Guidelines:
1. You must develop an ORIGINAL post responding to the task (This must be an extended paragraph of approximately 8-10 sentences)
2. You must read as many of your classmates' posts as possible to develop further insight on the topic and to gauge others' perspective on the topic
3. You must respond to at LEAST 2 of your classmates' posts. This response must develop beyond a mer "I agree" or "I disagree." YOU MUST rehash what the person's main thoughts or arguments are to show general understanding of the person's position and then you must counteract that position with a different viewpoint OR support it by adding one of two additional thoughts to strengthen it.
4. Please edit your work to correct BASIC spelling and grammatical errors before submitting.
AS USUAL, you must finish your post fully, post as anonymous in order for your post to show up on the right platform of the blog. Review the rubric attached to guide your response for assessment.
Happy Blogging.
Remember to write your first name and beginning letter of your last initial at the top of each response so that you can be credited.
Blog Task:
1. Refocus on the earlier quote we had examined about how Literature is a society's mirror.
2. Take a look at this video entitled: How to raise a black son in America.
3. As you pay attention to the "Big Ideas" that reflect on our current social climate in our country, think about how the books we read and the media we engage in points to current affairs in our society but also helps to shape or reshape the way we think and therefore motivates or drives us to act.
4. Consider even how Danticat uses the novel "Breath, Eyes, Memory" to drive us to action in changing society's or cultural status quo.
Blog Question:
Should we be driven or motivated to take action only by what we read in books or what we see in the media? That is, at what point should individuals want to see change or call for change? Do books and the media motivate us at all to want change?
As you respond, you may use evidence from the video resource but you must also draw at least ONE piece of evidence as connection to what Danticat hoped to do or what change she hoped to bring about in Breath, Eyes, Memory.
1. Refocus on the earlier quote we had examined about how Literature is a society's mirror.
2. Take a look at this video entitled: How to raise a black son in America.
4. Consider even how Danticat uses the novel "Breath, Eyes, Memory" to drive us to action in changing society's or cultural status quo.
Blog Question:
Should we be driven or motivated to take action only by what we read in books or what we see in the media? That is, at what point should individuals want to see change or call for change? Do books and the media motivate us at all to want change?
As you respond, you may use evidence from the video resource but you must also draw at least ONE piece of evidence as connection to what Danticat hoped to do or what change she hoped to bring about in Breath, Eyes, Memory.
Please be guided by the blog rubric below.
