question nine/take one

Question nine: If you had to pick only one essay for a writing teacher to read, what would it be?

As the question doesn’t specify what the writing teacher may or may not already have read or experienced, where he/she is at in terms of his/her teaching career, who his/her specific audience is, what he/she hopes most or needs to accomplish, etc. my pick would be Jay Lemke’s “Social Semiotics: A New Model for Literacy Education.”