英语202

英语202 is an accelerated college preparatory class designed to prepare students to move directly into college 英语1. It includes in-class time to practice reading and writing skills, and focused support with 阅读和写作 essays, but moves faster than 英语 201A/201B. This course is non-credit, and does not count toward an AA-T/AA/AS degree, and is non-transferable. It is graded Pass/Satisfactory Pass/No Pass and is often chosen by:

• students who had limited experience with academic reading and essay writing in high 学校，但是 高度自我激励 and ready to advance quickly
• students who would like to establish a stronger foundation in 阅读和写作 before taking college 英语

The following is a short excerpt from the text Education and the Significance of Life克里希那穆提著

Chapter 1: Education And The Significance Of Life
作者:克里希那穆提 Education and the Significance of Life)

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia. 这是特别的 true in colleges and universities. We are turning out, as if through a mould, a type of human being whose chief interest is to find security, to become somebody important, or to have a good time with as little thought as possible.

Conventional education makes independent thinking extremely difficult. 整合 导致平庸. To be different from the group or to resist environment is not easy and is often risky as long as we worship success. 想要成功的冲动 which is the pursuit of reward whether in the material or in the so-called spiritual sphere, the search for inward or outward security, the desire for comfort - this whole process smothers discontent, puts an end to spontaneity and breeds fear; and fear blocks the intelligent understanding of life. With increasing age, dullness of mind 心脏开始跳动.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion. 这种对生活的恐惧， this fear of struggle and of new experience, kills in us the spirit of adventure; our whole upbringing and education have made us afraid to be different from our neighbour, afraid to think contrary to the established pattern of society, falsely respectful 权威和传统.

克里希那穆提,Jiddu. Education and the Significance of Life. 哈珀和罗，1981年.

Essay 1: Education and Imagination

赋值

Write a 4-5 page paper connecting ideas presented in Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian to Krishnamurti’s piece on education or Leslie Marmon Silko’s piece “Landscape, History, 和普韦布洛人的想象力.” What common themes do you observe? Alexie的渲染怎么样 of Junior’s world similar to and/or different from the readings? 使用双方的引号 texts to make your arguments.

开始:

• Select which essay you will focus on
• Observe themes in the Krishnamurti or Silko essay and find parallel themes in Alexie's 小说
• Discover the relationships between the essays – are they similar, are they expanding on each other, are they conflicting with each other?
• Outline your paper before you begin writing. Don’t order your paragraphs randomly. Think about how your arguments shift through the different essays.

论文的规范:

Use MLA citation to format direct quotations from the book. 4-5页双倍行距. (12 point New Times Roman Font, 1-inch margins, and stapled). 把你的草稿交上来 最后的草稿. 需要作品引用页.

所需的文本:

• Alexie, Sherman and Ellen Forney. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. 利特尔，布朗，2007.
• 克里希那穆提,Jiddu. Education and the Significance of Life. 哈珀和罗，1981年.
• 西尔科，我是莱斯利·马蒙. "Landscape, History, 和普韦布洛人的想象力," 安泰 57(1986年秋)，882-894.