Friday, October 22, 2010

Botstein's Writing response

In my opinion Botstein is writing to the leaders of the education feilds and the government. I believe this because he is trying to inform them that students need a whole new way of learning. That students need to get rid of the whole high school program and make it into something somewhat different. I think he is also talking to the american people because we are the ones who have to go to high school or elementry school. We are the ones who have to do the education and go onto college. He tells us that we should get rid of high school and have kids graduate at the age of 16 because kids are maturing alot faster these days and they need to graduate earlier for this reason. Also he says that kids should start elementry school at four years old and it should end in the sixth grade. After sixth grade he says it should then go to seventh grade and have four years of secondary education. I think this could be effective and also it couldnt be effective for different reasons. I think that if kids graduated at the afe of 16 alot more kids wouldn't go to college unless they lowered the age limit to work at places. In could be effective because there would be less kids dropping out because they would get their schooling done faster so they could either go to college or get a full time job and save up money.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Savanna,

    Audience is something that is difficult to determine, which is something we will look at more in English 104 depending on who you take. What you will learn is that it is difficult to tell someone that their audience includes everyone. So in the case of Botstein, it is difficult to suggest that his audience may include HS students, education officials and the government. If you were to examine this further, I would suggest looking at the language the author uses including the support he/she uses. This will help determine who the author is talking directly to. Otherwise, good try.

    I would also like for you to continue this kind of analysis with your other entries, but to also incorporate your personal narration.

    MS. C

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