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The issue I’ve chosen to focus on in urban education is student disengagement. One struggle of teachers in urban schools that has come up a few times in education classes I’ve taken is that it’s very difficult to teach a classroom of students who don’t want to be in school, and don’t want to learn.
Silvi Shameti
Schools in American Cities
Issue Analysis
This morning, as reached the last page of Claudia Rankine's Don't Let me Be Lonely: An American Lyric, I was startled to find an observation that could be a commentary on this thread:
It is evident that everyone has an opinion about Fokir and something to say about him, although he himself actually speaks very little. As Maddie points out, opinions also tend to be relatively negative. Overall, I think that Fokir is the emotional springboard for the other main characters. Certain actions that he takes encourage reactionary emotions from others that are seemingly unfitting.
In my documentary film and photography studies,
In Judith Halberstam’s book In a Queer Time and Place, she makes the “perhaps overly ambitious claim that there is such a thing as ‘queer time’” (1). If that claim is ambitious, then I make here a claim far beyond ambition that we can further expand or “queer” this notion of “queer time” by placing it in the context of deep time. However, before I begin twisting and flipping all normative notions of time and Earth history, I will decipher some of these key terms so we may start this journey on the same page.
In my mind, Fokir is the sole character who had connections with every other character in the novel. In class on Tuesday when Maddie and I discussed his role in the novel and how much of a pivotal character he is, we came to the conclusion that we felt that he was the central emotional character of the novel. Even though his voice wasn't portrayed often, he's intertwined in the lives of all the other characters and his story is demonstrated in that manner.
Wonder if this would work for the tigers? And for the refugees?
Buddhist Monks Ordain Trees To Protect the Environment
