Dangerous Minds. Ch1 to 4.

Ch.1 Chapter one is called ´´ my dog ate it``. This first chapter is about a teacher Ms. J who is teaching inside the classroom. The main character of this story is called Raúl Chacón, who was outside Ms. J’s classroom getting wet because of the rain. Ms J went outside the classroom and went to talk to Raúl and asked him why he was standing in the rain shivering and getting wet. He told her that he was trying to win a bet: if he stood up in the rain for 20 minutes he would get 20 bucks. Ms J asked him why he wanted to win the bet and he told her that he needed to pay a jacket he had bought on the streets. The teacher lent him the money but with a condition: if he graduated highschool , he would be able to pay her. So Raúl felt quite grateful because she trusted him and he promised her he would graduated and he would do his best to make it. So then he started to make real changes in his life in terms of homework and studies.

 Ch.2 Okie Dokie, Artichokie is the second chapter of the book dangerous mind and it’s about the teacher Ms. J getting a new job in a school to teach a class which needed a permanent teacher. At first Ms. J was very frightened because of the behavior of the students, because they were very rude and unrespectfull . Untill Hal Gray (one of the teachers) told her a story about a girl who once answered to him ‘’ Okie Dokie, Artichokie`` that was a very unrespectull way to talk to a teacher. And Hal told that despite the rudeness of most students he was willing to skip the obstacles. So these words were sacrate to Ms J, because they gave her strength to carry on and she walked right into the classroom and the students looked at her, and the students in that moment understood that she had came to stay. And then they made a list and a kind of rule on how should an effective teacher supposed to be and how an effective student should be.

 Ch.3 This chapter is called ´´Fire in my heart``. Ms. Johnson went to Hal’s class. She was invited by Hal Gray to go and see how his students behaved. She was perplex to realize his students were a mess. Hal noticed and he talked to her and told her he was about to retire. And it was very common in younger teachers to start very excited and then became very tired and exhausted. Ms J disagreed with him because she thought she had fire in her heart, which means she was very passionate about teaching. Then, Ms. J did her best effort to give better classes. She encouraged her students to read Shakespeare.

 Ch.4 ‘’George shouldn’t of shot his homeboy’’. This chapter’s got a very powerful message. Ms. J tried to prove ACL students weren’t that different from English-P class. She talked to a group of teachers saying that their marks weren’t so different. She asked why they divided the classes because ACL students would attend to school. She thought of making an experiment. She assigned the same book for the different classes. In the ACL class, she got excellent results, but P class, was a bit difficult. It was hard for the kids to give opinions, so she did some exercises to make them improve their skills.