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Rose’s Prewriting #4
What important things does Rose learn from Jack McFarland in the classroom that unlocks the door to the upper-middle-class for him? To what degree was what Rose learned in the classroom from McFarland available to Coates in his classrooms? Why else is McFarland so important to Rose’s success? Did young Ta-Nehisi Coates have similar figures …
Rose’s Prewriting #4
What important things does Rose learn from Jack McFarland in the classroom that unlocks the door to the upper-middle-class for him? To what degree was what Rose learned in the classroom from McFarland available to Coates in his classrooms? Why else is McFarland so important to Rose’s success? Did young Ta-Nehisi Coates have similar figures …
Essay 3 prewriting Rose’s #3
In Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes that the “laws of school” were aimed at something vague and then goes on to reveal precisely what the laws of school for black boys and girls were for. What are the “laws” of Rose’s Catholic school? What are the laws aiming to teach? To what …
Essay 3 prewritng Rose’s
What should we make of Rose’s description on pp. 13-18 of his family house and the mixed-race, mixed-ethnicity South Los Angeles neighborhood he grew up in? Try to capture both Rose’s emotional feelings about the places he grew up and the objective dangers he very casually suggests he faced there. Compare Rose’s experiences of his …
Essay 3 prewriting #3
Why is schoolboy Coates upset about studying the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement every February in school? Why did he much prefer his own study of Malcolm X in hip hop lyrics, books, speech tapes, and other materials? You’ll need to pull together and connect material from pp. 30-37 to answer this question fully. …
Essay 3 prewriting activity 2
What are some of the “rules of the street” in the Baltimore of Coates’s youth? What does “toughness” mean in that context? What’s the price of toughness? How are those rules a response to the American Dream? This is a Text+Me question. In the article Coates’s youth was one filled with fear and protecting your …
Essay 3 prewriting activity
How does Coates portray the American Dream? What does he mean when he says that, for him, “The Dream…wars with the known world” (p. 11)? You’ll need to pull together quotes from multiple locations in the reading to answer this question fully. Coates talks about how a long time ago as Americans we caused destruction and how “its …
