Ripley’s characters are well described , her writing style is clear , and her observations are pretty fresh. Ripley lets facts and observations guide her conclusions, not the other way around.
Which of the three students do you most relate to? Explain why and how you view this? What was significant to you about this student?
The experience of Tom, Tom’s U.S. math classes, everyone used calculators. In Tom’s classroom in Poland, everyone did math in their head, to the point that it seems like they were fluent in a language he was not. I can relate to this because for myself, its hard for me to do a mathematical problem without a calculator.
What was your opinion of the different types of schools in the three countries?
In a lot of nations, all children are learning to make arguments and solve problems they’ve never seen before. They are learning to think. Kim, fifteen, raises $10,000 so she can move from Oklahoma to Finland; Eric, eighteen, trades his high-achieving Minnesota suburb for a booming city in South Korea; and Tom, seventeen, leaves Pennsylvania village for Poland.
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