Welcome to your ROCK blog on SOLD
Divide your book into three roughly equal sections.
Read the first third in one week.
Your first blog post is due Thursday, March 6.
Your first comment is due Tuesday, March 11.
The next two weeks will match this same format.
For your first blog post, after reading the first third of the book, you are undoubtedly curious about the setting, the period, the conflict. Do some research on something that you have a question about.
In your blog post, describe the following:
1. What did you read in the book (page #), and what did it make you wonder about?
2. Cite your source. This doesn't have to be a formal citation. You can say something like "according to...."
3. Paraphrase (don't cut and paste) your research.
For your first comment, read through the blog and find someone else's post that interests you, someone who researched something else you were interested in. ADD to their research like so:
1. Tell them what happened in the book that made you wonder about the same topic.
2. Add further research about that topic. Cite your source and paraphrase your research.
After reading the first third of the book Sold, it made me realize so many things about my lifestyle and how we don't really see the things that are so important in our society today, when they are right in front of our eyes. Lakshmi is a thirteen year old girl who has a great impact on her family. Her mother Ama, does everything in her ability to keep her family in line, while the step-father just thinks everything will get done for him. Usually the men in our society have an equally distributed effect on the family, but in this case the man is the superior and everything must be done out of respect for him, and the woman gets no say. They don't live in the wealthiest area, but they do what they can to stay a normal family. What really interested me was what Lakshmi had to do when she got her "first blood." On page (14.) was when she realized that something was different about herself. She had gotten her first blood, and she was delighted to tell her mother. But she was surprised at what she had to do for 7 days, and how the world excepted her to do all these things for men just because she had became pure and a women. Reading all the things she had to now learn to do for men just because she had gotten her first blood, was really interesting. It made think about what other cultures did when this happens, and why in our culture we do nothing and keep living our lives with just one more thing to worry about once a month. I want to find out what other cultures do when something like this happens and why we are so different from the people that are really experiencing the world as it really should be.
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job at direction #1. Now do some research (you say, "I want to find out what other cultures do when something like this happens and why we are so different from the people that are really experiencing the world as it really should be" so why not research that?) ,cite your source and discuss your research findings.
ReplyDeleteWhere r the directions for the comments or do u just say what you think
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