Delving into A Message to Garcia

Today, we dived into the essay A Message to Garcia and its meaning. We started by reviewing over the details of the book like the author, publish date, setting, etc. We went over the vocabulary of the text and talked about the words and what we thought they meant. Mr. Schick then took us over the actual meaning of the text that we read so we could better grasp it. As Mr. Schick put it the author is trying to say that employees are too dependent and that the author wrote this essay as a rant about how they should just be able to get their job done themselves. Mr. Schick explained that the author really thought and wanted said workers to be kicked in the rear with a steel-toed boot and be put in order and get their job done. We also reviewed Mr. Schick's favorite word so far in the year, Arete. Which is the Greek word for excellence. Something I'm sure Mr. Schick wants us to try and reach in his class.