Lesson Eight: Other Perspectives
Lesson One
A Quilt of a Country
(Blizzard Bag Activity #2)
Closely read Anna Quindlen's 2001 article "A Quilt of a Country," and write a précis that summarizes and responds to the text.
A Quilt of a Country
(Blizzard Bag Activity #2)
Closely read Anna Quindlen's 2001 article "A Quilt of a Country," and write a précis that summarizes and responds to the text.
- Provide FBI (Full Bibliographic Information) for the article. This is the type of entry that you would put onto the Works Cited page of a research paper. If you forget how to do this utilizing other resources, then use this link to remind yourself. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/
- Write a summary of the article. The summary should be no more than fifteen lines typed. Focus on the big picture that is presented.
- Write a response to the article. Make a claim that can be argued. Support your claim logically. Feel free to cite correctly from the article as well as from other sources of information and conjecture to help support your position. Your response should be no more than one page long. Be precise.
- Please submit this formative assignment to Turnitin.com AND turn in a hard copy to Mrs. Trentanelli and Mr. Soeder via the classroom inbox. This is due by Wednesday, February 12, 2014.
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Lesson Two
Immigration and Poverty
(Blizzard Bag Assignment #3) - DO NOT COMPLETE UNTIL INSTRUCTED TO DO SO
Please review the websites for the Grameen Foundation, Kiva, and Heifer International, and respond to the following prompt:
Sonia Nazario, author of our next class text Enrique’s Journey, contends that immigration “is a powerful stream, one that can only be addressed at its source.” There are a number of organizations that are using innovative economic approaches to ending one source of immigration, world poverty.
Examine the website of one organization linked above. In your response, which needs to be submitted to Turnitin.com AND the classroom inbox, explain how the organization operates and evaluate if this strategy is an appropriate response to Nazario’s argument that immigration “ is a powerful stream, one that can only be addressed at its source.”