Welcome to the ARCC Blogspot for The Last Communist Virgin. This blog will serve as a dedicated site where students can explore and use the resources available on the internet to read about, research, and publish their own reviews and responses to their reading of this semester's Two Rivers Reading Series short story collection.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Describe a conflict or struggle that one of the characters from the stories experiences due to being a Chinese immigrant in America.
Describe an event or perspective from the stories that you think is culturally Chinese. Explain.
What kinds of emotional reactions have you experienced while reading these stories?
Respond to one of your classmates' blog posts. Agree or disagree with your classmate's post and explain your thoughts.
Find a website that is not yet listed on this blog that gives you more information about this book.
What is one question you have about this book that you would like to ask the author?
Pick your favorite of the short stories and write a short review of it. Which aspects of this particular reading were most striking to you?
Explore the weblinks until you find MPR's interview with Wang Ping and read through it. How is the author's own life history similar to that of the characters in her book?
Explain what you learned from reading the Wikipedia weblink about the Cultural Revolution on the people of China.
What information can you learn about the author from the blog links that you didn't know from the book?
