Ryan Wong 8/21/12 APLAC “All literature is protest.”-Richard Wright. Through this quote Richard is saying that all writing usually conveys a purpose, to persuade, to explain or even to call people to action. In a fictitious novel the purpose is most likely conveyed as a constant moral, or thesis throughout the story. In a review he wrote for the New Masses magazine called “Between laughter and tears”, Wright criticizes Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Richard claims that there is no central idea or theme to Hurston’s book, thereby giving it no persuasive, explanatory or call to action-like traits.
A. Write an essay in which you argue for or against making the novel you have studied a compulsory part of the English course? There are many books that are used in English courses, but one of the books that I think should be compulsory for our year group is Of mice and men by John Steinbeck. This novel shows us the importance of relationships and how it is still relevant in today's society. It educates us about the 1930s in America, in an interesting way, as we cannot go back and see it for ourselves.
3. Prose makes several key assumptions about the role and impact of reading literary works in high school. What are they? Some of the key assumptions that Prose makes about the role and impact of reading literary works in high school are that our literary taste and our love for reading is developed in high school, not before, not after. Also, that high school reading lists are developed by adults who had to suffer through the same system as the kids before them, thus developing their literary taste in high school and recycling the same books generation after generation.
After Alexie became a writer, he often visited schools and teach creative writing to Indian kids and let them read books. Indian children were expected to be stupid but after they read books they are refreshed. He wrote about those kids in the article [run on sentence. End the last sentence with a period and then integrate the quote] “they have read my books. They have read many books.
He confesses: “What I am about to say to you has taken me more than twenty years to admit: A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn’t forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student” (598). Richard Rodriguez also explains that how he tactfully avoid hi family’s inquiry about his new-found love for books. He would hide inside of a
All written history is partial in two senses. It is partial in that it is only a tiny part of what really happened. That is a limitation that can never be overcome. And it is partial in that it inevitably takes sides, by what it includes or omits, what it emphasizes or deemphasizes.” Zinn’s statement challenges readers to
Most people write everyday whether it having to be a letter, email, resume, a note, or even just a few words on a sticky note. They all require writing and reading words. Reading begins at a young age and evolves over time, but it never outgrows us. Reading is a way of life; it is what we learn every day and what we go to school for. “Why Reading is the Most Important Thing You Will Ever Do” concludes how “[Expressing]
How has your learning changed over the course of the semester? How do you plan to continue developing your knowledge of children’s literature after the course is over? This self-reflection is the first thing I read before looking at your log. It helps me see what makes your log unique – an expression of who you are and what you enjoy. L2 ______ 10 pts.
Literacy Narrative September 15, 2013 Many people have their own style of writing and reading. Many people also have their unique way that they have picked up that certain style of writing or reading. Throughout grade school that style for most hardly changed until they hit middle school. Then each student starts to gain their own way of writing or reading. By the time that student reaches high school it seems that with each year that goes by the student becomes a greater and more powerful reader or writer.
Writing felt so endless, and boy did the teachers pile on writing assignments a little before MEAP testing that year. Miracously, I got better at writing at the end of year, as well as reading to advance to fifth grade. Confidence. Websters definition of it is, the quality or state of being certain. One thing I've lacked previously before the end of fourth grade was self confidence.