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Sean Tanner
Trotter
English Lit 2
28 November 2017
Annotated Bibliography
Weir, Kirsten. “The Pain of Social Rejection.” American Psychological Association(2012). Web.
30 November 2017.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/04/rejection.aspx
In this article, Weir explores the effects that rejection takes on the heart and how the
mind sees the pain that is caused. After reviewing different studies done by doctors and other
scientific professionals. Weir explains how rejection causes heartbreak which to the heart, is not
much different from a broken arm. The nerves triggered in the brain from rejection are similar to
those triggered during physical pain which means that certain treatments that work with pain
could be applied to heartbreaks. This fits in with my topic because it gives me the psychological
effect that being rejected has on a person. Knowing what rejection does to people will help in
Long, Kimberly. “4 Ways to Get Students Interested in Extracurricular Clubs.” Education Week
https://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2015/02/17/4-ways-to-get-students-
interested-in.html
Long goes through different possible ways to get students involved in clubs outside of
school hours. She used her own observations as a junior high teacher and dealing with students
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on a day to day basis. In one of the ways Long explains that students are more likely to join clubs
that express pop cultural advertisement such as icons and memes. In another section she talks
about how traditions can make a club more memorable or stand out to students. I can use two
and possibly a third section out of this article. The fourth is completely off topic. They will help
Thompson, Carolyn. “American schools have stopped crowning valedictorians so that other
http://www.businessinsider.com/schools-not-crowning-valedictorians-2017-6
Thompson explores the topic of schools not crowding valedictorians quite as much as
previous years which has been spreading throughout schools across the United States. She uses
associations that are part of the education system and how they view the subject. The slow
decline of crowding around valedictorian and class ranking, based upon grade point average, is
accredited to the rejection feeling it causes other students and the unfair factor that makes one
student seem much less accomplished due to their ranking when someone who seems better off
may have a similar grade point average. The article gives a decent insight to how students who
aren’t recognized feel when someone who puts in similar effort does get recognized. I can use
this to possibly implement certain aspects of it into Poly High School and lower the feeling of
rejection.
Ripley, Amanda. “The Case Against High-School Sports.” The Atlantic(2013). Web. 01
December 2017.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/the-case-against-high-school-
sports/309447/
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In this article, Ripley argues the case about the spending of school funding. She used
interviews with school students both in and out of the United States. Ripley argues with a clear
motive against the use of the majority of school funding on sports when the other clubs and
academic achievers are lacking that funding. She agrees with the other countries’ use of school
funding, which may make it to where students have to improvise with sports, although, the
academic areas would flourish. To use this, I would need to implement it into extracurricular
activities and would have to find more creative ways to make those areas flourish without cutting
TER Staff. “Support + High School Students = Success.” The Educator's Room(2012). Web. 01
December 2017.
https://theeducatorsroom.com/support-high-school-students-success/
The TER staff looks into how parents can influence their students’ success and
participation in school. The staff mainly works with teachers who experience the issues students
have regularly and have the experience to be considered experts on the topic of teaching. They
believe that parents can influence their children’s success by doing the following five actions:
keeping open communication with their child, advocating for them, working with the child’s
teacher(s), getting their child involved in activities, and providing enrichment opportunities. I
can use this as possible inspiration for a letter to parents so they can be informed on how they
can help their students. Many parents believe that letting their child figure everything out alone
will help them prepare for the adult world, but it could possibly be the opposite that would help.