How might the writer talk more about not only what Tara learns but how she learns it? (And how Westover represents that learning?)
Tara Westover describes her memoir, Educated, as the story of a “changed person” (329). Please locate a scene or passage in Part Two of her book that either illustrates how Westover begins to change, to learn, to become educated, or shows some of the obstacles she faced in doing so. Explain why you feel this is an important or suggestive (or troubling) scene.
Appoint a secretary. Share the passages that the members of the group have identified. Speak briefly (or simply read your fastwrite) about why you selected this particular scene.
Then, as a group, decide on three scenes that you’d really like to discuss in class on Friday. Send me an email in which you list those scenes (with page numbers) and say, in an sentence or two, why you’d like to talk about them. I’ll use these emails in structuring our class discussion on Friday.
E110: Seminar in Composition 