Reading Log notes:

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Reading Log notes A Choice of Weapons

• Literary Terms
• Memoir
• Type of autobiography that focuses on a specific
  time or historical event rather than on the
  writers life as a whole
• Writers have different purposes, or reasons for
  writing. One purpose of a memoir is to share an
  experience that has had an impact on the writers
  life. What is Parks purpose for his memoir?

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Reading Log notes A Choice of Weapons

• Discussion Questions
• What is the mood of the writer, Gordon Parks, as
  he first begins his job?
• Excited
• Why does Mr. Stryker, Parks boss, take his
  cameras? What specific things does he want
  Parks to do?
• Walk around the city / get to know it

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Reading Log notes A Choice of Weapons

• Discussion Questions
• What happened to Parks at the drugstore for
  breakfast?
• Told to leave---go around back if you want
  something
• Other areas where Parks experienced
  discrimination?
• Hot dog stand, theater, department store,
• What does the boss, Stryker, tell Parks to do
  next?
• Go home and put it on paper

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Reading Log notes A Choice of Weapons

• Discussion Questions
• What happens at the cafeteria when Parks finally
  goes in to eat?
• Why does Stryker tell Parks that the cleaning
  women has done him a great service? What is that
  service?
• Parks understands how he must involve himself
  with other people to really learn the depths of
  their suffering.