BLUE HIGHLIGHT: STRONGLY RECOMMENDED BUT NOT REQUIRED

THE QUIZ will be based on the following PRIMARY TEXTS:

- cartoons
- The Black Hand (short)
- The Skyscrapers of New York (short)
- New Yorker's cartoon on Hachette&Amazon
- From The Transplanted: HOW AMERICANS IN 1891 BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH MAFIA  (assign. Feb 4)
- SON OF ITALY:  Chpt 1-3 page 44

-- ALSO on the QUIZ  SON OF ITALY:  Chpt 4-6  to page 73.

Here are some links to old quizzes and study guides: Cartoons   New Orleans    Shorts     Son of Italy   

WRITING:   DOWNLOAD THIS TEMPLATE AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS   CLICK THIS LINK

Task 1: Note taking.   Take notes of Son, chapter 4-6. Use a telegraphic note-taking style,. Start with page number and add a few words to help fix in your memory important moments in the plot, or details and aspects that seem very meaningful to you.
This will show me that you have actually done the reading and will help you focus on the major points of the plot and "message."

TASK 2: 

1) Looking back at the first 6 chapters of the book, what of these two aspect of the book captured your attention:

A) the "pathos," (the emotional content, the anxiety, fear, empathy-sympathy for the characters):

B) OR the concrete information with historical significance you learned. Now, for instance, you could describe what poverty really meant for those people. It's no longer purely abstract, it has concrete elements, rats, the garret, the poor, the desperate.
You also learned about their "primitive" world full of superstitions (?) and imaginary dangers.

You are not going to write a decent essay unless you first resolve in your mind these issues (or others).
You MUST REFLECT ON YOURSELF and identify what IS IMPORTANT TO YOU, WHAT GENERATES INTEREST, WHAT RESONATES INSIDE OF YOU.

Please, do not tell me what the book says. I know it already, I don't want a book report. I want to know about you, how you think, what is unique in your way of seeing things.

You are looking into the text and the text bounces back your portrait. Any work of art tell you who you are, not what the artpiece is about. It's the emotions that art elicits that counts, and the emotions are you.