CIE100: Common Intellectual Experience - Between the World and Me Writing Prompt (10 Points)
Assignment Goals
The goals of this assignment are:- To reflect upon the course texts in preparation for thoughtful discussion
- To organize thoughts into a concise and cohesive response to a targeted question
- To consider multiple viewpoints about ideas
The Assignment
In this writing prompt, you will consider the questions below and write a 1-2 paragraph analytic response that thoughtfully reflects upon them. State your thoughts or opinions about the topic, supported by at least one quote from the text that reinforces your point of view. Then consider what a counter-argument or alternative viewpoint might be, and briefly discuss it, supporting it with at least one quote as well: a quote that illustrates the alternative viewpoint, or one that pushes back against it. Submit your response through Canvas before the start of class.
UDL choice: this genre is the default for this reading, but you may swap in any of the five response genres (analytic, letter, dialogue, marginalia+aphorism, or the Four A’s) as long as the quote and counterargument requirements are met.
Struggling with the reading itself? See the guide: How to Read Hard Texts in CIE.
Writing Prompt
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Coates writes to his son about the vulnerability of the body, insisting that racism is not an abstraction but something visited upon bodies. Choose a passage where the body itself carries the argument, and discuss how this embodiment changes the way we talk about justice compared to more abstract treatments.
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Coates describes the Dream as a kind of sleep, comfortable and costly. What dream, in your own life, community, or country, might Coates challenge you to wake from? You may mark any portion of this response as private to the instructor if you prefer not to discuss it in class; the thinking matters more than the disclosure.
Submission
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