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Airian Grisham

Ms. Trotter

Brit Lit P.2

5 February 2019

Annotated Bibliography

Staff, GreatSchools. “Motivating the Unmotivated Student.” Great Schools, 20 Dec.

2017, www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/motivating-the-unmotivated-student/.

In this article, the author, not specifically mentioned but is associated with the Great

Schools Staff, explains the leading causes as to why there is a lack of motivation amongst

students. Due to this source being overviewed by College Board, the author uses certain

situations to address specific emotional scenarios leading to motivation loss. The author starts the

article by addressing the emotional issues such as low self esteem, issues at home, pressure, and

low expectations in classrooms. She continues to explain these by giving deeper detail into what

these students are going through, highlighting the fact they have other things on their mind than

getting a paper done. This article strongly reflects the main issue of my capstone which is why

kids becoming high school students are going in unmotivated. By having this the evidence will

help me get to the core issue of lack of motivation and lead me to attack these issues head on.

Frondeville, Tristan de. “How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class.” Edutopia, George Lucas

Educational Foundation, 3 Aug. 2009, www.edutopia.org/classroom-student-

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In this article, Tristan de Frondeville addresses the issue that kids in class will find

something else to interest them if they are bored, so he writes about certain ideas to engage all

students in learning. After having personal experience, Tristan gives specific examples of how to

engage students in different ways so they can use their classroom time efficiently while still

being interested. By first addressing the main issue, lack of focus, he then contradicts this by

giving specific classroom examples to engage kids. He explains certain ice breaker games and

activities that will help kids keep interest in wanting to be in class. This article will help me

answer my question on how to engage students. I will make use of these classroom activities to

hopefully create an environment where kids look forward to coming to school.

Kathryn, Hoffses. “10 Ways to Help Your Teen Succeed in High School (for Parents).”

KidsHealth, The Nemours Foundation, Aug. 2018, kidshealth.org/en/parents/school-help-

teens.html.

In this article, Hoffses address the fact that parent involvement does in fact influence their

child’s academic success and help them stay engaged in learning. Hoof's gives key advice to

parents on certain things to practice at home while having a child in school. She explains that

ways such as making time to talk about school, attend teacher conferences, being familiar and

involved with the school, and taking their attendance seriously are only a few key habits to

making sure your child is effective in school. She also incrusts emotional problems with teens in

high school or elementary school will be easier to overcome when they know they can openly

talk to their parents about it. This article will help me distinguish how much parental help is

needed in kids being motivated. Also it may help me reach out to parents in helping the
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engagement of their kids in school by sending home at home activities involving both the parent

and child.

Clarke-Pearson, Kathleen. “The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and

Families.” Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics, 1 Apr. 2011,

pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/127/4/8

In this article, Kathleen Clarke-Pearson explains the positive and negative effects that

social media has on a young age group. By using statistics on the amount of young kids and teen

using social media these days, she explains how the negative effects of social media can be

avoided. Through the use of social media, some teenagers post many derogatory remarks that

younger kids often see and possibly influence their social media use the same way. Clarke-

Pearson suggests that if we influence teens to use social media in only a positive manner this

could help stop the negative effects and teach younger kids to only positively use social media.

This article reflects upon my project because younger kids seeing negative actions on the internet

by young adults could teach them bad habits and not care about what is really important, their

education. This could help me not only engage them in learning but also help them to use social

media as a positive outlet and safely.

Johnson, Sara K., et al. "Adolescents' Character Role Models: Exploring Who Young People

Look Up to as Examples of how to be a Good Person." Research in Human Development,

vol. 13, no. 2, 2016, pp. 126. ProQuest, https://search.proquest.com/docview/

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In this article, Johnson concludes that most youth looks up to older siblings or young

adults as their role model. After surveying 220 adolescents, Johnson concluded that most of the

role models that younger kids looked up to were within their own family or those who helped

them during school. He also explains that these role models reflected upon their character and

influenced them in a way where they hoped to be like their role model someday. Another reason

these younger kids saw them as a role model is because they impacted them morally and taught

them positive outlooks on life. The survey also had the younger kids rate the role models

effectiveness. The numbers were very high on the effects the role models made on them when it

came to socialization practices. This strongly relates to my capstone because aside from

engaging them in education, I also want to encourage them to have a happy social life. I want to

be able to give them advice as to how to be involved in the social part of school such as going a

sport or club. This article encourages me that there are many ways I can help to be effective to

younger kids and hopefully leave a bug enough impact to be considered a role model to them.