Class Agenda 5.20

1. What was one memorable aspect of the video project from Thursday?


2. Announcements
Essay 1 revisions due June 1
Make-up blogs and Twitter for partial credit due June 1
Essay 2 essays due ASAP for those that requested extension
New Jim Crow reading will appear on course blog
Students that plan to edit need to confirm with me

3. Pair work: Racial projects and class psychology in Chinese Girl

welfare (74) community center (94) --

theft and ownership (81) / hatred of thieves (82) / immigrant conflict (127)

subhuman (93) racism (106)

hard work (104) / no Chinese (108)

defend ourselves/shame (107) / Maria (111)

ethnic pride (116) / privileged life (119) / war zone (140)

4. In-class writing

Goal
In today's hour we are going to discuss a specific strategies for the “critical thinking” section of our writing. We can use this strategy for our class blogs and our essay assignments. 

For the purposes of critical thinking, let's add this new strategies to the ones we learned in our previous class.[Note: what did we learn in the last class?]

·         Close-reading of language. How can we go beyond paraphrase and “interpret” the meaning of the passage by focusing on specific words?

·         Connecting the idea to a relevant passage in the same text. How can we connect this passage with another to deepen its meaning?

·         Connecting the main idea to another text. How can we connect a main idea we’ve discovered in the passage and relate it to a relevant idea that we’ve found elsewhere?

  
For this exercise, focus on the second strategy.