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A Chapbook Exploration for
Hunger of Memory
My search for making meaning
8/2/2012
Roeger, Elizabeth

2. Page 1
Aretha Franklin
I decided to look for more information about Aretha Franklin
because I love Motown
music and am familiar with her music. I also found it
interesting that Rodriguez writes about
hearing her music, when he could have written about hearing
the music of lots of other singers.
I wondered why he chose Aretha Franklin.
Aretha Franklin is an African American singer, who began her
career in the early 1960s
with Motown records. She is a former school teacher from the
area around Detroit Michigan;
she was born in Memphis. Franklin has been an active supporter
of Civil Rights in the United
States. Franklin’s father was a Baptist minister in Detroit and
knew Dr. Martin Luther King. Her
father also was a singer and recorded Gospel music in the
1950s.

3. Franklin recorded an Otis Redding song, Respect in 1967. This
song became an
immediate hit for her and was then used as a theme song during
the Civil Rights Movement. Her
song debuted at a time when many young African American
women were looking for a face to
identify with for Civil Rights. National Public Radio
Commentator Evelyn C. White in a story
about Franklin remembers her own feelings as a 13 year old
African-American girl about Franklin
and Respect. “Here was a sister who ain’t taking no mess,”
thought White.
Page 2
Franklin has sung at the inaugurations of presidents Bill
Clinton, Barack Obama, and John F.
Kennedy. Many refer to Franklin as the “Queen of Soul”.
My search for information about Franklin was a simple one.
She’s a very famous singer
and an icon for a generation. I found her on YouTube singing
during the October 2011 tribute to
Dr. King. She has fan web sites, and in biographies.

4. What I found difficult was finding more than the surface
information about her. I was
interested in how she knew three presidents and decided to link
her name with Kennedy’s and
then found the Civil Rights information. I found the
information about Respect by a search with
her name and Civil Rights.
When I read her name in the essay, it related to a song. I
thought Rodriguez was simply using a
song and singer that was part of his youth here to add specific
description. Maybe he did, but I
find more here. When I think about it, I now wonder if there
isn’t a deeper connection. Aretha,
just like Rodriguez, is a person of color who moved from one
world to another. I wonder if that
was part of the connection for him in using her. I also wonder
about the significance of using
her and her connection to Civil Rights and to Motown. Franklin
is described as a real person and
as the NPR commentator said, “she ain’t taking no mess”.
Rodriguez seems less confident in
himself. Did he wish for her confidence? It makes me think
about all of the connections that can
be made when I read.

5. Page 3
The British Museum
I decided to explore the words “British Museum” because I was
curious about why he
spent so much time there during his time in London. I
wondered what made it different than
the libraries in California. He makes a big deal about the
British Museum and what seemed
important to me as a reader was that he figured out why he felt
so different than other Latino
students at the British Museum.
I began my search for more information about the British
Museum by again going to
Wikipedia. I know that it’s not an academic resource, but it
does give me a good place to find
some general information to start my search, and it’s easy to
understand. I could get more
academic once I understood more what I was looking for in the
words. It was a good choice for

6. this search because it told me at the top of the entry that the
British Museum is where the
British Library was housed until 1997 (after the time that
Rodriguez would have been there).
That gave me a clue that maybe I should also search for the
British Library since the entry was
really about books in the Museum.
I decided to go to the British Museum and British library home
pages and see what I
could find there. I was really glad that I did because it shows
such a massive and beautiful
museum and library.
Page 4
I went to the British Library and looked around at the types of
collections they have and the
number of books and papers. I needed one more resource, and I
wasn’t sure where I wanted to
go. I really was interested in that museum, and the website was
so pretty that I wanted to see
more. I thought that this might be a good place to try YouTube.

7. It worked. YouTube had an
overview of the British Museum, and it also had a great video
on famous documents at the
British Museum and the British Library. It was amazing to see
all of these notes, many
handwritten from lyrics by John Lennon to manuscripts from
T.S. Elliot. I also found out that
there is an app for the British Museum which allows you to
explore some of their most famous
works. I also felt like that when I relaxed with the search and
chose something that I really was
curious about myself, and then the search was easier and more
fun.
Here’s what I now know about the British Museum. It is in
London. Many people
consider it to be the world’s greatest museum of human culture
and history. It began in l759 at
the site of the current museum. In 1997, the British Library
moved to a new location. The
British Library is the world’s largest library as defined by its
holdings. It adds three million new
items each year to its collection. Some of the historical
documents and holdings date back to
2000 BC. It is what is called a legal deposit library and receives

