I am homeless.

I am a male.
I am a drunk.
I am a druggie.
I will use any money you give me on drugs and alcohol.
I sleep on the train and street.
I smell badly.
I always wear old tattered clothes.
I always wear my clothes in layers.
I am mean and crazy.
I am a bad person.

I am a High School Jock

I have a 2.0 GPA
I am rude to whoever want
I have a cheerleader girlfriend
I pick on geeks
I am very popular
I have a cool car
I am full of myself
I am in great shape
I am a leader
I am shallow

11/1

For Monday, read and/or make yourself familiar with the following pages in Seeing & Writing: 407-421, 478-495. Also expect a quiz on the reading.

In addition, you'll see much of our discussion will continue to be on race, class and stereotyping. By ten a.m. on Monday post here another list of the sort we did in class Monday. Choose a ethnic or class group and, following Eric Liu's model, list ten 'Ways to say I am...'

10/24

In the hopes that it will result in finer papers, I'm assigning no reading for Monday October 29th. We will, however, be working with portions of Eric Liu's 'Notes of a Native Speaker,' which can be found to the right. If you have a chance, then, I recommend looking it over.