2. Post your two examples of 1st person point of view and 3rd person point of view in The Other Wes Moore.
3. The Ted Talk for today is by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie, like Duckworth, was awarded the MacArthur Genius Grant. She has written the novels, The Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, and We Should All Be Feminists. This Ted Talk challenge viewers to look beyond the "single story" perspective that is easy to adopt.
As you are using the Ted Talk handout to generally take notes on this presentation, please consider the following:
- Why is representation of different cultures critical in literature?
- It what way do we see the ideas expressed by Adichie connect to our conversation about identity?
- How do we as readers of The Other Wes Moore fall into the trap of the single story as we are reading both Moore's stories?
- What aspects of society.. gender, religion, geography, economy... do we see find susceptible to the single story? How? Examples? How do you feel that this connects in shaping identity? Stereotypes?
- Bring 3 questions addressing Adichie's Ted Talk.
- Finish your Ted Talk handout.
- Bring 3 questions addressing the first three chapters of The Other Wes Moore.
- Make sure you are through chapter 3 of The Other
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