Outline for Profile Essay - Cochise College



Outline for Profile Essay

Rhetorical Purpose

I want my readers to understand that not all teachers have to like writing even though they teach it. Teaching kids to read and write is also harder then one would expect it to be.

Beginning

I will begin by describing her class reading new words and listening to a story. I will also show their excitement for school and learning.

List of Details from the Interview Notes

1. “Here’s our new word we learned today, can you say it? S-C-H-O-O-L” Kids yell “SCHOOL!” at the top of their lungs.

2. She reads “Owen” by Kevin Hankes: kids listen intently, laughing at the funny pictures. “Time to go home!” The kids start booing and want to stay in class with her.

3. As students scatter out one by one at the end of the day a look of relief swipes across her face as she sticks out her tongue and crosses her eyes at me, thankful the long crazy Friday is over.

4. Average height, short brown hair, trying to stay energetic along with her 6-year-old students.

5. Enjoys being a teacher because the hours are great and you get a lot of time off. Loves kids and being around them. Her favorite though, is that it is different every year. There is always a beginning and an end.

6. She realized she wanted to become a teacher in 3rd grade. She used to have nuns as teachers in earlier years that were rude and would beat children (pulled her hair for writing her z’s backwards!) So when she finally had a good teacher she became enthused with the career. She would never change her occupation.

7. Completed 4 years of college at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Twenty years later, she completed her Master’s degree at Webster University in Kansas City, Missouri.

8. Does only a little bit of writing. She writes for chalk talk, an article that appears in the SV Herald every Friday. Doesn’t write in her free time. She also makes sentence starters for the kids to finish.

9. It is hard teaching kids words that do not follow the general rules of phonics. The concept that is hardest for the kids is making inferences. It is hard for them to realize that not everything HAS to be stated.

10. Thinks it is important for every person to know how to read and write. “You can’t even fill out job applications without knowing how to read.”

11. Gets great satisfaction knowing her kids learned to read and write because of her.

12. She doesn’t enjoy writing because she believes she isn’t “creative or fluent. Writing definitely isn’t easy.”

13. If she does have to write she enjoys writing non-fiction.

14. Most memorable writing experience was a fairy tale she wrote for her master’s class, best writing she could remember she did. She’s amazed that her students from 2 years ago wrote excellent poems “they followed the forms and wrote well even though they were just learning.”

15. She never feels like writing after reading a good book.

16. She feels the Da Vinci Code is one of the books that has had an effect her life “the Catholic Church teachings make more sense”, the Bible too.

17. She would never want to write professionally because she feels she has no talent.

18. She feels that a good writer must be “creative, articulate, imaginative, observant, and definitely fluent.”

19. She wishes she could “write better and admires good writers and people that can write easily.”

20. She enjoys good books and always has her nose in one.

Ending

I will end by making the same point that I did in the beginning: that even though she wishes she could write, she doesn’t think she can and she doesn’t like to but that doesn’t keep her from being a teacher that all kids adore and learn a great deal from.

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