Equity post 2

This activity might not be equitable because not every student in the class might know what those two words mean. Some of the students may have never even heard those words before. Some students might not know the word professor if their parents didn't go to college and never talk about college. They might not know the word silo if they don't live on a farm or have ever even been to a farm. Because every student might not have good background information on these words, the activity might not be beneficial.

Geoff is attributing his bad grades to an external source. He is blaming his grades on how he thinks the teacher treats him. He is not taking an internal responsibility for the grades he received. 

Alice might be having trouble with language because she did not learn how to speak in the proper formal way during the sensitive period. If the proper way to speak is not learned during that period, it is much more difficult for a student to learn it later in life. The student has already been taught to speak in an informal manner and has formed habits that are hard to break. Alice will find tasks like speaking and writing more difficult because she does not think in formal language like the rest of the students. She does not have that kind of language automatically ready when she needs it. She has to focus on the task being presented to her and also on the task of translating her thoughts into formal English.