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.

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.

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.