You have 7 minutes to extract some meaning and get out with all your team members in one piece…
- Make sure to answer the correct question for your group!
- Designate one person as spokesperson and take good notes.
- Provide at least a couple of bits of textual evidence: quotes or paraphrase of particular moments in the text.
- What was most difficult about these two articles? What does each author seem to assume that we readers already know in order to process the argument?
- What’s something “weird” about Ghosh’s novel that each piece shows us, something that we may have missed in our initial reading of the text?
- What did each author need to know in order to write this piece? What kinds of sources did they consult/quote/argue with? What seems to be the “methodology” at work in each piece?
- What were the weaknesses, if you note any, in either or both of the essays? Which piece did you find more convincing in terms of giving a satisfying reading of Ghosh’s novel?
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