This article is about the Army Preparatory School (APS) in Fort Jackson that helps young adults get their GED. Scott Cech talks about the style that this program is using and also talks to people in the program to get a better idea of how the whole system works. Cech emphasizes the freedom that the teachers have in the curriculum taught at APS. Part of Cech's article is the views from other teachers about military teaching style brought into public schools and how they would benefit or ruin the normal curriculum taught in public schools. Hugh B. Price, who is not connected to the APS program but is an expert on military-style education has one of the first comments in the article basically saying that the militaries style of education has a lot of potential if adopted into public school systems.
The whole article sounds very one sided by all the pros of the APS program and how the army benefits from it. When there was the one comment from a teacher who disapproved of how the APS wanted to motivate young adults she brought up different ways to encourage them to carry on with their education and support them through it but the author instead of saying that the program helps young adults are motivated in different aspects he simply throws in a comment from one of the young adults who has already gone through the APS program.
I think the article sounds very one sided in support of military-styled education. Even though I do like the idea of having stricter rules and curriculum I feel that this article could have contained more information about the actual methods used by APS instead of a bunch of comments on why people liked it.
Some questions that I have about this article is what types of methods did the Army Preparatory School use for discipline? What would be considered "overtlly military?" What types of methods did West Philidelphia High School adopt to improve their school?
Hi Sam,
ReplyDeleteLooks like a very interesting article. Your MLA is really close--just double-check how the volume, edition, date, and page numbers should go. Besides that and paragraphing (check the unit one instructions) you were right on, formatting-wise. I liked the way you handled the source, although I was really curious about how all this ties in to Centennial Job Corps. What implications, applications, etc does it have? What will you take from reading this that will be useful in your work with them?
Great work overall though. Keep it up.
MLA Format: Good format you just need to fix how the number of pages is set up. Other than that everything looks good. I tried finding you an example for how the citing should be but the ones on OWL do not match very well with what I wanted to show you.
ReplyDeleteParagraph One: I liked how you talked about how the military style of teaching is incorporated with this programs way of teaching. Also I like “the freedom the teachers have with curriculum”. However, maybe adding some example of techniques they use in the class room or how they incorporate the two may help the reader understand what the article was about. Also add how this school goes with Centennial Job Corps, like how both help people who do not have a high school diploma obtain their GED, that way they can get a feel of the similarities.
Paragraph Two: In this paragraph you might want to put in some of the reasons why that one female teachers disapproved the way the teens were taught at APS. Another thing that can help out this paragraph can be adding in what the teen said if it is given in the article that way the reader can hear the students idea of how they are taught.
Paragraph Three: I like how you kept it short and simple, you got straight to the point. If you want to make it longer you could add why you think this article is one sided and what information you wish the article gave.
Paragraph Four: Good questions!