Questions for Unit Three

3 What kinds of evidence does this essay present?
Multiple resources from books and papers that people have wrote about particular aspects of this essay. I have never really read an essay like this to tell you the truth. Citations are only what they seem to be I guess. They could be merely made up or quoted from some quack who doesn’t know his head from a bowling ball. Nut having the information there if I so choose I can look it up myself and make a decision myself. Personally I tried to look up the online transcript “double talk” and didn’t find anything there. But I looked up Crawford James, bilingual education and found that it was a true form of research and seems to be creditable. Reading it the first time I truly didn’t catch it all as is the case with me. I read it the second time with the intent to find something and it seems that with a little reference here and there it sure does help make a point that the author (Elmore) is trying to make.

4 Notice Elmore’s section heading? What purpose do they serve?
Seems they have a grand purpose of explaining the paragraphs to follow. Breaking them away from the previous lines, and generally separating the whole paper up into more manageable augments.

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Compare both essays?
Well I felt that the first essay was a little more to the point as it was talking about “bilingual education” I talked about how it effects youth in school that can’t comprehend what’s going on because they do not understand the language. To teaching those in their native language will keep them learning until they can grasp the change over from one language to another. They will still be learning the whole time not trying to catch up as it were to everyone else after they learn a new language. Seems to be a good argument.

The second essay was full of statistics and numbers and references to people living better lives because they went to head start. While I could see that education is a very important aspect of growing up it seems to be pushing the envelope a bit. Like making judgments that children without the extra education afforded by head start will be more likely to commit crimes and marry out of wed lock and are labeled at-risk children. That with head start they will became respectable people in the community and starting off on the right track early will keep them out of jail. Seems to be a very bold essay and it is more about what it might cost to send every child to head start or preschool, compared to what it will cost later down the road when they have family troubles, institutions, legal issues, and much more. Seems to put a lot of importance into the head start program.