10 Sep assignment1: write a paragraph (around 200)+reply at least two class (50words each *2)

 assignment1: write a paragraph (around 200)+reply at least two class (50words each *2)

 assignment2: write a paragraph (around 200)+peer review (50 words)

assignment 1: Sharing Passages from Freire

After reading Paulo Freire’s chapter on education, please select one passage from the text that you found particularly significant, interesting, difficult, or confusing.  A “passage” may be only one sentence, and it may be up to about one paragraph, but make sure you select a passage that is “juicy” enough that you’ll have plenty to say about it. 

After typing your passage, write a paragraph where you comment on at least two of the following things:

• What did you find particularly interesting in this passage?
• Why does this passage seem significant in the context of the larger chapter?
• What questions do you have about the passage?
• Was there anything in the passage that was confusing to you?  Why?  What have you discovered about it now that you’ve thought about it more? 

After posting, please read your classmates’ posts and comment on at least two of them to respond to either their questions or their ideas. 

assignment 2: Working with Thesis Statements with hooks

Now that you’ve read bell hooks’ essay, we’re going to spend some time thinking about what she is arguing in it.  Have you ever heard someone say “everything is an argument”?  The idea means that usually people are not really just telling you something for the sake of talking about it– they are actually trying to convince you of something.  Even though hooks’ essay includes a lot of personal anecdotes and reflections, she ultimately is making some different arguments that she is hoping to convince her readers to agree with by the end of the essay.  

For this discussion post, please look back through “Keeping Close to Home” and pick out at least TWO passages where you see hooks stating an argument she wishes to convince us to of.  Similar to our previous discussion, type the two passages in a post below and then explain, in your own words, what she is trying to convince us of.  By the way, putting her quotes into your own words is called “paraphrasing.”  More on that later.  

For this assignment, you should respond to ONE peer, letting them know if you can add on to their paraphrase or if you disagree with how they paraphrased it.  If so, please let them know how you would paraphrase it to make it more accurate or complete.