what teaching justin taught me

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PLACE

•A school

•Classroom

•Carpentry

TIME

•Modern time

•In the morning – the scenes were happening during class period

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SOCIETY

1.A teacher who takes responsible to educate and guide the

students.

2. A problematic student

3.A teacher who emphasize education

4.A group of student that isolate people that appeared to have

personal problems / misbehaviors

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BEGINNING

- The story begins with the persona, Mrs. Young tells about her meeting with Justin, a student in the school.

- Even they’ve just met, Justin has behaved impolitely towards the author. For example, he put his

muddy feet up on the table. Plus, when Mrs. Young asked him to do

the assignment, he said that he has no pen.

- Despite Justin treated her badly, she tried to let him know that she wasn’t the enemy. Unfortunately, Justin had already decided to hate

her.

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DEVELOPMENT

- After 18 weeks together, Justin had taught Mrs. Young many new lessons.

- she had struggled to help Justin improve his writing skills.

- Justin struggled to mange his anger. The other student learned to avoid

him and no one wants to seat beside him.

- Usually, Justin will destroy an inanimate object like chair or

computer to express his anger.

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CONFLICT

- Mrs. Young was seated at a work table conferencing quietly with two

students when suddenly she saw Justin kicked the computer table.

- Justin became angry and flung the contents of the table in Mrs.

Young’s direction. Justin kept kicking the tower of the computer and then stormed from the room

crying.

- Mrs. Young then called the dean’s office to let them know that Justin

was loose.

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CLIMAX

- After class, Mrs. Young was looking for Justin.

- suddenly, Mrs. Young heard a strange scratching sound coming from the carpentry class next door. So, she

quietly open the door.

- There was Justin, furiously sanding away at the leg of a table. It was then Mrs. Young noticed the table and its design. She was amazed. It was a

gorgeous piece of furniture.

- she felt regret for underestimating Justin before as he couldn’t write

complete sentence. She was learned that Justin had a special gift.

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ENDING

-Mrs. Young didn’t know where Justin is today. She often think of him and sometimes imagine him as

an apprentice in a cabinetry or furniture shop.

- Justin had taught her not to judge people too quickly and she hoped

that the patience that she had showed him gave an example of an

alternative way of being.

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• Justin is Mrs. Young’s student

• He is about 20 year old man

“when it occurred to me that he must be at least twenty

years old” (line 13-14)

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•Rude

“ I ain’t got no pen,” he spat. (line 11)

•He acted childishly

“ Justin possessed a terrified-little-boy quality wrapped up

in a man’s body”. (line 16)

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• Untidy appearance 1.“ His face was weathered and

pockmarked with bright-red-acne”. (line 17)

2.“ He wore a dirty shirt over torn, mud-caked jeans ripped at the hem and written on with green marker.His shoes were untied, and his brown socks slumped at his ankle.” (line 18)

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•Justin’s appearance will definitely give bad impression to

others“ Everything about

Justin suggested trouble-maker”. (line

23 – 24.)

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•Lack of basic skills

“ He lacked basic skills of every kind; he didn’t

capitalized the first word in sentences, and he

wrote as if he had never heard of punctuation.

(line 42 – 45)

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•Hot tempered“ He struggled to contain

his constantly boiling anger, but it was so bottled up that some

days the cork burst and pelted whoever was

near.” (line 45- 47)

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•Vandalizes things when he is angry

“ Usually, his rage was directed at an inanimate object, a chair or one of my

computers.” (line 52-53)

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•Alienated by other students

“ The other student learned to avoid Justin, and seats on either side

of him were always empty.” (line 47- 49)

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• Justin’s teacher•Polite lady“ I politely asked Justin to remove

his muddy feet from the furniture…” ( line 8- 9)

•Was being a public school teacher for years. (Line 2)

•Then pursue career as a vocational school teacher. (Line 15)

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•Determined to help Justin

“ I struggled to help him improve his writing with the goal in mind that he

might be able to complete a job

application. “ (Line 40-42)

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•Patient- After 18 week

together, Mrs. Young patiently helped Justin to improve his writing

skill even though Justin has been acting

rudely towards her.

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descriptive“ His face was weathered and pockmarked with bright red

acne.”

(Line 17-18)metaphor

1.“ a steely blue..” ( Line 24-25)

2.“crystal-clear blue eyes..” (Line 26)

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SIMILE

1.“..like deep pools of water.” (Line 26-27)

2.“The tension was as thick as soup.” (Line 99)

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DIALOGUE

“Justin, that is exquisite!” I exclaimed, forgetting my

anger.

He bowed his head and shrugged. “ I just want to finish it before I leave,” he

mumbled.(Line 133-136)

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•We should never judge a person before knowing him/her

first.

- Before knowing Justin, Mrs. Young tend to assume him as a handicap person as he couldn’t write the complete sentence. But when she witnessed Justin was carving a table, she could see that he was gifted with a

wonderful talent.

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•patience

- Mrs. Young was being patient to Justin

as he has been behaving impolitely

towards her even she had tried her best to

help him.

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•The relationship between a teacher and a student

– Mrs. Young and Justin

- the author describe her relationship with one of

her students, Justin. As a teacher, she tried to get close with him to get to know him better. But Justin has showed no

interest to give a positive respond towards her.

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•The differences of attitude and the best way to deal with it

- Justin is a problematic and hot-tempered boy whereby

Mrs. Young had a problem to approach him. But she tried patiently to console him used many ways but he still set a

gap between them by behaving rudely towards Mrs. Young.

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•Human tend to learn from each other as to how live a good life

- Mrs. Young learnt that even a “problematic” boy can give

something that we could take a lesson from. Even Justin was

always assumed as a freak, Mrs. Young believed that he still has

something precious to share with others.