8. copies of all books produced in
England and Ireland.
The British Museum and Library circa 1995
Page 5
The British Library Reading Room was in the center of the
British Museum. It remains in
the Museum in its original form but is no longer used as the
Reading Room. During its use, it was
restricted to registered researchers and was used by writers such
as Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde,
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudyard Kipling, George Orwell, and Mark
Twain.
Exploring what the British Museum and British Library and
Reading Rooms are has made a big
difference in my understanding of the essay. I can see why now
Rodriguez places such
significance in finding his answer here. For me, it illustrates
how strong he must have felt, being
able to read at such a place after his humble upbringing. He
also loves reading so much that I

9. think it must be a profound experience to be surrounded by the
largest and best books in the
world. He wanted to read everything that others thought were
important things to read. I can
imagine that it felt very good to be at a place where the original
books were stored.
Exterior of the Reading
Room as viewed from the
Great Court of the British
Museum. (The small round
room is the reading room).
This had to be a HUGE deal
for Rodriguez
Page 6
Precocious
I chose the word precocious because I have a general
understanding of the word, but
I’ve never been sure exactly what precocious means. I’ve heard
it used when you talk about a

10. child who seems to know and say too much for his or her age.
People don’t always like
precocious children because they perceive them as being what
my grandma called “smarty
pants”.
Rodriguez uses the word to describe himself and his treatment
of his parents.
I began my word search with the dictionary. I wanted an
overview of what the word specifically
means since I had some doubts about it. I found it helpful as it
describes the word as meaning
advanced in development or ahead of schedule. I decided to
search the word and add the word
literacy, and it brought up a research study on precocious
children and reading. The study
describes these children as exceptionally achieving. They make
up about 1 to 2 % of the
population. Precocious readers are identified as children who
begin to read at an early age
without instruction. They learn it spontaneously without any
help.
I also found a website about a child who was a finalist in the
Scripts Spelling Bee for five
years and the training that she did to prepare for it with her

11. father. The father says that his
daughter is precocious, but then he writes about her practice
schedule. She studied for six
hours each day to prepare for the Spelling Bee.
Page 7
Finally, I decided to go back to YouTube to get a broader
perspective about the word.
This is my third word search for this reading, and I think that
much of what has been interesting
to learn has related to the cultural aspect or popular culture
aspect of the words. YouTube
didn’t disappoint. There were precocious listings. They
included Precocious 2012, a conference
on creativity and new design at a university in Asia and also a
video of a horse named Precocious
that’s for sale. The horse video was set to music and the horse
Precocious seems to fit the
definition, young, sleek and very alert.
The research study about precocious readers deepened my
understanding about the
readings because it explains that precocious readers receive no

12. training from their families.
Rodriguez ‘family was able to offer him little help in his desire
to read. The spelling bee
information looks at the word in a very different way and points
to lots of hard work in
becoming a precocious learner. The YouTube video helped me
have a better picture of the
cultural translation of the word. The search has caused me to
think about whether Rodriguez
precocious behavior was one of effort or was it effortless.
Page 8
School Trophy
Rodriguez talks about winning many school trophies. He tells
us that he didn’t display them at
home and hid them. In fact, he tells us that he threw away his
high school diploma only to have his
father pull it out of the garbage and put it away with his own
precious papers.

13. I chose this word because it’s used in so many ways. We have
“trophy wives, trophy bucks in
hunting, and more words that use trophy as a description.
People seem to want them, but I also think
that many people don’t know where to put them after they win
them. The trophies for my sons, all
grown men now, were all given away to the Special Olympics to
be recycled a few years ago.
I decided that I wanted an easy overview of school trophies so
that I could get some ideas about
narrowing my search. I went to the wiki again. I didn’t find
anything on school trophies, but I got some
background information on trophies. The more general search
was interesting because the majority of
trophies that were described related to athletics. There were
about 95% more athletic trophy ideas
than school trophy ideas. It made me think about what is valued
in our culture.
Next, I searched school trophies and came up with some
websites that sold trophies. I decided
to give one of them a try. My idea here was to get a better
sense of what trophy might mean to the
author and its connotations, so I felt that if I could at least look
at some trophies, read the descriptors,

