Monday-Friday 20-24 October

This week students had Monday to finishing preparing to complete the work sample for the following prompt. The next two class periods were spent producing the synthesis paper.

I’m not You, So Who Am I?

Prompt: A cultural-anthropologist from PSU is conducting research on Millennial’s attitudes and understanding about how they identify themselves and how that has or hasn’t changed from previous generations.  You have been selected to write an essay that compares and contrasts your perspective as a Millennial to those of past generations. Use Truth, Momaday, Mason, Kaplan, Casares, and/or Mukherjee’s essays to define identity as they seemed to have defined it, as they collectively represent earlier generations.  You can also refer to the series of caricatures from the late 18^th and early 19^th Centuries, the Radio Lab excerpt we listened to, and the film Crash.  In your expository synthesis essay define how these authors describe who they are and how they compare and contrast from the way you identify yourself or how your generation defines itself. Try to identify the various aspects of self that you consider important, referring where appropriate to the essays in this chapter citing the source with the author’s name and page number.  Be sure to discuss your own identity, in other words define who you are, how you see yourself, how others might see you, and how yours and your peers’ attitudes differ from previous generations.

Final Product: Your final written product will be an expository synthesis essay with the cultural-anthropologist’s as your audience.  Use MLA format

Materials and Resources Required:

·      Copies of the Thomson Reader: Conversations in Context 2007 Edition by Robert P. Yagelski

·      You may use your notes.

You’ll only have two block periods to complete this task; we will be in the computer lab next week. It is obviously VERY, VERY important that you be in class

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