I was listening to this song and got the idea for Hw 51 below.
"Expo '86"
Sometimes i think this cycle never ends
We slide from top to bottom and we turn and climb again
And it seems by the time that i have figured what it's worth
The squeaking of our skin against the steel has gotten worse.
But if i move my place in line i'll lose.
And i have waited, the anticipation's got me glued.
I am waiting for something to go wrong.
I am waiting for familiar resolve.
Sometimes it seems that i don't have the skills to recollect
The twists and turns of plots that turned us from lovers to friends
I'm thinking i should take that volume back up off the shelf
And crack it's weary spine and read to help remind myself
But if i move my place in line i'll lose.
And I have waited, the anticipation's got me glued.
I am waiting for something to wrong
I am waiting for familiar resolve
I am waiting for another repeat
Another diet fed by crippling defeat
And i am waiting for that sense of relief
I am waiting for you to flee the scene
As if you held in your hand the smoking gun
And on the floor lay the one you said you loved.
And it's strange
They are basically the same
So i don't ask names anymore.
Sometimes i think this cycle never ends
We slide from top to bottom and we turn and climb again
And it seems by the time that i have figured what it's worth
The squeaking of our skin against the steel has gotten worse.
The squeaking of our skin against the steel has gotten worse [x2]
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Hw 51 - This Has To Be One Really Tall Ladder
Topic: We use school to move up the ladder, we climb up to reach our desired level only to fall again or find ourselves disappointed.
Intro: My face = me = my identity
Okay, so we all know that each and every one of us likes to be looked at as an individual. We like being on our own (or appearing to look like we are on our own) we roll in packs but only so we can be singled out. The packs that we roll in are specifically chosen so that we are unified and we don’t blend. This is what school is about. School is about you being in a place where you can say “hey… LOOK AT ME” without really saying “hey look at me”.
Teachers go through the same thing, though it seems hard to believe. The only difference is that teachers actually get to say “hey look at me” but it’s more in the form of… “This is going to count for your class work grade” yada yada yada. And this is how they force our cooperation. Teachers don’t roll in packs, they on the other hand like to prosper and have the luxury of the identity of the ‘lone ranger’ they don’t need no-boday to do nuffin.
We all end up disappointed in the end because we never really get what we want. We get tiny portions of what we want and then it is swiftly taken away. Take teachers for example, they all want to be in control of the class by any means necessary. That could mean they are standing up there making a fool of themselves, dissin’ the other students, making jokes, handing out zero’s…whatever it may be they need to do things that get them noticed. Teachers are like little 13 year olds begging for attention.
Now, don’t get me wrong we students are just as bad or maybe even worse. It’s become a teen routine to act like we have authority when we really don’t. It’s amazing how many of us like to walk out of class or curse out teachers or make fun of them on our blogs, we all want attention. It’s just harder for us to realize that we haven’t reached that step in the ladder…yet.
When a student walks in to class late like he or she is the man or woman, and they make a mockery of themselves by laughing and joking about it they are trying to place themselves on the same tier as the teacher. But this action, of ‘jumping the line’ actually bumps you down further than where you actually started from. This action brings you lower than you actually were. It’s a shame isn’t it?
The Card Game:Is anyone really winning?
The answer to that would be yes, we are the losers. Yes that’s right the losers we are at the bottom of the food chain. In theory we work harder than the teachers. We have to juggle work, social time, leisure time, ‘study time’, etc. It is a very hard task to pull away from the very engaging task of favorit-ing a group on Facebook. Teachers have no idea.
We students for the most part all feel the same about school yet we do nothing at all, we actually have the power we just fail to use it. We are the Robin to this superhero equation. We have the niche of servant, for lack of a better term. Okay we have been told that we need this in order for us to excel and to get a good job like mommy and daddy “but excuse me teacher I can promise you I won’t be needin’ no quadratic maff for ma everyday lyfe” and this student is probably right. But besides making a scene in front of the class this student will probably go home and crack open a textbook or search a Google page or allegedly copy(hey if you can’t prove it I ain’t do it) from someone in gym.
Now teachers on the other hand are…winners. This is true because they don’t really do anything. No matter if we get the nonsense lesson plan they threw together over their morning coffee or something they thought up while riding from their brownstone somewhere in Brooklyn. They get their papah no matter what. This is true…I promise. Now most teachers don’t gloat about this, this piece of information is only shared under two conditions.
1: the students are too oblivious to even contain anything the teacher is saying and most likely won’t remember this piece of crucial information either.
2: The teacher is already seen as an asshole, so this snarky condescending comment probably won’t hurt his or her rep much.
We all know that grades matter, above a 65 means that you have ticket outta here. But if not I hear that credit recovery is actually fun and easy. This doesn’t mean that student’s fail on purpose although some do; this just means that the motivation to do work fades when you realize that the Wii isn’t going to play itself. This probably won’t help your grade but everyone needs to practice hand-eye coordination. When teachers grade no one really questions it we just take it for what it is because ‘te-cha knows best’. Who’s to say that the teacher only bothered reading their favorite and gave everyone else ‘what they deserved’.
This does nothing but show you who is at the top of the ladder and who is and will remain at the bottom. But if you become a teacher’s favorite you throw a grappling hook to the pocket of a teacher and you gently move up a few tiers while no one is looking…or so you thought.
We Are Robots: I Know What You’re Thinking Cause You Told Me To Think It
Here’s the kicker, no matter how much we hate a teacher we will always follow him or her. The only difference is how much we try to hide the fact that we are actually retaining the things that we learn. What does it say about a student who will make it known five times a day that they obviously hate a class but will always be one of the first ten people in class every day? It says that he or she is well trained, ‘wike a good wittle doggie’.
The moment that proves this shows up in at least one class per day. This is a probable scene, there is a problem on the board and the teacher will stand in the front of the class and no one will raise their hand to answer the problem. Why? Either they don’t know the answer because they didn’t spend yesterday afternoon studying or flipping through notes, instead they got to the last level of HALO3. (This is probably not a bad way to spend an evening). Or they know that they are minions, but they don’t want to be desperate minions as well…cause that just screams desperate man.
What we students don’t like to admit is that we actually like a lesson; it’s rare that we actually admit this aloud. If we admit that we like a lesson that means that we admit that we like the teacher and if you admit that you like a teacher that means you’re eligible for several things. One being peer investigation, now this is major. If the pier investigation shows that you are in fact a teacher’s favorite you can either move up the ladder or down or both depending on who is judging. From a student’s point of view we don’t like it when other students are smarter than us so we are most likely going to view that as a demotion in the tier but we will secretly or sometimes not so secretly want to be you.
What All Of This Means: Uhhhh
Now to a teacher the point of school is to pass on knowledge to the students…and to make that papah… But most teachers fail at the first part of this because if they have been drilling a lesson in to our heads for 3 weeks and then when we are tested can produce nothing but vague bland answers that poses a problem. It means that the teacher isn’t really doing their job and if we fail they will be stuck with us for another year and odds are they don’t want that outcome either. (That’s where the emergency 65 comes in to play, the quick pass is given to the top 3 students who really don’t do any work but the teacher would much rather die or quit than see these 3 students in their class again so tada…you pass! E for EFFORT!)
We are in a cycle; there will be the students on the ladder whose mission is to buy and use their grappling hook, there are the students whose mission is to stay as low as possible ‘real unda the radar type shit’ but secretly and allegedly copy in gym, those who like to move up ONLY if they earn it. The thing is no matter what you end up sliding back down, because the favorite student will eventually graduate and will have a fresh new spot at the bottom in a new school, the people who earn it will have to start from scratch and find a new group of friends to study with on Saturday and the emergency 65 student will be turning 21 soon.
Intro: My face = me = my identity
Okay, so we all know that each and every one of us likes to be looked at as an individual. We like being on our own (or appearing to look like we are on our own) we roll in packs but only so we can be singled out. The packs that we roll in are specifically chosen so that we are unified and we don’t blend. This is what school is about. School is about you being in a place where you can say “hey… LOOK AT ME” without really saying “hey look at me”.
Teachers go through the same thing, though it seems hard to believe. The only difference is that teachers actually get to say “hey look at me” but it’s more in the form of… “This is going to count for your class work grade” yada yada yada. And this is how they force our cooperation. Teachers don’t roll in packs, they on the other hand like to prosper and have the luxury of the identity of the ‘lone ranger’ they don’t need no-boday to do nuffin.
We all end up disappointed in the end because we never really get what we want. We get tiny portions of what we want and then it is swiftly taken away. Take teachers for example, they all want to be in control of the class by any means necessary. That could mean they are standing up there making a fool of themselves, dissin’ the other students, making jokes, handing out zero’s…whatever it may be they need to do things that get them noticed. Teachers are like little 13 year olds begging for attention.
Now, don’t get me wrong we students are just as bad or maybe even worse. It’s become a teen routine to act like we have authority when we really don’t. It’s amazing how many of us like to walk out of class or curse out teachers or make fun of them on our blogs, we all want attention. It’s just harder for us to realize that we haven’t reached that step in the ladder…yet.
When a student walks in to class late like he or she is the man or woman, and they make a mockery of themselves by laughing and joking about it they are trying to place themselves on the same tier as the teacher. But this action, of ‘jumping the line’ actually bumps you down further than where you actually started from. This action brings you lower than you actually were. It’s a shame isn’t it?
The Card Game:Is anyone really winning?
The answer to that would be yes, we are the losers. Yes that’s right the losers we are at the bottom of the food chain. In theory we work harder than the teachers. We have to juggle work, social time, leisure time, ‘study time’, etc. It is a very hard task to pull away from the very engaging task of favorit-ing a group on Facebook. Teachers have no idea.
We students for the most part all feel the same about school yet we do nothing at all, we actually have the power we just fail to use it. We are the Robin to this superhero equation. We have the niche of servant, for lack of a better term. Okay we have been told that we need this in order for us to excel and to get a good job like mommy and daddy “but excuse me teacher I can promise you I won’t be needin’ no quadratic maff for ma everyday lyfe” and this student is probably right. But besides making a scene in front of the class this student will probably go home and crack open a textbook or search a Google page or allegedly copy(hey if you can’t prove it I ain’t do it) from someone in gym.
Now teachers on the other hand are…winners. This is true because they don’t really do anything. No matter if we get the nonsense lesson plan they threw together over their morning coffee or something they thought up while riding from their brownstone somewhere in Brooklyn. They get their papah no matter what. This is true…I promise. Now most teachers don’t gloat about this, this piece of information is only shared under two conditions.
1: the students are too oblivious to even contain anything the teacher is saying and most likely won’t remember this piece of crucial information either.
2: The teacher is already seen as an asshole, so this snarky condescending comment probably won’t hurt his or her rep much.
We all know that grades matter, above a 65 means that you have ticket outta here. But if not I hear that credit recovery is actually fun and easy. This doesn’t mean that student’s fail on purpose although some do; this just means that the motivation to do work fades when you realize that the Wii isn’t going to play itself. This probably won’t help your grade but everyone needs to practice hand-eye coordination. When teachers grade no one really questions it we just take it for what it is because ‘te-cha knows best’. Who’s to say that the teacher only bothered reading their favorite and gave everyone else ‘what they deserved’.
This does nothing but show you who is at the top of the ladder and who is and will remain at the bottom. But if you become a teacher’s favorite you throw a grappling hook to the pocket of a teacher and you gently move up a few tiers while no one is looking…or so you thought.
We Are Robots: I Know What You’re Thinking Cause You Told Me To Think It
Here’s the kicker, no matter how much we hate a teacher we will always follow him or her. The only difference is how much we try to hide the fact that we are actually retaining the things that we learn. What does it say about a student who will make it known five times a day that they obviously hate a class but will always be one of the first ten people in class every day? It says that he or she is well trained, ‘wike a good wittle doggie’.
The moment that proves this shows up in at least one class per day. This is a probable scene, there is a problem on the board and the teacher will stand in the front of the class and no one will raise their hand to answer the problem. Why? Either they don’t know the answer because they didn’t spend yesterday afternoon studying or flipping through notes, instead they got to the last level of HALO3. (This is probably not a bad way to spend an evening). Or they know that they are minions, but they don’t want to be desperate minions as well…cause that just screams desperate man.
What we students don’t like to admit is that we actually like a lesson; it’s rare that we actually admit this aloud. If we admit that we like a lesson that means that we admit that we like the teacher and if you admit that you like a teacher that means you’re eligible for several things. One being peer investigation, now this is major. If the pier investigation shows that you are in fact a teacher’s favorite you can either move up the ladder or down or both depending on who is judging. From a student’s point of view we don’t like it when other students are smarter than us so we are most likely going to view that as a demotion in the tier but we will secretly or sometimes not so secretly want to be you.
What All Of This Means: Uhhhh
Now to a teacher the point of school is to pass on knowledge to the students…and to make that papah… But most teachers fail at the first part of this because if they have been drilling a lesson in to our heads for 3 weeks and then when we are tested can produce nothing but vague bland answers that poses a problem. It means that the teacher isn’t really doing their job and if we fail they will be stuck with us for another year and odds are they don’t want that outcome either. (That’s where the emergency 65 comes in to play, the quick pass is given to the top 3 students who really don’t do any work but the teacher would much rather die or quit than see these 3 students in their class again so tada…you pass! E for EFFORT!)
We are in a cycle; there will be the students on the ladder whose mission is to buy and use their grappling hook, there are the students whose mission is to stay as low as possible ‘real unda the radar type shit’ but secretly and allegedly copy in gym, those who like to move up ONLY if they earn it. The thing is no matter what you end up sliding back down, because the favorite student will eventually graduate and will have a fresh new spot at the bottom in a new school, the people who earn it will have to start from scratch and find a new group of friends to study with on Saturday and the emergency 65 student will be turning 21 soon.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Hw 50- Read Em' And Learn
Mr. Gatto.
Summary: Gatto explains that he was an expert in boredom, that he was surrounded by it everywhere no matter where he went. Boredom is most obvious in the schools; students would be bored based on several reasons like, the teachers being just as bored as the kids or work being pointless and redundant. Gatto explains that his grandfather told him that it is his job to entertain himself when the feeling of boredom was upon him.
Response: Grades, yeah they matter. Well, what can we say we have been taught to understand that school is important and to be successful in this society we need money and power. The only way to achieve such a dream is to attend school and become obsessed with the double digit number that we receive after 3 months of being obedient. I think that it seems silly to try and identify the things that make us bored in school. Since nothing really happens when we do, no matter what we will continue to show up every morning and do our work no matter if we are bored or excited to be there, it is something that must be done.
Mr. Gatto
Summary: Gatto explains the rules that he teaches to his students in his classroom, rules that he would like all his students to know and follow. Gatto goes in depth explaining that he is the only authority figure in the classroom. He says that students belong in the classroom and should stay there. If they lose their way they are assigned numbers and will be returned to where they belong. Gatto demands that all his students be engaged in his lessons and to be fully interested in whatever he is teaching. In short, he as the teacher is in charge.
Response: Wow. These rules seem really absurd to me. Just the way that he ‘demands’ that students be interested in whatever he is teaching is just something that I can’t imagine. I know that teachers are the authority figures in the classroom but usually that is never really been pushed upon the students before. Rule 4 is something that I have always been familiar with. The teacher is the one who makes the lessons without the input of the students. I wonder why that is, if the students have to learn it then why don’t we get a say?
Mr. Freire
Link won’t load.
Ms. Delpit
Summary: Delpit talks about how kids need to have a foundation of things before they enter the school so that they know what the hell is going on. It isn’t a smart thing to drop your child off at school and just assume that they will know what is being taught, because to them the things that are being thrown at them will make no sense if they have never seen it before.
Response: I think that this is a great idea, to actually teach the child something before you thrown them to the wolves. What is better than you actually informing your child of the things that they will learn instead of a stranger? It offers the child to have an advantage and a chance to actually learn something and understand what they are staring at 6 hours a day. Delpit acknowledges that in order to be something [have power] in this society you have to be smart, starting with getting good grades.
SOF Educators
As we all know SOF is a little SOFt compared to someone like Gatto. I mean what Fanning said was true, we have always been granted second chances over and over again. Our teachers are nice and often put up with the immaturity that is presented upon them every class. But I can’t tell if they are bored or not. I think the students that attend SOF are a lot like the students in that super teacher film with the marine teacher. We have character and we are very diverse in attitudes etc.
Why do we need education? I think that a lot of us just take what we can and we
don’t question. Sure there are commotions in class but that is just something that delays us from actually learning what we can. For the most part we like our teachers…well some of them. I think that in a lot of ways SOF is different and in a lot of ways SOF is the same as other schools. We have teachers who are full of themselves we have teachers who place themselves above us and believe it or not we have teacher who actually want their students to like them.
The values of school in my opinion haven’t really changed much, we are still learning things that most of us won’t ever use and we are still being tested and we still hunt teachers down for our number grade. .. but hey, we are preparing for college right?
Summary: Gatto explains that he was an expert in boredom, that he was surrounded by it everywhere no matter where he went. Boredom is most obvious in the schools; students would be bored based on several reasons like, the teachers being just as bored as the kids or work being pointless and redundant. Gatto explains that his grandfather told him that it is his job to entertain himself when the feeling of boredom was upon him.
Response: Grades, yeah they matter. Well, what can we say we have been taught to understand that school is important and to be successful in this society we need money and power. The only way to achieve such a dream is to attend school and become obsessed with the double digit number that we receive after 3 months of being obedient. I think that it seems silly to try and identify the things that make us bored in school. Since nothing really happens when we do, no matter what we will continue to show up every morning and do our work no matter if we are bored or excited to be there, it is something that must be done.
Mr. Gatto
Summary: Gatto explains the rules that he teaches to his students in his classroom, rules that he would like all his students to know and follow. Gatto goes in depth explaining that he is the only authority figure in the classroom. He says that students belong in the classroom and should stay there. If they lose their way they are assigned numbers and will be returned to where they belong. Gatto demands that all his students be engaged in his lessons and to be fully interested in whatever he is teaching. In short, he as the teacher is in charge.
Response: Wow. These rules seem really absurd to me. Just the way that he ‘demands’ that students be interested in whatever he is teaching is just something that I can’t imagine. I know that teachers are the authority figures in the classroom but usually that is never really been pushed upon the students before. Rule 4 is something that I have always been familiar with. The teacher is the one who makes the lessons without the input of the students. I wonder why that is, if the students have to learn it then why don’t we get a say?
Mr. Freire
Link won’t load.
Ms. Delpit
Summary: Delpit talks about how kids need to have a foundation of things before they enter the school so that they know what the hell is going on. It isn’t a smart thing to drop your child off at school and just assume that they will know what is being taught, because to them the things that are being thrown at them will make no sense if they have never seen it before.
Response: I think that this is a great idea, to actually teach the child something before you thrown them to the wolves. What is better than you actually informing your child of the things that they will learn instead of a stranger? It offers the child to have an advantage and a chance to actually learn something and understand what they are staring at 6 hours a day. Delpit acknowledges that in order to be something [have power] in this society you have to be smart, starting with getting good grades.
SOF Educators
As we all know SOF is a little SOFt compared to someone like Gatto. I mean what Fanning said was true, we have always been granted second chances over and over again. Our teachers are nice and often put up with the immaturity that is presented upon them every class. But I can’t tell if they are bored or not. I think the students that attend SOF are a lot like the students in that super teacher film with the marine teacher. We have character and we are very diverse in attitudes etc.
Why do we need education? I think that a lot of us just take what we can and we
don’t question. Sure there are commotions in class but that is just something that delays us from actually learning what we can. For the most part we like our teachers…well some of them. I think that in a lot of ways SOF is different and in a lot of ways SOF is the same as other schools. We have teachers who are full of themselves we have teachers who place themselves above us and believe it or not we have teacher who actually want their students to like them.
The values of school in my opinion haven’t really changed much, we are still learning things that most of us won’t ever use and we are still being tested and we still hunt teachers down for our number grade. .. but hey, we are preparing for college right?
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Hw- 49 Oh, Cry Me A River...
The message that we have been getting about savior teacher films are that the teachers always have something to offer that the kids never knew they needed. Which is fine, but it confuses me on how the teachers know what the kids need and how they will come to need this knowledge in the future. Of the films that we have seen it has become a trend, a new teacher being told to teach a 'helpless' bunch of kids.
What isn't highlighted is the affect that the kids have on the teacher as well. Which I think is just as important as the savior teacher role. In Ester and Gavin's film the beginning is pretty much the same as the other films, a bunch kids that would much rather spend the class talking. Not to mention the brand spanking new teacher who thinks that they are capable of handling a bunch of teenagers as well as the class who thinks that they know everything and are above direction.
