--Week Five--


...to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, has not pledged allegiance to you.--James Baldwin, from his argument at the Cambridge University debate “Is the American Dream at the Expense of the American Negro?” 
Haven't seen a mill lately? Maybe this will help you understand the metaphor:
Samples of a people that had undergone a terrible grinding and regrinding in the mill [...] shivered at every corner, passed in and out at every doorway, looked from every window, fluttered in every vestige of a garment that the wind shook. The mill which had worked them down, was the mill that grinds young people old; the children had ancient faces and grave voices. --Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. 

Class Meeting

Essay 1 Workshop. Essay 1 instructions.

Not sure where to get a biography of your author? Go to LaGuardia Library > Databases to find a good biography of your author. Click on "Citation Tools" to grab the MLA style version of the reference for your Works Cited page.

Before you leave, you may want to ask a classmate to be one of your readers. Just a thought.

For Next Class
  1. Read: Extracts from Between the World and Me (2015) by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  2. Read: Kindred--"The Fight": 1-10
  3. *Write: Journal 5 (Coates)
  4. Write: Journal 6 (Kindred--"The Fight": 1-10)
When you have completed the writing process for Essay 1, turn in