Blog #8

My Commonplace essay will probably be about how colorblindness affects our actual school system. I think it definitely speaks to my audience (my English class) because the students in my class are from everywhere around the world. So, they might have experiences with any kind of racism or they probably have an opinion on racism. That is how I am going to make my audience curious about my essay. I am thinking about starting with a little story about that topic. Maybe I will try and use Scruggs’ (an author of one my source in my ARP) story at the beginning of my text. She tells a story about a black child who went to school and was treated slightly differently than the white students. Additionally, the teacher did not talk about the African culture at all. He started right away with the Greek culture. This inequality made his mother really mad about the school system and she started to speak with the head master of the school and the teacher. This story will created curiosity on the one hand side and on the other hand side it will create pathos (emotions). Particularly pathos catches interest. Then I will try to develop my thesis that we have to change our curriculum to solve that problem. Another point might be that our old system of colorblindness is wrong even though it has been a good first step out of the racism in the 50ies and the 60ies but the idea has to develop.