A number of you still seem to be struggling with topic sentences for the persuasive essays. Once again, please consider reviewing the cheat sheets which will give you a template that should help you begin the transition to effective, argumentative topic sentences. It’s still right here. 🙂
From Reuters: American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials. There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House’s […]
Psychologist David Myers sees this pattern of soaring wealth and shrinking spirit as “the American paradox.” He observes that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Americans found themselves “with big houses and broken homes, high incomes and low morale, secured rights and diminished civility. We were excelling at making a living but too often […]
If you’d like to revise the test for more points, you can download it here. Please attach your new responses to the originals and return both by Thursday. Make sure that your answers are thoughtful and complete. The final version is due Thursday in class.
These are the questions we will be debating late this week and early next week: Do unions hurt American businesses and economic productivity? Should government employees be allowed to be represented by unions? Do unions for teachers harm American education? Make sure you are prepared to give quality, evidence-based speeches on all three topics before […]