Walt Whitman on Baseball
“Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!”
This is my eighteenth year at Helena High School, where I teach English III AP Language, AP Seminar, Honors English 2, Debate, and Speech. In my spare time, I enjoy grading essays, watching the San Diego Padres and Portland Timbers, and buying more books than I could ever hope to read.
“Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!”
All of the notes for the globalization unit are located here, in one file. You may bring one 3×5 notecard to use on the test, which will be a combination of short answer and developed paragraph responses.
The test tomorrow will require answering five of these questions, each in a detailed paragraph. You will probably be able to choose from at least seven questions. You may use your packet of readings, but no other materials.
Question are below.
Edward Abbey
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute […]