Jago Ch 3 and 4

Ironically, ch 3 was what my education class and I talked about last week, taking up almost the entire class period. The subject of, how do you get a student to be comfortable writing and speaking freely in your class if you might have to report one of htem at some point because of the laws teachers are binded to, of suicide and such in the schools. There really was no good answer we found, just taht we warned the students at the begining of the year that we might have to report them if there was any suspiscion, most likely we'd talk to htem first. But I think this chapter brings out a good point, htat just because some kids write about "bad" subjects such as suicide doesn't exactly mean they are thinking about it, and if htey are, it might help them through it because writing down your thoughts always seems to organize them and you can look at them from another perspective. I loved the girls narrative story though... i think it can hit home with most students and she wrote it well. Not only that, but there seemed to be a surprise ending. I like all his excersizes in this chapter too... the smell, the different characters. I think its a really good start to opening students minds up to writing in a narrative, totally different then your own.
ch 4 was interesting too. I liked seeing the exact criteria of a 4-1 scale of what a paper should include. While it is all up to the teacher, example, that a teacher in the ch gave a student a 3, just below being pushed into an AP course, because the teacher didnt think the student was ready.