FISHy question for week of 12-15-08
Recall the following quote from Report to the Principal’s Office:
“…Cymbals is you. When you are up on the stage on September eighteenth and I point to you, you will bang the cymbals. Do you undersand?”
“No,” she said.
“You will do it,” he said.
“I won’t do it,” she said.
Amid the barely breathing class they stared at each other. The music teacher changed colors: his neck reddened, his lower lip acquired a bluish tint.
They were like that for perhaps a full minute, then the bell rang. The girl stood. The music teacher jabbed a finger in her face. “You will.”
She jabbed a finger at him-”I won’t” – and walked out.
Do you think the way Sunny treated her teacher is right? Why or why not? How would you have handled the situation? Can you think of a time when you talked to someone who was your elder in a manner such as Sunny’s? Explain how you handled your situation. Remember to answer all parts of the question, use some of what you remember from the novel to support your answer, and make that connection. Also, check your COPS. Responses with numerous errors will not be posted.
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I think the way Sunny treated her teacher was completly wrong. I think so because you should never ever talk back to your tacher. It is rude to especially point a finger at your teacher. But, once I talked to my dad that way, I was dead as a door-knob. But afterwards I apologized for doing such a thing. I was still in trouble but I felt better about my self. That is what I think.
I think the way Sunny treated her teacher was very rude. It is not something that would be responsible to say to a teacher. Also, when she put her finger in his face, that was very mean. If I were Sunny I would have just played the cymbals. I would have acted more appropriate, and treated the teacher better than she did. I could never think of a time when I treated a teacher or an elder like this. I always respect my elders and teachers, and act like a compliant. I would never act in this way, and plan never to. What Sunny did was not mature, and I would never, in my life, do what she has done.
First of all, Sunny did NOT treat her teacher correct! I feel this way because a teacher should never, under no cercumstances, be talked to like that! I would have handled the situation by talking to the teacher after class. I would have simply said, with much clarity as possible, ” I don’t really enjoy playing the cymbals. I want to have fun, but if I play this I know I won’t. I’m very sorry, I just want you to have the correct person for that job, and it certainly isn’t me!” Hopefully by saying this to my teacher, he/she will understand how I actually feel. I can’t recall an instance where I have spoken to an elder like that. Maybe in a joking around way to one of my family members, but definitely not in a serious way! I don’t think many people have done such a thing, but the occasional instance is okay. I’m not saying that it is okay to yell at someone who is older than you, but if you are joking around, like I was, it is fine. I handled the situation by just laughing with the person after I said it. The person started laughing as well, so no one took it seriously. After all, who would be serious in a way that could hurt someone’s feelings? Overal, that is how I would explain all of the answers to those questions.
I absolutely do not think Sunny treated her teacher properly. Although she is trying to be expelled from Plumstead Middle School, when we read this I was thinking of how Sunny wasn;t getting intimidated by her music teacher. I think I would never be in Sunny’s situation but if I ever was, I would have apologized right away and probably would have started to cry from embarrassment! I have never talked to an elder in the way Sunny did. I really could never see myself in such a situation. Sunny, I think, went over the top. I think if she wants to be expelled that bad her mom could ask Mr. Brimlow or someone like that. I’d never go to the extreme that Sunny did if I wanted to be with my friend!
No I don’t think she treated the teacher right because she talked back to him and didn’t respect him. I wouldn’t have yelled at him or talked back to him because i would get in trouble. I can not think of a time i have talked back to and elder because it is not respectful.
If I wher Sunny I wouldn’t have talked to the teacher like that because it is very disrespectfull. The teacher is trying to teach you something that you may need in your life. I would have said yes to the teacher and not talked about it. I don’t remember talking to an adult like that, but I do talk to my sister like that sometimes. One time she told me to get something downstairs from the basement, but I said no because I don’t like the basement. It is a little scary. So then, she kept annoying me to do it but I said no. But then my dad told me to get it. So I did.That was the only time that I really nigociated.
Sunny did not treat her teacher right because she was yelling in her teacher’s face and was jabbing a finger at him. She was angrily telling him she won’t play in the band. I would have handled the situation better by accepting that I had to play in the band. Even though Sunny was trying to get expelled that wasn’t the right way to speak to an adult. There are many times that I do the same thing Sunny did. For example, when my mom tells me I have to do something I don’t want to do, I will either yell, “I won’t do it!” or go right in her face and say, “No!” That is not the right way to talk to an adult. But then I usally realize that I have to do what my mom tells me to do. And then I wonder why I argue in the first place.