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想想上了高中以来也没有创作过什么东西 但是一直都在写英语读书笔记
其实也没读什么书 就是找两篇报纸上的文章然后瞎几吧乱写一通
至今已经写满半本本子了（sb中学发的那种厚的
September
1
The First Day of School
Summary:
This passage narrated three experiences Jim had in the past and their corresponding morals. “Never be impulsive to fight” “Learn to love learning something even if you don’t like it” “Use your imagination” These lessons show what exactly education should be like, and after graduating, Jim became an ordinary person who yet still lived with wisdom. The decision of returning and being a teacher shows how the lessons can be passed down to the next generation.
Reading Response:
I rather appreciate the language style of this passage. It is free and unlimited, using short sentences from time to time. Meanwhile, the language, like “a dog, a water park, two weeks of camp…Boring”. In my view, this “boring” seems a bit abrupt in the textbook, because it is independent and special. But in the original passage, there’re way more other similar expressions, which are cute and can lighten up the atmosphere of the text.
The writer also has a sense of humor, which keeps me reading this passage with a smile. “Nothing stood out except the tall flagpole that would ring like a clock chime when the rope slapped it on windy days.” Such detailed descriptions are not quite related to the development of the story, but indeed make our impressions of the setting (the school) more vivid and deep. At the same time, the personalities of Miss Peabody and coach LaBell were also carefully designed, emphasizing how their education affected Jim.
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World of Yesterday (extract)
Summary:
In this extract from World of Yesterday, the writer recalled the impersonal arrangements in Austrian schools, in terms of the curriculum and the design of school buildings. The school fettered the students’ minds, as most schools will do, and even their bodies. The school just crammed required knowledge into students without considering their personal needs. Therefore, even as a graduate with merit, the writer was not grateful to his alma mater.
Reading Response:
Such accusations about force-feeding education never cease, whether it is “We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control, no dark sarcasm in the classroom, teachers leave them kids alone” (lyrics from “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 by Pink Floyd), or Mr. Keating’s radical method of tearing off the pages from the Introduction. And it seems no matter which school you’re in, you are always told that the canteen is terrible. After all, students just need freedom, joy, and if possible, inspiring education.
Apparently this kind of impressions of schools have nearly become a stereotype. To students, this is the reason why they claim they are not willing to go to school. I’ve always been hearing a sentence that goes “You can never finish the assignments in FDFZ for your whole life.” I believe it is just a joke and exaggeration, because when I communicated with my friends who are in other top high schools, I found that we FDFZers really had less to do. However, the consequences of such accusations are more severe than we students see. (It’s not the students’ fault, for the following reason: ) Recently an uploader on WeChat (well that means “self-media”?) “revealed” the “true amount” of FDFZ’s week-end homework, which contains of 20 pages of English exercises, more than ten pages of math “Jing Bian”, etc., and the writer claimed that he got the information from students’ parents. Obviously, this is fake news. But what cast a chill on me is that this uploader is using such false information to depreciate and even cyberbully the students, their parents and the curriculum of FDFZ. (He/she compared FDFZ to JDFZ, which claimed to be extremely strict with its students), while at the same time, appealing to readers to purchase its own courses. Sadly, some parents were providing false information to this selfish uploader, while others were misled by him, supporting and paying to him. As far as I am concerned, this has affected Grade 10 students and their parents badly. The WeChat group in which parents can communicate about their children’s education is said to be dismissed, and those who are cyberbullied may be fighting for their rights.
What I want to say is, we should always respect our school, especially when it’s time-honored, excellent and so on, at least the school we’re in now is so. In fact, the school is a place which protects us before we become adults. When studying, we’re separated from the society where bullying, bad habits and unfriendly people can be easily found. They will ruin our life if we stay too close to them.
On the other hand, the school should take on its responsibility of protecting the underage. Apart from necessary regulations, like interdictions on mobile phones, cigarettes and alcohol, the school should ensure our physical and psychological health. Of course we don’t expect narrow classrooms, covered windows and boring P.E. classes.
To some extent, schools are like a temporary bureau for children, as “student” is children’s occupation. Therefore, don’t expect every aspect of the school is satisfactory to you. Remember schools have the mission of educating, and only through a little adversity can we grow. I personally think that “going to school wrecks my body, but not going to school wrecks my mind”. The school is a place for me to stay social, like what a normal human being should be. So I quite enjoy going to school.
Perhaps it is rare for a student to have the same opinions as mine, and it appears that I’ve blended two situations: one is the traditional, old-fashioned and impersonal schools, and the other is commonly-praised but a-little-bit-strict schools. But in fact it’s hard to tell the two from each other. Once a secondary school classmate of mine compared our secondary school to the “dungeon-like” one behind the Wall, when we were feeling tense academic pressure at that time, but in general my secondary school isn’t so bad. That’s why I feel the contradictions so fierce inside me: to support the teachers I trust or support the rebellious classmates?
Finally I realize that I’m just an ordinary person, and I can do neither of the two. Tomorrow is a new day, a sweet day, and I’ll keep going to school, even if it is impersional and barrack-like. Nothing really matters to me.
P.S.: Sorry to write so long without a clear opinion. It seems the world is even more cynical now and I try not to be. But avoiding being cynical means trying to be less cynical, which means being unlike the ordinary people, which means pursuing being special, which means being arrogant and cynical. This just doesn’t end.
Perhaps I can’t finish the reading notes before deadline.
Teacher’s Comment:
Good to know! You’re required to do reading and thinking in order to develop information literacy, which you demonstrated in the essay.
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