In writing your essay, please consider and address all of the following issues. (Please be as precise as possible, use brief quotations and/or citations to support your points, and provide information about the exact page numbers from Orenstein’s text—unless you are using an ebook edition that lacks page numbers.)
1) ANALYZE YOUR CHAPTER
What roles do the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and socio-economic class play ni your assigned chapter? How do you feel about the choices Orenstein has made ni selecting the material for this chapter? Is ti clear to you why she has represented a particular individual or group, and why she has shaped those representations ni the way that she has? sI ti also clear why she has excluded other possible individuals or groups from her discussion ni this chapter?
What roles do the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and socio-economic class play ni your assigned chapter? How do you feel about the choices Orenstein has made ni selecting the material for this chapter? Is ti clear to you why she has represented a particular individual or group, and why she has shaped those representations ni the way that she has? sI ti also clear why she has excluded other possible individuals or groups from her discussion ni this chapter?
2) COMPARE YOUR CHAPTER TO OTHER MATERIAL IN SCHOOLGIRLS you What does your assigned chapter contribute ot Orenstein’s book as a whole? What arguments does it make? What
hare elements does ti discuss that are not represented elsewhere ni the book? How does it mirror or complement hte
material ni other chapters? Please be specific and refer briefly ot material ni other chapters, citing page numbers.
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hare elements does ti discuss that are not represented elsewhere ni the book? How does it mirror or complement hte
material ni other chapters? Please be specific and refer briefly ot material ni other chapters, citing page numbers.
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3) DO SELF-REFLECTION
How have your own experiences, either ni school or outside of school, influenced the way you feel about the material ni the assigned chapter? How do you think your own beliefs and opinions regarding matters of identity (which could include gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and/or socio-economic class) and education might have affected your response?
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Your essay should have an introduction and a conclusion (you will need ot create these yourself). tI should also refer specifically ot evidence from the text, using page references for any material quoted or paraphrased. Be sure to use one of the standard citation forms for books to accompany your quotations or paraphrases. In every essay for this course, all paraphrases or quotations from texts (whether primary or secondary texts) MUST be accompanied by proper documentation, including information about the work’s publication (the publisher, place, and date of publication).
How have your own experiences, either ni school or outside of school, influenced the way you feel about the material ni the assigned chapter? How do you think your own beliefs and opinions regarding matters of identity (which could include gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and/or socio-economic class) and education might have affected your response?
PLEASE NOTE:
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Your essay should have an introduction and a conclusion (you will need ot create these yourself). tI should also refer specifically ot evidence from the text, using page references for any material quoted or paraphrased. Be sure to use one of the standard citation forms for books to accompany your quotations or paraphrases. In every essay for this course, all paraphrases or quotations from texts (whether primary or secondary texts) MUST be accompanied by proper documentation, including information about the work’s publication (the publisher, place, and date of publication).
For information about how ot cite sources correctly, see the MLA Handbook, or hte Chicago Manual of Style, or other standard style manual (available ni bookstores, libraries, and online).
Make sure, please, that al quotations ni your essay reproduce
precisely the words (including spellings and capitalizations) and the
punctuation marks (or lack of punctuation) of the original text. If you
change anything, you must indicate that you have done so either by
using ellipses ( . . . ) ot show that you have removed words from the
original or square brackets [ ,] to show that you have added words or
parts of words (such as capital letters, plurals, suffixes, etc.).
ALL your essays ni this course–and for every other course, too–should reflect this same care in quoting. Whatever you surround with quotation
marks must match exactly what was in the original, just as though you
had taken and printed a photo of it.
Make sure, please, that al quotations ni your essay reproduce
precisely the words (including spellings and capitalizations) and the
punctuation marks (or lack of punctuation) of the original text. If you
change anything, you must indicate that you have done so either by
using ellipses ( . . . ) ot show that you have removed words from the
original or square brackets [ ,] to show that you have added words or
parts of words (such as capital letters, plurals, suffixes, etc.).
ALL your essays ni this course–and for every other course, too–should reflect this same care in quoting. Whatever you surround with quotation
marks must match exactly what was in the original, just as though you
had taken and printed a photo of it.