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English Reading and Writing

Read, write and enjoy the journey! Share your thoughts! Think out of the box! Be kind! Do I make mistakes? That's ok. I'm learning and this is a long and great journey!

English Reading and Writing

Read, write and enjoy the journey! Share your thoughts! Think out of the box! Be kind! Do I make mistakes? That's ok. I'm learning and this is a long and great journey!

How do you understand this song?

Hello!

[I've got the tests.

ASAP I'll share with you the results/ feedback!

I'll finish correcting the texts first so you can prepare your portfolio.

New deadline to send me your portfolio, since I'm late as well:

10th December 2015 by mail with postcard.]

Now, relax, enjoy the journey, watch this videoclip and share your thoughts.

Listen to Pink Floyd and their Another brick in the wall.

Did you know this song?

What does it mean?

What is the message from your perspective?

What is school? What should it be?

Share your thoughts! And "talk" to each other!

I love reading!

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9 comentários

Elisa 03.12.2015

Yes, I did know this song. It means that kids were living in a time and a place, where schools and teachers were dictatorial. The song is against the bad education: dictatorial education, where kids are only a brick in the wall, without any mean at all, without any kind of self thoughts or opinions, just walking, listening, repeating and obeying to the teacher.
The teacher is seen like a dictator, pouring derision upon everything kids did.
Nothing lasts forever, neither dictatorial States. When we are sad, lonely and unhappy with something, eventually we will do something to change these state of mind.
School is like a second home, or at least, it should be. A place where teacher and student could feel fine, with trust in each other.
To a teacher teach, he needs to like teaching, and then make children like and wanting to learn something.
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Raquel Cardoso 05.12.2015

This song was released at the end of the decade 70. Is a intervention song that came to break the rules instituted in the educational system until then. It´s a strong music that whose main objetiv it was report us to the educational environment that was lived in 79: repression, authoritarianism, all the negative relationship between teacher and student.
This music is the turning point: It represent the revolt of youth against authority!
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Patrícia Petiz 07.12.2015

This song is older than me. Despite this, I always heard it since my childhood. It is a remarkable song that it was passed from generation to generation. It marked a time when the education system was based on transmitting knowledge under rules and pressure for students. The students hadn’t the right to opinion, they hadn’t faces and they hadn’t will.
In my opinion, this song symbolizes the educational repression lived at that time. It was a way of teaching and learning unhealthy. There wasn’t benefit to the teacher, nor to the student. To the teacher lacked him passion for teaching. To the student lacked him the will to learn and explore, being castrated all their creativity and imagination.
For me, the school isn’t this. Students spend most of their day at school. So this, it should be a place of pleasure, where teachers must transmit their teachings with passion. Students easily feel this passion. In this way, students will be happy to learn and will feel free to explore their curiosity and to develop their skills successfully. There must be a compromise between teacher, student and family. We can’t forget the family, because it also has an important role in the education of our children.
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Telma Rebôlo 08.12.2015

Yes, I knew the song. This song is a critique of the educational system of the height, the extreme and authoritarian teachers. Students could not think, just follow orders. The teacher at that time was authoritarian, violent, threatening. The children were enslaved and forced to lose their inner "I".
Thankfully, the school has developed and currently the teachers look for modern strategies better performance of their duty their own strategies in the classroom, the methodology is more consistent. The teacher has to figure out the best way to introduce students to the content, in a playful manner, diverse, challenging and interesting.
A teacher has to be malleable; willing to change strategy, if he feels it is not having the desired effect.
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Cesarina 09.12.2015

I know the song, I remember it from when I was a kid! This song was composed to criticize the English education of the time. The song ns discussed one of the foundations of our society: education.
The clip defines education as a disposition, represented by the masks it with buttons on the faces of children, causing people, even children, lose their own identity and think how society (represented by the teacher) wants them to think.
In the clip the boy dreams of seeing all students destroying the room, burning school. Destroy the school is a proper attitude of one who was not alienated by education and so is against it. The song became a symbol for people who do not settle with what they see wrong and need to manifest.
The song became a symbol for people who do not settle with what they see wrong and need to manifest. Meanwhile we are nothing more than another brick wall in the eyes of the sales of the wall, lack of courage, lack of freedom.
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Célia Guerreiro 09.12.2015

Certainly I know this music “Another brick in the wall”, by Pink Floyd that is a notable and significant song witch is about students rebelling against the school system, is basically a critic to the rigid education system at that time, around 79, especially of boarding schools. The education system at this time was centred on teachers transmitting knowledge beneath rules and the students just have to obey them. They had no right to have their own ideas, opinions, and to show their point of view because it was a time of subjugation, repression and authoritarianism. So the song talks about student rebelling against teachers. But it seems also that was meant to be a rebellion against errant government in that time, against people who have power over the others, who are wrong, then it looks like they are protesting against that too.
This song is about children not wanting to go to school, get an education and not let themselves be commanded by teachers? It sounds to me as if it’s some irony, like they don't need any education, but seems that it says they needed education but they don´t wanted it this way. I think that the concept of the song was to explore the "wall" that refers the wall built around the children because they weren't in touch with reality and the "bricks in the wall" are the people and events that turn them inward and away from others.
Nowadays the school is as the child's second family, because it is where passes most of their time. The function of the school is to educate and to form citizens conscious of their rights and duties, developing the spirit for the knowledge, such as the capacity to judge and to decide for themselves.
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Olga Leite 10.12.2015

Hello Everyone!

Hope everyone is well!

Of course I know this song, everyone remembers this song!
Just like my colleagues, I think that this song has a very deep meaning; it criticizes how teaching was, in that time. Because, basically, let’s face it, it was always the same dullness each year.
Teachers were known as very distant and severe people; they weren’t understanding and didn’t reflect upon their work - in how to do better and in how to capture/motivate the attention of their students.
In my opinion “Another brick in the wall” meant exactly that, it was just one person in “their “life that didn’t make a difference. These lyrics can also mean, that when we build a wall, it gets so strong and high, that it gets harder and harder to take it down. In school we are not only learning the content of subjects, we are also building character, and if the “wall” is becoming stronger and higher, then it is also more difficult to become a more caring and understanding human being.
They didn’t learn how to become better people and how we should always be in constant reflection.
I believe that it is crucial for teachers to understand this message; we should not just be another dictator in the classroom. We should listen to our students and try to motivate them as much as possible so they can actually like learning and feel inspired to become good citizens.

Hope to hear from everyone soon!
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Sandra Araújo 30.12.2015

“Another brick in the wall” from Pink Floyd is a very well known music and I used to listen it in my adolescence. It´s a great song.
When I was a kid I thought it was a “cry” for revolt against teachers and school, I really enjoyed it!!!
Later on I came to understand it in another way changing my perspective about it. Listening to the lyrics and seeing the music video and then reading some vague article about it I came to realize that it was, yes, a “cry”, but for revolt, not against school or teachers in particular but against a government that oppress its people.
In the song, when the singer, Roger Waters, sings about the teacher it is really an analogy, the teacher represents the government and the students. Stating that students who say that they don’t need an education are the people in general. The “education,” the things the government says and do are to trick its people and leading them to bad things like war for example.
The title of the song changed its meaning to me, “another brick in the wall”. I realised it’s a metaphor.
Being the brick, another lie/trick and in the wall, that’s the gap between the government and its people.
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