EWRT1A-62C: midterm

The best way to prepare for the midterm is to work on essay 2. This will get you close to the texts in the class and thinking about them. The other way is to go over your reading responses. The prompts for the midterm essay will be more general than the reading response prompts, but will be based on ideas discussed in class and brought up in the reading response prompts. Here are all the prompts:

• What are the differing effects of the two categories of education on students, according to Freire? Do you agree with the effects he describes? I encourage you to use your own experiences as illustrations in your response.
  
• How is Rose’s essay an example of Freire’s theories? Show the connection.
• What did MacFarland provide for Rose? Is this something that could be standardized? In other words, can classrooms offer students what MacFarland’s classroom offered Rose? Why or why not?
• Would it be possible for public schools to empower people the same way Malcolm X’s homemade education empowered him? If so, how? If not, why not?
• Rodriguez says that his education gave him a public identity. Is the same true for Malcolm X? Use specific evidence in your response.
• Tannen says that the male and female styles of communication “are equally valid in themselves” (59). According to her evidence, are both styles equally valued in the business world? What are the consequenecs of this? Provide specifc evidence in your response.
• Tannen demonstrates that differing communication styles create confict. What solution does she allude to? What needs to change to make this solution possible? Do you agree with Tannen about this?
• Is Longman promoting patriarchy, trying to avoid it, or simply predicting its rise? Give specific evidence from the essay to make your argument.
• In what way is the rise of patriarchy that Longman describes related to the backlash that Faludi argues? Give specific examples in your response.
• Does Longman make an assumption (or assumptions) that undermines or in some way inhibits his argument? Be specific about where this occurs.
• Is there a connection between Sanders and Faludi? Does what Sanders says in some way oppose Faludi’s views, or are their views linked somehow? Give specific evidence in your response.
• Explore the significance of the title. What are the effects of “The Men We Carry In Our Minds?”
• Sanders claims that he was an ally to the feminists he met in college (103). Why does he claim this? Do you think it’s true that he was looking for the exact same things that they were?