In The Taker by J. M. Steele, Carly Biels is a teenager who has a dream to ace the SAT without help of the Taker. The Taker is an anonymous person who goes from person to person, asking them if they want him to take the SAT for them. All she wants in life is for her family and boyfriend, Brad, to be happy for her. All she needs to do is bomb the high school SAT. However when she gets her scores back from the practice SAT, she realizes she needs to up her game. After she found out her scores, she got a text from the Taker he said he can help her. As a result, her parents, friends, and teachers recommend she should be tutored by the smartest but not popular kid in school, Ronald Gross. In the end, Carly decides to not use the Taker but use Ronald. …show more content…
One example of one important action that develops to reveal the theme is in the beginning of the story. For example, in one scene Carly decides she needs the Taker to be able to get a better grade on the SAT. One important quote from this scene is when the author writes, “for better or worse, I made up my mind” (62). This is important in helping to reveal the theme because Carly thinks she can not ace this test. Her parents and friends thinks she can because all school year she she has high grades and is a smart child. She fears that if she isn’t smart enough, and she doesn’t get good scores, then she cannot go to Princeton college. Carly thinks using the Taker is going to get here that guarantee to Princeton college. The theme develops further when Carly decides she wants help from, Ronald Gross and Mr. Lettich. Carly takes tutoring lessons from Ronald, after school every day. Carly doesn’t want to join Mr. Lettich’s class because all the people in that class are really smart and she hates Mr. Lettich. Her parents think it is a great idea for her. They think her scores will increase by going to his classes. Carly thinks she needs a really smart teacher to help her study and pass this SAT test.
“I am so lost in math.” “I’ll help you!” she says”(136), when Rosa see’s an opportunity to help some she will go right for it help them and she won’t stop till they get a 93% on a test. Rosa only being a student herself takes the people she tutors and shows them a more helpful and easy path when it comes the math school or life in general. Rosa is mainly known to be a
But, his mindset of the previous class also followed him there too. As he continues to struggle in the college prep class, he then adapt to the new pace and the work load, but the same learning methods for a college prep class. Eventually, he found his way into his life and tap into his true potential. In his English class, he met a teacher name, Mr. MacFarland, he is one of the good teachers that really changed Rose's perspective on school. Eventually they became close.
Instead, they take notice to her appearance which, in their opinion trumps her educational needs. Eventually, she gets what she wants when someone close to her teaches her instead using common objects. This proves that her frustrations were somewhat in vain because she had all she needed to help her close by all
After Norma was done helping Sonia starts to look up to Norma as a mathematical genius and will easily past college. She assumes good things about the way she is a mathematical genius and that she would easily get into college. In the beginning of the story, Sonia is in math class and needs help. The math teacher attempts to help by showing her the answer but not explaining what to do.
The situations take place in the story are evidence for the theme. First, the theme
Brooke Berger in “Don’t Teach to The Test” takes the
“We are finally going to get to school on time.” She said, her heels clicking as she strolled down the sidewalk. Even her walking showed importance, she did it just the right way. Ryan played her part as high school queen bee well. Me, I just did my subjects and hoped to make my crush to like me.
So I guess we’ve got a problem. ”(Avi 27-28). So this upset Philip which created internal conflict for Philip since he couldn’t be on the track team. So he went to ask Ms.Narwin for extra credit work to get his grade up so he could be on the track team.
Therefore, he received a failing grade which is a “D”. With his failing grade, Phillip couldn’t make it into the track team and he blames Miss Narwin for the whole problem. Then when the faculty committee changed homerooms, Philip is now assigned into Miss Narwin’s homeroom class, making matters even worse. Then, Miss Narwin asks the school district if they could allow her to attend a two-week workshop to make Miss Narwin’s teaching skills a lot better.
The Crucible Literary Analysis The theme in a story is the concealed message that the author is trying to portray. The theme can be compared to a baby crying. Sometimes it is obvious as to why the baby is crying, but often times it is a mere thinking situation. The baby cannot tell you why it is crying or what he/she wants.
Phil’s homeroom and ela teacher (Miss Narwin) who he is against from day 1, vents to her sister and expresses her feelings for Phil and admitting he really is a good kid. Ms. Narwin continues,“But this boy Philip… A boy I like. Intelligent. With real potential (5).Miss Narwins initial view on Phil was that he was a nice boy who just needed a kick start.
This puts stress on the mother and shows how much the mother wants a great education for her daughter and what she will do to try and get it. We learn throughout “The First Day” that the mother is very ashamed of herself. “My mother looks at me, then looks away. I know almost all of her looks, but this one is brand new to me.” (Jones, 87)
As she sacrificed everything to put these kids ahead of herself, she then realized that it was her and her students against the world. Gang members, racists, and drug dealers come together in room 203 as if they
There are several issues with Miss Greene’s referral, the first being the reasons given for the referral seem to be more subjective in nature, rather than objective information about the student’s behavior or academic performance. The teacher uses wording such as, “stubborn” and “she just doesn’t want to learn”. Both of these statements are subjective, or opinions of the teacher and do not provide unbiased information about the student’s issues in the classroom. As the author states in the textbook, referral practices in the past have been inconsistent and bias, noting in the text, “teacher referrals were global in nature and contained subjective rather than objective information in more than half the cases”, (Overton, 2010, p. 25).
An example of this is when Gabriella abruptly leaves what appears to be a chemistry class to meet up with Troy. A fellow academic and her best friend, Taylor McKessie, notices that Gabriella is neglecting academics and is upset about it. Taylor believes that Gabriella is limiting her academic talent by participating in the musical and feels that Gabriella will be a crucial component in winning the Scholastic Decathlon. Gabriella quickly becomes confident and open.