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Prompt: Re-read and analyze the passages/texts listed below. After reading the passages, write a well-developed, multi-
paragraph essay that argues whether or not education leads to power. Use specific details from at least two of the texts
we’ve read.

Topic Education, Power and Discrimination

Target Audience (Mrs.
The essay is written in first-person. The writer didn’t use slangs, but he use basic vocabulary.
Day)

-Education could empower people, but some of the use it in a wrong way.
Claim (in essence, this -Some people discriminate other because they do not have enough sources as food, clothes and
is your paper’s thesis) others.

Reason 1 Some people that have education abuse the power their education gives them.

Supporting Evidence Supporting Evidence Supporting Evidence

“I stood up and raised my hand. ;What is “I guess she couldn't see a kid who “The teacher thought I was a
it now?’ ‘You forgot me?’ She turned made noises because he wanted troublemaker. All she saw from the front
toward the blackboard. ‘I don't have time someone to know he was there.” of the room was a little black boy who
to be playing with you, Richard’” (Gregory). squirmed in his idiot's seat and made
(Gregory). noises and poked the kids around him”.
(Gregory)

Commentary Commentary Commentary

The teacher ignored to Gregory because The teacher focused on her class. She The teacher judged the appearance. She
she thought that Gregory did not have never asked her students; what did not know how Gregory spend their
the knowledge. She create differences happened? Or how do they feel? She time, if he eat or not. She mistreated
between her students gave them the class without worries him, she made him feel bad, and she
about her students´ lives. thought that he did not have any value
as the others.

Erika Valencia Jácome