Niigon’s 1113 Essay Exam
Questions
Here are the essay exam questions that
we have created for our exam. I know I said ten (10) originally but I have
selected nine (9). As mentioned, we will have a choice of six (6) of these for
our exam, and you are to choose two (2) of them for it.
Explain how two (2) of Knoblauch’s
four types of literacy is related to the girl’s experiences in the school
mentioned in Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes essay “Civilize Them With a
Stick”. Evaluate how these schools helped or did not help native people to
adjust to non-native society.
Discuss how the children of East St.
Louis in Jonathon Kozol’s essay “Savage Inequalities in America’s Schools”
are more or less likely to be ‘problem children’ as defined in D. Stanley
Eitzen’s essay “Problem Students: Sociocultural Roots”. Identify as well how
schools can learn to deal with these students according to Eitzen’s
solution.
Prove that the problem students in
Eitzen’s essay “Problem Students: Sociocultural Roots” are literate or
illiterate according to Knoblauch’s four definitions of literacy.
Compare and contrast the
relationship between D. Stanley Eitzen’s idea of big-time college sports as
a business in his essay “Big Time College Sports: Contradictions, Crises,
and Consequences” and the influx of American corporations sponsoring high
schools in Steven Manning’s essay “How Corporations are Buying Their Way
Into America’s Classrooms”. Evaluate whether or not you believe money is
corrupting education at the high school and college level.
The idea of human recognition is a
prevalent idea in both Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, and Nikitah Imani’s essay
“Black Students at Predominantly White Colleges and Universities” and
Jonathon Kozol’s essay “Savage Inequalities in America’s Schools”. Explain
how this idea is essential for the problems mentioned in both essays to be
dealt with.
Compare and contrast how racism is
perceived in the essays “Black Students at Predominantly White Colleges and
Universities” and “Civilize Them With a Stick”. Trace as well how this
alienation leads those disempowered people to take action.
Illustrate how the conditions of
either school in Jonathon Kozol’s essay “Savage Inequalities: Children in
America’s Schools” would create a ‘problem student’ as identified in D.
Stanley Eitzen’s essay “Problem Students: Sociocultural Roots”.
Examine the way focus is being taken
away from education in Manning’s essay “How Corporations are Buying Their
Way into America’s Classrooms” and creating illiterate or literate students
using Knoblauch’s ideas of literacy.
Using the points made by Manning in
his essay “How Corporations are Buying Their Way into America’s Classrooms”
and by D. Stanley Eitzen in his essay “Problem Students: Sociocultural
Roots”, agree or disagree with the following statement: Media and
commercialism in schools create problem students.