"In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"

Here is an on-line source for "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens."

EWRT1A-09: reading response 3

Reading Response 3
Alice Walker “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”
Choose one or come up with your own focus.

• According to what Walker shows in this essay, what are some of the forces that hinder people from being true to their own identities? Use specific examples to demonstrate a larger theme.

• What does Walker’s essay show us about how people are able to find their own identities? What do people need? Use specific examples to demonstrate a larger theme.

• This essay is full of artists. Using some of these artists as examples, what does Walker’s essay show you about the possible function(s) of art? In other words, what does this essay teach us about the purpose of art?

EWRT1A-09: office hours

My office hours are on Mondays before class, from 9:45-10:45. I'm in the library, on the second floor next to the staircases. If that time doesn't work for you and you want to meet with me, then let me know.

EWRT1A-09: grammar review 1 and Malcolm X

Here is grammar review 1. Either print it out or write your answers on another sheet of paper.

A few of you haven't been able to get the book yet. Here is a link to Malcolm X's "Learning to Read."

On page 68 of our reader, Malcolm X states: "many who today hear me somewhere in person, or on television, or those who read something I've said, will think I went to school far beyond the eighth grade." If you've never heard Malcolm X speak before, then you may not understand why this would be true. So here is a famous speech Malcolm X gave at Oxford in 1964. As you listen to it, remember that he is almost entirely self-taught.

EWRT1A-09: essay 1

Here is the prompt for essay 1.

Also, here is a pdf of the slideshow I went over in class.

EWRT1A-9, Winter 2012

Here is the syllabus for EWRT 1A section 9.