–Please read Gabrielle Hamilton’s essay “Killing Dinner” before class on Monday.  You can find her essay under the “Texts” tab at the top of the blog.

-Before our class on Monday, February 8th,  please share a post on the blog in which you do the following:

• Identify and define one word from Hamilton’s essay that you had to look up.
• Copy one passage from the essay that struck you as important or interesting.  This could be a single sentence or a group of sentences.  Provide your analysis of this passage.  This might include addressing the author’s stylistic choices ( word choice, figurative language, imagery, etc…), thinking about how she has chosen to organize this essay, and reflecting on the meaning and implication of the passage you’ve chosen.  What questions do you have about the passage you’ve selected?
• Offer one discussion question that you’d like to raise about this essay.

–Please read your classmates’  “food memories” posted to the blog.  Select three posts you’d like to respond to.  For each, write a response that acknowledges two or three things that you particularly liked about their post,  shares a thought or experience of your own that connects to the one the author has described, and asks two questions that might help the author develop the piece more fully or think about it in a different way.  Your comments should be posted by Friday, February 12th.

–For Wednesday, February 10th, please read Chang-Rae Lee’s “Coming Home Again,” and have the text available to you during our zoom session at 12:30.