In no fewer than 750 words, write an evaluation essay of a parenting model or style discussed in one of the readings/video from this unit:
Develop your evaluation essay by using the basic features of an evaluation. Remember, you're essentially judging the parenting model or style, so your thesis statement, which should be the last sentence of your introduction, should clearly state your judgment. The rest of your evaluation will support your judgment. Be sure to quote from the essay to help you describe the parenting model and its features. You want your audience to fully understand what it is you're evaluating. Finally, be sure you know which criteria you're using to evaluate the parenting model. In essence, what do reasonable people accept as commonly held parenting standards or criteria?
Important: For this paper, you should format your paper in MLA style and use MLA in-text citations and include the Works Cited page to document the article you're responding to. The Works Cited entry is given for each source in the readings, so you're responsible for creating the corresponding parenthetical. For help with MLA, visit Bedford's free online MLA handbook.
Your evaluation essay will be evaluated on the following criteria:
How clear and focused the thesis statement is
How well the essay conforms to the basic structure/organization of an evaluation
How well quotes from the reading/video are integrated into the essay
How well the evaluation is supported with reasonable assertions and evidence
How well the essay uses clear, coherent, and correct sentences
How well the essay conforms to MLA documentation
Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior
Can a regimen of no playdates, no TV, no computer games and hours of music practice create happy kids? And what happens when they fight back?
By AMY CHUA
A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it's like inside the family, and whether they could do it too. Well, I can tell them, because I've done it. Here are some things my daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were never allowed to do:
Amy Chua with her daughters, Louisa and Sophia, at their home in New Haven, Conn.
- attend a sleepover
- have a playdate
- be in a school play
- complain about not being in a school play
- watch TV or play computer games
- choose their own extracurricular activities
- get any grade less than an A
- not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama
- play any instrument other than the piano or violin
- not play the piano or violin.