In the fourth and final chunk, Miles Corwin, continues to use anecdotes, description, emotional appeal, and statistics to bring this rough school year for these 12 students and faculty to an end. Here we are able to see the accomplishments and progress of these students and see that even though they were faced with many difficult situations, such as: financial issues, abusive parents, drug addicted parents, distracted teachers, pregnancy, and confinement, they were still able to overcome and conquer them. They showed their accomplishments by not only receiving their diplomas, but going to a college/university. For example, Meisha goes to USC, Sadi goes to Clark College, Danielle to Pitzier, Curt to UCLA, Robert to UCLA, Naila to Standford, Willie to Morehouse, Claudia to Cal State Long Beach, Venola to Colby College, Princess to University of California, Santa Barbra, and lastly Olivia who goes to Northridge but reapplies and transfers to Babson junior year. These students proved that no matter how big a situation can be you can let it stand in your way of your goal. They also go on to study and major in great fields such as: management consulting, speech communication, sociology, black studies, psychology, anthropology, Spanish and much more.
After reading And Still We Rise, I was able to see that nothing is just handed to anybody, you have to earn everything , no matter what you are going through. I was also able to see that there is people out there facing some really tough problems, but they still manage to achieve in life. I mean, for students to pass the AP exam without much preparation because their teacher was out for awhile or she was to busy complaining about being discriminated against and then while taking the exam the students are distracted by a fight; well it's overall unimaginable. Overall, the number one lesson I can take and I think many students should take from this wonderful / phenomenal text is that you should not let anything or anyone stand in the way of your success
Discussion Questions:
Application: What lesson or theme can you take from this text?
Application: What story made you feel the most? Which one inspired you more?
Application: Do you believe that each of these students are out now accomplishing great things?
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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