Since their film stared out very typical I was expecting the ending to be hopeful and the kids would all rejoice and love their new teacher for all the knowledge that they have learned. But the ending surprised me. The teacher returned back to old habits and lost hope before the kids did. This was also a nice twist. It makes me think that the film is saying that there is no hope or that hope is short lived. Eventually your life will catch up with you.
I think that the film is saying that there is a fantasy land and then there is reality. It was a dream, or wishful thinking that brought the new teacher to believe that he could tame a group of students who were already grounded in their ways. But the reality of his problem was too much to handle, and the reality caught up to him quicker than he realized. It was quick as well.
In the other teacher films the teacher never gave up, they kept pushing for something within the kids. They did things that caught the attention of the hopeless kids until one class they didn't have to try anything else to gain attention or respect. In our society teachers are looked up to. Other adults look up to teachers to help to save their kids from the dangers of other teens and magazines. I think that in film a teachers job is very much exaggerated.
I have been in school for 13 years and I plan to be in school for at least 4 more years. So far I have yet to encounter a teacher who has had a class like the one in Freedom Writers for example. I think that savior teacher films are desperate pleas for teachers so that students will look at these other students and realize that they dint want to be compared to gangbangers and with therefore strive to be more than that. These films are lies and exaggerated stories. Man up teachers, life isn’t that bad.
What isn't highlighted is the affect that the kids have on the teacher as well. Which I think is just as important as the savior teacher role. In Ester and Gavin's film the beginning is pretty much the same as the other films, a bunch kids that would much rather spend the class talking. Not to mention the brand spanking new teacher who thinks that they are capable of handling a bunch of teenagers as well as the class who thinks that they know everything and are above direction.
Since their film stared out very typical I was expecting the ending to be hopeful and the kids would all rejoice and love their new teacher for all the knowledge that they have learned. But the ending surprised me. The teacher returned back to old habits and lost hope before the kids did. This was also a nice twist. It makes me think that the film is saying that there is no hope or that hope is short lived. Eventually your life will catch up with you.
I think that the film is saying that there is a fantasy land and then there is reality. It was a dream, or wishful thinking that brought the new teacher to believe that he could tame a group of students who were already grounded in their ways. But the reality of his problem was too much to handle, and the reality caught up to him quicker than he realized. It was quick as well.
In the other teacher films the teacher never gave up, they kept pushing for something within the kids. They did things that caught the attention of the hopeless kids until one class they didn't have to try anything else to gain attention or respect. In our society teachers are looked up to. Other adults look up to teachers to help to save their kids from the dangers of other teens and magazines. I think that in film a teachers job is very much exaggerated.
I have been in school for 13 years and I plan to be in school for at least 4 more years. So far I have yet to encounter a teacher who has had a class like the one in Freedom Writers for example. I think that savior teacher films are desperate pleas for teachers so that students will look at these other students and realize that they dint want to be compared to gangbangers and with therefore strive to be more than that. These films are lies and exaggerated stories. Man up teachers, life isn’t that bad.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
School Lyrics: College Kids By: Relient K
"College Kids"
someone please save us, us college kids!
what my parents told me is what i did
they said go to school and be a college kid
but in the end i question why i did
i'm poor, i'm starving, i'm flat broke, i've got no cash to spend
sell all my books for front row tickets to dave matthews band
my girlfriend's at another school, i know this year will test her
i called, found out she had three other boyfriends last semester
and that's why i say
oh no! not for me, not for me
call it torture, call it university
no! arts and crafts is all i need
i'll take calligraphy and then i'll make a fake degree
80 grand later i found out that all that i had learned
is that you should show up to take your finals and your midterms
the party scene is kinda mean, i think it's sick and twisted
the navy showed up at my dorm and claimed that i enlisted
and that's why i say
oh no! not for me, not for me
call it torture, call it university
no! arts and crafts is all i need
i'll take calligraphy and then i'll make a fake degree
don't get excited. she'll say "no" without a doubt you see
and i've decided college girls just won't go out with me
they make me nervous and they always catch me off my guard
like cell phone services i drop out cause college is too hard
it's time to call my father
cause it's his alma mater
good grades aren't what they seem
i think he knows the dean
it's time to call my father
cause it's his alma mater
he says he's proud of me
but college always was his dream
and i would always say it's not for me
oh no! not for me, not for me
call it torture, call it university
no! arts and crafts is all i need
i'll take calligraphy and then i'll make a fake degree
someone please save us, us college kids!
