2. Critical Thinking and Zeitoun.
Return to your class notes on critical thinking strategies.Have them in mind as we discuss Zeitoun's detention.
As a class, we will practice these techniques for one or two passages in the text. I may try and compose some of our answers together.
Then, you will compose an in-class blog where you select a new passage from the text and practice two of our critical thinking strategies on your own. You will have to begin with a quote sandwich.
Intro statement: Briefly introduce the text you're using and what it's about, and then explain to your reader about what's happening in the part of the text you're quoting from.
Direct Quotation: remember your signal phrase and correct citation.
Paraphrase: remember to say in your own words what the quote means, and highlight the parts you want to stress in your critical thinking if possible.
Critical Thinking: try out at least two strategies.
3. Class exercise: Thesis statements and topic sentences. Let's look at this intro paragraph and second essay paragraph together.
Money is crucial when it
comes to natural disasters. In the year
2005, a deadly storm known as Hurricane Katrina, swept through the Atlantic Coast. It ruined the lives of
many and also took them. Most of the rich survived while people of poverty
didn't make it alive. This was because the rich had transportation and the
resources to survive and be protected while the poor wasn't given much
attention and relied on their government to help. Even after the tremendous
storm, the role of money is still important because people who have money are
able to rebuild their lives once more while the poor can't do much about their
loss. In the following paragraph I will
explain how the lower class people and the higher class reacted to Hurricane
Katrina and what the Government did to help or rather make matters worse.
Money is vital to our survival and it played as an
important role during the Hurricane Katrina.
Some as such people that would know this would be from the Lower Ninth
Ward of New Orleans. As they were deficient in cash, a circumstance was made where the people there had no helpful
transportation or resources as they were trying to survive. Those who couldn't
evacuate during the storm, stayed back in the Superdome which was used for
shelter as last resort. Despite the plan of the Superdome being used as an
evacuation center, the irony in it was that the evacuation center didn't supply
enough food or water for the people there. There was no equipments or materials
in the Superdome that is usually there when needed during a natural disaster
crises. The people was even told to bring their own supplies if they were to
evacuate to the Superdome. There were approximately 9000 people in the
Superdome. To be in a crowded place with not enough food, water or even a
toilet can be seen as a horrific moment. Other than that, there were rumor's on
rape, vandalism, violent assault and many other crimes being started in the
Superdome during the evacuation process. However, it was not confirmed. The
poverty people of New Orleans that stayed back during the storm had to go
through this much, even with an evacuation center that was supposedly to
benefit you.
Now lets look at just the topic sentences for the rest of the essay, and see if they match the thesis.
Paragraph Three
Meanwhile, some middle-class people in New Orleans had to face difficult
choices also, such as whether holding their family business down during the
storm or to evacuate, leaving their
wealth, business and home. The Zeitouns, from the book Zeitoun by Dave Eggers,
had a interesting experience of Hurricane Katrina because they had to choose if
they should leave all their belongings in the Hurricane or to evacuate and save
themselves.
Paragraph Four
As victims of Hurricane Katrina, people were facing a difficult time and
choice while The United States government however, who actually had money, chose
to delay the aid that was supposed to be given to Katrina victims
Paragraph Five
In the way these information are given, It can tell that money truly took
place a very important role during the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina and
that it could have changed the disaster in many ways. From transporting people
out to the very end of rebuilding the place back. People in the Lower 9th Ward
had to face even difficult terms than the middle-class people such as the
Zeitoun's
Next Class: Counter-arguments. Bring "They Say I Say"
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