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Activity 1
Click this link to read “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara.
(Optional): Click here for an audio reading of “The Lesson.”
Activity 2
This link brings you to an interesting discussion of “The Lesson” by literary critic Rena Korb from the BMCC database Literature Resource Center (secondary source). Click here for PDF of the article.
Activity 3 (optional)
For an article on Bambara’s use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in her writing, click this link to the BMCC library database Literature Resource Center. Or click here for PDF file of the article.
Activity 5
Click this link for two Youtube reviews of common literary terms.
Click this link for another video, which includes addtional literary terms and devices.
There will be a quiz on the identification of these terms in Week 4.
Activity 6
Quiz 4
This is a 10-question multiple-choice quiz that tests your ability to correct the most common errors students make in essays: run-on sentences and comma splices.
Study materials appear in “Quick Sentence Structure Guidelines” in COURSE INFORMATION.
Quiz will be available from 9:00 a.m. Monday, September 16 to 11:59 p.m. Sunday, September 22. Quiz must be taken in one setting, and students have 90 minutes in which to complete it. Study materials for this quiz can be found in Activity 5 on this page.
To access the quiz, navigate to your Brightspace course. On the Review Quizzes module, click Quiz 3.
Activity 6
Click this link to access the Week 3 Discussion Board.
Click here for How Discussion Boards Work.
