scholarly journals Tim O’Brien’s “Bad” Vietnam War: Going after Cacciato & Its Historical Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1397
Author(s):  
Ramtin Noor-Tehrani (Noor) Mahini ◽  
Erin Barth ◽  
Jed Morrow
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Tim O'brien ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
Friendly Fire ◽  
Almost All ◽  
War Stories ◽  
Wartime Experience

Being the only Vietnam War author on the English curriculum for American middle and high schools, Tim O’Brien skillfully mixes his real wartime experience with fiction in his various bestsellers and awarded novels.  All O'Brien's Vietnam War stories are always "bad," meaning that the war contains mostly sad and horrific experience for American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians. A closer look at O’Brien’s war stories reveals that he indeed touches upon almost all issues the American GIs encountered during this war; nevertheless, not all online literary analysis websites and peer-reviewed authors can identify or call them all out. To assist middle and high school readers in understanding the meaning behind Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam War stories, the war details in Going After Cacciato and its historical perspective are discussed in this article. The war-related issues that O’Brien touched upon in this novel are: lack of purpose, the lower standards of the American troops (McNamara’s morons), desertion, lack of courage, friendly fire, fragging their own officers, and contemptuous attitude toward the Vietnamese, the very people they came to help and protect.

Tim O’Brien’s “Bad” Vietnam War: In the Lake of the Woods & Its Historical Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1582
Author(s):  
Ramtin Noor-Tehrani (Noor) Mahini ◽  
Erin Barth ◽  
Jed Morrow
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Tim O'brien ◽  
Lake Of The Woods ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Vietnam War Veterans

Award-winning author Tim O’Brien was sent to Vietnam as a foot soldier in 1969, when American combat troops were gradually withdrawn from the country. A closer look at his Vietnam war stories reveals that he indeed touched upon almost all issues or problems of American soldiers in this “bad” war; yet not many peer-reviewed authors or online literary analysis websites could identify and discuss them all. The purpose of this article is to address the war details in O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods and its historical perspective, so that middle and high school readers can understand the meaning behind Tim O'Brien's stories and know the entire big Vietnam War picture. Specifically, this article discusses the following issues that are raised by O’Brien in this novel: the Mỹ Lai Massacre and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Vietnam War veterans. In addition, the Mỹ Lai Massacre cover-up, forgotten heroes of Mỹ Lai, and soldiers’ moral courage are also presented.

scholarly journals Tim O’Brien’s “Bad” Vietnam War: The Things They Carried & Its Historical Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1283
Author(s):  
Ramtin Noor-Tehrani (Noor) Mahini ◽  
Erin Barth ◽  
Jed Morrow
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Tim O'brien ◽  
Self Mutilation ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Us ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Almost All

Tim O’Brien was sent to Vietnam as a foot soldier in 1969, during the later part of the Vietnam War that can be called the “bad” or unwinnable war.  Based on his experience, O'Brien's writing about the Vietnam War in his award-winning fiction novels is always "bad," meaning that the war was terrible for American grunts like himself, his fellow soldiers, and Vietnamese civilians, with practically no good or inspiring stories. Nevertheless, O’Brien touches upon almost all problems of American soldiers in the Vietnam War, but not many peer-reviewed authors or online literary analysis websites could identify or discuss them all.  The purpose of this article is to discuss the war details in O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and its historical perspective, so that young middle and high school readers can understand the meaning behind Tim O'Brien's writing about the Vietnam War. The goal is to summarize the entire big picture of the Vietnam War and to help students determine whether American soldiers’ actions, as described by Tim O’Brien, were morally right or wrong and were legal or forbidden according to the US law of war. The war-related issues that O’Brien mentioned in this novel are: boredom and meaningless death, abusive violence  toward Vietnamese noncombatants, drug use, in-fighting, thefts within barracks, grief, rage, self-mutilation, mutilation of enemy corpses, and senseless animal and civilian killings.

