Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id iAAMvbR07699; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:57:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:57:38 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <44BAD9BD.20A8609A.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:1736] RE: FW: critical literacy X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 702 Lines: 7 I think there are many ways of looking at and diving into this expression--use of political capital. A simple way would be to make the analogy between the capital of a rich person--big house, cars, etc., and ask--how did the person get this capital? Where did it come from? That is, make the phrase concrete. This would come after another exercise, something like--what do the words mean? What does the phrase mean? What is capital, anyway? And so on. This would naturally morph into (political) geography, power groups, polling, all sorts of interesting items including American history and the backgrounds of those in political power. This is easily an enormous, and rich topic. Andrea
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