The Best American Essays Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 131 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Best American Essays Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 131 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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The Personal Voice: The Telephone, Hair, and Silent Dancing

• "The Telephone" by Anwar F. Accawi

• Accawi reflects on his quaint and simple childhood in Jordan.

• He remembers asking his grandmother how old someone was and she responded without a date, but with a relation to another event in that year.

• He recalls the effect of the village's first telephone and how it made his village become a global community.

• Although Accawi benefits from the progression the telephone brought to his village, he feels people are searching for a better life that they will not find.
• "Hair" by Marcia Aldrich

• Aldrich recalls her mother's obsession with hair.

• Aldrich's mother seems to think that the perfect hairstyle will complete an incomplete soul.

• Aldrich's older sister refused to change her hair and her younger sister had the worst hair of all.

• Rhonda, a hairstylist, saw hair as a transitory entity that...

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