The Education Of Dasmine Cathey Analysis
Everyone has their own set of priorities; each person creates their own priorities based on whatever is going on in their life at the time. Most people have different priorities than the person standing across from them, or even than their friends. Some people choose academics as their number one, others choose religion, and some even choose family and friends. Whatever the priorities may be, these are the things that, whomever, has chosen to be most important in their lives. In, "The Education of Dasmine Cathey", Cathey has a solid set of priorities, but at this set time in his life—they are not exactly what they should be, nor do they ever seem to have been. Cathey prioritizes family and friends and making sure they are all taken care of
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He told the story of this athlete who struggled much harder than he should have had to because of the lack of supervision and help from teachers throughout Cathey's public education journey. Wolverton took a very smart approach in sharing his argument and opinion, throughout the entire story it is very easy for the reader to imagine themselves right there with Cathey in his victories and his struggles. Had this article been approached differently, the effect might have been completely different. This author was smart, and he knew that the best way to get his point across was to make it interesting and use very vivid …show more content…
The author is telling a story, and in the story, he starts from the beginning, essentially, of Cathey's educational journey. This relates to all levels of students because at some point in each person's life, they were a beginner. He is teaching the younger students a lesson by explaining the importance of learning to read and write from early on. And he is teaching the teachers that they need to be more present in their student's educational journeys, rather than just seeing they got something right or wrong—these teachers need to work with the student to make sure the student understands why something is what it
He told the story of this athlete who struggled much harder than he should have had to because of the lack of supervision and help from teachers throughout Cathey's public education journey. Wolverton took a very smart approach in sharing his argument and opinion, throughout the entire story it is very easy for the reader to imagine themselves right there with Cathey in his victories and his struggles. Had this article been approached differently, the effect might have been completely different. This author was smart, and he knew that the best way to get his point across was to make it interesting and use very vivid …show more content…
The author is telling a story, and in the story, he starts from the beginning, essentially, of Cathey's educational journey. This relates to all levels of students because at some point in each person's life, they were a beginner. He is teaching the younger students a lesson by explaining the importance of learning to read and write from early on. And he is teaching the teachers that they need to be more present in their student's educational journeys, rather than just seeing they got something right or wrong—these teachers need to work with the student to make sure the student understands why something is what it