Part 3 Reflection : The Guardian article “Schools Are Killing Curiosity by Berliner helps me understand how schools are killing curiosity. By schools killing curiosity it diminishes children thoughts finding ways to staying focus than being curious. I agree with Berliner on why schools should not kill curiosity. I learned from researches made by Dr Prachi Shah, that the education system’s focus on testing and standardized curriculum prevents teachers from allowing students to explore their own interests and learn in a way that is engaging and meaningful to them. I can relate to this feature piece In paragraph 2, “ against a background of tests and targets, unscripted queries go mainly unanswered and learning opportunities are lost”. I feel the same way because majority of the time teachers want to get through their lesson plans first before engaging with our curiosity whether it’s on the lesson, a topic, or anything that relates to school. Research studies made by Dr Prachi Shah, a research scientist at the University of Michigan dictates that “ promoting curiosity in children, especially those from environments of economic disadvantage, may be an important, under- recognized way to address the achievement gap.” In addition to “ promoting curiosity is a foundation for early learning that we should be emphasizing more when we look at academic achievement.”
Part 4: Rhetorical analysis
The genre is a feature piece. The purpose is to inform why schools are killing curiosity. The writing style is factual. Berliners intended audience is the higher school system, parents and other school districts to understand why curiosity is important for children in schools. Berliner sources are credible with the research studies made by Dr Parachi Shah that “promoting curiosity is a foundation for early learning that we should be emphasizing more when we look at academic achievement.”
Part 5 Notable Quotations: “ Promoting curiosity is a foundation for early learning that we should be emphasizing more when we look at academic achievement.” Paragraph 6
“ Promoting curiosity in children, especially those from environments of economic disadvantage, may be an important, under- recognized way to address the achievement gap.” Paragraph 7
“ Promoting curiosity is a foundation for early learning that we should be emphasizing more when we look at academic achievement.” Paragraph 17
I feel these are important because it exemplifies that curiosity is actually more important to children than it is to staying focus in school. Curiosity help children perform better academically in school.
first i would indent “Reflection:” it would make the text less top heavy. second thing you forgot to place were in part 5 you got those quote from what paragraph. “genre is a feature piece” is not a genre . here the google definition of genre a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
Dear Andre,
I would recommend fixing the structure to Part 5. Try capitalizing and fixing the tittle, for example write, “Part 5: Notable Quotables” like Prof.Wu said. Second, capitalize the beginning letter of your chosen quotes. Lastly, I would fix the title and write it properly on Part 3 and look back at the first sentence because it sounds repetitive. Other than that good work!
Just separate the sections of which part each part is in and capitalize the parts
Andre:
Look carefully at what you wrote in the Reflection part — Did you give your OWN ideas? or Did you just repeat the MI’s?
I think you just repeated MI’s. That is NOT what to do in the Relfection: What do you think — do you think schools stop kids from asking questions? You have direct experience. You have been a student in public school? What did YOU Andre feel about your schooling and if you were encouraged to ask questions? ]
So in the Reflection it needs to be more of your own original ideas!
In the Rhetorical Genre Analysis part you did good job — until you come to this sentence; you write: Berliner sources are credible with the research studies made by Dr Parachi Shah that “promoting curiosity is a foundation for early learning that we should be emphasizing more when we look at academic achievement.” This DMS doesn’t make sense. You are NOT finding out if Berliner’s sources are credible. You are supposed to find out if the author of the article, Berliner herself is a reliable author. Why should the reader believe Berliner?
In the article, and we talked about this. Berliner is established as the author of the book “How To Succeed At School.” And if this fact was not in the article, then your job is to google the author name and find out her credentials. Also you need to google facts about The Guardian and explain why or why not the newspaper that published this article is reliable.