Assignment
Writing Prompt
Choose a type of education or lesson that comes from some community/culture in which you are a part. Then in a 4-5 page thesis-driven essay, answer the following questions:
What is a cultural value that your “education” has passed on? Why should or should not this value be reproduced?
Assignment Texts
Anzaldúa, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” Borderlands/La Frontera. Aunt Lute Books, 1999. o Gruner, Elisabeth Rose. “Education.” Keywords for Children’s Literature. Edited by Philip Nel and
Lissa Paul. New York University Press, 2011.
Cathy Park Hong. “Bad English.” Minor Feelings : An Asian American Reckoning. One World, 2020.
hooks, bell. Teaching To Transgress. Routledge, 1994.
Young, Vershawn Ashanti. “Should Writers Use They Own English?” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
