If you missed our LAST CLASS on Thursday, then you missed two things: (a) an in-class writing on the theme of our final response paper, and (b) the response paper itself! Luckily, I'm posting (b) below. This is due NO LATER THAN THURSDAY, MAY 4th BY 5pm! I can't accept late papers since I have to get final grades in that weekend, so please be careful! This is your final assignment, worth 10 pts. out of 100, so it's a letter grade. It will push you one way or another in the class, so not doing such a simple assignment would be disastrous. Read it carefully and e-mail it to me anytime between next week and the 4th. Good luck!
Final Exam Response: The Clan
of College
“The catch, or the double-blind,
about the whole thing is this: If it isn’t pulling from tradition, how is it
Indigenous? And if it is stuck in tradition, how can it be relevant to other
Indigenous people living now, how can it be modern?” (
PROMPT: For your final response exam, I want you to write a short reflection on what it takes to switch from ‘pretending’ to be a college student to really being one. Just as Orvil feels like he’s only a “pretendian,” do you think many students feel like they’re just “faking it until they make it” in college? Since college is so full of traditions, expectations, and aspirations, is it difficult to find your way here? What ultimately separates a college drop-out from a college graduate? Is it a state of mind? A way of thinking or behaving? Or something else? In other words, what does it mean to belong to the ‘tribe’ of college students? How do you feel like you belong and are not merely playing dress-up?
REQUIREMENTS: There There is all about the search for identity in a world of tradition, stereotypes, and confusion. So find AT LEAST ONE passage in the book that helps you talk about your experience in college over the past year. How might you share the same search for identity and belonging as many characters in the book? Find a passage you can connect to and you can explain to your readers (and please, don’t use the passage I quoted above—find your own).
Write more than a paragraph: give me AT LEAST A FEW PAGES (double spaced) that really talks about your experience and history while in college (either at ECU, or at other institutions if you’ve transferred from elsewhere). This is worth 10 points, and should be a very easy reflection since it’s totally about you, and you only need one passage from the book to connect to. So make it honest, interesting, and insightful. I want to give you as many points as possible on your way out of the class!
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