5 Comments:
1. In 5th grade he had to get glasses because his eyesight was getting worse.
2. Ben also had mentors to inspire him to get from the bottom of his class to the top.
3. The first mentor he had was William Jaeck, his 5th grade science teacher.
4. His second mentor was Mr. McCotter because Ben's opinions mattered to him.
5. His third mentor was Mr. Doakes from Boston, he was Ben's first black male teacher.
4 Questions:
1. Why isn't is mother his first mentor instead?
2. Did his eyesight get poorer from all the reading that he did on his free time?
3. Why didn't he find a mentor at Yale University?
4. Shouldn't Yale University be a good place to find a mentor? There is a lot of very smart professors there...at least I think there are suppose to be...
3 Vocabulary:
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2 Literary Terms:
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1 Overview:
Ben Carson talks about the mentors he met when he was going to schools and how they had inspired him.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Think Big 2.
5 Comments:
1. Ben Carson admits that Gifted Hands is not about him, it is also about his mother Sonya Carson's influence.
2. Sonya Carson only married at the age of thirteen.
3. His mother was a foster child who had to move from house to house and this made Sonya really wants to take care of her own children because she grew up without parents.
4. Sonya was kind of lost into taking care of everything in the house that she is not really taking her of herself enough.
5. Sonya's husband treated her as if she was a china doll.
4 Questions:
1. Wasn't it only back in Shakespeare's time that people like Romeo and Juliet would get married at the age of 13?
2. What happened to Sonya's real parents, like why was she put up for adoption?
3. Did Sonya get to go to school when she had to move from one foster parent to another?
4. Was Robert Carson's illegal whisky that made Sonya and him divorce?
3 Vocabulary:
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2 Literary Terms:
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1 Overview:
This part of the book is about Ben Carson's mother, Sonya Carson and how she grew up and what made her keep on trying to influence Ben to do better in life.
1. Ben Carson admits that Gifted Hands is not about him, it is also about his mother Sonya Carson's influence.
2. Sonya Carson only married at the age of thirteen.
3. His mother was a foster child who had to move from house to house and this made Sonya really wants to take care of her own children because she grew up without parents.
4. Sonya was kind of lost into taking care of everything in the house that she is not really taking her of herself enough.
5. Sonya's husband treated her as if she was a china doll.
4 Questions:
1. Wasn't it only back in Shakespeare's time that people like Romeo and Juliet would get married at the age of 13?
2. What happened to Sonya's real parents, like why was she put up for adoption?
3. Did Sonya get to go to school when she had to move from one foster parent to another?
4. Was Robert Carson's illegal whisky that made Sonya and him divorce?
3 Vocabulary:
1.
2.
3.
2 Literary Terms:
1.
2.
1 Overview:
This part of the book is about Ben Carson's mother, Sonya Carson and how she grew up and what made her keep on trying to influence Ben to do better in life.
Think Big 1.
5 Comments:
1. Ben Carson had just moved back to Detroit from Boston for 5th grade and received his report card at his new school.
2. Everyone in his class thought he was the dumbest kid in the class.
3. His mom was not happy to see his report card because his grades were not good but he told his mom that report cards doesn't matter because he did not like school and he thought there was no reason to like school.
4. His mom told him that education does matter because she told Ben that it is the only way to escape from poverty and to be successful.
5. His mom his a single mother raising Ben and his older brother Curtis. His mom knows how important education is because the highest education she got was 3rd grade education.
4 Questions:
1. Why did Ben had to move back to Detroit from Boston?
2. Why was it that his mother's highest education was 3rd grade education?
3. What are parochial schools?
4. Was Ben only made fun of by his classmates in Higgins Elementary School or back in Boston too?
3 Vocabulary:
1. Parochial
2. Reluctantly
3. Practical
2 Literary Terms:
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1 Overview:
Ben had just received his report card and his mom took a look at it and was disappointed about the grades that he got and she explain to Ben how important school should be to him, and his mom often talks about importance of education but he never took it into consideration until he went to the library with his brother Curtis and his mom and when he started reading books about animals he liked, he felt smarter.
1. Ben Carson had just moved back to Detroit from Boston for 5th grade and received his report card at his new school.
2. Everyone in his class thought he was the dumbest kid in the class.
3. His mom was not happy to see his report card because his grades were not good but he told his mom that report cards doesn't matter because he did not like school and he thought there was no reason to like school.
4. His mom told him that education does matter because she told Ben that it is the only way to escape from poverty and to be successful.
5. His mom his a single mother raising Ben and his older brother Curtis. His mom knows how important education is because the highest education she got was 3rd grade education.
4 Questions:
1. Why did Ben had to move back to Detroit from Boston?
2. Why was it that his mother's highest education was 3rd grade education?
3. What are parochial schools?
4. Was Ben only made fun of by his classmates in Higgins Elementary School or back in Boston too?
3 Vocabulary:
1. Parochial
2. Reluctantly
3. Practical
2 Literary Terms:
1.
1 Overview:
Ben had just received his report card and his mom took a look at it and was disappointed about the grades that he got and she explain to Ben how important school should be to him, and his mom often talks about importance of education but he never took it into consideration until he went to the library with his brother Curtis and his mom and when he started reading books about animals he liked, he felt smarter.
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