Blog Post due Tuesday 11:59PM or in class on Wednesday at 9:05AM

Homework due Tuesday Nov 30 11:59PM:

Read Barbara Ehrenreich's “Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women's Work” 479-495 and compose a blog response based on ONE of the following prompts:

1. Consider what audience this piece was written for. What assumptions does Ehrenreich make about this audience?

2. Consider Ehrenreich's ethos. What is the central argument of this piece? In what ways does her personal experience build her case?

3. Ehrenreich incorporates a range of research and statistics into her essay. Which statistical examples surprised you? Which are most persuasive? Least persuasive? Why?

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Emily's Community Narrative

Hi Everyone!

I was planning on writing about the community within a school. More specifically my high school just because I do not think that I have been apart of the JMU community long enough to write about it.

I believe that the communities established within a school are among the strongest and most stable. Within my high school everyone was farily close knit and we had things such as school spirit for example to bring us together.


As for the "Tipping People" within my narrative, I have a few thoughts in mind. I could do the typical jock or popular kids, though I am also thinking about having a teacher act as Tipping Person.

If anyone has any ideas or comments please let me know!
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2 comments:

  1. Instructor - Nicole LeeSeptember 6, 2010 at 11:14 AM

    Emily, this sounds like a great place to start. Do you think your high school is unique enough to position it as its own community distinctive from the typical American high school community? For example, I attended a pre-engineering high school which offered courses and programs that were very different from a typical high school curriculum. If this is the case, then I say go ahead.

    If not, you may want to narrow your topic by focusing in on a particular community within your high school. Did you belong to a particular club or sport? Did you have a certain cohort of classmates that was its own community within the high school? For example, I know many students feel that taking honors, dual-enrollment, or AP classes is a community within itself. You mention that you may use a teacher act as a Tipping Person. If you have a particularly unique or influential teacher, you could focus on that one class as its own a community. Keep developing this idea!

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  2. Eric VASeptember 7, 2010 at 10:32 PM

    Hi Emily,
    I really like your idea! It seems to me that you liked high school a lot and I think it'd be cool if you stayed with this community. You may want to narrow in on a specific club/organization and divisions of that club to make it more interesting for your audience.

    I loved my high school too and if you can include some sort of passionate tone in your paper, I think it would be amazing. It would help put the audience in your shoes and I can tell that you will have no problem writing this paper.

    Best of luck to you!!

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