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Cornell Notes Cairo - My City, Our Revolution

The document is a summary of diary entries by Ahdaf Soueif describing protests in Cairo during the Egyptian Revolution. It summarizes that Soueif was traveling by boat to escape tear gas at a protest site. She later decided to return to the site when she heard a shout from the crowd, showing she supported their cause against the government. The summary describes Soueif and others standing silently in an area where snipers were above them out of fear but also to show their unity. It explains how writing about the revolution has become important for Soueif to express her pride in what was accomplished.

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Cornell Notes Cairo - My City, Our Revolution

The document is a summary of diary entries by Ahdaf Soueif describing protests in Cairo during the Egyptian Revolution. It summarizes that Soueif was traveling by boat to escape tear gas at a protest site. She later decided to return to the site when she heard a shout from the crowd, showing she supported their cause against the government. The summary describes Soueif and others standing silently in an area where snipers were above them out of fear but also to show their unity. It explains how writing about the revolution has become important for Soueif to express her pride in what was accomplished.

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Cornell Notes

Name: ___________________________________
Selection: from “Cairo: My City,
Our Revolution” Diary by Ahdaf Class: _________________ Period: ________
Soueif- E-text Pgs. 73-79
Date: ____________________________
 Essential Question: What are the different paths to liberation and how do we choose?

Questions/Main Ideas:
Notes:
Time-Order Words:

Signal Sequence of
Events.
Reread lines 3-13. Based on the Because there is tear gas and she is trying to escape
author’s description of her location
moments before, infer as to why danger.
Soueif is traveling in a boat?

Imagery:

Use of language that


Appears to the senses
Lines 5-9:What details help readers Breath Burns, Heavy with tear gas, mass of people, an
see and fell what the author
experiences? opaque dusk. All of these are signs of Imagery

Vocabulary: Opaque

Clouded; difficult to see


Lines 20-3-Analyze Ideas and What’s the reason she turned back
Events: What details Soueif provides
about why she decides to return to the “a great shout goes up” which motivates her because she
site of the protest, and what can the wasn’t in agreeance with the government. That shout
reader infer about her reasons based
on these details? inspired her to join in.

Lines 24-31-Word Choice: Identify They skitter through the obstacles and it helped brought
words in the paragraph that help
Soueif convey an attitude or feeling excitement to the readers
about the events she describes.

Lines 44-8: Analyze Ideas and At the beginning she didn’t want to write about it because
Events- Summarize how Cario and
the revolution have influenced Soueif it was painful for her but know she wants to write about it
as a writer. because proud about it

Syntax: The arrangement of words that helps impact tone


Lines 61-9: How does the Silently is the word that brings tone because they have to
arrangement of short and long
sentences have an impact on the stay quiet while there are sniper above them. They have
meaning and tone? to stay still without a single word which brought suspense
to the reader. We stood is also a word that brings tone
because they are together as one.

Reclaim: To Retake

Prism:
A transparent light reflecting object

Intermittent:
Irregular intervals

Analyze Ideas & Events


Lines: 73-82
How does the description
of the events eight months
ago adds to Soueif’s
description of the present?

They still stood there ground and it provided significance to the government. They all you
united as one. If it was just one person then it would have made a change or an impact but
they all stood together and that what made the impact on society.

Summary:

If I was in her shoes I think that if I really cared about the situation and if I wanted to
help I wouldn’t have waited for someone to shout for me to join in I would be one of
the first to join in and try to make a difference.

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