Journal assignment covers the following readings:
Roberts - Marx
Roberts - Weber
Thompson - The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved
McGee - Silver Spoons vs. Blue Collars
Lipsyte - NASCAR Values
You are expected to give a brief summary of each reading, addressing each author's key ideas and concepts. Tell me what the author is trying to communicate. What's the main takeaway? Finally, what can you say about the collection of readings? Can you make sense of the five readings as a group? What do they say collectively?
Successful journals will be approximately 4-5 double spaced pages in length. They will correctly identify the key ideas in each reading, and finally synthesize the readings into one coherent statement.