Tag: loss

Richard Rodriguez

What are the losses as well as the ends of education? Can you lose or change a home (primary) discourse?

• Winston, Bridget, Anthony on different ways to read the closing of Rodriguez’s essay
• Jennifer on a different sort of scholarship student
• Olga Seguro, “Why the Writer Richard Rodriguez Refuses to be Put into a Box”

To Do

1. Mon, 9/23, class: Read Jay Dolmage’s “Breathe Upon Us”. I will lead our discussion. I am particularly in thinking about metis as a way fo describing how less powerful people can speak back to more powerful ones.
2. Mon, 9/23, 4:00 pm: Group B posts responses to James Baldwin’s debate with William F. Buckley, Jr.
3. Tues, 9/24, 4:00 pm: Everyone else reads Group B’s responses and posts comments on at least two. We will use these responses and comments to structure our class discussion on Wednesday.
4. Wed, 9/25, 4:00 pm: Group C posts responses to Barack Obama’s ” A More Perfect Union”.
5. Thurs, 9/19, 4:00 pm: Everyone else reads Group C’s responses and posts comments on at least two. We will use those responses and comments to structure our class discussion on Friday.