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1A - Seminar #2
Alice
Walker, Everyday Use (20 points)
Note: Your seminar grade will
be determined by the quantity of your responses (how many questions you
answer and how many other students you respond to) and the quality (how
well you demonstrate an understanding of the ideas you're responding to,
how detailed your responses are, how coherent and in-depth they are, etc.)
Directions:
1. Read the short story
above.
2. Answer the following questions with at least
one paragraph each. Include quotes and specific references to the text
in your answers. Submit your response to the Assignment Chamber
(you can either type the responses out beforehand and copy and paste them
into the chamber, or just type them directly into the chamber) .
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1. What are some of the symbolic
meanings of the quilts? What do they represent for different
characters? |
| 2. What are the main conflicts between characters? What
would you say is the central conflict? Do you think the conflict
is solved at the end? Why or why not? |
| 3. How is the word "heritage" used in the story?
How does the meaning of that word differ for each of the main characters? |
3. Post
your response to at least one of these questions to the Forums chamber
of the website (you choose which one/s you want to post).
4. Read all the other students'
posts.
5. Respond to at least one other student's post
(more is better) . You will have until midnight, Sunday, February
19 to read and respond to the other students' ideas.
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