scholarly journals TINGKAT KENYAMANAN LINGKUNGAN BELAJAR SEKOLAH MENENGAH ATAS (SMA) NEGERI DI KOTA DENPASAR

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Ni Luh Gede Ambarawati ◽  
Wayan Arthana ◽  
I Wayan Suarna
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Student Perception ◽  
Quality Standard ◽  
Comfort Level ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Class Room ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The City

A healthy andcomfortable school environmentis necessary,besidessupporting the learning process, it can also improve student achievement. Noiseisdisturbingin the learning process, as well as theavailability offacilities and infrastructure will greatly affectthe comfort ofthe studentsinthe school. The purpose ofthis research is to determinethe comfort level ofstate senior highschoolstudyinthe city of Denpasarin termsofnoise levels, the availability andmanagement ofschool facilities and infrastructure and student perception against school envirumental level. The research methodused isdescriptivequantitativemethod. The locationof the research wasconductedin 8 State Senior High Schoolinthe city of Denpasar. Measurements ofnoise levelsateach schoolis capturedfromninesample pointsbyusing asound level meterand surveyof schoolfacilities and infrastructurethat are environmentally friendly. The comfort level of public high school learning environment in the city of Denpasar based on the level of noise has exceeded the qualty standard 55 dB, with the highest noise in the school yard of 73,0 dB, which motor vechicles as the main caused. Temperature and humidity do not affect the level of comfort, because they already meet the standards. Lighting of class room in eight public high school in the city of Denpasar very well. Because it meets the quality standard. Availability and management infrastructure is optimal and adequate to support mostly high school in the city of Denpasar. Support in the facilities and infrastructure have been seen in SMAN 3 Denpasar. Almost all students in eight high school in the city of Denpasar stated that the school environment is comfortable, even SMAN 3 Denpasar stated very comfotable at around 62,85 per cent.

scholarly journals The Application of Activity-based Method in English Reading Teaching in Senior High School

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Xuejuan Duan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
High School English ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
Modern Information Technology ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
The Times ◽  
Reading Teaching

Activity-based method in English reading teaching in senior high school is put forward in the new National English Curriculum Standards for Senior High School (NECS). With the development of the times, the demand for hundreds of thousands of senior high school English teachers is changing, because educators stress a great attention to the application of the modern information technology and activity-based method. Therefore, around how to apply English activity-based method in the reading teaching in high school, this paper designs three learning activities to address the problems of the traditional teacher-centered teaching and the knowledge-orientated leaning. The result of this study can penetrate the consciousness of practical meaning into the frontline teachers by fully understanding the new conception and implementing it based on their own teaching needs.

May 1968 in Africa: Revolt in Dakar

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Gueye ◽  
Fallou Ngom ◽  
Vincent Hiribarren ◽  
Jelmer Vos ◽  
Fabrice Jaumont ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
University Campus ◽  
School Students ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
May 1968 ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The University

As in a number of other continents, Africa experienced a wave of student and union protests in May 1968. One of its epicenters was in Senegal, based at the University of Dakar, also known as the “eighteenth French university,” where students from France and almost all Francophone Africa were directed. The events of May 1968 in Senegal were primarily caused by local factors, although similarities with the global youth protest movement can also be found. Initially ignited by a student revolt over the conditions of scholarships, the movement spread to high school students and workers’ unions, gaining the support of the working classes, while the party-state relied on the army’s loyalty as well as the support of marabouts, the Muslim leaders. This in turn expanded the crisis, first from Dakar to other parts of the country, then from Senegal to the native countries of the students who had been arrested and expelled after the university campus had been stormed by the police. At the crossroads between an escalating student strike, a student movement infiltrated by political opposition or foreign influence, a rebellion against neocolonialism, as well as a sense of weariness due to difficult social and economic circumstances, May 1968 in Senegal resembled a protest against the personal power of President Senghor as well as a demonstration led by young people who, like their counterparts abroad, wanted to change the world. The national crisis, in a context of international turmoil and in interaction with global issues, ended on September 26, when the four-month high school strikes satisfactory ended.

