Reading required to complete this second essay assignment:
Jean Anyon’s “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work”
Mike Rose’s “I Just Wanna Be Average”
Website: http://www.city-data.com
The Essay PromptIs Anyon right to claim that a school’s socio-economic class determines the type of instruction students receive? I want you to find out by analyzing and discussing Mike Rose’s experiences with teachers described in “I Just Wanna Be Average” and your own school experiences with at least two instructors you have had. In this essay, you will analyze these teachers using Anyon’s categories as explained in “The Hidden Curriculum.” What does your analysis uncover? Your thesis statement should explicitly answer the question I’ve highlighted above.