Directions:Write a two to three page response to any of the following items:

• Relying upon your own experience, describe how you “best learn.” Consider how you learn any or all of the following: critical thinking skills, composition, reading, grammar. Accompany your essay with a drawing of your “theory of learning.”
• Assume you have been assigned to read a short story by James Joyce, and that you will discuss the story the next day in class. Describe your reading process for this assignment.
• Read again carefully E.D. Hirsch’s position on “cultural literacy” (pages 17, and 38-41). Discuss why you agree or disagree with Hirsch. Consider the strengths in his position as well as the flaws in his assertions.
• If you have experienced “tracking” in your education, describe the positive and negative effect tracking may have had on your learning.
• Choose any passage in Chapters One through Four and respond to it.
• Describe one incident from your education thus far that summarizes how you feel about English.
• Elbow’s book was first published in 1990; hence, many of his examples may appear to be “dated.” Is the book itself out-of-date? In other words, has education changed so dramatically in the last ten years that Elbow’s concerns, resolutions, and descriptions for change are obsolete? 
• What questions do you have about Peter Elbow, composition, English, learning, or teaching now that you have read these chapters?  Write five questions and respond to them.