Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Agenda, May 21

Due Now: "The Insufficiency of Honesty," by Stephen L. Carter 
Due Wednesday: "Shooting an Elephant," by George Orwell, in 50 Essays 
Due Thursday: Works Cited for Justice Paper.
War Essays Revisions will be handled on a case by case basis.
Due Friday, 5/31: "What is Justice?" Synthesis Essay
  1. Questions about resources, search terms, structures, or outlines
  2. Tighten up!
  3. "The Insufficiency of Honesty", "The Ways We Lie", and "The Age of the Essay"

3 comments:

  1. I copy/pasted the bibliography list from April 23rd below in case anyone wants a single list of all the works we have read. Hope it helps :) By the way, I haven't added anything that we've read since the exam. Are we going to turn in a complete bibliography list of fifty odd pages at some point :P or just the annotated ones we turned in last Friday?

    -Joy of Reading, Sherman Alexie
    -On Compassion, Barbara Lazear Ascher
    -Happy Endings, Margaret Atwood
    -Female Body, Margaret Atwood
    -Plot Against People, RussellBaker
    -Independence Day, Dave Barry
    -Lost in the Kitchen, Dave Barry
    -I Want a Wife, Judy Brady
    -Why Don't We Complain, William F. Buckley Jr
    -Runner, Laura Carlson
    -Myth of the Latin Woman, Judith Ortiz Cofer
    -Learning to Read and Write, Frederick Douglass
    -Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
    -On Dumpster Diving, Lars Eighner
    -World and America Watching Different Wars, Dana Harmon
    -How it Feels to Be Colored Me, Zora Neale Hurston
    -The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson
    -I Have a Dream, MLK Jr
    -Letter from Birmingham Jail, MLK Jr
    -No Name Woman, Maxine Hong Kingston
    -A Christmas Carol, Tom Lehrer
    -Playing House, Denise Leight
    -The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
    -The Raven, Barry Lopez
    -The Morals of the Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
    -On Being a Cripple, Nancy Mairs
    -Learning to Read, Malcolm X
    -The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels
    -Show and Tell, Scott McCloud
    -Inaugural Address, Barack Obama
    -Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama
    -Desert Religions, Richard Rodriguez
    -Always Always Always, Bill Rhode
    -I Just Wanna Be Average, Mike Rose
    -When Music Heals Body and Soul, Oliver Sacks
    -Silent Night/7 O’Clock News, Simon and Garfunkel
    -Tiffany Stephenson-- An Apology, Bjorn Skogquist
    -Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    -Just Walk On By, Brent Staples
    -Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
    -Retreat into the iWorld, Andrew Sullivan
    -A Modest Proposal, Jonathon Swift
    -Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
    -Huck Finn, Mark Twain
    -A Woman’s Place, Naomi Wolf

    -The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Traitor to the Nation, M.T. Anderson
    -The Life of King Henry V, William Shakespeare
    There are two seperate pages, here are the links to each:
    Act III, i: http://www.bartleby.com/70/2931.html
    Act IV, iii: http://www.bartleby.com/70/2943.html
    -Homeless Yoga and The Art of Panhandling
    I don't know how to cite this, but here is the link to go to the website for it:
    http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2012/12/19/homeless

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  2. Looks like we've had a busy year.

    I'm done with the Bibliography. The true test will come with your Works Cited page for your Justice Essay (and, I suppose, when you get to college).

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