Month: March 2015

Transactional Writing

image Dear Mr Dastagir,

I am writing to stress that favouritism is a very important issue at our school. Favourtism is when a certain pupil is treated better than another because of a their academic level or behaviour. This could affect our learning as we might not be taught as much as ohers. The effect of this would be that the certain student’s academic level would go down. This would also lower the self esteem of those who are being neglected, as you would think that other people are better than yourself.

Favourtism could also affect behaviour and attitude of the certain student who is being neglected. The consequences of this could be that students could be expelled or suspended. This would decrease the amount of knowledge they gain as they wouldn’t be recieving as much knowledge at home. If this was to happen, the particular student would have to go through the drama of changing schools.

Negative favourtism, could make the pupil being neglected leave the school as pupils would feel that they’re not wanted or appreciated. This could lead to bullying, and the population of the school decreasing because students would feel unwanted and would think that London Nautical is unsafe.

I believe that everyone is allowed to have a favourite but they are not permitted to show it in class or express it in any other way. If this happens I believe there should be a fair and just punishmment, as this is a huge dilemma.

I consider that in order to tackle this issue you should put CCTV in all classrooms so  that you would know what teachers are doing.

In addition you could tell the teachers what would happen if you were to treat students differently. This would help because if teachers are tempted they would know the consequences. This would lower the possibility of teachers treating pupils differently.

As well as this you could be more strict on the students so they conduct themselves in an orderly fashion. If this does happen the whole class would be well behaved, so the teacher would not have a reason to pick on anyone.

As favroutism affects behaviour, the whole class would be affected, as a neglected student would want attention. Furthermore the whole class would be distracted therefore students will not get much work done and would not learn to their highest potential.

If negative behaviour was to occur it would also ruin the school’s reputation as grades would go down. If grades do go down, London Nautical will not be as popular therefore students would not want to come because pupils would rather attend a school with a good reputation than a bad one.

To help this problem you could split the class into half so that the teacher could help everyone more effectively. To have less pupils in class would help them because if there are less students the teacher will not have as many students asking for help, which means the class would gain more knoledge in that time.

Teachers would also be benefited from this behave as teachers would have a clear view so students will not be able to do anything which could cause disruption. Pupils would eventually get used to this change,so they would not be tempted to do something bad.

Thank you for listening.

Your sincerely,

John Simonds

 

 

How is the mood set in chapter 1 of Haroun?

The atmosphere is sad.Throughout the whole city it is sad,glum and dull,Haroun and the sea of stories shows us this when,”It stood so mournfull sea full of Glumfish.”This shows that even animals are sad by calling a fish glum,glumfish.But Haroun and his family are not like the others,they are all happy.

Soraya,Haroun’s mother,was singing in joy and his dad,Rashid,was doing what he loved the most,tellng stories.I knaow that the town of Alifbay is all sad. I think this because in the book it says,”In the North of the sad city stood mighty factories in which (so i’m told) sadness was actually manufactured.”                                                       The author uses personification to give us a better image of what is happenng.

Haroun is a young boy who is full of questions,he’s shown this many times once was when ,”No,come on seriously.”This shows that Haroun wants to know everythįńg.