The Ill Effects of the Five Paragraph Theme
2000; National Council of Teachers of English; Volume: 90; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/821732
ISSN2161-8895
Autores Tópico(s)Education and Technology Integration
Resumoschool composition, she might have drawn parallels between the bonsai tree and the student writer, the gardener and the English teacher, the pot and the lock-step five paragraph theme (FPT). It is my contention that teachers of the five paragraph theme, like the representatives of patriarchal society, have become complacent in their acceptance of a tool that purports to nurture but, in fact, stunts the growth of human minds.
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