- What is Mr. Brown's role in the Geek Club?
- Where are the Geek Club meetings held?
- Who belongs to the Geek Club?
Once you have finished your journal entry please work on your PSA project.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Journal Entry #2
Create a second journal entry that describes the role of Mike Brown (see Geeks pg. 23-26). Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. Please feel free to answer the following questions in your journal entry:
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Austin Hammond
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Jesse and Eric are part of the Geek club. The Geek club is where all the Geeks go to be Geeks and what not. Mike Browne was a teacher that they both looked up to. The geek club was held in the English classroom with only four members. Mike Browne let them come on a daily basis so that they didn’t have to get bullied of harassed by the other kids. They went there because it was the first step to getting out of their boring lives. In order for the Geeks to avoid getting beat up they formed a Club, which they would go to during lunch in Mike Browne’s, English classroom. Here they talked about what ever they wanted to because meeting is apparently too formal of a word to use. Nevertheless, Mike Browne allowed for these boys to communicate and he accepted them. He evidently had a major impact of them because they both referenced him and acknowledged. Eric and Jesse both tell how much they helped them get out of Idaho. He I credited as a honorable person and the only teacher that accepts them and allows them to express themselves and learn from each other.
Mitchell Duncan
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In the novel Geeks, Jesse and Eric feel socially outcast from their community. The only person that accepted them as they were was their English teacher, Mike Brown. Mike Brown allowed Jesse and Eric, along with their two other friends, to form a Geek Club. He even allowed them to use his classroom for their clubhouse. He let the four geek club members use the classroom on his lunch break and stayed in with them to listen and discuss about geek culture. He was the adult that let them be themselves. Mike Brown was the only adult other than their parents that Jesse and Eric told about their adventure to Chicago. Mr. Brown was very proud and encouraged them to go and be successful.
The geek club symbolized freedom and an area in which they could say what they wanted without prejudice. This wouldn’t have happened without Mike Brown.
Jacob Gilbert-Mahoney
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The novel Geeks introduces the character of Mike Brown, who supposedly changes the lives of Jesse and Eric by forming the Geek Club. The Club was composed of Jesse and three of his friends, and was held in the Mr. Brown’s classroom. Gradually, students recognized them across the school as a very unique club, free from prejudice from other, more popular students. While this club attracted popularity from the students, no one was actually allowed in unless they were a geek. To me, this helped to show the influence of the Geek Club, and the how much it helped the boys.
I personally believed that the Geek Club was a positive thing for the students. Despite never being actively, or overzealously abused by other students, they still express this feeling of being alone or confused in a part of something greater. The Geek Club not only gave them this sense of purpose, but also made them believe they were contributing something greater when word spreads of the success of the Geek Club. As this influence continues to spread, they eventually grow a greater bond with the teachers, and the exclusion of non-geek students likely gave them the exclusivity they needed to keep their morale high.
Mike Brown was the students English teachers who supported the students. he did so by letting them have their geek club every lunch period so that the boys can prevent being judged and picked on. His character in the novels very supportive and gives lots of valuable advice that helps the boys learn and adapt to his thoughts.
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In the book, “Geeks,” by Jon Katz, there is an English teacher by the name of Mike Brown. Mr. Brown loved his students and protected the Middleton High Geeks from getting bullied by the rest of the school during lunchtime. The “Geek Club” meetings are always held in Mr. Brown’s class. The Geek Club consisted of the following geeks: Same Hunter, Joe Angell and of course, Jesse and Eric. Only those four were allowed in the room at the time. Anyone else would be sent away. If one was not a geek, one was not allowed in the club. While Mr. Brown graded papers at his desk, the geeks were trapped inside their own little world. They sat in the farthest corner away from the front of the class and mostly talked about what they loved the most, the Internet. In my opinion, the Geek Club was a success and Mr. Brown was the savior. The club trapped the geeks away from the rest of the world and protected them from the norm. It was their escape and knowing that they were in a room filled with kids like them, made them feel comfortable with being themselves and talking about their geeky ways.
