Individual Chapter Assignment Submit Assignment
Individual Chapter Assignment Submit Assignment
Ten questions. Answer completely. Proofread, spell and grammar check. Ask a friend to review and proofread your work. Two pages (around 500 words). Write short, complete, economically constructed sentences. Indicate the chapter number and name, including page numbers.
Here’s how we’ll divide up chapters for this assignment: If your last name begins with a letter between A-H, answer the questions for chapter 4. If your last name begins with a letter between J-L, do chapter 5. For letters M-R, do chapter 6. For letters S-W, do chapter 7. For letters X-Z, do chapter 8.
- Write a short two or three sentence synopsis of your assigned chapter including explaining the chapter title. What happens? What is the chapter about?
- Identify the Evicted case study subjects (individuals) who appear in this chapter. Example: Landlords Sherrena and Quentin.
- Identify any vocabulary words, terms or references, historical players or characters or events we might not recognize.
- Identify at least one applicable position or observation from one article we’ve read and apply it to something in your chapter. (You might select one of the articles or interviews I sent in my welcome email, or the podcast or video series I sent earlier this week.)
- Pick at least one note (see the footnotes in the back of the book!) and explain, elaborate, comment. Look up the source if Desmond cites one.
- Identify a passage or sentences which argue or explain something helpful about the history of the problem or failure of public policy. Rewrite it in your own words.
- Identify and introduce experts, agencies, analysts or other players upon whom Desmond relies to tell the story or frame the events of the chapter. Why are they here? What does inclusion of their perspective contribute?
- What are the best couple of lines of writing in this chapter, and why? For instance, if you could use one or two sentences as a kind of blurb for the chapter, which would you choose? Why?
- What does author Matthew Desmond seem to conclude or consider by way of a possible main insight, argument or position? Feel free to quote directly or put in your own words. Include page number.
- Compose a tentative draft problem-failure thesis for your chapter using our formula. The problem of _______ (term of art) is caused by the failure of _______________ (somebody to do something) which has resulted in ________________ (quantify, give examples of problem).
