In “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter, a class of fourth grade students gets a substitute teacher. She is very eccentric but knowledgeable and tells the whole class a lot of myths and facts. It is up to the class to decide what is true or not. In “Gryphon,” Miss Ferenczi specifically calls her wronged math answer a “substitute fact” but also tells the class many other things and myths that are true. For example, she tells the class a great deal about Egypt and that “features of the Constitution of the United States are notable for their Egyptian ideas.” (145) Her whole lecture was complete fact about Egypt, a country she had a passion for. However, it left the kids wondering if what she said was false, for she misled them earlier that day. Although the kids argued about her, this leaves the grea...
The story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter is about a boy named Tommy who attends Five Oaks Elementary School. His teacher, Mr. Hibler, develops a cough and is absent the next day. The person who takes his place is a woman named Miss Ferenczi. Since Five Oaks is a normal town with substitute teachers that “fluttered, provided easeful class days, and nervously covered material we had mastered weeks earlier,” Tommy thought that Miss Ferenczi was something special. (pg. 43, l. 43-45)She is a strange substitute and Tommy wants to believe everything she says, but other people, like Carl Whiteside (which Tommy observes, has bad breath), don’t believe her. Once Tommy gets home, all he talks about to his mother is Miss Ferenczi, but his mother doesn’t
In this story “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter, the main character is Tommy. Tommy is a nine year old boy, who is in 4th grade at Five Oaks in Michigan. Mr. Hibler, Tommy’s 4th grade teacher developed a cough and doesn’t come to school the next day.
The pupil finds that all he has learned about history is a lie, created by power hungry men two thousand years ago intent on ruling the w...
Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York: Touchstone, 1996.
When the men arrived they were paired with another man an actor who was a confederate. The two men drew pieces of paper stating what they were expose to be during the experiment either the “Teacher” or the “Learner”. What the men who replied form the paper did not know was that the drawing was rigged and the actor always became the Learner. There was
... a forced teacher's resignation and eventually to Fern's departure. Later Fern writes to Carol and informs her of even Ferns' own families' shame upon her and also of the refusal of another job by other teaching agencies.
Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York: Touchstone, 2007.
In Loewen’s book, Lies My Teacher Told Me, talks about the real point of view of textbooks in the classroom. Many textbooks create this idea of Heroification, were people from the past are perfect creatures without conflicts and pain. The idea is to influence the students to strive for great things and become like these people. However, by showing only the good side of people or events is misleading. We need to show both sides- the good and the bad in order to show a complete picture of the past. Another, thing textbooks do is hid events or makes them more simplistic. Many textbooks show the idea that racism is over, and hid the fact that society is still dealing with racism. The textbook companies do this because they want not to have students have the tough conversations. The la...
Miner, B. (1998). When reading good books can get schools in trouble. An Urban Educational Journal, 12, 1-10
What are the 4 common myths cited by Boutot & Hume (2012)? State in your own words one way you might explain one of these myths to a parent or teacher. Make sure you also explain how the myth is inaccurate.
When Richard arrives at Hampden College, he meets with his advisor. Richard mentions that he wants to continue studying Greek because it was the only subject at his old school that he actually enjoyed and excelled at. His advisor says not to bother try get into the Greek class because the professor won’t let him in. Instead of persuading Richard to stay away from Greek, the advisor only makes Richard intensely curious about who this professor is and who the students are that he teaches. So Richard goes to the professor’s office and asks to be able to take the class. Richard learns that the professor, Julian Marrow, hand picks a class of five students and refuses to
Mark Twain, an American author and humorist, once stated that “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” (Quotes about truth) Truth is defined as “the quality or state of being true.” (Free Merriam Webster). As there are various ways to plug truth into context, multiple different theories are used to categorize truth. Three of which will be reflected in this essay in order to discuss some similarities, but furthermore to point out the differences of truth for the areas of knowledge, mathematics, natural science, and the arts.
Another example of Miss Brodie teaching on her own accord was her lesson under the Elm tree where she told her students about her holiday in Egypt. It is evident that Miss Brodie is pretending to teach her students but trying to make it quit believable for all who look upon her shaded class when she says to her students:
Forty-seven percent of teachers surveyed stated they encountered disputes with schoolwork and lessons containing inaccurate information from the Internet (Bartlett & Miller, 2011). Forty-eight percent of teachers surveyed mentioned having debates about conspiracy theories in class (Bartlett & Miller, 2011).
Thesis: Engulfed in darkness and surrounded by sounds both familiar and frightening, Josh Malerman’s novel, Bird Box shows that in order to survive the unknown one must continue to believe that they will find their safe haven.