Thursday, June 11, 2009

Doing School Part 3

5 Comments
1] Teresa Gomez stresses herself so much to a point where she develops health problems.
2] Some off the best students actually live very difficult and poor lives.
3] When students have work, they feel obligated to do more than enough enough for each assignment.
4] I can almost relate to these students but they take it to an extreme.
5] In school, sometimes it's more of the teachers doing that makes students stressed because of the pressure they put on students.

4 Questions
1] Are the school systems really preparing students well for the future?
2] Isn't the stress caused from school just negatively affecting the students more?
3] Have these students ever wanted to give up?
4] What goes on in their home lives?

3 Vocabulary

1] Impinges: to affect the limits of something, especially a right or law, often causing some kind of restriction.
2] Inextricably: impossible to get free from.
3] Opt: to choose something or to choose to do something.

2 Literary Terms
1] "you knew students are trapped in there." -Hyperbole.
2] "and who believed the course 'saved their lives'" -Metaphor.

1 Overview sentence
Michele is often misunderstood as a sleazy student but she is just trying to succeed.


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