Culture Unit
Honors Challenge Assignment
Purpose: In addition to reading, Children of the River, you will also be responsible for reading some sections from the memoir Funny in Farsi. The purpose for reading a second text, is so that you can compare and contrast Firoozeh’s experiences from Sundara’s experiences. This memoir is also about a young woman adapting to U.S. culture, however, she is from Iran. Her style of writing is also different from COR in the she approaches her experiences from a humorous viewpoint with many of the stories focusing on her father.
Assignment: Create a blog (similar to the one you have in science). Name it FunnyinFarsiKL (with your initials at the end). You must create the following posts:
1. Please read all for the chapters below, but post 10 on your blog.
2. You need to collect 2 quotes from each chapter and respond to each of the chosen quotes (your thoughts, connections to Children of the River, connection to your own life, confusion). Use your Double Entry Journals to fill in these blog posts.
3. Post 10 responses to any of the 15 chapters listed below:
Leffingwell Elementary School
Hot dogs and Wild Geese
In the Gutter
Save Me, Mickey
Swoosh-Swoosh
With a little Help from my friends
A dozen Key Chains
The “F” word
Waterloo
America land of the Free
The Ham experiment
It’s all relatives
Me and Bob Hope
I Ran and I Ran and I Ran
I-raynians Need Not Apply
4. Comment on two different posts from a fellow student’s blog.
5. Example of a student blog:
http://funnyinfarsitn.blogspot.com/
