Due by Mon. 2/22 @ 6PM:
READ:
WRITE:
This week, you’re reading the essay I meant to assign you last week, and which will (I think) shed a lot of light on the question of genres. BUT, all is not lost: we will also be taking a look at an autobiographical selection from Malcolm X. This section, like “Mother Tongue,” is an education narrative. As you now know, your first essay is going to be an education narrative. The education narrative is a genre, so therefore we can think about what conventions make one piece an education narrative and another something else entirely.
One major feature of these narratives, as we discussed in our Zoom session this week, is the usage of anecdote.
What anecdotes jump to mind as you begin to think about the history of your education? What tiny moments, stories, jokes, musings, conversations, accidents etc can you think of that might help you tell the story of your relationship to education?
Write 300 words in response to this prompt, and file your post under the Category “Unit 1” by Monday @ 6 PM.
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When I think about education, I think about the difference between my country of origin and the United States. I believe that in each country they should have the same education as a student, only that culture would be what would make the difference.
My education in the Peruvian schools where I attended was to take classes, daily assignments, weekly assignments, practices, monthly exams, bimonthly exams, “mock” which would be an exam to measure your ability to be added at the beginning in the middle. at the last of the school year and finally the final exam that is common throughout the country. It was a bit stricter, to say the least, than the education I received in America. Also, the different thing is that in Peru, the courses were more individual as the university. For example here in the United States, it is “mathematics” everything that has to do with numbers. Instead in Peru, that course was separate into many such as algebra, arithmetic, geometry. And many others, but although that caused me a headache, it helped me a lot in my education since I understood what part of the course it was.