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The books!!!!!!!


This is the FIRST time that I have EVER forgotten to do my homwork . .. no lie . . . . (I feel like crap)

OK!

Anyways, I was suppose to read one of the non-fiction books, but I didn't . . ARGH!
And I was suppose to answer these questions . . and if ya'll have read ANY of the books, PLEASE HELP ME! I swear, I will do anything! ARGH!

1. Who's the narrator/speaker of the piece and what is he/she to the event or situation in the work. (I don't get that question >.<)

2. Whats the historical context of the work? (What is going on in the world at the time of the piece)

3. Whats the connection between the narrator/speaker and the historical event of the time in which the work is set?

4. Is the narrator/speaker actually involved in the events of the hitorical background, or is he/she prospecting into the time for effect.


PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!



Or can ya'll give me the basic information about one of the books?

[l jennzie xOxO l]

haha I totally read the gatekeepers! but I read it three years ago for school too...I barely remember. The narrator is an admissions officer at Wesleyan Univ. It basically just follows him around as they read through a few select student's apps and how they make their decisions. Not really any historical thing happening? I'd say just goggle the title and I'm sure you'll find a summary and synopsis somewhere....

lmao...hopefully thus far into your high school career you have learned the art of "not reading books" but mastering them anyways. =] Good luck.

EDIT____ I even found some for ya =] haha

In the fall of 1999, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg had the chance to find the answers to these questions when he was given a remarkable opportunity: the chance to spend nearly a year observing the selection process at Wesleyan University. No reporter had ever been given such extended and unfettered access, and The Gatekeepers, his account of that experience, offers one of the most compelling and fascinating portraits of how the higher educational system works in American today.

The Gatekeepers opens in the fall semester, as Steinberg accompanies the central figure of the book, admissions officer Ralph Figueroa, on his annual sales trip around the country, as he presents the case for Wesleyan to groups of high school seniors, while assessing the most talented among them. In the course of Ralph's travels we meet a number of prospective Wesleyan students whom we will follow through the course of the academic year, as they compete for places in the nation's most elite colleges.

There is Julianna Bentes, a gifted multiracial student on scholarship at an exclusive Los Angeles prep school who is pursued as ardently as any pitching prodigy would be in the major leagues; Becca Jannol, who broke a cardinal rule as a high school sophomore and then takes the risk of writing about what she learned from the experience in her college essays; Migizi Pensoneau, a Native American who has overcome a poor educational record to successfully attend a progressive, experimental school in New Mexico; Jordan Goldman, an ambitious Staten Island writer for whom attending an Ivy League school has been a lifelong dream; and Aggie Ramirez, a Dominican who has already shown herself to be a natural leader, but whose grades have suffered in the process.

Because Steinberg has had the cooperation of the Wesleyan staff, the students, and their teachers and advisors, we are able to follow the admission process in every detail, from the initial reading of the applicants' essays to the final, often contentious meetings at which their fates will be decided. The Gatekeepers will be required reading for every parent of a high-school age child, and for every student who is facing the arduous and anxious task of applying to college. Never before has this mysterious process been revealed with such clarity, such insight, and such drama.