Class Update for November 5 (Class 6)

Bring to class:
Moustafa Bayoumi text "How Does it Feel to Be A Problem?"
TWO COPIES of Paper 3 on Bayoumi text
FINAL DRAFT for a grade on Paper 2 (Angels)

Our class agenda:
Peer editing activity (warm/cool feedback) on Paper 3
Class discussion on Bayoumi text continues

Please come prepared with the following:

 On page 9, Bayoumi writes:

“Brooklyn is the concentrated, unedited, twenty – first century answer to who we , as Americans , are as a people."

• What does the story of each of the individuals in the first three chapters contribute to Bayoumi’s argument about racism and the Arab and Muslim community of the United States?
  
• What are the problems of what “we, as Americans, are as a people”?
  
• What do you propose as a solution to the problem or problems?

On page 214, Bayoumi writes:

“To my ears these young men were living uneasily in an unresolved contradiction."

•  Define “unresolved contradiction”
  
•  How does the idea relate to the individuals introduced in the last three chapters of the text?
  
• Cite text for support
  
•  How do you think they can resolve this "unresolved contradiction"?

Looking ahead to Class on November 12:

Bring Toni Morrison's novel A Mercy

In-class writing for Paper 4 on A Mercy

Bring Final draft for a grade of Paper 3 (Bayoumi)