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You can use the drop-down menu at the top of the screen to select a part in Conversations. Then, within each part, you will find six specific resources:
Part Summaries
This resource provides you with a brief summary of each part, outlining its central points.
Conversation Starters: Prewriting on the Issues of This Part
This resource gets you thinking about the issues broached in the part. In the exercises, you are asked to write informally on each topic as preparation for the assigned reading.
Getting into the Conversation: Ideas for Writing
This resource provides a series of writing prompts suggested by specific essays and/or themes in each part. In keeping with the "conversations" concept, it is a chance for you to participate in the ongoing dialogue created in the book.
Web Explorations
This resource provides hyperlinks to Web sites that you can examine, along with writing prompts that correlate information available at those sites with readings from each part. In this way, you are able to use the Internet in order to widen your perspective on the topic.
Web Destinations: Web Sites for Further Conversations on the Topic
This resource provides additional links related to the issues discussed in each part, to supplement your reading and/or to give you a head start on researching any of these issues.
Visual Conversations: Links to Visual Arguments on the Topics of this Part
This resource provides links to Web sites that use images to make arguments related to issues discussed in each part. You will also find questions and writing prompts that can help you to explore the visual rhetoric (i.e., persuasion through pictures) you find there.
All of the writing you do in response to these prompts can then be submitted to your teacher, to your classmates, and/or to yourself via email, extending the classroom conversation even further. Used in conjunction with Conversations, these resources can help you make the transition from reader to writer.
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