Interpreting old texts with new tools: Digital multimodal composition for a high school reading assignment

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Higgs ◽  
Grace MyHyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Composition ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Academic Literacies ◽  
School Students ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entry Points

Purpose Research on nonschool settings suggests young people benefit from digital multimodal composition. Less is known about how digital composing can support students as they interpret required literary class texts. To understand the potential benefits and challenges of digitally composing for literary analysis, design interviews with two high school students were conducted to examine their processes as they designed digital multimodal compositions to interpret Anglo-Saxon poems. Grounded in the social semiotic theory of multimodality, this study aims to examine how students engaged in literary analysis and interpretive digital composition within secondary ELA. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative classroom data were collected through digital means over a six-week period: a whole-class student survey, focal student semistructured design interviews, emails, field notes, analytic memos and student-created digital artifacts. Findings Students’ print-based literary engagements and digital multimodal composition processes were mutually shaped. Additionally, digital multimodal composition offered entry points into challenging print-based literary texts, resulting in understandings enacted across multiple forms of mediation. Research limitations/implications The study focused on one cycle of multimodal composition. Additional studies of students’ digital multimodal composition processes in ELA classrooms over time could be beneficial to the field. Practical implications The study identifies an approach to digital multimodal composition that may help teachers address and integrate core disciplinary objectives. Originality/value This study contributes to scholarship concerned with how “new” technologies and “old” literacies co-exist in contexts requiring students to engage in expanded communication modes alongside specific academic literacies.

STUDENTS’ PROPORTIONAL REASONING IN MATHEMATICS THROUGH COVID-19 PANDEMIC CONTEXT

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1670
Author(s):  
Rohati Rohati ◽  
Turmudi Turmudi ◽  
Kusnandi Kusnandi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Real World ◽  
Proportional Reasoning ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
School Students ◽  
Reasoning Skills ◽  
Almost All

Abstract The aim of this study was to ascertain high school students' proportional reasoning in the sense of the COVID-19 pandemic. How do students' thoughts flow when confronted with problems requiring proportional reasoning? This research is a mixed study by collecting data through problem-solving questions to 253 junior high school students in Muaro Jambi, Jambi Province, Indonesia. The problem-solving activities are based on real-world scenarios and require reasoning that is proportional and pertinent to the COVID-19 pandemic context. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the test is administered through the Whatsapp framework. Students' responses are examined in detail to ascertain their proportional reasoning skills. The results indicate that almost all students correctly answered the first question. However, only a small percentage of students were able to answer to and make the correct argument for the second question. The findings indicated that students demonstrated a reasonable level of proportional reasoning when confronted with the COVID-19 pandemic situation. According to the findings of this report, it is important for teachers of mathematics to establish learning activities and problem-solving tasks that help students improve their proportional reasoning skills. Keywords: COVID-19; Problem Solving; Proportional Reasoning; Real-World Situations AbstrakTujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menggali penalaran proporsional siswa SMA  dengan konteks pandemi COVID-19. Bagaimana alur pemikiran siswa ketika dihadapkan pada masalah yang membutuhkan penalaran proporsional? Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian campuran dengan pengumpulan data melalui pertanyaan pemecahan masalah kepada 253 siswa SMP di Muaro Jambi, Provinsi Jambi, Indonesia. Kegiatan pemecahan masalah didasarkan pada skenario dunia nyata dan membutuhkan penalaran yang proporsional dan relevan dengan konteks pandemi COVID-19. Karena pandemi COVID-19 yang sedang berlangsung, tes dikirim melalui aplikasi Whatsapp. Tanggapan siswa diperiksa secara rinci untuk memastikan kemampuan penalaran proporsional mereka. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa hampir semua siswa menjawab pertanyaan pertama dengan benar. Namun, hanya sebagian kecil siswa yang mampu menjawab dan membuat argumen yang benar untuk pertanyaan kedua. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa siswa memiliki alur penalaran proporsional yang cukup baik dengan menggunakan konteks kondisi pandemi COVID-19. Menurut temuan  ini, penting bagi guru matematika untuk menetapkan kegiatan pembelajaran dan tugas pemecahan masalah yang membantu siswa meningkatkan keterampilan penalaran proporsional mereka. Kata kunci: COVID-19; Pemecahan Masalah; Penalaran Proporsional; Situasi Dunia

