Your collaborative review document is available here. It needs to be completed by the start of class on Tuesday. After that, others can claim your assignment for extra credit and you will receive a zero. Instructions are on the page right after the table of contents and my sample document (Walden) is a good guide […]
The test over environmental philosophy will be on Friday, April 19. You may bring a 3×5 notecard for the test. Please attach it to your completed response tomorrow. The test will cover: Traditional Objections to Environmentalism Thoreau Muir Leopold Carson Deep Ecology Ecofeminism Arguments Against Environmentalism
The calendar for our AP preparation is available on the calendar link at the top of the page and here. For many of you, these three and a half weeks represent the chance to hone your skills to become ready for the AP Exam. For others, they represent the chance to develop your score from […]
Your Lincoln revisions (and late first drafts) are due Friday in class. Please make sure to have them printed and attached to the revision guide and, if appropriate, your first draft. First Period Highlights Third Period Highlights Revision Guide
These are the potential questions for the propaganda exam on Friday. Each should be answered in a thoughtful, specific paragraph of 6-10 sentences that demonstrates an understanding of the text, our discussion, and the notes. Construct an argument in which you prove Chomsky and Herman wrong. Why might their model not work? Be sure to […]
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Mr. Pogreba
"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." --Socrates
Deep Thoughts
“Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”
“No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence–that which makes its truth, its meaning–its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream–alone.”
“so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache.”
“He couldn’t even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.”
