Course Overview
Course Introduction (Habits of Mind): ​Essay Exam Unit:
  • Articles from next column
Analysis/Argument Unit:
  • Example Essay
  • EAA Ch. 19-23
  • TSIS Ch. 4-5
  • EAA Ch. 17-18
  • TSIS Ch. 7-8
  • EAA Ch. 17
  • TSIS Ch. 6
Autobiographical Unit: Portfolio:
  • EAA Ch. 36
Readings
Neil Postman: "My Graduation Speech"
Jonathan Kozol: "Preparing Minds for Market"
Nathan Glazer: "Some Very Modest Proposals for the Improvement of American Education"
Diane Ravitch: "Dictating to the Schools"
Paul Roberts: "How to Say Nothing in 500 Words"
Robert Herold: "The Lost Generation" (from The Inlander)
Ellie Herman: "The Myth of the Extraordinary Teacher"
John Holt: "How Teachers Make Children Hate"
Valerie Strauss: "The Coming Common Core Meltdown" Original Article Link
Additional Readings
Bernard Schweizer: "Cultural Literacy: Is it Time to Revisit the Debate?"
Robert Yagelski: "Abby's Lament: Does Literacy Matter?"
Gloria Anzaldua: "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" (Note: First page is odd...scroll down)
C.H. Knoblauch: "Literacy and the Politics of Education"
Bonus Knoblauch Outline
Bell Hooks: "Confronting Class in the classroom"
Louis Menand: "Live and Learn: Why We Have College"
Mark Edmundson: "On the Uses of a Liberal Arts Education"
Even More Readings
Jean Anyon: "Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work"
Joyce Millman: "Critical Literacy and Art Education Alternatives in the School Reform Movement"
Bernard Schweizer: "Cultural Literacy: Is it Time to Revisit the Debate?"
​Schweizer References and Definitions
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-Major Assessments
Diagnostic Essay
Multimodal Presentation
Essay Exam-(sorry, no document here since
​      it's supposed to be a surprise!)
Analysis/Argument Essay
Autobiographical Essay or Work Story
Portfolio
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