- According to Introduction for Students: Active Reading, Critical Thinking, and the Writing Process,” what are some good ways to read actively? What are some things that students should do to improve as writers? Support your answer with quotations and examples from the essay. 2. Why do you think the last word in E.B. White’s “Once More to the Lake” is “death?* Support your answer with quotations and examples from the essay. 3. What are some specific examples of the effects of racism on the personalities of James Baldwin and his father in “Notes of a Native Son?” Support your answer with quotations and examples from the essay. 4. Consider “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” as a counterargument to James Baldwin’s ideas about race in “Notes of a Native Son.” Do you think Zora Neale Hurston would include James Baldwin in what she calls the sobbing school of Negrohood° (Hurston 189, Paragraph 6)? Why or why not? How might James Baldwin answer Zora Neale Hurston’s counterargument? Support your answer with quotations and examples from the essays. 5. In telling his memories in “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” David Sedaris does not present himself as entirely heroic – he is not afraid to appear foolish. George Orwell, in “Shooting an Elephant,” also chooses not to portray himself as perfect. Compare the effects of Sedaris’ and Orwell’s choices in these essays, and the motivations of the writers for making these choices. Support your answer with quotations and examples from the essays.
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