padlet.com/acostcel000/fba0bfw90j0s/wish/260069606 Speaker: Plato, Ancient Greek philosopher
Occasion:  This story comes from Plato’s book of philosophical fiction, The Republic.
Purpose: Socrates (main character) tells his follower Glaucon a story about people living in a cave, which serves as an allegory for human society and the pursuit of knowledge. 
Main Argument: Plato claimed that knowledge gained through the senses is no more than opinion and that, in order to have real knowledge, we must gain it through philosophical reasoning.
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