Saisha Delvalle
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In Geeks by Jon Katz, Mike Brown is a teacher who Jesse and Eric credited for changing their lives. Brown supported how they were and he was the founder of the Geek Club. Mike Brown challenges them to encourage them to be better. “He had the gift of tapping into the rebellious streak of a kid like Jesse while simultaneously curbing and channeling it.” (Katz, 28)
The Geek Club is a real small group that has four outcast students and a teacher- Jesse Dailey, Eric, Sam Hunter, Joe Angell, and Mr. Brown. It’s held in the English classroom. “It merely consisted of four of us, in the English teacher’s (the local liberal) classroom, eating lunch every day and reveling in our self-imposed and self-indulgent segregation.” (Katz, 25)
Jesse and the rest of the club calls Mike Brown a great teacher because he made the club and is a friend to the members. I’ve never belonged in any club, so I don’t really know how precious the Geek Club means to them. But according to Geeks, it has changed their lives. “The Geek Club-and this was where the triumph came in- has changed his life, he said, given him a place to belong, a name to call himself.” (Katz, xli)
Karlamarie Perez
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“There was only Mr. Brown, the genial stocky, sandy-haired English teacher from New York-official school liberal, magnet for friends of outcasts,” from Geeks page 27. Brown was a teacher that Jesse and Eric credited with having changed their lives. It was the only place Jesse was insistent on showing and it was like their clubhouse. Mr. Brown let them have their meetings there, so they wouldn’t get bullied in the cafeteria, they always show up in Mr. Brown’s room at about noon. Mike Brown was a warm, easy going guy, not only the founder of the Geek Club, but one of the school’s football coaches. He was one of those teachers that genuinely enjoy kids. “I could see they needed a place to talk, a refuge here. A place to feel safe,” he said about letting the kids use their room. Mr. Brown also helped them if they had a problem like on page 31, “Mostly, Mr. Brown tried to channel Jesse’s evident anger and frustration into constructive discussion. Sam Hunter said, “he was a truly great teacher,” on page 28. He was sometimes the only person who listened to their ideas and made them think. That was Mr. Brown.
Aleah Adams
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In chapter three it discussed the Geek Club and it’s early stages. Mr. Brown was a teacher and football coach at Jesse and Eric’s former high school that allowed them to make the Geek Club. He was the founder and genuinely cared deeply about his students. This reminded me of some of my former teachers at SOTA, because I’ve shared a bond with a couple that genuinely seemed to care about my education and me. Mr. Brown continued to work with Jesse and Eric and started to see a major change in Jesse. “Jesse was conscious of a change in himself, as well” (Katz 34). This is prevalent in my school because teachers do seem to have a good relationship with students here. They work with you after school and take the extra time to help you, and then you can get better recommendations for college and what not. Mr. Brown also was funny and easygoing making him a more likeable teacher and that is always a plus (page 28). Providing a safe place for kids to eat lunch and just socialize helps with the mentoring of students because it makes them feel like they have a good place to go, without being at home.
Grace Keller
ReplyDeleteMr. Brown’s role in the Geek club is not only the leader but he is also kind of like an older brother figure to the younger boys in the Geek Club because he looks out for them and supports them. The other students who are less “Geeky” than them hold the Geek club meetings in Mr. Brown’s English classroom during lunch so the four boys are able to avoid being bullied and/or made-fun of. Eventually the boys grow to really love Mr. Brown’s room, as it becomes an outlet for them. “ The only place in Idaho Jesse was insistent on showing me was their clubhouse- Mike Browns classroom” (page26) the boys who are involved in the Geek Club are named Eric, Jesse, Sam, and Joe. All five boys including Mr. brown collectively share a passion for technology and advancements. These men are able to stand together and share a passion while everyone else in their community judges them for having a strong interest in technology and being Geeks. Most of the people who live in their community around them do not understand computers and think they are dangerous and purpose a threat to young internet/ computer users.
Yasmine Gonzalez
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In the novel Geeks by Jon Katz the role of Mike Brown is not only an English schoolteacher but he is also a leader and a protector of the Geeks and the Geek Club. He created the Geek club to protect the Geeks of the school especially during lunchtime. These meetings are usually held in Mr. Browns English classroom. Only four students attend the club including Jesse and Eric. They announce on page 27 that they will be going to Chicago. It seems like they can’t go anywhere in Idaho knowing about computers but working at a technology company. According to Jesse, and Eric the Geek Club is a sanctuary where they can feel safe and comfortable to share their ideas and passion for computers. Mr. Brown, even after hearing the news of Jesse and Eric’s departure he is a supporter of their ideas and choices. This makes Mr. brown such a likable teacher and it’s easy for students and Geeks to feel comfortable around him. He was liked by many of the Geeks in Jesse and Eric’s high school because he was unlike any other teacher in the school. He had “Geek” like ways which appealed to many other Geeks.
Jaymee Pride
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The Geek Club that Jesse and Eric created at their high school became a small community to which they finally felt they belong. They would stay in their English teachers room, Mr. Brown, during their lunch period. The two boys credit Mr. Brown with changing their lives. “…Mike Brown, whom they both credited with having changed their lives” (Katz 23). Mr. Brown became an adult who they really admired and someone who influenced them to change their views. The boys felt accepted within the geek club, and almost all humans of everywhere want to feel accepted by others. The geek club is important to the entire story, in the respect that it sparked the revolutionary move to Chicago. In Chicago, Jesse and Eric went in search of a larger community to identify with. Wanting to be accepted is a very human and natural need. I think that nearly everyone at some point in their life has sought acceptance. Finding a place to fit in is hard for anybody, but especially for teens. It is a time where one has to make conscious decisions about what they want to do and who they want to be. Finding a group of people headed in the same direction with the same interests creates a sense of security.