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hi, all!

thanks again to everyone for coming to our last meeting!

MUNTING TINIG book club's next meeting is this saturday, march 11, 6:30 p.m. at anna rosete's place, 345 N. LaSalle, Suite 4504, Chicago, IL 60610.

please RSVP to anna so she knows how many people to prepare food for, and so she can tell the doorman of her building how many people to expect: anna_m_rosete@yahoo.com.

we will remain with "america is in the heart." please find below reading guidelines. we have prepared articles and possibly a video for this meeting.

thanks for reading, hope to see you there!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/muntingtinig/
http://muntingtinigchicago.blogspot.com

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Since none of us are teachers, we will respond academically, psychologically or emotionally to the novel. To make it easier to organize your thoughts, I suggest all those interested in joining us to take a piece of paper and fold it in half.

On the left side of the paper, copy phrases that especially strike you. An example:

It is but fair to say that America is not a land of one race or one class of men. We are all Americans that have toiled and suffered and known oppression and defeat, from the first Indian that offered peace in Manhattan to the last Filipino pea pickers. America is not bound by geographical latitudes. America is not merely a land or an institution. America is in the hearts of men that died for freedom; it is also in the eyes of men that are building a new world. America is a prophecy of a new society of men: of a system that knows no sorrow or strife or suffering. America is a warning to those who
would try to falsify the ideals of freemen.

America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America is the illiterate immigrant who is ashamed that the world of books and the intellectual opportunities is closed to him.

We are all that nameless foreigner, that homeless refugee, that hungry boy, that illiterate immigrant and that lynched black body. All of us, from the first Adams to the last Filipino, native born or alien, educated or illiterate. We are America!

On the right side of the paper, write down your response to those reactions. Please remember to bring this list to the meeting.  ¶ 3/09/2006 11:11:00 PM