Homework Assignment

In this week's episode of English 609 we found ourselves doing page upon page of homework using the trusty "They Say/I Say". Granted I was first thinking, "Why" but when I actually sat down to do it I found it rather helpful. I, like a few other students, wait a little to close to the deadline to finish my assignments, but this assignment actually gave me a head start.



My final project will have to do with identity, voice, language and cultural borders that are constructed or addressed in young adult Chicano/a/Latino/Hispanic literature. In having to put together a works cited list I went through and looked at what I was most likely to use and then found some essays that would support my argument. The two essays I choose were "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" by Gloria Anzaldua, and "When I was a Young Soldier in the Revolution" by Bell Hooks. These were the two essays that I used for the They Say/I Say assignment.



Graff and Bikenstein offer many options for templates, some better than others, and some that are easily restructured to use in our writing. The quote introduction seemed a little, "I know how to do that", but what I really found helpful and useful were the quote commenting, agreement and disagreement. The disagreement in particular helped me look at the two essays and question what it was I was agreeing with and how that would fit into my argument.

There was I point that I thought to myself, "How can I disagree with Gloria Anzaldua, I mean it is Gloria Anzaldua, she is the reason I have questions about borders to begin with," but forcing myself to disagree brought more understanding.