We will have four ACT review sessions over break. Each will be about one and one half hours long and will cover new material—so you can come to all four, because who doesn’t want to do that?
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1: 7:00 p.m.
THURSDAY, APRIL 2: 4:00 p.m. (CANCELLED: Let me know if you want me to add a session)
SUNDAY, APRIL 5: 3:00 p.m.
MONDAY, APRIL 6: 7:00 p.m.
The reviews will be in Room 14, and the history hall door will be open. Please plan to arrive on time so we can begin promptly.
Tonight, we’ll be discussing the article Please Be Disturbed: Triggering Can Be Good for You, Kids by Todd Gitlin. We’ll meet at 7:30 at Scenic Brew.
All revisions are due Friday in class this week. Your second Lincoln drafts should reflect the comments in the revision guide located here and have the first draft stapled below the revised version. We will go over the Lincoln essay briefly in class on Wednesday, so please bring your essay, the revision guide, and prompt to class.
If you decide to revise Sanders for the fourth time, please make sure your revisions reflect the Sanders revision cheat sheet and have all previous drafts attached to your copy.
We’ll be discussing the article In Defense of Difficulty by Steve Wasserman this week for discussion group. We’ll be meeting Thursday night at 7:30 at Scenic Brew.
The propaganda exam will take place on Monday, March 23rd. All of the class notes and a study guide are available in this folder.
“I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.” –Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Your next writing assignment is two rhetorical devices, due Monday, March 23 before the propaganda exam.
For the devices, remember to use two that you haven’t used before and to take them from one of the following pieces:
- MLK: I Have a Dream
- MLK: On the Vietnam War
- Reagan: A Time for Choosing
- Roosevelt: Four Freedoms
- Thoreau: Where I Lived and What I Lived For from Walden
