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Reading and Writing are Superpowers*
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
3.) The school laws for coates are completely different then they are for rose for rose it was different because he went a catholic school and everything had to be a certain way and if you messed up you got whipped or like in gym class he would get beat by his gym teacher with …
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 …
question two. When Rose is talking about his neighborhood he is stating how poor it is and when he moved in it was really sketchy. He says “a city that was warm, verdant, vast, and indifferent as a starlet in a sports car.” He is trying to say that it’s just a bunch of people …
