Analysis of Gerald Graff’s Essay “Hidden Intelligence” Most people‚ when asked‚ say that a person is intelligent if they have “book smarts.” People that are book smart can write and converse about subjects taught in school. On the other hand‚ people with “street smarts” aren’t seen as intellectuals because the subjects they are knowledgeable about are not traditional. In his essay called “Hidden Intellectualism‚” Gerald Graff insists that schools and colleges are missing an opportunity to translate
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all K-12 classrooms. However‚ while the classroom materials advance and new methods of teaching trickle in‚ there is still a problem. As Jean Anyon (1980) would point out‚ “there exists a hidden curriculum in the classroom”. This idea resides in the fact that while schools are advancing there is an issue‚ a hidden curriculum‚ in which students are taught according to their social class. This idea reinforces the class struggle that Karl Marx had become an advocate for. The idea that capitalism only
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“Facing to yourself‚ Luke‚ facing to all the challenges! ”‚ a sound always said to him‚ shear panic holding him in place‚ Luke Garner‚ the main character in Among the Impostors‚ had spend his whole life in hiding‚ and had a great fear of the Population Police. His life is different from other children‚ full of challenges and dangers‚ the reason for all of this is that he is an illegal third child‚ to be seen by them‚ was certain death. It’s time for Luke to accept the responsibilities he felt to
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greatest minds of all time‚ every individual has the capacity to be an intellectual‚ but the way society currently measures intellect purely based off of one’s “book smarts” not everyone’s genius is fully realized. As stated by Gerald Graff In his essay “Hidden Intellectualism” Graff states that our current system of teaching does by no means try to foster the intelligence of street smart people who account for many in our society. In Graff’s experience he thinks that a style of teaching incorporating
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curriculum‚ which we are already familiar with. The other curriculum‚ the hidden one‚ often has the greatest impact on an adolescent boy or girl. It is the hidden curriculum that molds self-esteem‚ aids or hinders confident social development‚ that helps make high school a time of pleasant memories‚ or turns the high school experience into an ordeal.’ (Ruby Ausbrooks‚ Ed.D.) http://www.parentingteens.com/curriculum.shtml The phrase ’hidden curriculum’ was coined by Brian Jackson in 1968 to draw attention
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Intellectualism essay. B.) How you like the readers describe the personality you present? The personality I want to convey in this summary is someone who has read Graff’s essay and is able to comprehend what he is trying to say. C.) What questions does your paper answer? Some of the questions I answer in my summary are who is Gerald Graff‚ How he came to philosophy his theory or thought of street smarts‚ show his thesis ‚and demonstrate a few of his thoughts. Hidden Intellectualism
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REFLECTION: POETRY THEME: Dance- The Hidden Language of the Soul EXPOSITORY TOPIC: How can dance be considered as a communicable form of non-verbal language? PREFACE The purpose of the poem under theme “The Hidden Language of the Soul” is to evoke an emotional response in the reader and to cause him to ponder about dance as a language but to also inform them on the difficulties of speaking that language. The poem shows the definitions of verbal language in dance and how emotional an
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Rights Movement‚ Toni Cade Bambara’s short story "The Lesson" tells the story of a young African-American girl named Sylvia and the important life lesson that she learns one day while on a trip to a toy store in New York. Her neighbor‚ Miss Moore‚ brings Sylvia and a group of her friends to F.A.O. Schwarz and while there‚ they come face to face with the injustices they face because of their backgrounds. Miss Moore does this to teach them a lesson‚ one that she feels that they need to learn in order
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their future selves‚ including their actions‚ beliefs‚ speech‚ and everything else that makes them stand out as an individual. These lessons can be hidden in many different forms and will always teach them something important‚ even though they may or may not have took the learnings into account. They subconsciously start to let their actions be influenced by these lessons. That very thing happens to the Wart in The Sword in the Stone‚ book one of The Once and Future King by T.H. White. He is met with
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Among the hidden Margret Peterson haddix The book Among the Hidden written by Margret Peterson Haddix is a story about a boy named Luke who has been hidden by his parents for 12 years of his life until one day he sees a face of a young girl in the window of a neighbor’s house he is curious but nervous because he is a third child there are strict rules about only having two kids if you have more than two the consequences are execution or a five million dollar fine‚ so he was very careful about running
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