English 11 Noodleblog

For tomorrow’s class, you should have your purpose for writing this comparison essay written down on a piece of paper.  Yes, your purpose may be to get a grade, but it should also be more than that.  Some examples from class were:

• to examine the American Dream both then and now and to critique how we interact with it now.
• to look at the differences in what parts of the American Dream are emphasized and advocate for embracing more/less of the American Dream.
• to understand the ways our concept of the American Dream as evolved/devolved and to convey that understanding to the reader.
• to answer the question: What are our underlying assumptions concerning the American Dream in the late 20th and early 21st century?
• etc.