Write a substantial paragraph describing your site so that someone who's never been there can picture it.
Post your paragraphs by MONDAY 11/24 BY 5PM ON THE DISCUSSION BOARD
Post your paragraphs by MONDAY 11/24 BY 5PM ON THE DISCUSSION BOARD
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Write a substantial paragraph describing your site so that someone who's never been there can picture it.
Post your paragraphs by MONDAY 11/24 BY 5PM ON THE DISCUSSION BOARD
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Please read Kelly Lo's essay "Chinatown: A Guide to the Mysteries of a Lost World"
Also, read Jhumpa Lahiri, “Rhode Island” and E.B. White “Once More to the Lake” Write a one paragraph response to something in either Lahiri’s or White's essay that interested, intrigued, infuriated, or provoked some other emotion in you. HOMEWORK DUE THURSDAY 11/20 BY 5PM 1) Read Thomas Friedman, "America's Real Dream Team" (NR 327); Brent Staples, "Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's" (NR 329); Jack Hitt, "The Battle of the Binge" (NR 340); and Maureen Dowd, "Lady Psychopaths Welcome" which can be accessed via this link: http://nyti.ms/1sykZto (if you cannot access it, please let me know).
After reading Friedman, Staples, Hitt, and Dowd, think about what these four editorials share and how each differs from the others. Write a paragraph in which you compare and contrast at least TWO of these editorials (you DO NOT have to tackle all four). Some questions to consider: Which one(s) do you find the most effective? Why? What is the larger issue that they tackle? How do they use particular examples or a particular scenario to address a larger social issue? Think about the list of formal characteristics of an op-ed, which you have already generated. How do these texts respond to that list? Do they add any new formal characteristics? Do they defy any formal characteristics? Your paragraph should include at least TWO specific references to TWO different editorials. Read James Baldwin's "Stranger in the Village" (NR 304), and track Baldwin’s use of the word “stranger.” What does it mean? How and why does the meaning shift? Pick one especially interesting use of the word “stranger” and write a paragraph in which you discuss the nuances of this key term. Include a sentence or two on how being a stranger helps Baldwin bear witness to injustice. Please post your response by Monday 11/8 at 3PM.
Read the MLK / Malcolm X handout and argue an alternate position in a brief paragraph. Do not chose one side or the other; instead, add new insight into the conversation (introduce a third claim). While you should not merely agree with Martin Luther King Jr’s or Malcolm X’s position, you may draw from either or both authors’ arguments when making your own claim.
Please post your response by Monday, 11/3 at 3PM. Read "Letters from Birmingham Jail" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (NR 818)
Choose one moment where you can detect King altering his approach to his argument in order to persuade his audience and write a paragraph analyzing his rhetoric. Also, try to identify King’s tone. Your paragraph should include a well–integrated and analyzed quotation from King. Please post your response by Thursday 10/30 by 3PM Read Molly Ivins, “Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns” (Norton 405); Jo-Ann Pilardi, “The Immigration Problem Is About Us, Not Them” (Norton 406); David Brooks, “The Gender Gap at School” (Norton
After reading Ivins, Pilardi, and Brooks, think about what these three editorials share and how each differs from the others. Then, write a paragraph that describes the editorial as a prose form meant to persuade readers: what do all editorials need to do? (You might want to include a list of formal characteristics of an op-ed in your paragraph.) Your paragraph should include at least one specific reference to how an editiorial (by Ivins, Pilardi, or Brooks) succeeds or fails in achieving the generic task of reaching out to readers and expressing an opinion. Note: this exercise is about the form of the op-ed, not about the extent to which you do or do not agree with the writer. Post your responses by Thursday, 10/23 at 7PM Read Joey Franklin, “Working at Wendy’s” NR 25 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “In the Kitchen” NR 260. Write a paragraph about the main claim of each essay. (That is, this exercise consists of two {2} separate paragraphs.) Your paragraph should identify that claim and the main evidence each author uses to support that claim; then, you must assess the strengths and weaknesses of the claim (maybe its powerful or weak evidence, maybe persuasive or faulty reasoning, etc.). Please post your responses by Sunday, 10/12 at 3PM. Then between Sunday and class, read through the threads, and comment on at least two paragraphs.
Read Sandra Steingraber, “Tune of the Tuna Fish” NR540; Michael Pollan, “An Animal’s Place” NR619. Identify the main claim in each essay. (Just do this in your notes so that you’re prepared for discussion.) Look back at your notes for this paper and write a paragraph in which you address the ethical dimension of your dish. What larger issues (e.g. of diet, consumption, health, the environment, or faith) does your dish raise? How does your dish connect to larger cultural phenomena?
M.F.K. Fisher, “Young Hunger” NR206; Chang-Rae Lee, “Coming Home Again” NR 3. Think about how Fisher and Lee make us care about both them and the food they describe. Following their example, write a one-page paper (no more) describing a dish that matters a lot to you. (This might be the dish you focus on, but it’s o.k. if you change your mind along the way.) Your description should include both information on how to make the dish and why it’s important to you (perhaps its importance is cultural, personal, or perhaps it has some other significance: part of the choice and challenge of this paper is figuring out how to make that cultural significance relevant to us.)
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