what my parents told me is what i did
they said go to school and be a college kid
but in the end i question why i did
do what will make you happy
do what you feel is right
only but one thing matters
learn how to live your life
[in background:]
(phi, beta, delta, cappa
someone please save us, us college kids!
what my parents told me is what i did
they said go to school and be a college kid
but in the end i question why i did)
do what will make God happy
do what you feel is right
only but one thing matters
learn how to live your life
someone please save us, us college kids!
what my parents told me is what i did
they said go to school and be a college kid
but in the end i question why i did
i'm poor, i'm starving, i'm flat broke, i've got no cash to spend
sell all my books for front row tickets to dave matthews band
my girlfriend's at another school, i know this year will test her
i called, found out she had three other boyfriends last semester
and that's why i say
oh no! not for me, not for me
call it torture, call it university
no! arts and crafts is all i need
i'll take calligraphy and then i'll make a fake degree
80 grand later i found out that all that i had learned
is that you should show up to take your finals and your midterms
the party scene is kinda mean, i think it's sick and twisted
the navy showed up at my dorm and claimed that i enlisted
and that's why i say
oh no! not for me, not for me
call it torture, call it university
no! arts and crafts is all i need
i'll take calligraphy and then i'll make a fake degree
don't get excited. she'll say "no" without a doubt you see
and i've decided college girls just won't go out with me
they make me nervous and they always catch me off my guard
like cell phone services i drop out cause college is too hard
it's time to call my father
cause it's his alma mater
good grades aren't what they seem
i think he knows the dean
it's time to call my father
cause it's his alma mater
he says he's proud of me
but college always was his dream
and i would always say it's not for me
oh no! not for me, not for me
call it torture, call it university
no! arts and crafts is all i need
i'll take calligraphy and then i'll make a fake degree
someone please save us, us college kids!
what my parents told me is what i did
they said go to school and be a college kid
but in the end i question why i did
do what will make you happy
do what you feel is right
only but one thing matters
learn how to live your life
[in background:]
(phi, beta, delta, cappa
someone please save us, us college kids!
what my parents told me is what i did
they said go to school and be a college kid
but in the end i question why i did)
do what will make God happy
do what you feel is right
only but one thing matters
learn how to live your life
Monday, April 12, 2010
Hw 48 - Treament for the Happy Student
EXTERIOR: Diner, about half full 11:30am
Greg talks with his father about taking up a teaching job at a prestigious school that is hiring for the first time in 12 years. His father is stern and unmoving. Greg has never had his fathers approval in anything that he has ventured out to do ever since he could remember. he knew that this meeting would only end in disappointment.
INTERIOR Motel Room 2:00pm
Greg has always had trouble keeping jobs ever since he was a pool boy in his youth. Greg swore to quit smoking but always found that he had spares whenever he felt that his nerves would overwhelm him. He spent days pacing back and forth in front of the telephone surrounded by clouds of indecision on calling the school out of fear of seeming to desperate.
INTERIOR Principal's Office
Greg gets the job and begins just before the students return from the summer. He is both amused and surprised that he 'had what it took' to get the position. He comes home with happy news only to find that his girlfriend of 3 years has left him for his best friend. By the time the actual job starts Greg is swimming in a pool of depression.
INTERIOR Class Room
Greg is teaching an existentialism elective to the most oblivious and happy students that he has ever come across. The students are not brought down by Greg's ever constant sour mood. Greg presses on with new interesting and depressing lessons to bring down the spirits of all of his students, to open their eyes to the real world.
Greg talks with his father about taking up a teaching job at a prestigious school that is hiring for the first time in 12 years. His father is stern and unmoving. Greg has never had his fathers approval in anything that he has ventured out to do ever since he could remember. he knew that this meeting would only end in disappointment.
INTERIOR Motel Room 2:00pm
Greg has always had trouble keeping jobs ever since he was a pool boy in his youth. Greg swore to quit smoking but always found that he had spares whenever he felt that his nerves would overwhelm him. He spent days pacing back and forth in front of the telephone surrounded by clouds of indecision on calling the school out of fear of seeming to desperate.
INTERIOR Principal's Office
Greg gets the job and begins just before the students return from the summer. He is both amused and surprised that he 'had what it took' to get the position. He comes home with happy news only to find that his girlfriend of 3 years has left him for his best friend. By the time the actual job starts Greg is swimming in a pool of depression.
INTERIOR Class Room
Greg is teaching an existentialism elective to the most oblivious and happy students that he has ever come across. The students are not brought down by Greg's ever constant sour mood. Greg presses on with new interesting and depressing lessons to bring down the spirits of all of his students, to open their eyes to the real world.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Hw 47- Ideas...
Ideas:
Teacher that has had years of experience, believes that he can tame any class with his mastery of knowledge. This teacher is hired for a new course that has never been offered at this school (so that technically it's like a first year).
Most likely we would need a formal classroom setting. Chairs in order, etc.
Students coming in from lunch late, in the middle of the lesson. Being disruptive and talking. The teacher gets their attention by relating to the topic that the students are talking about. Ex: tv show or song.
Plot:
The main idea is that the teacher teaches the students something new that they can apply to their own personal lives. From that the teacher usually learns something as well. In most cases the teacher sees his or her own life differently. I think that we should have our teacher connect to the whole class in stead of just one student.
Cast:
We don't need to have a alpha student since we all don't listen to one student.
Teacher that has had years of experience, believes that he can tame any class with his mastery of knowledge. This teacher is hired for a new course that has never been offered at this school (so that technically it's like a first year).
Most likely we would need a formal classroom setting. Chairs in order, etc.
Students coming in from lunch late, in the middle of the lesson. Being disruptive and talking. The teacher gets their attention by relating to the topic that the students are talking about. Ex: tv show or song.
Plot:
The main idea is that the teacher teaches the students something new that they can apply to their own personal lives. From that the teacher usually learns something as well. In most cases the teacher sees his or her own life differently. I think that we should have our teacher connect to the whole class in stead of just one student.
Cast:
We don't need to have a alpha student since we all don't listen to one student.
Hw 46- Its Really Really Easy
So, I wanted to get the idea across that we are... taken care of. We like tips and instructions just as well as a shortcut. Examples are appriciated and if we can get the teacher to throw in some sort of cheat sheet we'll take that too. There are hundreds of books out there in costume. Chicken Noodle Soup for the teen soul, is a series of books that help teens, preteens and children to deal with friends, enimies and the other obstacles that surround the domain that we call school. Chicken Noodle Soup (CNS), branches out from middle scho to high school etc.
CNS, comes with chapters and chapters of stories and examples of what to do in certian situations that happen all throughout teen and preteen schooling. Some of the books come with annotated stories. Some with comments from the author and some with q an a's. The books are laid out so easily for the reader. The author nails down every last detail to the T. Of course each book comes with the cliche subtext ' being a teen is a challange'. Each book is cleverly labeled and laid out is catogories: friends, love, tough stuff, living lessons, etc.
These books are just an extention of how we are spoon fed everything. We never really learn how to do things for ourselves, we are taught things and we don't move on from there. We are then given books that baby us even more than teachers do. The books and examples go as far as giving exact situations that happen in school. Almost as if we don't even have to handle the things that happen to us because someone has written down a simple set of instructions that simply walk us through and tell us everything that we need to know in order to 'get through it'.
CNS, comes with chapters and chapters of stories and examples of what to do in certian situations that happen all throughout teen and preteen schooling. Some of the books come with annotated stories. Some with comments from the author and some with q an a's. The books are laid out so easily for the reader. The author nails down every last detail to the T. Of course each book comes with the cliche subtext ' being a teen is a challange'. Each book is cleverly labeled and laid out is catogories: friends, love, tough stuff, living lessons, etc.
These books are just an extention of how we are spoon fed everything. We never really learn how to do things for ourselves, we are taught things and we don't move on from there. We are then given books that baby us even more than teachers do. The books and examples go as far as giving exact situations that happen in school. Almost as if we don't even have to handle the things that happen to us because someone has written down a simple set of instructions that simply walk us through and tell us everything that we need to know in order to 'get through it'.
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