unit 3 response

Natalie Beech

Unit 3 Response

I choose Joshua’s Unit 3 to respond to because, I like the way he states at the end of his writing “School is a large part of our lives and everyone does a lot of growing up in an education institution. I think that is what the unit is try to get the readers to understand, that so much more happens at an education institution. To making friends and explore who you really are.”I think this is very true. I also believe that school is a necessity of life it helps you socialize and become yourself. Another part of Joshua’s essay I like is how he quotes what Theodore R. Sizer says I think he covers everything that goes on in collage. I like how Joshua says, “ The unit really push that school is not the math and English, but what the students are doing and trying to figure out while attending that school.” I agree with that a lot. I think that if you compare a home school child with a public or charted school child the academics could be on the same level but I think that the home school child would be behind in socializing and problem solving situations.  

Joshua Nicholls

2/25/12

English 1101

Unit 3 Thesis

“Schooling”

            I believe the major topic we covered in our Unit three readings would be about school is actually about. School is not just about what we are learning, like our parents like to think. But it is also about growing up. Like Theodore R. Sizer writes in “What High School Is,” “The high school is to tough most aspects of an adolescent’s existence—mind, body, morals, values, career.” What Sizer wrote really explains Unit three, that schooling is so much more than English and math. It was way for adolescents to become who they are and what they want to be. It is a gateway to adulthood.

            Rebekah Nathan wrote in “Lessons from My Year as a freshman,” “Liminal people who might otherwise have differential status in the society become equal and those who share the ritual experiences of lowliness, homogeneity, and sacred bonds. Undergraduate students bond with one another, sometimes for life, and, amid rules of suspended normality and often hardship, explore their identities, wrestle with their parents’ worlds, and wonder about their future.” What Nathan wrote just backs up what Sizer was trying to get across to his readers, and what the Unit was trying to capture in the readings presented. The unit really push that school is not the math and English, but what the students are doing and trying to figure out while attending that school. School is a large part of our lives and everyone does a lot of growing up in an education institution. I think that is what the unit is try to get the readers to understand, that so much more happens at an education institution. To making friends and explore who you really are.