The last big assignment before the final exam is designed to be practice for the exam. Pretty neat, huh? Here’s how it works:
Just as with the final exam, you will read and study two essays. To make our all our lives a little easier, we are using two essays you already know well: James Baldwin’s “If Black English Isn’t A Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” and Gloria Anzaldua’s “How To Tame A Wild Tongue.”
Here are those links:
You read these. Again, yes. You TAKE NOTES. You MARK THE MOST IMPORTANT LINES.
On SUNDAY 11/28 at 12:01 am, the Unit 3 assignment will go live on Blackboard. It will be open until TUESDAY 11/30 at 11:59 pm.
During that time, you will go to Blackboard and open it. There will be three questions. You will choose ONE to answer in the form of an essay of approximately 500 words — think 5 paragraphs.
The thesis of your essay will be YOUR answer to the question, plus three facets you will explore further in order to make your point. Each of your three body paragraphs will explore one of those facets. And then you will have a conclusion that applies your ideas in a different way. Watch the video I’ll send later on this topic.
Here’s the thing: you HAVE TO QUOTE FROM BALDWIN AND ANZALDUA. Yes, AND. BOTH OF THEM. That’s a major requirement of the final exam and therefore of Unit 3. When you quote Anzaldua, you will use parenthetical citation to show the page number.
That’s the deal. I’ll grade it using the final exam rubric, so you get a sense of how that works.
