{"id":35178,"date":"2024-10-17T04:57:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T04:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/reading-discussion-17-outliers-chapter-9-maritas-bargain-epilogue-a-jamaican-story\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T04:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T04:57:53","slug":"reading-discussion-17-outliers-chapter-9-maritas-bargain-epilogue-a-jamaican-story","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/reading-discussion-17-outliers-chapter-9-maritas-bargain-epilogue-a-jamaican-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading &#038; Discussion 17 Outliers Chapter 9 &#8220;Marita&#8217;s Bargain&#8221; &#038; Epilogue &#8220;A Jamaican Story&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"margin: 6px 0px; font-size: 1.8em; line-height: 1.5; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What to do:<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 6px 0px; font-size: 1.8em; line-height: 1.5; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Choose and identify your response to one of the prompts listed below:<\/span><br style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">R<\/span>espond in 150+ words.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Because of the sensitive nature of Gladwell&#8217;s &#8220;Epilogue,&#8221; your response should be\/needs to be very carefully considered, thoughtful, and mature.<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">I hope that you are able to use your experience and knowledge gained in sociology and history classes in your response.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 6px 0px; font-size: 1.8em; line-height: 1.5; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Choose one of the three options listed below for your first post:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 6px 0px; font-size: 1.8em; line-height: 1.5; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Option 1:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">In a carefully considered response, discuss and express your thoughts about Gladwell&#8217;s ideas, story-telling, and purposes in the Epilogue, \u201cA Jamaican Story&#8221;&nbsp; that conclude<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Outliers<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Concentrate your attention on the question, What does &#8220;A Jamaican Story&#8221; have to do with &#8220;the story of success&#8221;?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">As you craft your response, include Gladwell&#8217;s topics of opportunity and legacy, race, slavery, gender, birth date, the right time &amp; the right place, etc.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 6px 0px; font-size: 1.8em; line-height: 1.5; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Option 2:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Consider the choice of the word \u201cbargain\u201d in the title of chapter 9, &#8220;Marita&#8217;s Bargain.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What associations might a reader might have with the use of the word, bargain? (Hint: there are several.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">How does the use of the word \u201cbargain\u201d color our interpretation of Marita&#8217;s choice to attend KIPP?&nbsp; The dictionary definition of<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">bargain.<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"margin: -1px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 6px 0px; font-size: 1.8em; line-height: 1.5; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Option 3:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/strong>What important things are suggested by the effects of summer vacation on childhood learning, especially the effects of socioeconomic class and race? (Part 3, 255-260).<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Describe and develop your thoughts about those effects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to do: Choose and identify your response to one of the prompts listed below: Respond in 150+ words.&nbsp; Because of the sensitive nature of Gladwell&#8217;s &#8220;Epilogue,&#8221; your response should be\/needs to be very carefully considered, thoughtful, and mature. 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