For this essay, take a moment to think back to high school or grade school.Ý What were the cliques in your school? First, describe these groups and who was included in each one. (Be as concise as possible while still being specific.) Then discuss the logic (or illogic) of these groupings, and point out the effects these cliques had on the class as a whole. You may want to discuss what students were left out of the groups and how these outsiders affected the system, or any other problems you see. What was the function or purpose of dividing the class in this way? And finally: Might there be a better way of dividing students? Is division necessary or inevitable, or is it avoidable? Discuss the logic at work behind this process of division and classification.

400-600 words. Due Thursday, February 14.