1. There are 3-4 different dialogues taking place within this text (newspaper articles, a first hand account, lesson plans, and pictures). The font style tells us when the narrative is shifting. How does this shift effect your reading? Does the author present one global storyline through multiple sources or does he present disjointed, unfinished pieces of stories, or both? I think reading it both ways changes the meaning of the text but I am not sure how to process that.

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2. How would you compare the effect of the images in Coal Mountain Elementary as compared to those in Citizen? What is the purpose of these images in the text?

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3. Looking again at segments, does the change in writing style (personal to impersonal, shifts in pronouns, etc.) make certain storylines more believable? or more authoritative? Again, do you break the story apart into plot and subplots or let it run together to create one complete thought?

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4. In From Sago to Xinjiang, the author discusses the idea that Nowak is taking one American coal mining tragedy and showing it in a global setting. Throughout the book we receive dozens of Chinese news reports on various mine tragedies and specifics of one West Virginian mining tragedy, what is the significance of that aspect of the text? There ae plenty of other American mining incidents to pull from, is the way the text is executed effective in delivering a message?