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In-class writing exercise.
1. In a follow-up to our class Monday, let’s practice
writing the kinds of strategies we
need to use for close-reading individually.
First, the basics:
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find a
manageable quote you believe supports a theme from the text you find interesting, and which bring forward new possible meanings for our study of riot culture, or the psychology of communities that might participate possibly in rioting (in this case, maybe the 1964 Harlem Riots or later riots of the 1960s).
- place your manageable quote into an integrated sentence
- tin a sentence, then write a paraphrase for this quote
Now, write at least three
sentences that explain the significance of the quote using thse strategies
- 1) explain the significance of each
major word or phrase from the quote, and, if possible, explain the relationship
between the words (imagine the words are ideas)
- 2) connect the quote to another short passage in the text, and explain
the meaning of the quote’s relationship to that passage
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3) connect the quote to another passage in another class text, and state their relationship
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