4Reading Response

To complete the second reading response essay, you must read the PDF file andreview the website that are both accessible in Blackboard. The sources are listed belowin MLA citation format for your reference. Please adjust the date you accessed thewebsite as appropriate:

1. Lewis, George H. “Celebrating Asparagus: Community and the RationallyConstructed Food Festival in the Journal of American Culture Vol. 20 (4) 1997,pp. 73-78.

2. San Joaquin Asparagus Festival. Noceti Group, Inc. http://sanjoaquinasparagusfestival.net/. Accessed X Oct. 2020.

Your assignment is to write a 350-400 word response paper (~1.5-2 pages) focusingon the selected article and related website. This is not a summary response essay.Instead, you should think about and process what you read and view. You must refer tospecific page numbers or brief quotes in your response to demonstrate engagement withand understanding of the material. You must use MLA format* for citing page numbers orquotes from the readings or website. You may choose to consider some or all of thefollowing issues in your response:

  • Your thoughts about any of the following issues addressed in the article:
  • o invented traditions
    o festivals and tourism in the context of the local economy
    o communities and tradition
    o specialty or regional food festivals
  • Your specific reactions to the authors perspective, argument, or analysis.
  • Brief comments about any topic or other information you may have viewed in the
  • San Joaquin Asparagus Festival website that is relevant to your response essay

    and the assigned reading.

  • Brief comparisons to invented festivals or food festivals you may already be
  • familiar with or that you may have attended in recent years.

    The purpose of this assignment is to encourage you to think and write critically about

    the selected reading. Please do not simply write a summary of the material.

    Requirements: 400 words

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