CHOOSE ONLY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS TO ADDRESS IN YOUR SHORT ESSAY:
TOPIC 1 GENDER ROLES-- ANALYZE 2 WORKS YOU READ IN THIS MODULE:
1. What are the readings saying about women's roles and a women's place in society?
2. Are gender and sexual identity an important aspect of growing up in a Latin family?
OR
TOPIC 2 LANGUAGE -- ANALYZE 2 WORKS YOU READ IN THIS MODULE:
1. How is language relevant to identity?
2. How does bilingualism influence a person's psychological development?
3. How is the experience of translating for a family as a child influence family relations and a child's relationship with language and his/her family?
4. How is a language used as a means of colonization?
OR
TOPIC:
1. How is "Land Ethic." The Great Turning. Ishmael. and The Earth Charter interrelated?
2. What is your place within the context of these texts and movements?
3. Make sure to analyze the works in your essay.
Make sure to include/analyze at least 2 works from Module 2 or 3 in your short essay.
You will not be able to reply to other students until you create your own post. When you're done. get to know some of the other students in the class. Reply to at least 1 other student. If you are one of the first students to post in a discussion forum. you may have to return to the forum later to complete the reply posts.
The essays in your "new thread" in the discussion are Gordon Rule assignments. Therefore, you should use your best writing skills when you work on these assignments. Each essay and discussion assignment has four basic requirements:
1. Prepare: Read the literature and take note of its discussion question. Be careful to answer the discussion question for each essay. Your work needs to be "on topic." as the saying goes.
2. Write: Adhere to the length requirements for the essay and the discussion portion of the assignment."New Threads" should be at least 500 words in length. As you write. Blackboard will keep track of your word count. so it's easy to know where you are. After you submit your new thread. you will be able to read the other students' posts. Your essay MUST have an introduction, 2 short body paragraphs, and a conclusion. If you submit just one paragraph for this assignment. you will automatically receive no more than 60%. Organization /Format Reminder: Keep in mind that this is a short essay assignment, not a paragraph assignment. Thus, you must have an introduction, body, and conclusion in your original response.
3. Reply: You must respond to at least 1 other student to earn full credit for the assignment. Replies should be at least 30 words. Your responses could be just one short paragraph.
4. In-text Citations: You must use at least ONE quotation per work you analyze in your short essay. Please place an in-text citation (also called a parenthetical citation) immediately after you close the quotation marks and before you place a period for your sentence. That way. anyone in the class (including me!) can easily find the quotation in the text if necessary. If you're not sure what to place inside the parentheses, review MLA style in Module 1.