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?
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application: The lessons you can learn from this text is to be grateful for what you have like a family who loves you and a house you can call a home because some people are unfortunate and do not have those kinds of hings we take for granted. I know personally sometimes i take the littest things for granted and now that i read this book it makes me appreciate my family and the people who loves me more.
ReplyDeleteapplication: The story that inspired me the most is probably Sadi's story. the other elevan stories were all very touching, but i liked Sadi's the most. Sadi came from a horrible background where he thought drugs and shooting people were cool, until he met lituratue. I like this story because many people can relate to it.
application: Yes i do think that each of these students are out now accomplishing great things. These students went through hell and i know that all the hard work they went through they wouldnt just turn around and go back to it. they worked hard so now, they are accomplishing great things.
Application: I agree with Emerald about not taking the things we think are small for granted because some people don't even have that much. Most of us are blessed with a family that is there for us and supports us as they share their love with us. I also agree with you Liza. We should not allow anyone or anything stand in our way of reaching our goals. I know these stories showed me that I need to keep my priorities straight because my education is most important. Things may get in our way every once and a while but we have to know how to handle it and stay on track.
ReplyDeleteApplication: Most all the stories touched me in some way. But Olivia's story was the most inspirational. She never gave up on her education as she was going from foster home to foster home without having any real family, working jobs in the late hours of the night that she wouldn't necessarily want people to know about, and getting locked up when others who did the same thing were only put on probation. She endured many rough trials but she always kept her eye on the prize: graduating and going to Babson. Although she was locked up and didn't graduate with her class, when she was released she still went to school at Northridge and didn't give up her dream of going to Babson. She reapplied, was accepted, and transferred. She showed that one must never give up on themself nor their dream. Although we make mistakes, we can learn from them and keep moving toward success.
Application: I don't know where each of these students are today, but I believe the majority of them stayed on track and went forward to do all they aspired to do. They worked hard to get where they were at the end of this story but their life stories were not complete and I think they have gone on to accomplish great things.