Computer Programming in Elementary and Middle School

2015 ◽  
pp. 337-361
Author(s):  
Danielle Boyd Harlow ◽  
Hilary Dwyer ◽  
Alexandria K. Hansen ◽  
Charlotte Hill ◽  
Ashley Iveland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Computer Programming ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Content Areas ◽  
Almost All ◽  
School Schedule ◽  
Elementary And Middle School

Computing has impacted almost all aspects of life, making it increasingly important for the next generation to understand how to develop and use software. Yet, a lack of research on how children learn computer science and an already impacted elementary school schedule has meant that very few children have the opportunity to learn computer science prior to high school. This chapter introduces literature on teaching computer programming to elementary and middle school, highlights three studies that span elementary and middle school, and discusses how programming can be integrated into other content areas and address national standards.

scholarly journals Developing Content-Based Criteria for EFL Textbooks: The Case of Iranian Junior & Senior High School Levels

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Mohsen Masoomi ◽  
Vida Rahiminezhad ◽  
Gholam-Reza Abbasian
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
First Grade ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
High School Curriculum ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
Study Population ◽  
English Textbooks ◽  
Mixed Approach ◽  
East Azerbaijan

<p>Images are part of the content of the English textbooks and since junior high school curriculum is currently being underdevelopment, developing criteria for the images of the content of high school textbooks needs attentive consideration. The images need to be chosen according to the needs of students and those objectives found at the higher level documents. This research is conducted based on mixed approach in which students’ need is surveyed and data gathered by sifting through the higher level documents. Also, exploring the goals and objectives of the higher level documents, the criteria are obtained and determined by which the content was developed. In addition, the Delphi method is applied to measure the validity of the developed content. The study population at this research consisted of all students in the seventh grade (the first grade of high school), the third grade Secondary School and the first grade high school in five provinces of Iran, including Tehran, Semnan, Kurdistan, Khuzestan and East Azerbaijan counting 394 boys and 396 girls who completed the questionnaire. Also, 10 accessible experts and practitioners in English curriculum participated in developing and validating the criteria. One of the findings of this research indicates that 321 students interested in real images at the first rank and 306 other students fascinated with colored ones, at the second rank respectively.</p>

scholarly journals Teaching Chemistry Based on the Stimulus Equivalence Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo de Abreu César ◽  
Melania Moroz
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Stimulus Equivalence ◽  
Chemical Elements ◽  
School Level ◽  
High School Level ◽  
School Students ◽  
Conditional Relations ◽  
Equivalence Model ◽  
Almost All

Abstract This study aimed to verify the effects of a procedure, based on the stimulus equivalence model, to teach naming 10 chemical elements, from their symbolic representations and their respective numbers and atomic models. Eight high school students participated. Four classes of stimuli were used: (A) name; (B) symbol; (C) atomic number; (E) atomic model of chemical elements. The following were performed: evaluation of the initial repertoire; teaching of conditional relations and testing of emergence of new conditional relations; evaluation of the final repertoire. From the teaching of three relations (AB, BC and BE), almost all participants presented at least 90% of correct answers (hits) in nine relations (BA, CB, AC, CA, EB, AE, EA, CE, EC); in the chemical elements naming (BD, CD and ED), seven participants obtained at least 80% of hits. The efficiency of teaching procedure for chemistry learning at the high school level has been verified.

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