Today, you will receive three handouts:
Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to be Colored Me (1928)
Richard Rodriguez, The Achievement of Desire (1982)
Adrienne Rich, Claiming an Education (1977)

Please read these by Tuesday.  In different ways, they all speak to diversity in America and American education, the topics we are thinking about most at this moment in the class.  Please write a two or three paragraph journal response to whichever one YOU find most compelling and email it to me by noon on next Tuesday, November 12.  In your response, identify a compelling and important idea in the essay or speech you have chosen, and discuss how it relates to your personal experience.

In addition, by Tuesday, please think of three questions for the interviews we will conduct on Thursday, November 14.  For information on this please see the "interview questions assignment" linked in the previous post.

Please also work on preparing for the oral exam, coming up the week of November 25.  Here is the guide for the upcoming oral exam.