Caption
English 10 course anthology
A complete dramatic scene for close reading, discussion, and writing.
[A table beside a river. A camera case lies open.] COORDINATOR: Fifty sounds like a town working together. AMIRA: Thirty-eight people worked together. COORDINATOR: You understand the point. AMIRA: I understand the number. SAMI: Could the caption say “dozens”? [The coordinator closes the camera case.] COORDINATOR: We are spending more time on a caption than on a river. AMIRA: Then why does the caption matter so much? [Mrs. Ortiz places her photographs on the table. No one moves the camera case.]
Original teaching text written for this course. People, organizations, quotations, and data in this selection are fictional unless explicitly identified as historical. Reuse with the course materials.