Class #9

Hand in your Remembering papers.

We discuss writing about readings.

We read "Teach Diversity -- with a Smile" by Barbara Ehrenreich, page 158.

You write about this article.

Grammar exercise.

Homework

1. Use pages 162-164 to help you write a paragraph of response to "Teach Diversity" in your journal.

2. Read in Reid pages 361-367, an essay by Debra Tannen called "How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently."

3. Look at the article choices below for your next writing assignment, the Summary/Response paper. You must choose which article you will write about; if you want me to print out a copy of an online article, you must send me an email before class Thursday with your request. Otherwise, you will need to make your own copy to work with. (Make sure that you print out ALL the pages of the article. There will be a minimum of six pages, usually more.) If you dislike all these choices, you may choose another article from the New Yorker archives, and ask for my approval by email.

4. Finish the grammar assignment.

5. Two vocabulary words.

THE ARTICLE CHOICES:

In Reid, "The Homeless and Their Children" by J. Kozol, pages 304 to 311.

In Reid, "Miss Clairol's Does She or Doesn't She?: How to Market a Dangerous Product" by J. Twitchell, pages 245-250.

Link to "What Helen Keller Saw" by Cynthia Ozick.

Link to "The Naked Face" by Malcolm Gladwell. (Can we read minds?)

Link to "How David Beats Goliath" by Malcolm Gladwell. (How can underdogs win?)

Link to "Hellhole" by Atul Gawande. (Solitary confinement)

Link to "Troublemakers" by Malcolm Gladwell. (Pit bulls and more)

Link to "Crimson Tide" by Atul Gawande. (The science of blushing)