Due for Tuesday Come to class prepared to work on an in-class essay - synthesis. Also, bring your books to return to me! Oh and take that poll that the school wifi prevented you from doing.
Due for Thursday Come to class with the questions on the passage completed - try to replicate test conditions (one take, pencil, cold room, silence). Due for Monday Sit down for 15 minutes and plan out your theses and outlines for this free-response section. Time yourself! Due for Thurs, 05/04 Read two of the following articles: 1. WaPo - Schools are Now Test Optional (2021) 2. Quartz - The School that did away with Grades (2017) 3. ASCD - The Case Against Grading (2011). 4. Edutopia - Zero Grades Policy (2018) Blog Post: "Look, I'd love kids to attend class "for the intrinsic value," and until then, I'd love them to do it for money. I just want them to do it." - Geoffrey Canada, on paying students in his Promise Academy schools for good attendance and strong performance. Respond to the quote above: what are a typical South student's motivations to earn high marks? What motivations should students have? What feels ethically, intellectually, or morally suspect about paying students for "showing up and doing well?" What feels ethically, intellectually, or morally suspect about internalizing grades as rewards themselves? What is a grading system supposed to do or measure, and which one comes closest to this? Be sure to reference the articles you read!
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Please submit the following pieces onto schoology as text, not links to google docs!
Due by end of class on Mon Submit first body paragraph Due before class Wed Submit second body paragraph Due by end of class Wed Submit conclusion Due before class Fri Submit the rest of your body paragraphs Due by end of class Fri Submit your introduction Due over the weekend Submit final draft of your essay Due for Tuesday, 11:59 pm Submit your culture paper onto Schoology
Due for Thursday Read two of the following articles regarding famed and controversial literary critic Harold Bloom: 1. The Atlantic - Ranting Against Cant (2003) 2. The Atlantic - Harold Bloom's Warning to the World (2019). 3. WaPo - How Harold Bloom Misunderstood the Fall of the Humanities (2019) 4. WaPo - In Defense of Harold Bloom (2019) Blog post: How do you respond to the Harold Bloom school of criticism: that the only meaningful factors in a piece of literature are the aesthetic qualities and mastery of language (regardless of who the author is and when he/she/they wrote), that taking feministic / racial / queer lenses to consider texts is to sacrifice them at the altar of social justice ("The School of Resentments"), that there is immense value in the Western Canon that needs to be appreciated and defended? Refer to your reading from Howe and consider: what is the value of "the Western Canon" and does this value insulate it from criticisms that it is too white, too male, too straight, too readily weaponized for inequality and oppression? If you were to build a curriculum of literature that "all educated adults need to have some familiarity with", how would you go about building that list? |
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