Warm Up: Rose Ch. 6

Throughout chapter 6 I noticed that Rose was having the veterans do a variety of reading and writing assignments. Particularly with the veterans he focused on summarizing, classifying, comparing, and analyzing. He would assign short readings for them to summarize, and would bring in different forms of art for them to classify and compare. He also brought in numerous quotes for them to compare and analyze. He chose these types of assignments because according to Rose, "[his] students needed to be immersed in talking, reading, and writing, they needed to further develop their ability to think critically, and they needed to gain confidence in themselves as systematic inquirers" (Rose, pg 141).

The school classified most of the veterans as remedial, which marked the students as being outsiders of the school and the academic community. The tag of remedial would make the students feel as though they weren't competent enough in their literacy skills, and that everybody knew. This could affect them in many ways, but Rose tries to overcome those tags and help his students break into the "academic club" through developing their skills in writing and reading, and using the assignments mentioned above.