Your fourth essay, on birthright citizenship, is posted here for download.
It is due on Sunday at noon. Because this one requires some reading and outside research, make sure that you get started a bit before 11:00 a.m. on Sunday.
If you’d like to listen while you read To Kill a Mockingbird, this web site has downloads of the entire book, divided by chapter, available for download.
The revisions of the college essay will be due on Monday, March 14 in class. Please plan to attach all the previous drafts and forms to your final, printed copy, which will be due at the beginning of class.
We’ll review these elements in class over the next few days to ensure that your revisions are improved.
TUESDAY: Thesis Statements, Topic Sentences, Introductions
WEDNESDAY: The 8 Sentence Paragraph Format
THURSDAY: Embedding Quotations, Works Cited Page, Paraphrasing
FRIDAY: Colloquial language and writing errors.
We will have a final exam over the podcast Serial on Monday. The test will require you to answer five paragraphs from the following questions. To prepare for the exam, I would recommend making an outline for each and studying that. Be prepared for the exam on Monday! Good luck!
The questions are below. Click read more.
Your essay this this week is about the treatment of animals in the United States, and should offer an affirmation of or response to the argument made by philosophy professor Peter Singer, who wrote the following in his book Animal Liberation:
To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.
Make sure to read the entire assignment and its requirements here. Click “Read More” for resources you can use in your paper.
Your final study guide for Antony and Cleopatra will be due on Wednesday before we take our exam over the play. To prepare, please review your study guides from the previous Acts, paying especially close attention to the paragraph (level three) questions.
The test will include five paragraph responses, one quotation “translation,” and a series of short answer questions from the play. It will also cover the notes on Shakespeare’s tragedies, but not the background material on ancient Rome. All of the study guides and notes are available here.
We’ll review some of the material in class on Tuesday, but you should definitely spend some time studying tonight and tomorrow night.
Good luck!
