Essay 3: Writing an argumentative thesis for one of the topics below:
"From Degrading to De-Grading"
"Everything You've Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong" (standardized testing)
"Prudence or Cruelty?"
"Unspeakable Conversations"
"Our Baby, Her Womb"
Essay 4: Refute, support or complicate the argument that the assigned selections from Chapters 4 and 5 evidence that the American dream of upward mobility is largely a myth.
Consult the following essays:
"Against School"
"Learning in the Shadow of Race and Class"
"Preparing Minds for Markets"
"The Consequences--Undoing Sanity"
"Fifteen Years on the Bottom Rung"
"How the Poor Are Made to Pay for Their Poverty"
"I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave"
Linda Tirado online essay
Essay 1: Sherry Turkle's "Flight from Conversation" and social pathologies
Essay 2: Man's Search for Meaning and "Gooseberries"
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