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The expression "beyond the call of duty" means doing more than what your job requires . 1 A student was asked to write about a person who had gone beyond the call of duty and made a difference to a community . & In what ways was the person very ordinary ? S > What did the person do that was extraordinary , or "beyond the call of duty" ? Jaime Escalante by Maya Kaplan How did an immigrant math teacher become a national hero and the subject of a Hollywood movie ? Jaime Escalante was born in Bolivia . In 1964 , Escalante immigrated to California . The schools in the US did not accept his university degree as a math teacher so he returned to college to get his degree . In 1 976 , Escalante began teaching at Garfield High School but it was a tough place to work , with problems of drugs , gangs and violence . In 1982 , Escalante took a class ofweak students and taught them advanced math . Nobody believed that these kids would pass the final exam . He worked long days and weekends with his students and most of them passed the difficult exam . However , the Educational Testing Service did not accept the grades . They believed that the students had cheated . Most of the 18 students took the test again and passed . Escalante showed these students that they could change the course oftheir lives if they studied and worked hard . The 1988 movie Standand Deliver is Escalante ' s story . 2 Look at the notes the student prepared before writing the paragraph . a In what ways are the notes and the paragraph the same ? In what ways are they different ? Discuss . & Find three details from the notes that were not included in the paragraph . Jaime Escalante , High School Math Teacher Born in La Paz , Bolivia __ Receives university degree in teaching in La Paz , Bolivia Moves to Los Angeles , California— poor English ; teaching degree not recognized Studies nights and earns degree in electronics and math 1976— begins teaching at Garfield High School in East LA ( drugs , gangs and violence a problem ) 1982— convinces group of weak Latino students to take advanced math exam ; most pass test but Educational Testing Service does not accept grades ( believes students cheated ) Students take test again and pass Escalante becomes national hero 1988— Movie "Stand and Deliver" is made about his life
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