Assignments

Carefully read Patrick Henry's speech to the Second Virginia Convention, paying close attention to the speaker's diction and sentence structure. Then write a well-supported essay in which you support, refute, or qualify modern historians' charge that Patrick Henry tended toward demagoguery and propaganda in this address. Do not merely summarize the speech. Due Thursday 9/3/15

Read and annotate for tone, word choice, and connotation Due 9/10

Due 9/10

Annotate for diction and tone - Write an analysis essay. Due 9/15

read and analyze.

Read and write an analysis for Monday, 9/22

Read a nd write an analysis for Thursday, 9/24

Read and write an analysis for Monday 9/28

categorize for next class 9/30

Read the Hazlitt piece (prompt 2) and complete a bullet analysis. Read the Dream and Nightmare paper and complete the assignment for Thursday. -[]

due 10/2

Due Tuesday 10/6 also, print out the speech from [|George Bush 9/11 Speech]

Read, annotate, and analyze the article from the following link: http://www.theonion.com/article/apple-announces-plans-for-new-ipad-with-extra-stor-31067 In addition, identify the type of satire as well as determine who/what the article is satirizing and why. - Due Wed, 10/28th

read and annotate for Friday. Write an analysis of the satire for peer edit on Friday: Due 11/6

Read and annotate for Monday. Write an analysis of the satire for peer edit on Thursday 11/19

Go to the link: http://www.buffalonian.com/hnews/1869onlyanigger.html

Read and annotate the newspaper article by Mark Twain. Analyze in an essay the satire used by the author to accomplish his purpose. Due: Monday 11/23

Analyze for Friday 12/4

Write this essay for Thursday 12/10

read to page 14 and complete an analysis of the social satire Due: 12/16



Choose one prompt from the options below and write a five-paragraph essay on the topic in response.

1 Ultimately, who bears the most responsibility for Billy’s death: Claggart, Vere, or Billy himself?

2 In what ways does Melville dramatize the conflict between a person’s inner self (e.g. their essential identity, impulses, etc.) and that person’s role in society? Consider the Dansker, Vere, the Chaplain, and the drumhead court.

3 Consider Billy’s role as the Handsome Sailor and how it relates to his innocence. Does Billy retain his innocence despite his death? Does his death redeem him?

4 Trace and analyze the role of justice in //Billy Budd//. Does a strict adherence to positive law render a just outcome?

5 Throughout //Billy Budd//, the title character is compared to a prelapsarian (i.e., before the Fall) Adam. What is the meaning or significance of this analogy?

Finish and be ready to discuss for next class

Read the articles from the following links: http://ndla.no/en/node/95082

http://www.theblackandblue.com/2008/03/17/on-american-realism-and-mark-twains-the-man-who-corrupted-hadleyberg/

be ready to discuss the ideas next class.





Choose one of the following films and complete a satirical analysis:

nAmerican Beauty nBarton Fink nBest in Show nThe Cable Guy nDeath to Smoochy nDr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb nDrop Dead Gorgeous nElection nHeathers nIdiocracy nL.A. Story nMan of the Year nNatural Born Killers nOffice Space nSaved! nSerial Mom nStarship Troopers nThank You for Smoking nThis is Spinal Tap nThree Amigos nThe Truman Show nTo Die For nWag the Dog nWayne’s World

 Carefully read Patrick Henry’s 1775 Speech to the Second Virginia Convention, paying close attention to the speaker’s word choice and sentence structure. Then write a well-supported essay in which you support, refute, or qualify modern historians’ charges that Patrick Henry tended toward demagoguery and propaganda in this address. Do not merely summarize the speech. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbush911addresstothenation.htm http://www.theonion.com/article/apple-announces-plans-for-new-ipad-with-extra-stor-31067   Choose one prompt from the options below and write a five-paragraph essay on the topic in response. All papers must be 3 pages in length and submitted in proper MLA format.

1 Ultimately, who bears the most responsibility for Billy’s death: Claggart, Vere, or Billy himself?

2 In what ways does Melville dramatize the conflict between a person’s inner self (e.g. their essential identity, impulses, etc.) and that person’s role in society? Consider the Dansker, Vere, the Chaplain, and the drumhead court.

3 Consider Billy’s role as the Handsome Sailor and how it relates to his innocence. Does Billy retain his innocence despite his death? Does his death redeem him?

4 Trace and analyze the role of justice in //Billy Budd//. Does a strict adherence to positive law render a just outcome?

5 Throughout //Billy Budd//, the title character is compared to a prelapsarian (i.e., before the Fall) Adam. What is the meaning or significance of this analogy?

6 A topic of your choice that has met with my approval. http://ndla.no/en/node/95082