Rumspringa
Paper #3- Rumspringa and High School/ College Modern Life
This paper will compare and contrast the Amish re-socialization process during the Rumspringa period with your own personal experience during an analogous period of your life.
Purpose of paper:
Define Rumspringa and explain its purpose in Amish faith and culture
Explain how Rumspringa can illustrate cultural contradictions or tensions -Consider Rumspringa in light of key Amish values
-Consider the tensions of parenting and adolescence given the different pressures during this period Describe the variety of forms that Rumspringa takes and the various meanings that surround it Consider gender, geographic, settlement/church district differences
Discuss your personal experience of college (required) and high school as is relevant to this comparison
- Gather insights from your transition from family centered and to peer centered life
- How are you /were you re-socialized?
i.e. How have your values changed/ways of viewing the world changed? Please be specific. -Describe some of the diversity experienced within college -The typologies within the College Life reading will be helpful
Let us know if you went to the writing center, how it was helpful.
Audience:
You should target your paper for people who are not familiar with the Amish Rumspringa and are also not familiar with college and high school you experienced in the “Modern” world.
Logistics:
Length: Minimum 4 double spaced pages
Deadline (s):
First Version – Provisional Version Tuesday Oct. 29th 9:00 am (turn in on blackboard) Peer Review Tuesday Oct 29th print your paper and bring into class
The peer review will be worth two commentaries. You can’t get credit if you don’t turn in a substantial draft that morning. First Version-Post your Paper Friday Nov. 1st midnight – This is what we will grade Stay tuned for details on Version #2 (additional information
This paper will compare and contrast the Amish re-socialization process during the Rumspringa period with your own personal experience during an analogous period of your life.
Purpose of paper:
Define Rumspringa and explain its purpose in Amish faith and culture
Explain how Rumspringa can illustrate cultural contradictions or tensions -Consider Rumspringa in light of key Amish values
-Consider the tensions of parenting and adolescence given the different pressures during this period Describe the variety of forms that Rumspringa takes and the various meanings that surround it Consider gender, geographic, settlement/church district differences
Discuss your personal experience of college (required) and high school as is relevant to this comparison
- Gather insights from your transition from family centered and to peer centered life
- How are you /were you re-socialized?
i.e. How have your values changed/ways of viewing the world changed? Please be specific. -Describe some of the diversity experienced within college -The typologies within the College Life reading will be helpful
Let us know if you went to the writing center, how it was helpful.
Audience:
You should target your paper for people who are not familiar with the Amish Rumspringa and are also not familiar with college and high school you experienced in the “Modern” world.
Logistics:
Length: Minimum 4 double spaced pages
Deadline (s):
First Version – Provisional Version Tuesday Oct. 29th 9:00 am (turn in on blackboard) Peer Review Tuesday Oct 29th print your paper and bring into class
The peer review will be worth two commentaries. You can’t get credit if you don’t turn in a substantial draft that morning. First Version-Post your Paper Friday Nov. 1st midnight – This is what we will grade Stay tuned for details on Version #2 (additional information