Prompt 5

1. Who: professor
What: importance of French language to Cajun culture
When: 1604-present day
Where: University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Why: to use her knowledge to learn more about her Acadian heritage

2. Meal-Many benefits for speaking one's heritage language.
E-Examples and benefits; speaking french can help when traveling; it helped her relationship with the generation who spoke before her; also a better understanding of the culture with pride.
A- She shows an agreement from someone explaining how they love when they can speak French to their step parentes.
L- The analysis links the evidence to the main point summing up what she's talking about.

3. Reminds reader of time period of culture; Lists main points; Analysis of a quote; persuasion of saving the Cajun heritage and language; a quote saying how unique Acadian heritage is.

4. The key idea of paragraph 2 is "Not stopping at that," which states there is more to be described through the next paragraph. The 4th paragraph key is "because," which simply states her main point again leading to a new main point through the next paragraph. The 5th paragraph "It has been approximated" and "it is clear," states that she is summing up her main point leading to a new discussion later in her paper. I could not tell because she was stating an example of her traveling to France and back. As I read the beginning of the next paragraph, culture did sum up what she had said in the previous paragraph. For nearly four hundred years now, the Acadian's culture have been struggling to live the simple life that they desired..etc.

September 28, 2011 8:39 PM

Discussion Prompt 4

1. This passage applies to both women and men. The fact that women should not have the upper hand in their intelligence even from the past is just absurd. I feel as in any race or gender should have an equal chance to have an education, therefore women should have respect towards themselves to not be condescended from men.


2. When Rich says "ethical and intellectual contract," she is referring to personal boundaries in the classroom. From an ethical standpoint, teachers have boundaries and moral codes that they must stay within. The intellectual contract refers to boundaries of a teacher's ability to instruct and a student's ability to learn. Teachers must teach to the best of their ability, and beyond. Students must always learn whatever they can and then try to absorb more.

discussion prompt 3

Jonathan Landry said...

1. I normally look over a paper assignment at least 10 times before, 10 times during, and 10 times after. The reason is because I tend to blur the words out of my mind while reading it the first few times because I am usually telling myself I do not want to do this assignment. After I catch on reading, I double check myself while working on the assignment and after to make sure I have followed everything the assignment asks for. The benefit for looking over the assignment after completing it is simply to check for errors you could have possibly skipped over.


2. Considering evidence is your feedback. It is your proof to audience that you are not making up the information given to them. There is proof from sources to explain your argument. Dealing with a personal experience and beginning to explain can be one thing, but having the reader understand and believe you is another. Having legit sources can persuade a readers' mind to understand and believe you. It can also give the audience a picture in their mind to remember, for those who are visual learners.

3. The most useful information from "Academic Writing is an Analysis", is
explaining what analyzing really means. Giving this information gives a more broad explanation of what the term really means. When told to analyze something, I usually freeze and take a few minutes to interpret what the instructor has asked me to do. Reading these three things on how it should be interpreted really benefits my needs. I believe giving more information about having your essay be the result in your analysis would be very helpful. Thinking about this confuses me when reading it.

4. The similarities of section "Three Characteristics of Academic Writing" and to the rubric of assignment 1 is all the same. The section provides you with information based on what other professors from another college university believed an academic writing essay should claim. The same things are based on the rubric comparing to the article in simpler terms for the audience to read. The only difference comparing the two pieces are the wording. Although the wording is different, the expectations are precisely the same.

September 13, 2011 8:18 PM 

Discussion Question Two

1.  The values of "homemade" things are very important because they are memories that will stick with you for the rest of your life. Homemade things can be made good in the way we teach our kids to play sports. Our parents may yeah us the way they were taught, but when we get to co-league and high school they try to change many things we have been doing for many years. The coaches sometimes think that their way is the right way, no matter how good you are or even how far your habit has gotten you. No I do not think anyone else has educated themselves.

2. Malcom relates his freedom and education very close to one another. The education allowed him to have much more freedom than the other cell mates had. He was allowed to stay in the library for many hours copying the dictionary and reading books. He even says, "I wouldn't rather be anywhere other than where I am now, reading." He would hide from the guards during the late hours when he knew he was suppose to be sleeping, but his education was much more important than the freedom he knew he would lose if he got caught. Hooks quote relates a lot to how Malcom felt with freedom and education.

3. I am passionate enough to pursue studying science. My goals would be to go out and teach others everything I had learned from being locked in a cell and the only thing to do was to read about my passion. I would need to achieve how to make hypothesis, theories, explanations, and experiments. My new found literacy would help me to go out and teach others and even learn more about my passion.