Category Archives: Homework

Read “Shooting and Elephant” by George Orwell (pgs 80-90) and respond to this post by answering these questions before class on Monday:

What do you think the elephant and the shooting of the elephant represent in Orwell’s story? He says, “I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.” How does this relate to the main character and his action of killing the elephant (symbolically and actually)?

There are three things you need to do for homework before class on Wednesday.

Please be sure to read all directions and complete the assignments on time.

1. Buy the books:

• The River Reader, 11th ed
  By: Joseph F. Trimmer
  ISBN: 978-1-133-31031-0
• Rules of Thumb, a Guide for Writers, 9th ed
  By: Silverman, Hughes, Wienbroer
  ISBN: 987-0-07-340596

2. Join the OpenLab:

• https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/ is the OpenLab website.
  https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/foxeng1101/ is our class website. (That’s where we are right now.)
• Simply follow the second link above and look in the top right corner. There, you will see the option to sign up or log in. Click “sign up” and it will bring you to the OpenLab area to set up an account.
• From there, you have to fill out some information about yourself. Please use your actual name as your display name.
  NOTE: Adding me as a friend on OpenLab is not the same as joining the course. Be sure, once you are at my profile, to click the link for the course and click to join the course underneath the photo of the wood and leaves. You do need to join the course; it is a requirement of the class.

3. Comment on this post:

• Look through the contents pages of The River Reader and comment on this post with your name comment naming which of the stories or poems in this book you would most like to read and why.
• To make a comment, simply click the words “leave a comment” directly below this post.