The Making of the English Working Class

Writings by white, male, upper-class individuals dominate the canon of Western History. While such a dominance does not negate their scholarship, the voices of the marginalized—women, the poor and ethnic minorities—are not represented in this limited historical viewpoint. Many mid-20th century historians felt that there was a need to counter this inequality of representation. For example, E.P. Thompson, Clifford Geertz and Natalie Zemon Davis each generated works that revealed the history of a…

Making a dart for English 1A Through this class, I gained confidence on writing an essay. Before EWRT 200 class, I had many questions such as “what is the essay? What to write about? Where to put transition? Why do we have to write an essay?” However, when I went up to EWRT 211, some other profound questions came up with my mind, which were “How to make connection with the given idea and my idea? How to make a more strong detail?”, rather than those above questions that I though, when I was EWRT…

This year in English 101 I have learned a lot of new writing skills. I have learned new grammar skills along with learning how to make my writing stronger by adding more details. I plan to keep working on my summaries because as the semester has gone on, I have learned how to make my summaries better than they have been. In the future, I will use my writing skills a lot in the profession I plan to go in which is education. I will have to write letters home to parents and I will need to make them…

I really never liked writing before English 101. In high school my teachers never really had us write a whole bunch of papers. The most papers I had ever written in high school would of been about two papers each year. I hated writing papers in high school, I thought it was torture to have to write any paper no matter if the length of the paper was a page or five pages long. I have grown over the semester because of my thesis statements, Conclusion, and pre-writing/outline. I have developed…

mother did not introduce English until Litzy turned 4 years old; a year before entering school. Litzy’s mother, and stepfather tend to communicate in both languages often using Spanglish at home, but now at 11 years of age, and a soon to be a six grader Litzy has dominated the English language, putting aside what she had previously learned in Spanish. Litzy says that the only time she speaks Spanish is when she is communicating…

help. By analyzing their students and their progress teachers can help these students accomplish what they need to. In Mr. O’Malley’s sixth grade class there is Maria. Maria has started just begun the school year and speaks no English. Aside from knowing her name and age there is not much information on her native language or her background with English. Throughout the first few…

accomplishment is something I have been working very hard on over the course of my senior year. At my high school courses called dual credit are offered to seniors in the subject’s government and English. These courses are much more advanced seeing as they are actually EPCC courses and when completed students revive college credit for them if their semester averages out to at least an eighty. The most challenging class out of both that I am enrolled in is English 1301 which consist of writing…

an English Major. It was created to be that first stepping stone towards graduating with a Major in English. While I was never an English Major, I did expect this class to be an easy course. As the semester progressed I realized that there was more to being an English Major than simply writing essays. I would like to preface this essay by saying that this class has most definitely helped me with my major as well as forcing me to think critically about the information covered in this class.…

experiencing a drastic average drop in their first year of university. The level of education they provided is noticeably different. First of all, more homework and labs are assigned by university professors, requiring students to spend more time working outside the classroom affecting sleep, mood,…

less than a year I have gained a vast amount of knowledge. Both in education and real life lessons that I will carry with me for eternity. In particular my English Composition class as well as my Intro to College Writing I learned an abounding amount of things that have shaped how I write and shaped the way I think about things. In my English classes I grew as a student and writer through the three units we did, music, movies and games. In the music unit I learned an abundance of things.…