ENGL 3200 - Advanced Writing and Research Fall 2012‚ 3.0 Units MW 1:40-2:55 PM in Angelico 116 Dominican University of California Department of Literature and Language Judy Halebsky‚ M.F.A.‚ Ph.D. Office: Angelico 327 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:00 – 4:00 PM and by appointment Contact: 415-482-1846 or judy.halebsky@dominican.edu Course Description: The focus of this course is to cultivate the practices of research writing and critical thinking. In this course‚ students
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Curriculum of Work” by Jean Anyon‚ Anyon observes five different schools for a whole school year of fifth graders; two working class schools‚ one middle-class school‚ one affluent professional school‚ and an executive elite school. Anyon’s research indicated that students are being prepared to occupy particular jobs on the social ladder. Students are being set on course of education to prepare them for jobs within their own social economic status. The first two schools Anyon observed were the working
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In writing “The Homeless and Their Children”‚ Jonathon Kozol‚ uses emotion to raise the awareness of “the effects of literacy on the lives of the poor” (Kozol‚ page 304). He also used an interview form‚ to not only show his audience how the main character feels in her own words‚ but puts himself into the situation if only for a short time. The author states that “more than one-third of America’s adults are at least partially illiterate‚ we should organize a massive Government and volunteer
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being taught. Students were not being challenged and often already knew the concepts behind the materials taught. Jean Anyon further supports and agrees with Gatto’s statements about the public school system. In her article‚ she specifies that schools in wealthy communities are far better than those of poorer communities‚ and they better prepare children for desirable jobs. Anyon concluded these finding by investigating schools in four different social classes‚ ranging from working class to executive
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Homeless and Their Children” taken from Jonathan Kozol’s book‚ “Rachel and Her Children”. This is a story of a woman whom Kozol calls Laura and her four children that lived in a run-down hotel room in 1985. The intended audience for this piece was pretty much anyone interested in reading this particular book. He wrote it for the general American public. I believe that Kozol felt bad for the women and their families that had to live in this government sponsored hell-hole. He describes Laura as
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barrier. There are many different things causing there to be barriers causing it hard for people to change the barrier of economic class. Keeping a good social standard is sometimes difficult to sustain‚ making it hard to change. Author Gregory Mantsios “Class in America” in 2003‚ has many different ideas on the way economic class is. Social standings and consequently life chances are largely determined at birth. Individuals who have gone from rags to riches abound in the mass media‚ statistics
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Still Separate‚ Still Unequal “Still Separate‚ Still Unequal”‚ written by Jonathan Kozol‚ describes the reality of urban public schools and the isolation and segregation the students there face today. Jonathan Kozol illustrates the grim reality of the inequality that African American and Hispanic children face within todays public education system. In this essay‚ Kozol shows the reader‚ with alarming statistics and percentages‚ just how segregated Americas urban schools have become. He also brings
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Jean Anyon explains this process through her research in From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work. Anyon dissects the socio-economic class that determines the types of instruction students receive. Through her research one can compare her findings to Mike Rose’s narrative‚ I Just Wanna Be Average‚ to be true and insightful. Rose speaks of his high school life as an underachiever as well as his ability to break free from the mold that he was once placed in. Comprehending both Anyon and
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America’s Educational Apartheid‚” Jonathan Kozol brings our attention to the apparent growing trend of racial segregation within America’s urban and inner-city schools (309-310). Kozol provides several supporting factors to his claim stemming from his research and observations of different school environments‚ its teachers and students‚ and personal conversations with those teachers and students. As we first take a look at the frightening statistics Kozol provides‚ this claim of segregation becomes
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The United States has gone a long way toward an appearance of classlessness. It has become harder to read people’s status in the clothes they wear‚ the cars they drive‚ and the votes they cast. As Mantsios wrote in class of America “people in the united stated don’t like to talk about class. We shrink from using words that classify along economic lines or that point to class distinctions: phrases like working class upper class and ruling class are rarely uttered by Americans (2010)”. Most of the
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