There were enough changes to the deadlines for this week that I thought it might best to list your due dates here. For Friday: Read and annotate George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language For Sunday: Turn in (using Google Drive) your two rhetorical devices. For Monday: Turn in your Sanders revision, complete with peer […]
This week, we’ll return to rhetorical devices. I’d like you to complete two rhetorical devices from either the A Time for Choosing speech by Ronald Reagan or The Four Freedoms speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The assignment is due in class (printed out before class begins) on Friday. If you haven’t received great grades on these in previous weeks, […]
This week we’ve got art by Caravaggio, news stories about satire and breakfast cereal, a sentence by John Irving, and more. Enjoy! Of Rats, Gerbils, and Men – – “Rising temperatures may already be contributing to the spread of some diseases, like chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that, not long ago, was confined to Africa and Asia. […]
Thursday night we’ll meet at Scenic Brew to discuss The Dark Side of America’s Achievement Culture by Andrew Yang at 7:30.
Your major essay this week is another analysis piece, the Sanders analysis essay. It’s due Sunday at 1:00 through Google Docs. If you decide to do a third draft of the Carson essay, it’s do in class on Wednesday, with the previous drafts attached.