The assignment will consist of three distinct sections, each meaningfully engaging with a concept from the chapters, class discussion and the world.

This assignment is to show your meaningful engagement with the class discussions and the readings. After carefully reading chapters 8-11, participating in our discussions, and reflecting on your class notes you will prepare 2-3 well-written pages (500-750 words) (12pt font, double-spaced) for your reading response. The assignment will consist of three distinct sections, each meaningfully engaging with a concept from the chapters, class discussion and the world.

Select three concepts/ideas from the readings that are interesting to you (each concept must come from a different chapter (Chapters 8-11).

1. For each of your three concepts do the following: First, select a brief quote from the chapter (1-2 lines – please include page number!) that captures that idea. Explain in a few lines what this idea is and why it is interesting to you.
2. Next, briefly relate this idea to something specific from our class discussion (even if we didn’t directly discuss the idea you selected).
3. Finally, select something else from the real world (a personal experience, a newspaper article, a documentary, etc – be sure to provide a link to this is appropriate) that helps you explore the idea further (with new insights, challenges, questions, etc). Explain why they relate and show your engagement with the material from class.

Repeat this for the other two concepts from other chapters.

NOTE: Please do not summarize the chapter. Your ideas do not have to relate the concepts to one another. You do not need introduction or conclusion paragraphs for this assignment. Quotes from the readings do not count toward the final word count.