The Sanders revisions will be available in this folder by Tuesday morning (oops, of course I meant night). If you’d like to revise them for extra credit, they are due by Friday evening.
- Satire Notes
- Parody Notes
- My Satirical Self (Wyatt Mason)
- Shooting an Elephant (George Orwell)
- A Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift)
- Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain (Jessica Mitford)
- The Damned Human Race (Mark Twain)
- Bringing Sexy Back (Maureen Dowd)
- Dr. Strangelove
- The iMe
Books: The Shame of the Nation, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Articles: Serve or Fail (Eggers), Why We Built the Ivory Tower (Fish), Dehumanized (Harpers), How Public School Cripples (Gatto), My Pedagogic Creed (Dewey), Most Likely to Succeed (Gladwell), Pedagogy of the Oppressor (Stern)
Videos: George Siemens (Deschooling) and Kenneth Robinson (How Schools Destroy Creativity)
Project: San Antonio v. Rodriguez Decision
Notes: Critical Pedagogy, Gladwell, and Deschooling, John Dewey
Information about the San Antonio School District v. Rodriguez debate is available here:
- Assignment Sheet
- Precis Assignment Sheet
- Rodriguez Summary
- Court’s Opinion
- Marshall/Douglas Dissent
- Audio of the Court Proceeding
- Research Links
The debate and written portion of this assignment will be due the day of the semester final.
For an enormous collection of sample essays you can use as a reference point for the This I Believe assignment, you can check out the NPR web site, which contains audio and text essays from the show in the 1950s and the past decade.
A few interesting ones include: