Your next analysis essay, about Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, will be due Sunday, March 17 at 12:00 p.m. via Google Docs. A few important tips for the assignment: Don’t rely on outside research or information, other than references to history that Lincoln is addressing. Be consistent in your tense. Offer a compelling thesis Don’t forget […]
Your revisions (printed, attached to the checklist, and stapled to your first draft with all changes bolded) are due Friday in class. The revision guide is available in the downloads section of the web site. And here is a sample paragraph from 2014 to help see how you might improve your essays. Please remember to […]
The revision of your Sanders essay will be due on Friday. Please print it and attach it to your previous draft. Make sure that all changes are bolded on your second draft. The revision guide is available here. Please attach the checklist from it to your revision. The CRISPING handout is available here.
These are the templates you can use for the rhetorical device assignment: Word Google Docs
Speeches Pericles’ Funeral Oration MLK Speech Against the Vietnam War Richard Nixon Address to the Nation John Kerry Speech to Congress Readings from The Things They Carried The Things They Carried, Love Spin, On the Rainy River Enemies, Friends, How to Tell a True War Story The Dentist, Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong, Stockings, […]
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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.”
