English 1 Plus: Reading & Composition Essay 3:  Using education and story to explore identity

English 1 Plus: Reading & Composition

Essay 3:  Using education and story to explore identity.

Objective: In order to develop powerful, persuasive essays, we need to engage in deep, textual analysis. Our study of rhetoric continues with a focus on tone as a means of finding the author’s thesis. Writers often use diction, metaphor, visual imagery, and syntax to express how they feel about a particular topic. Others focus on facts, evidence, and anecdotes in order to persuade the reader. The combination of all these rhetorical skills comprises the author’s tone.

Readings/Videos:

“From Between the World and Me,” Ta-Nehisi Coates

“From Educated,” Tara Westover

“Scholarship Boy,” Richard Rodriguez

“The Danger of a Single Story,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story “How I Stopped the Taliban from Shutting Down My School,” Sakena Yacoobi:

http://www.ted.com/talks/sakena_yacoobi_how_i_stopped_the_taliban_from_shutting_down_m y_school

Topic:  Our authors speak passionately about the powerful interconnectedness of story, family, education, and identity.  

Writing task/Research:

In a 5-7 page, thesis-driven essay, please respond to the following prompt:

Expand your Essay 2 thesis to include a claim of policy. Can this policy help to counteract “single stor[ies]” in education, work, or language?

Required Sources:

1. Must use quotations from at least two (2) of our readings and at least one (1) TED Talk to support your claim.

2. Find one (1) new example of logos to support your claim using the LBCC databases. Your new evidence should be from a study, report, poll, or article written/conducted by a reliable and established academic source.

3. Must use at least three (3) examples of diction, syntax, metaphor/simile, and visual imagery with specific quotes from the texts to support your ideas and engage in a thorough analysis of those quotes.

            1 Deadlines/Reminders:

1. See Syllabus for deadlines.
2. Use any of our Literary Tools to analyze your quotations: diction, syntax, metaphor/simile, and visual imagery.
3. Counter Argument is required for Essay #
4. MEAL Chart is optional for Essay #3.
5. Recommend using the “Peer Review Questions” to review your own essay before submitting.
6. Please submit as Microsoft Word documents or as PDFs. I cannot open Pages documents.
7. Your Works Cited is the last page of your essay. Please do not send a separate document.
8. Be sure to save time for proofreading. Keep an eye out for grammatical errors regarding run-on sentences, fragments, subject-verb agreement, articles, and prepositions. 
9. Remember to use a formal academic tone for your paper. Write in third person. Avoid using semi-colons or contractions.
10. Remember to answer the prompt directly.
11. Give your paper an interesting title.
12. Please use MLA format for in-text citations and your Works Cited. 
13. All papers must be typed, double-spaced, 12 point, Times New Roman. Margins are 1 inch all around.