Throughout the semester you will work on developing a commonplace book, which is defined in the American Heritage Dictionary as “a personal journal in which quotable passages, literary excerpts, and comments are written.” For each of the required course texts, you are to select passages that speak most directly to you, with you commenting on why you find the passage so personally compelling, stimulating, inspiring, helpful, and/or engaging. If you paraphrase the texts, you will lose the points accordingly. Please write in single-space in this format: Identify the author and book and write out the passage, giving the page number and chapter, and then typing your commentary, and then repeat, for the following books:
Dunya Mikhail, The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Arundhati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Wangari Maathai, Unbowed: A Memoir
Nawal El Saadawi, Off Limits: New Writings on Fear and Sin
For each book, find 6 passages from 6 different chapters, and for each passage write at least six sentences.
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