Option B | Dana Goldsteins article Two States, Eight Textbooks, Two American Stories discusses how two American states, utilize textbooks in their K-12 classrooms with different content. Think about your own K-12 learning experience (whether it be in the U.S. or in another country), compares to your college experience thus far. Is there a difference between the content you learned in your K-12 years compared to what you learn in college? (the answer to this question will be your thesis). What have you specifically learned in either college or K-12 that was different, surprising, or eye opening? Did you ever have that why didnt they teach me this in H.S.!? moment? Thinking of both K-12 and college, where do you see information, voices, histories being excluded (left out), misrepresented, or told from a particular perspective? Has a particular perspective changed due to this new knowledge? How might the education you receive and the content you learn shape your view of the world, people, communities? Ground your discussion Goldsteins study. This means, you should introduce and discuss Goldsteins ideas alongside your own ideas. Consider, also, how Bell Hooks, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Frederick Douglass, Carl Rogers, or Walt Whitman, (choose only one author to compare/contrast), might feel about Goldsteins study. What would this author say and how would they feel about Goldsteins findings? Remember: Your reader has not read these texts, so it would be helpful if they get some context through a summary of both texts when appropriate before you begin to examine their specific ideas and arguments. Use relevant textual examples, quotes, and details from both texts to support your ideas and your thesis. For THIS essay option, you must also compare content you learned in K-12 with content you learn now in college. Your first draft should (criteria): Engage techniques and skills you learned from Weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Answer the main essay question and formulate a thesis based on the question. Summarize each text (Week 2) Introduce and contextualize quotes and examples you include in your essay (Week 3) Provide interesting, relevant and specific textual quotes and details, and provide relevant examples from both texts and from your own experience and observations throughout the essay (Week 6) Paraphrase quotes (Week 3) Close read, analyze quotes, and reflect on quotes (Week 5) Cite quotes and paraphrased ideas . (Hooks 295) (Week 3) Format titles and quotes properly (Week 6) Include a Works Cited page (Week 6)Show more
