Lewdog
Gold Member
I've got a new college student I really like that I am helping with an English Comp class. She's in a program for low income moms and their young children; it's a great program, but not all of them are really ready, academically, for college. With this young lady, I'm banging my head on the wall. After a month of trying, I feel like Annie Sullivan crying to Helen Keller "HOW DO I REACH YOU?"
She's a concrete thinker. She is supposed to learn to analyze pieces of writing from the perspective of genre, audience, writer, purpose, etc. She cannot move off telling us what the piece is about. She looks at me with that glazed look when I say "Step back and look at the piece from the perspective of why it was written, not WHAT was written." She can't make that leap to analysis; all her responses devolve back into a book report. I don't know what else to do with her. The prof gives her questions to answer, but it doesn't help. She's not a drooling idiot. I think she could do it with the right assistance climbing onto the first rung of the ladder, but I don't know what to do to get her there.
I know there are some smart and wise people on this board, so if any of you have any experience with this, please, please, please help.
English comp? Single mother? Welfare queen? Waste of time and money. Two words for you, below. Maybe you are the problem? you may be a lousy teacher? Get out of the GOVT SCAM. I don't want to pay for salsa dancing hogs to twerk shuck jive breed.
Trade School.
Did you know that the author of Harry Potter was on welfare ?
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Writers are idiots who make no positive advances in society and are often useless liberals who encourage violence and separations in society. They also build unnecessary debt and take away grant money that could be used elsewhere, on their worthless liberal arts degrees.
You might want to get a tutor , because you obviously do not have a clue what you are talking about..
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