14. then it might help me better understand his meaning. I think it
did. The size and polish of the trophies
is the first thing that you notice. I felt like the size and shine
were the criteria for a good trophy. It made
me consider what it feels like when you win a trophy and the
gratification that comes when you win
Page 9
one. As I think about the reading, I wonder if the size and shine
were part of Rodriguez’ desire to hide
them and also his father’s desire to show them. Rodriguez felt
caught between two worlds and wasn’t
sure that he wanted to be different. The trophy is designed to
stand out. For his father, the trophy was
a symbol of winning and standing out academically, something
that he wasn’t able to achieve but that
he wanted for his son.
I found an article about student motivation from a research
journal and reference that
illustrates the value of trophies. They are visible symbols
according to Ron Renchler which illustrate and
confirm what is considered important in school. It makes

15. wonder if Rodriguez wanted the confirmation
of his achievements but didn’t want the public illustration.
My final search took me to YouTube. It was an easy place to
search, and I had found some good
resources for the earlier three searches. I am amazed at what
you can find on YouTube. Sure enough,
there were entries for trophy-not school trophy, but trophy. The
one I chose was a video of a singer
singing about her ‘trophy boy’. The song focuses on her desire
for the’ trophy boy’ and his value to her,
mainly because he’s a trophy, a shiny prize. When I think about
the song in context with the reading, it
makes me wonder whether Rodriguez wanted the trophy, but
only because it validated his value, just as
the ‘trophy boy’ does for the singer. Was it mainly for him a
matter of saying that he had done it, rather
than doing it?
Resources Used
Here is a sample template that was used to create the model

16. chapbook.
Four words or ideas to explore, page # and types of resources
used:
Word or
Idea
Page # Resource and
Documentation
Resource Resource Resource
Aretha
Franklin
45 Wikipedia YouTube
Biography NPR archives
British
Museum
45 Wikipedia Britishmuseum.org British
library
website
blog
precocious 52 Free Dictionary YouTube Wikipedia Academic
Journal/online
School
trophy

17. 46 Wikipedia website ERIC
database
YouTube
Aretha
Franklin
Source Date
Retrieved
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPiphFEtwyY
8/1/12
Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aretha_Franklin 7/30/12
Bio http://www.biography.com/people/aretha-franklin-
9301157?page=1
8/1/12
NPR http://www.npr.org/2001/11/26/11/1114572/respect 8/1/12
British
Museum
Source Date
Retrieved
Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum 8/1/12
British
Museum
homepage

18. http://www.Britishmuseum.org/research/libraries_and_archives.
aspx 8/1/12
British Library
homepage
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/quickinfo/facts/index.html 8/1/12
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/britishlibrary
8/1/12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPiphFEtwyY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aretha_Franklin
http://www.biography.com/people/aretha-franklin-
9301157?page=1
http://www.biography.com/people/aretha-franklin-
9301157?page=1
http://www.npr.org/2001/11/26/11/1114572/respect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/libraries_and_archives.
aspx
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/quickinfo/facts/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/britishlibrary
Resources Used - Page 2
Precocious Source Date Retrieved
Dictionary http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/precocious

19. 8/1/12
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNqNjnpbSUQ
8/1/12
Website Raul’s Hive http://www.rahulshive.com/2012/06/
8/1/12
Academic Journal
http://www.ahda.org/downloads/ISSBD2006Margrain.pdf 8/1/12
School Trophy Source Date Retrieved
Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trophy 8/1/12
Website http://www.trophies2go.com/scholastic/ 8/1/12
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNj3yURHu_0
8/1/12
Academic Database/
ERIC
ED346558 92 School Leadership and Student
Motivation.
8/1/12
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/precocious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNqNjnpbSUQ
http://www.rahulshive.com/2012/06/
http://www.ahda.org/downloads/ISSBD2006Margrain.pdf
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trophy

20. http://www.trophies2go.com/scholastic/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNj3yURHu_0
College 101 Chapbook Assignment Sheet
Page 1
Chapbook based upon common reading
Learning Objectives:
Increase critical thinking
Increase reading comprehension
Increase self-awareness about learning process
Increase responsibility for learning
Increase information literacy
Explore self-motivation
Increase belief in self and ability to succeed in academic
environmentIncrease cultural competence.
The idea: For this assignment you will create a chapbook from
words and ideas associated with the reading provided in the
course by Richard Rodriguez, “Hunger of Memory.” A
chapbook is a journal of sorts that was first used by American
cowboys to describe their adventures for family and friends.
Additionally, the chapbook provided a means of reflecting about
these adventures and the cowboys’ lives. Your chapbook based
upon “Hunger of Memory” will be created by youin one of the
following formats:
written format, prose or poetry,
music
film
web pages
visual mediumor suggest another medium of representation to
your teacher
You choose which type of medium seems appropriate to
represent your work the best.
How to create the chapbook: To complete this project you will
need to do the following:Choose four words or ideas from the
reading, “Hunger of Memory”. Bring your list of four words

