Period 1 Assignment for Friday, 10/15

Your finished product will contain three parts: a DE chart, ONE line summarizing the main idea of the original, and your own anecdote (re-writing the anecdote in your own words). Here are the instructions:

1. Choose ONE of the Taoist Anecdotes from pages 548-549.
2. Read the anecdote and choose the 10 most important/meaningful words from the anecdote and list them in the left column of a DE chart.
3. For each of these ten words, in the right column, write what the word SHOWS you as the reader.
4. At the bottom of your DE chart, provide the meaning of the entire anecdote (in your own words) in ONE line. This will NOT have any of the words from the left side of your DE chart. HINT: These stories are not about mud, fishing, poets, hermits, gold, horses, axes, or butterflies, but about life lessons, etc.

THEN

5. Using five of your ten meanings from the right column, re-write the anecdote in your own words..
OBJECTIVES

1. Your anecdote MUST include 5 of your meanings from the right column,

2. should NOT include the words from the left column,

3. must be around the same length as the original. Why?

4. demonstrate your ability to identify the important key words from the text that show you something important, and

5. Show that you can produce your own work that preserves the complex life-lesson or truism from the original.

Our DE example from class (From Wagging My Tail in the Mud):

"poet" --> the speaker is wise, knowledgeable, well-educated, and respected
"angling" --> the speaker is doing something that he loves
"hermit" --> the speaker is someone who prefers to be alone