- Please type (double-space) your responses to the following
questions.
- Clearly identify each question.
- Include cited textual evidence to enhance/illustrate responses.
- You should end up with 1.5 to 2.5 pages of typed responses
for each book.
- These will be collected the first day of class and graded.
The Color of Water, by James McBride
Answer all the questions below:
- What challenges does McBride encounter?
What challenges does his mother encounter?
- What does religion enhance his life? Consider how religion
contributes to his transition from childhood to adulthood.
- What motivates McBride to excel?
Select one of the following OR a nonfiction work of comparable
merit that interests you:
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm
Gladwell
*A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey From the Inner
City to the Ivy League by Ron Suskind
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens by Alice Walker
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer
by Tracy Kidder
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara
Ehrenreich
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys
Its Way Into Elite Colleges by Daniel Golden
*The Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
Answer all the following questions:
- What is the rhetorical situation for the text?
(a) Who is the author? What do we know of him/her? Who is the
speaker and what is his/her /persona?
(b) What is the overall purpose of the text?
(c) Who is the intended audience?
(d) What is the subject of the book?
(e) What is the context? (consider time period, what is going
on in country at the time, etc.)
(f) What is the genre?
- Choose a passage that you feel is significant. Copy the passage,
including page number. Explain the significance of the passage.
- Find a visual that in some way complements or illustrates
the passage you chose and attach it to this packet. (This can
be a photograph, painting, graphic, chart, ad, etc.) Explain
how your visual captures the significance of the passage.
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