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Essay 3 Possible Approaches

Essay 3 Possible Approaches

Access and/or barriers to college: is or should college be for everyone? What does one gain, or lose, depending on your answer? (Gee, Fortin, Ungar, Scheuer) College should be for the ones who feel it is right for them. It isn’t about class (Ungar’s quote to support this). If they don’t go they could be losing access to discourses (Gee and Fortin). The discourses they would lose access to are important, they would lose citizenship (Scheuer) and critical thinking (Maybe…

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Essay 2 Possible Approaches

Essay 2 Possible Approaches

Gee and Newstok both address an idea of apprenticeship and imitation in their pieces, and Newstok’s ideas are complimentary to Gee’s. In Newstok’s article “How to Read Like Shakespeare” he explains his reserves with modern schooling and eventually explains what he thinks is lacking. One of those concepts is apprenticeship which he explains requires “an exacting, collaborative environment, with guidance from people who knew more than you did.” (Newstok). To me, this is the same idea that Gee has when explaining how…

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Pages 13-17 Gee Reading Log

Pages 13-17 Gee Reading Log

Explain Gee’s concept of “filtering” (15) and how it impacts primary Discourse acquisition. Why do some people more than others just seem to “get” reading, or find it easy to master dominant secondary Discourses? Gee’s concept of filtering is a process where aspects of secondary Discourses are filtered into a primary Discourse. It represents a transfer of features that allows a child to practice secondary Discourses while learning their primary. Some people, according to Gee, find it easier to master…

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Pages 7-9 Gee Reading Log

Pages 7-9 Gee Reading Log

Using direct quotation and or paraphrase, explain the difference between primary and secondary Discourses. What are some examples (e.g. special ways of talking) of your own primary Discourse? Gee divides secondary Discourses into “dominant” and “non-dominant Discourses” (8) and explains that our “mastery” or fluency in any Discourse depends on “the extent to which we are given access” to the institutions associated with them. What for Gee is at stake in our ability to master a dominant secondary Discourse? What…

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