After reading “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, I would title my essay “School-Blocked”. The children who had moved from the south to the north seemed to be left unattended by the other adults in their life and ran free in the streets of New York. A neighborhood women whom had went to college herself, “Miss Moore”, found it her due diligence to spread her knowledge to school these children on the block they grew up and played. In my essay I would write about how “Miss Moore”, reached them, as at first the children were weary of paying attention to her and were very opinionated of who she way. They made comments “This lady moved on our block with nappy hair and proper speech and no makeup”. (Toni Bambara 1). With her persistence the she was able find a way to engage the children. One of those ways included enticing them into a car with five dollars after teaching or schooling them about money. This sets their journey to the store where they see a large price tag for $1000 on a toy sailboat and even learn about a paper weight. I found the paper weight discussion interesting as it leads to another discussion as the children compare dynamics of their lives and only one of them has a desk. I would also highlight their nervousness to walk into the store and yet their excitement prior to entering while window shopping. My essay would be about reaching the youth of the street, simple acts and the big lessons learned through the teachings of Miss Moore.
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When I took ENG 101 Professor did not really teach about grammar or how to write essays. I got to learn a lot in my ENG 201 just in two weeks. For example, every page after the first one has to have header, I did not really know what thesis statement’s purpose is till I get to go through slides that offered here. I did not know much about the structure of essay before this class. I did not really know what run on sentence or statement fragment were and got to learn it here. By using outline, I know how to structure the essay, how to start it (introduction that includes thesis statement which is the main idea of my essay), how properly insert quotations into the flow of my essay. After working on my essay #1 for few days and being successful at it – I know for sure Chat GPT will not help me with it and I’m once again will rely on myself.
