Writing in “journals” or “journal time” was one of my favorite subjects growing up in school. I can remember looking forward to the comments the teachers would write daily in my journals. As years passed on in grade school, I grew accustomed to positive grades and opinions being given to me on my journal entries.

I could remember journal writing was a must do all the way up to attending high school. When I entered college, journals became non-mandatory. What a shame.

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The study of ethics is paramount to a good education. James Q. Wilson, in his commencement speech “Habits of the Heart” explains why ethics should be at the heart of every truly intelligent member of our American society. First, he very wisely points out that “intellectual virtue owes it’s birth and growth to teaching, while moral virtue is the product of habit. . . and that good character is formed through repetition of right actions.”

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“According to Dorothy Zeymour, “A child is quick to grasp the feeling that while school speech is “good,” his own speech is “bad,” and that by extension he himself is somehow inadequate and without value. Children in society today are less likely to think highly of themselves due to lack of self-esteem, lack of knowledge, and lack of discipline.

These children are seen everyday in today’s society.

In order for these children to avoid feeling inadequate, they must be seen and heard in order to gain approval. Let’s face it, every child needs a mentor, but especially the bi-lingual student.

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The six reasons for teaching English are: To improve morality, to prepare good workers, to create an elite, to produce good citizens, to foster personal growth, and to offset inequity.

The first reason for teaching English is to improve morality. The connection to the term literacy is piety or devotion. If we create a truly moral learner, we have done our service to mankind. Moral learners create true champions of the best kind.

Second, English must prepare good workers. This is where functionality is the connection to literacy. Teaching English creates functional workers with potential to become leaders in society. Good workers are those who communicate positively with staff, the public, and superiors.

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Cultural differences in communicating are important for a teacher to understand because cross-cultural communication abounds in early childhood classrooms. Diversity represents the richness and uniqueness of human life. It is something that is valued and shared with children that teachers encounter on a day to day basis.

Multicultural education hopes to prepare children for a diverse society in which different languages and customs abound. Its goals include communicating despite differences, cooperating for multicultural unity, and respecting the values of others.

Culture is defined as all the activities and achievements of a society that individuals within the society pass from one generation to the next.

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Teaching reading and writing in the classroom is like being a drill sergeant in the U.S. Army. As it pertains to writing, drill sergeants would do repetition, model, and show their soldiers how to make a paragraph They would do so in a manner that would command attention and they would lead by example. No one would dare stop or interrupt them in the process of teaching.

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Daughter “When people drive don’t they have to stop at red lights?” Mom: “Well yes honey, the law says when a person is driving and the light changes to red they must come to a complete stop” Daughter: “See Mommy, that’s why the policeman is after you!”

Jean Piaget had great interest in how a child thinks regarding moral issues He said that children think in two ways about morality. The first is heteronomous morality thinking, which occurs between four and seven years of age. The second is autonomous morality, which occurs between seven to ten years of age.

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Language is the expression or communication of thoughts and feelings by means of vocal sounds, and combinations of such sounds, to which meaning is attributed to human speech (Webster’s Dictionary 1999). Language is significantly made up of culture, success, and free will.

Language can embark upon the hidden talents of what all great writers have today: clarity, conciseness, and communication.

Many people are deprived of things such as attention, the forgiveness of another person, and the ability to speak a language fluently. What several people forget is that certain experiences can lead to a deprived language outcome. To have been deprived of language, is like walking blind folded to hit a pinata. The target is there but one is not sure where it is located.

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Webster’s dictionary defines English as the application to apply the principles of English pronunciation, spelling, etc. (Webster’s 2004). The English language has clearly changed in pronunciation over the years. For example, the sentence, “Mom, do you wish me to unload the groceries?” is now said shorter like: “Ma, do ya want me to get the bags?” In our fast past society, we sometimes forget to utilize proper English and indeed some of us have forgotten to use it at all.

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For years the scientific community didn’t know “how blood circulates within the body.” I will attempt to reconstruct the scientific method steps that were used to establish blood circulation.

First. we need a hypothesis. Prior to William Harvey, many scientists hypothesized that blood didn’t move at all, but simply pulsed in response to the heart. These were good predictions, but others taught that arteries and veins were helping the blood flow, and that the blood was being absorbed into the body’s system.

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