Summary Quiz for “Speaking Quiché in the Heart of Dixie”

Question 13.75

1. Read “Speaking Quiché in the Heart of Dixie” and summarize the selection below. Be sure to put the summary in your own words and to avoid using the sentence structure of the reading selection. Remember that your summary should restate the author’s main idea (or thesis) and that it should include only the author’s most important supporting ideas. When you have completed your summary, “submit” your work.

Here is an example summary of this reading selection:

In “Speaking Quiché in the Heart of Dixie,” Gabriel Thompson describes his experience working at a chicken-processing plant in the South. The work is demanding: fast-paced, physically difficult, and tedious. Despite attempts by management to motivate the workers, no one whom Thompson meets is happy about working there. Many of the workers are immigrants who do not speak English. Overall, Thompson has the impression that the work there is numbing, dehumanizing, and disorganized.

Your summary will differ from this one in the way it is written, but it should include roughly the same information.
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