Jeremy’s AP Blog

1. I disagree with what prose is saying in fact I think the opposite. I think that the dislike of reading is born and natured in English Class.

2. I agree with what she is saying when she talks about fitting the curriculum to each individual rather than to a group of students.

1.Prose is talking about events in her own life and relating it to the lives of the readers, using ethos.

2. Prose uses these negative words to set the tone of the essay. Although these are strong words that may risk putting off the readers I do not believe her word choice would change the outcome.

3. She makes the assumption that reading in class is not fun and says, “given the dreariness with which literature is taught in many American classrooms, it seems miraculous that any sentient teenager would view reading as a source of pleasure.”

6. I agree with what prose is saying, that if the new age of writers are learning how to write by unsuccessful writers it is similar to having new doctors being taught by bad doctors.

7. These questions are used to help make this subject easier to understand.

8. I think that having current high schoolers would strengthen her stand because having people who are living in this moment right now are going to have the clearest opinion.

9. The reason that video is so valuable to America is because of how fast it can be published and how easily it can be accessed. There is no reason for a teenager to read about an event if there is a video that they can watch.