You have two important readings assigned to you this week:

The first one is Langston Hughes’ “Salvation”
Read: https://www.chino.k12.ca.us/cms/lib8/CA01902308/Centricity/Domain/2273/Salvation.Annotated.pdf
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuNCsMCl8Ug&feature=emb_title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4xsuHfkfs8&feature=emb_title

and the second reading is Mike Rose’s “I Just Want to Be Average”
Read: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/mmartin/rose.pdf
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rdFvOLpi00&feature=emb_title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlg6wnZm6TA&feature=emb_title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=240AJCoUOrA&feature=emb_title

Check both the lecture notes folder and the Media Folder to read the stories and watch the video clips to help you with understanding and discussing these two readings well.

1- Salvation is a narrative, which means it tells you, the readers, a story? Summarize the story in your own words and give your impression about it.

2- How does the narrator feel about himself and his family in “Salvation”? 

3- How can readers relate to the narrator in this story? How does this story inform you about Hughes’ style of writing? 

The second reading you are assigned is Mike Rose’s “I Just Want to Be Average.”

4- What does this essay inform the readers, you, about?

5- Which kind of issues does Mike Rose’s essay address?

6- What lessons can the readers draw from reading Mike Rose’s essay?