Chapter 7

Summarizer:
By Catherine Wagner
1. In chapter seven Nathan summed up the information that she learned from being a freshman at anyU. She answers many questions about what she personally learned from the experience. She realizes how much teachers don’t actually realize what it is like to be a student and how much homework a student has in each class. She notices that a student finds many shortcuts around different assignments in order to find time to do other things they need to do. For example if a student needs to read a five page article and there will only be a discussion in class on it with no quiz included, it is likely that the student will not take the time to read it. For Nathan going back to school taught her things she needs to understand more about a student’s life and teachers tricks to making a student’s life simpler and easier.
2. Overall, Nathan admits that she gained a lot of mysterious and foreign knowledge she never would have known before deciding to become a freshman again. Nathan reflects about her experience as a whole. I think that this is important, to answer any readers remaining questions. She wrote this chapter in a way that the reader can relate to and understand.

Vocab:

By Ashley Brown

I could not find 10 vocabulary words for this chapter, so I found a website that provided additional statistics, common questions students have about college, and even some assumptions to compliment the many that Nathan provided throughout the book.

http://www.campuscalm.com/did_you_know.html

Graphic Organizer:
By Dan Lewis
Chapter 7 addresses how students and teachers form relationships and how seriously the students take the teacher. Nathan expresses how if the students don't have any real base reason to do the work then they are not going to read something that they wont be tested on. The chapter then switches to how Nathan could understand from a teachers standpoint better as a freshman and relate it to her college classes. After this the peer to peer relationship and moving into a new setting is talked about. Nathan talks about how in college an 18 year old leaves home and starts a new life in the community of college. She then explains that after 4 years and around age 22 that same student leaves that community and goes into the work force. Once again that student is faced with having to leave the norm and adapt to a new community. This chapter sums up talking about the future. It talks about why people went to college how speakers at the beginning of freshman year are already asking that question.

Discussion Querstions:
By Nicki Woitas

1. Do you think Nathan’s lessons from her freshman year were accurate and legitimate, according to your own firsthand experience? Why or why not?

2. Did you expect Nathan to return to her class as the teacher with a new outlook on the students’ actions and work? What things does Nathan have a new point of view on?

3. Do you think this interaction/observation affected and influenced Nathan in a positive or negative way? Explain.

4. Did Nathan wrap up this book in a concise and appropriate way? Did this book discuss everything you hoped it would? Is there anything you would add or take out?