Moliesa Yashin Reading Response

The Lesson

1. What does Miss Moore hope to accomplish during the class outing? What lesson does she want to teach? Does it need teaching? Why? To what extent does Miss Moore's method of teaching succeed?

I think Miss Moore had more than one objective in carrying out the class tour. I think she wanted her class to learn about the importance of education, life and to be more serious with their school work. I think she did this so as encourage them to be more responsible. It is evident that they are poor and come from poor families that do not take them seriously. Due to the lack of supervision on their families behalf they act out and behave very irresponsible. In this regard, Miss Moore is trying to teach them to take their education more seriously so as to live a comfortable life and others do not look down at them as they do now. The parents seemed to be very much interested in having Miss Moore the teacher I think because she seem to be well respective by the way she carried herself and they thought this was best for their children. I think when children are this way they definitely need the guidance from an adult so as to lead them to the right path (one that would be beneficial for them and secure a good future). When we grow up very irresponsible and carefree we tend to be this way all our lives until something really bad happens to teach us a lesson. Maybe Miss Moore just want them to not have to go through this and to make a solid and stable future from young.

I think that her methods of teaching her class this lesson were not clear enough and it caused them to act out and not to take it seriously. At the end they took her money and ran away. She should have been more cleared and expressive in her approach to help them since I think they felt like they were being attacked.