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question 1. In his voc. class he learned a lot of things and things about his classmates. On page 27 he says “I understood and admired physical prowess, and there was an abundance of muscle here. There was Dave Snyder, a sprinter and halfback of true quality. Dave’s ability and his quick wit gave him …
What important things does Rose learn from Jack MacFarland 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 MacFarland available to Coates in his classrooms? Why else is MacFarland so important to Rose’s success? Did young Ta-Nehisi Coates have similar figures …
Rose and Coates both went to seriously different schools while growing up. Coates school taught him about having a safe place off the street to occupy during the school day teaching him literacy and life skills. On the other hand Rose is actually going to school to learn. They sit down and do worksheets and actually try to work during the school day even though it doesn’t seem to be catching on to Rose. The rules of Rose’s Catholic school…
Ryan DeLuca Feb 26, 2019 ENG 123 Dr. Drown I Just Wanna Be Average – Prewriting 2 Rose states that he “… defended himself against the lessons he couldn’t understand…” What I think he means is he defended himself against the lessons that he thought weren’t useful to him, to prove this my point Rose …
Rose starts this segment of the article describing his early school years refuting the idea that “the classroom” could be an “oasis of possibilities” for a working class kid working their way out. He describes how often he mentally withdrew from the activities of the classroom. On page 19, he realizes “how consistently [he] defended …
What Rose means by this quote is that when he does not understand something he would start to day dream something he could understand. Which is normal for most kids who struggle to understand something. “I couldn’t keep up and started day dreaming to avoid my inadequacy.” I personally use to struggle a lot in […] Read More …
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 …
Pull together some material from the first four or five pages of the reading and describe Mike Rose’s parents’ immigration experience and adult working life. Then explain how Rose’s parents’ experience similar to and different from that of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s parents, aunts, and uncles? Rose’s parents emigrated to the united states and were very poor, …
The section of the reading on page 19-22 discusses Rose’s interest in his chemistry set. This interest shows a child’s curiosity with the world and how things that are more and more dangerous interest him. This is shown when his mom’s coworker has a son that was seriously injured while playing with explosives. While most …
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Ryan DeLuca Feb 24th, 2019 ENG 123 Dr. Drown I Just Wanna Be Average – Prewriting 1 The kind of child hood Rose had seems to be the kind of child hood any kid would have if their parents were scrambling for money. His child hood family contains his mother and father and a few …
