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AP Language Fact and AP Literature Poem of the Day

A couple of notes for AP Literature and Language.

In Literature, we’ll be starting work on poetry commenting this week. Please make two thoughtful comments about the poetry located at the bottom of the page or under the AP Literature menu. You can post twice on the same poem (as part of a dialogue with other students) or on two poems. Just make sure that your insight is thoughtful and well-written.

For AP Language, I’ve added a feature called Fact/Image of the Day. You can find it at the bottom of the home page and on the AP Language page. These might be helpful (along with the magazine links and news feed) for blogging.

And–essay formatting. There’s no good reason not to have correct margins on all your papers.

October 26, 2009/by dpogreba

Unfair Wages for Womyn?

Fact of the Day

In 1872, the earliest year for which such statistics are available, 21 percent of college students in the United States were female. Today, that number is 58 percent and rising. It has truly been a stunning ascendancy. And yet there is still a considerable economic price to pay for being a woman. For American women twenty-five and older who hold at least a bachelor’s degree and work full-time, the national median income is about $47,000. Similar men, meanwhile, make more than $66,000, a premium of 40 percent. The same is true even for women who attend the nation’s elite universities. The economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz found that women who went to Harvard earned less than half as much as the average Harvard man. Even when the analysis included only full-time, full-year employees and controlled for college major, profession, and other variables, Goldin and Katz found that the Harvard women still earned about 30 percent less than their male counterparts.

–from SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

October 26, 2009/by dpogreba

Mad Men 2.0: Discussion Group Article

AP Language News

The article for discussion group this week might be of interest to the AP Language students, as it explores the way that fact based persuasion has given way to emotional denials:

A democracy that permits outraged denial to turn truth into a subjective concept will not remain a democracy for long. It will become an Animal Farm run by those with the biggest microphone, sharpest bayonet and maddest Mad Men. Preventing that devolution requires a true independent media—one free from corporate control and therefore free to aggressively police the truth.

Check out the article here and think about attending Wednesday night at 7:30.

October 21, 2009/by dpogreba

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