Here is an outline of your five-paragraph persuasive analytical essay:
1.Introductory Paragraph –Writing Assignment #1
2.Body Paragraph X (Topic: Individuality)
3.Body Paragraph Y (Topic: Childishness)
4.Body Paragraph Z (Topic: Liberal Education)
5.Concluding Paragraph and MLA Works Cited Page
You need to use the present tense to refer to your sources:

1paragraph lets your reader know that in each of your three body paragraphs(Body Paragraph X, Body

Paragraph Y, and Body Paragraph Z), you will argue one different negative effect of public schooling.
negative effect is designated by the place holder X, Y, and Z.)
As you compose Writing Assignment #2 (Body Paragraph X,Y, and Z), please make sure to include all of the
“Steps”
in the Body Paragraph X model, below, in the same order that you see them here; otherwise, your grade
would be heavily penalized. You need to color-code your draft in blue, purple, orange, green, and pink as I
have done, below, in order to assure that you have included every “Step” in the correct order. A missing
and/or misplaced “Step” in your paragraph would affect coherence and would, thus, result in a heavy penalty.
BODY PARAGRAPH X (MODEL PARAGRAPH): Below, is a sample paragraph (Body Paragraph X) for you
to use as a model when you compose Writing Assignment #2: Body Paragraph Y. (See “locking them into a
permanent state of childishness” in your thesis statement, above.)
Step #1 (Topic Sentence): Public schools [X] repress students’ individuality in order to condition them to
serve the demands of the corporate workforce after they graduate.
Step #2 (Signal Phrase + Quotation + Parenthetical Citation):
Signal Phrase Formula (Place all commas correctly to avoid a fragment and/or a problem with clarity.)
• In his article [Begin your signal phrase with this prepositional phrase.]
• Include the complete title of Gatto’s article, correctly capitalized and enclosed within quotation marks.
• Include his full name.
• Include his basic professional credentials.
• Include a signal word in the present tense and a comma before the quotation.
EXAMPLE: In his article, “Against School: How Public Education Cripples Our Kids, and Why,” John
Taylor Gatto, who is a former New York City and New York State Teacher of the Year, references
Alexander Inglis, who published Principles of Secondary Education in 1918. Gatto states that in that book
“Inglis breaks down the purpose–the actual purpose–of modern schooling” (page number). Gatto observes
that Inglis identified “ ‘the integrating function,’ ” which Gatto calls the [X] conformity function because
“its intention is to make children as [X] alike as possible” (page number). –
thesis/summary copied Exactly as I have it here
Introductory Paragraph (Summary)
The IMDb.com Website states that the 1974 film Conrack is directed by Martin Ritt and is produced by the film
company Twentieth Century Fox. Writers Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr. helped take this film from the
hands of many devoted readers to seeing the words play out on the big screen. The movie is a derivative to the
autobiographical novel The Water Is Wide. Pat Conroy, the American author, published this novel in 1972
during the Civil Rights Era and Vietnam War. The setting is a segregated school for African American children
on a small, impoverished island off the coast of South Carolina, in 1969 during the Civil Rights Era and
Vietnam War. The movie is about the struggle of a young white teacher, Pat Conroy or “Conrack,” to liberate
his students from the oppressive public educational system in which they are trapped. Jon Voight plays Pat
Conroy or “Conrack,” Madge Sinclair plays Mrs. Scott, who is a middle-aged African American principal, and
Hume Cronyn plays Mr. Skeffington, the older white school superintendent. Although Conrack was released
forty-six years ago, the problems in public education that it identifies continue to persist in our nation’s public
schools today, including the public school system’s aim to dehumanize and control people in order to fit them
for the corporate workforce by repressing their individuality,(X) locking them into a permanent state of
childishness,(Y) and depriving them of a liberal education.

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