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Immigration and the American Worker

Instructions: Use these scholarly article reading strategies. Once you do the reading ahead of its due date, please enter your first 150-word summary response as a comment to this post. Feel free to write more if you wish. In your response, reflect on which scholarly article strategies you used and worked best for you.

The Truth About Immigration and the American Worker – The Atlantic

Instructions: Once you do the reading ahead of its due date, please enter your first 150-word summary responses as a comment to this post. Feel free to write more if you wish. Your summary response can address any of the questions below or more:

1. What did you learn? What are the argumentative strategies being used? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the argument?
2. Can you share a personal experience that supports or challenges the author’s key ideas.
3. Do you have other pieces of information that connect in some way to the author’s key ideas?
4. Make a claim responding to a key idea from the reading (s). The claim must explain: a. How your experiences complicate the author’s key ideas, leading you to a different conclusion than the author has drawn.
   OR
   b. How a key idea from the author’s essay helps you understand your own experience in a new way.
5. How is what you learned related to our class, your other classes, your future job, other areas of life, and/or our major assignments?

Be sure to read closely, highlighting key passages and taking notes about your thoughts and reactions. Use the Reading and Annotating Guide to prepare a thorough summary/response.

Reading: Textbook; Pages 93-119

Instructions: Once you do the reading ahead of its due date, please enter your first 150-word summary responses as a comment to this post. Feel free to write more if you wish. Your summary response can address any of the questions below or more:

1. What did you learn?
2. Can you share a personal experience that supports or challenges the author’s key ideas.
3. Do you have other pieces of information that connect in some way to the author’s key ideas?
4. Make a claim responding to a key idea from the reading (s). The claim must explain: a. How your experiences complicate an author’s key ideas, leading you to a different conclusion than the author has drawn.
   OR
   b. How a key idea from an author’s essay helps you understand your own experience in a new way.
5. How is what you learned related to our class, your other classes, your future job, other areas of life, and/or our major assignments?

Be sure to read closely, highlighting key passages and taking notes about your thoughts and reactions. Use the Reading and Annotating Guide to prepare a thorough summary/response.

Reading: Artificial Intelligence and Writing

Instructions: Once you do the reading ahead of its due date, please enter your first 150-word summary responses as a comment to this post. Feel free to write more if you wish. Your summary response can address any of the questions below or more:

1. What did you learn?
2. Can you share a personal experience that supports or challenges the author’s key ideas.
3. Do you have other pieces of information that connect in some way to the author’s key ideas?
4. Make a claim responding to a key idea from the reading. The claim must explain: a. How your experiences complicate one of the author’s key ideas, leading you to a different conclusion than she has drawn.
   OR
   b. How a key idea from author’s essay helps you understand your own experience in a new way.
5. How is what you learned related to our class, your other classes, your future job, other areas of life, and/or our major assignments?

Be sure to read closely, highlighting key passages and taking notes about your thoughts and reactions. Use the Reading and Annotating Guide to prepare a thorough summary/response.

Reading: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake and The Nuclear Family is Still Indispensable

Instructions: Once you do the reading ahead of its due date, please enter your first 150-word summary responses as a comment to this post. Feel free to write more if you wish. Your summary response can address any of the questions below or more:

1. What did you learn?
2. Can you share a personal experience that supports or challenges the author’s key ideas.
3. Do you have other pieces of information that connect in some way to the author’s key ideas?
4. Make a claim responding to a key idea from the reading. The claim must explain: a. How your experiences complicate one of author’s key ideas, leading you to a different conclusion than she has drawn.
   OR
   b. How a key idea from author’s essay helps you understand your own experience in a new way.
5. How is what you learned related to our class, your other classes, your future job, other areas of life, and/or our major assignments?

Be sure to read closely, highlighting key passages and taking notes about your thoughts and reactions. Use the Reading and Annotating Guide to prepare a thorough summary/response.

Reading: Modern Love and Parental Involvement

Instructions: Once you do the reading ahead of its due date, please enter your first 150-word summary responses as a comment to this post. Feel free to write more if you wish. Your summary response can address any of the questions below or more:

1. What did you learn?
2. Can you share a personal experience that supports or challenges the author’s key ideas.
3. Do you have other pieces of information that connect in some way to the author’s key ideas?
4. Make a claim responding to a key idea from the reading. The claim must explain: a. How your experiences complicate one of author’s key ideas, leading you to a different conclusion than she has drawn.
   OR
   b. How a key idea from author’s essay helps you understand your own experience in a new way.
5. How is what you learned related to our class, your other classes, your future job, other areas of life, and/or our major assignments?

Be sure to read closely, highlighting key passages and taking notes about your thoughts and reactions. Use the Reading and Annotating Guide to prepare a thorough summary/response.

Reading: A Shift in American Family Values is Fueling Estrangement and Why So Many People Are Going “No Contact” with Their Parents?

Instructions: Once you do the reading ahead of its due date, please enter your first 150-word summary responses as a comment to this post. Feel free to write more if you wish. Your summary response can address any of the questions below or more:

1. What did you learn?
2. Can you share a personal experience that supports or challenges the author’s key ideas.
3. Do you have other pieces of information that connect in some way to the author’s key ideas?
4. Make a claim responding to a key idea from the reading. The claim must explain: a. How your experiences complicate one of author’s key ideas, leading you to a different conclusion than she has drawn.
   OR
   b. How a key idea from author’s essay helps you understand your own experience in a new way.
5. How is what you learned related to our class, your other classes, your future job, other areas of life, and/or our major assignments?

Be sure to read closely, highlighting key passages and taking notes about your thoughts and reactions. Use the Reading and Annotating Guide to prepare a thorough summary/response.

Reading: The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife

Instructions: Once you do the reading ahead of its due date, please enter your first 150-word summary responses as a comment to this post. Feel free to write more if you wish. Your summary response can address any of the questions below or more:

1. What did you learn?
2. Can you share a personal experience that supports or challenges the author’s key ideas.
3. Do you have other pieces of information that connect in some way to the author’s key ideas?
4. Make a claim responding to a key idea from the reading. The claim must explain: a. How your experiences complicate one of author’s key ideas, leading you to a different conclusion than she has drawn.
   OR
   b. How a key idea from author’s essay helps you understand your own experience in a new way.
5. How is what you learned related to our class, your other classes, your future job, other areas of life, and/or our major assignments?

Be sure to read closely, highlighting key passages and taking notes about your thoughts and reactions. Use the Reading and Annotating Guide to prepare a thorough summary/response.

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