Printed with Permission of Artist Luisa Rivera
Note: This is an old video, but the content is the same for your course.
Activity 1
Read “The Handsomest Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, linked here in PDF format.
Handsomest Drowned Man
Activity 2
Click this link to access information about the life and work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez from the BMCC library database Biography Resource Center.
Activity 3
Click this link for an explanation of primary and secondary sources. The story “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” is an example of a primary source. The biographical article in Activity 2 is an example of a secondary source.
Take this short quiz (for fun; not graded) on primary and secondary sources.
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Activity 4
PowerPoint presentation on thesis statements.
Printed with permission of Artist Luisa River
Quiz 1
This is a practical 10-question multiple-choice quiz on thesis statements. See PowerPoint in Activity 4 for study materials.
Quiz will be available from 9:00 a.m. Monday, January 26 to 11:59 p.m. Sunday, February 1. Quiz must be taken in one setting, and students have 90 minutes in which to complete it.
To access the quiz, navigate to your Brightspace course. On the Review Quizzes module, click Quiz 1.
