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AP Language: Propaganda Test This Week!

There will be two days of the propaganda test, Tuesday and the Wednesday/Thursday block schedule: Wednesday for 6th Period, Thursday for 3rd/5th.

Tuesday is over the major concepts and authors, including:

George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language
Chomsky and Herman’s The Manufacture of Consent
Jacques Ellul’s The Characteristics of Propaganda
Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death
Data Smog, Central and Peripheral Communication

The block schedule test will be a review of propaganda techniques.

All the notes are available online.

March 17, 2014/by dpogreba

Research Paper Due Date Revision!

AP Language

Given the compressed schedule of the Smarter Balanced Assessment and concern about AP test preparation, I’ve decided to change the due date for the Propaganda research paper to May 20. You may still send me drafts before the final due date, other than during the Weeks of Doom AP test preparation.

In exchange for this change, we do have a new analysis essay due on Sunday, March 23. You will write the Welty analysis paper by then and submit it to Google Docs.

Recap of Writing Assignments:

Sunday, March 16: Two rhetorical devices due, as well as optional Louv Analysis
Tuesday, March 18: 2nd Revision of Carson essay due
Sunday, March 23: Welty Analysis Essay Due
Tuesday, May 20: Last Draft of the Propaganda Research Paper Due

March 14, 2014/by dpogreba

Daily Wisdom: Should We Drug Test Doctors?

Daily Wisdom

Daniel Levinson and Erika Broadhurst argue that the threat of doctors abusing drugs, including drug use that involves reusing needles on patients, requires drug testing of doctors:

Hospitals can do more to protect patients. Improved security, such as surveillance of drug storage areas, tighter chain of custody on drugs, and better tracking of controlled substances are obvious areas to target.

ut we should go further. We believe hospitals should be required to perform random drug tests on all health care workers with access to drugs. The tests should be comprehensive enough to screen for fentanyl and other commonly abused drugs and must keep up with evolving drug abuse patterns.

This is hardly a radical suggestion. By federal law, many workers in transportation or other safety-sensitive areas are already subject to random drug tests. These include pilots, school bus drivers, truck drivers, flight attendants, train engineers, subway operators, ship captains and pipeline emergency response crews.

March 13, 2014/by dpogreba

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