21. with you to the next class meeting to share.
Conduct research on the four words or ideas to better
understand what each of the ideas means. You must include four
different references for each word or idea.One of the four
references must be from a resource at the ECC library. This will
give you 16 references for the entire chapbook, four references
for each of the four ideas or words. You may choose from the
following types of references, using at least four different types
of references for the chapbook. Remember that for each of the
four words, one of your references must be a resource from the
library. In the end, you will have 16 references and at least
four different types of references used.
Types of references:
Electronic databases
Wikis
Website
Book-essay-prose-poetry
Music-lyrics
Film/Television
Periodical
YouTube
Podcast
InterviewOriginal documents
Please put your list of references together, using the following
format and include at the back of your chapbook:
Word or Idea (page number in Rodriguez text)
Reference 1 (name of reference, date of reference, URL if
appropriate)
Reference 2 (name of reference, date of reference, URL if
appropriate)
Reference 3(name of reference, date of reference, URL if
appropriate)
Reference 4(name of reference, date of reference, URL if
appropriate)
You will do this for each of the four words and turn it in with
your chapbook

22. This assignment focuses on your research journey and critical
thinking skills. For our purposes, it is enough to list sources
used in the chapbook. Please note that academic writing
generally requires you to use a specific documentation style and
to cite your sources of information very specifically in order to
avoid plagiarism.
Now create the chapbook. Choose a medium and create four
entries (your four ideas or words) that describe what you have
discovered about your words/ideas. Each entry should represent
what you have learned about the word/idea. Each entry must
include the answers to these questions. Describe the search for
the references-why did you choose the ones that you did? Was it
easy to research? Anything you want to remember about using
the resource?Describe what you found in the search and how
you relate to it.Reflection on what the word means and how it
relates to the writing of Rodriguez.
If you do the chapbook in a format that’s not written, then
simply put a cover letter with the chapbook which answers these
questions and turn it in with your chapbook.Here is an example
of one entry done in essay format.
Aretha Franklin (p.45)(my word) - She is an African American
singer, who began her career in the early 1960s with Motown
records. She is a former school teacher from the area around
Detroit Michigan. She has been an active supporter of Civil
Rights in the United States. Franklin has sung at the
inaugurations of President Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and
John F. Kennedy. Many refer to Franklin as the “Queen of
Soul”.
My search for information about Franklin was a simple one.
She’s a very famous singer and an icon for a generation. What I
found difficult was finding more than the surface information
about her. I was interested in how she knew three presidents
and decided to link her name with Kennedy’s and then found the
Civil Rights information.
When I read her name in the essay, it related to a song. I
thought Rodriguez was simply using a song and singer that was

23. part of his youth here. When I think about it, I now wonder if
there isn’t a deeper connection. Aretha, just like Rodriguez, is
a person of color who moved from world to another. I wonder
if that was part of the connection for him in using her. I also
wonder about the significance of using her and her connection
to Civil Rights and to Motown. It makes me think about all of
the connections that can be made when I read.
If you were to do this as a visual chapbook, you might create a
collage of Franklin and the ideas represented above.
If you were to create a YouTube video, you might do it as a
mock news report.
The idea is that you will create four of these files total.
In the end, you will have a chapbook in some form with four
files/entries. You will have a references list for each of the four
words that includes four references for each word (16 total)
with at least four different types of references used for the
entire project.
This project is due____________________________ and is a
capstone project for this course and worth 15% of your grade.
Chapbook Gallery Walk
Your class will select no more than two Chapbooks that best
fulfill the goals of the assignment. These entries will represent
your class in a college-wide College 101 Gallery Walk on
Wednesday, October 17th in the Community/Heritage Room.
All selected chapbooks will be on display from noon – 6 pm. A
reception and awards presentation will be from 4 -6 p.m. If
your Chapbook is selected to represent your class, you should
be present between 4 – 6 pm. Feel free to invite friends,
instructors, family members to share in your accomplishment!
There will be awards for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place as well as Best
in Show. Best in Show winner will receive a $500.00 book
voucher from the ECC Bookstore.