What is the common theme in all these essays? Grant Penrod “Anti-Intellectualism: Why we Hate the Smart Kids”
Amy Tan “Mother Tongue”
Daniel Felsenfeld “Rebel Music”
Tanya Maria Barrientos “Se Habla Espanol”
Christopher Beha “Leveling the Field”
Mike Rose “Blue Collar Brilliance”
Jonathan Kozol “Freemont High School”
Stanley Fish “What Colleges Should Teach”
Lynn Bloom “Freshman Composition as a Middle Class Enterprise”

Syllable added to a root word to change its meaning : affixan independent word--example run,walk,book : free morphemeaffix that gives grammatical meaning such as tense or number : inflectiona word part that must attach to a word in order to be usable : bound morphemedegree of comparison formed by adding -er or more to an adjective : comparativedegree of comparison formed by adding -est or most to an adjective : superlativeaffix added to the beginning of a word : prefixaffix added to the end of a word : suffixroot word of lovable : lovetwo roots used together to form one word : combining form