Learning Target: Don't fight the funk. I can identify what moves me and why.

Desert Island Mix-Tape: Ten songs, one to three sentence comments on each choice (and maybe a visual decal for you creative types)

One of my top ten songs...
Papa Was A Rolling Stone 
by The Temptations

Reading Time

Tonight: Finish the book, including the Author's note, and read the The Let Down of Behind the Beautiful Forevers (the link is provided below). Tomorrow, you will take a two-part quiz which will consist of 1) 10 questions covering chapters 15-17 and the Author's Note and 2) a 10 point essay in response to the "Letdown or Masterpiece" AP-style prompt below.

Also, have your mix tape list with commentary finished for Friday.

The Letdown of "Behind The Beautiful Forevers"

English 4AP Rhetoric of Lang. & Comp.

Boo’s purpose

Letdown or Masterpiece?

Critics call Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers a “tour de force of social justice reportage.”  People magazine said Boo shows us how “people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang onto their humanity.  Just as importantly, she makes us care.”

In an interview, Katherine Boo said she wanted to write about the people of India because she generally finds “issues of poverty, opportunity, and global development to be over-theorized and under-reported.”

In Paul Beckett’s review you just read, he faults the text saying it is “not an authoritative book, which is disappointing given the extraordinary detail in it.”

In a well developed response, consider whether Boo accomplishes her task of reporting about social justice. Do you, the reader, leave with a better understanding or awareness? Use specific examples from the text(s) to support your claim.