Essay Assignment:

In this essay you will be making a claim regarding your ideas on education.

In your paper you will be analyzing and/or comparing the ideas of any of the authors you have read this quarter. What is their stance on education? What are their ideas on learning or creativity? What are some of the claims made regarding power, poverty, transformation and society? Where do they agree, and where do they disagree? How does your own personal experience lead you to either support or disagree with their conclusions? How have your classmates' views on education informed your own or enhanced your understanding of the readings?

· Introduction: Use an engaging method to introduce the general topic and provide background for your thesis. Then introduce any texts you are discussing. Give the authors' names, their main ideas about learning/education and the titles of the two essays.

· Thesis: Your thesis will be created from your own ideas about some specific aspect of education that we have been learning about all quarter. You will, of course, use a careful analysis of the author's and classmates' ideas and arguments. You may write about the ways ideas have informed your own. You may compare and contrast the differences and similarities of several works. (You do not have to agree with any author. You may find things you agree with, or disagree with, in the essays you are comparing.) In this paper, please integrate your thesis into the end of your introductory paragraphs.

· Body Paragraphs:

· You do not need to completely summarize all the ideas in any essay, but you do need tosummarize the main points you are analyzing and illustrate your claims with quotes from the texts.

· Analyze the author's ideas on education. Do the writers' ideas inform each other? In what ways? Do the writer's arguments support your own ideas? Can you present evidence or reasoning that disputes any of the writer's arguments? Give examples