Agenda, December 17

• Due Now: "A Modest Proposal," by Jonathan Swift, from 100 Great Essays. Take good newts. Add it to your Bib.
• Due Now: Complete a SOAPSTone for "On Restraints Upon the Importation ...", "The Roots of Honor," and "The Gospel of Wealth."
• Due Thursday: "'I Just Wanna be Average'," by Mike Rose, from 50 Essays, ? edition. Take good newts. (You don't have to do a dialectical journal, but that should shape the way you think as you read.)
• Due Friday (or sooner): Write a synthesis paragraph about poverty or wealth or human nature or communism or capitalism or something else based on two of the pieces we've read this term. Typed. MLA. We'll review synthesis on Wednesday. 

Today's Agenda

1. Hyperbole, etc.
2. Some modest group work
3. IQ Squared