Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Movie Notes Part One Movie Notes!

  • ·         Interracial children
  • ·         Downtown or in the suburbs
  • ·         He was trying to be firm, however the kids were defiant
  • ·         The kids were interested in fighting, having sex and drugs. Definitely not math or even school in general
  • ·         He got his car radio stolen, which was probably from the students
  • ·         The teacher came in with a positive attitude but they didn’t.
  • ·         His uses apples to show percentages
  • ·         He makes them laugh
  • ·         They are working on multiplication, and percentages
  • ·         The children are very disrespectful
  • ·         He had his “DOMAIN”
  • ·         He focus on the people that are struggling
  • ·         He does easy math in order to teach
  • ·         He uses verbal structure to get though on his lectures
  • ·         He can be personable, but he is more like a disciplinarian.
  • ·         He is tricky and witty
  • ·         He out smarts the students by far
  • ·         He starts the class period with a quiz, and also every Friday has a test
  • ·          By his teaching instruction, he will get production
  • ·         He helps the children outside and inside of school
  • ·         He uses the strategies of humiliation in order to get the children to do their own work
  • ·         The kids really look up to him
  • ·         He went outside of school in order to meet with one of the students parents to try and convince  them to let her stay in school so she can graduate and go to med school
  • ·         He uses real life scenarios in order to keep them involved and also to keep them interested.

3 comments:

  1. You really did have great observations. I especially like that you noticed how Mr. Escalante focused on the troubled and struggling students first. You had a lot of good detail in your notes.

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