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https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/01/how-to-avoid-swallowing-war-propaganda?fbclid=IwAR2QmaZB7T4iKeU6OmQIZ3m7lZIIispzb0RpSfMrD5gjfg1ESSF7xfqi-Xw

 

  Malcolm X synthesis essay due next Monday. 

Question: How should we think about race and racism in America?  Is there a solution?

Using The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and a least three other sources - MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"; James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son"; Zora Neale Hurston's "How it Feels to be Colored Me"; Jamaica Kincaid's "Upon Seeing English for the First Time"; W.E.B Dubois' "Of Our Spiritual Striving"; and/or Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman"  

 

 MODES OF COMPOSITION PROJECT

 

PROJECT OVERVIEW

1)   Student will read “Resources for Writing” (Thematic Unit – Survival) in their Riverside Reader pages 493 – 563.

The purpose of this aspect of the assignment is to further their understanding of seven different rhetorical modes of development and to show them a model for the writing project that they will be doing.  Reading the selections, which are all on the same topic, the Internet, but which utilize the various “modes of development”.

2)   Read two additional essays of their choice of each mode and write a précis (posted on their blog) for each.  These readings should come from The Riverside Reader.  While students are doing this aspect of the project the class will be studying and working with various modes in class.

3)   Write six papers on the same topic, each in a different mode. 

Each paper should clearly demonstrate the distinct characteristics of the mode.  Before writing the student should review the different chapters for tips on purpose, audience, strategies, and in some cases, potential pitfalls.  Especially important will be the “Points to Remember” charts handed out during the writing.

Students will choose a topic that is well known and interesting to them and broad enough that they can readily adapt it to six different treatments:  1) narration, 2) analysis, 3) compare and contrast, 4) classification, 5) definition, 6) cause and effect and 7) persuasion

Topics that have be suggested include: shopping, a favorite sport, school, friends, teenagers, grades, parents, teacher, TV, movies, reading, dating, music, holidays, fashion, presidential elections, politics, religion, vegetarianism, health, food or cooking, nature, etc.

Each paper should be approximately 500-1000 words, labeled with the mode of development, double-spaced, typed, have a creative title, and a word count at the end.

Total project should be approximately 3500-7000 words.

Each paper will be workshopped in a group setting and discussed 1-1 with teacher.

PROJECT will be due at SPRING BREAK.  

Narration Essay (draft) due 1/27

Process Analysis (draft) due 2/3

Compare and Contrast (draft) due 2/10

Division and Classification (draft) due 2/17

Definition (draft) due 2/24

Cause and Effect due 3/

Persuasion (draft) due 3/12

FINAL drafts (all revisions done) due 3/21

Tuesday

Today we will discuss chapter 3 of Malcolm X, begin chapter 4, and give you some time to write a summary of chapter 3 on your blog.

Friday

Malcolm X Reading and Blog Schedule

Blogs – record a brief synopsis and something important about the chapter

12/6
 "Ballot or the Bullet"

12/9
"Ballot or the Bullet"

12/10 pages 121 -140 and blog


12/11 pages 140 -170 and blog

12/12 pages 171-196 and blog

12/13 pages 197-216 and blog
"How It Feels to be Colored Men" by Zora Neale Hurston

12/14 pages 216-224 and blog

12/15 pages 225-244 and blog
"Notes of A Native Son" by Richard Wright

12/16 pages 244-262 and blog
"Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth

12/17 pages 263 and 287 and blog
"The Position of Poverty"

12/18 FINAL

12/19 FINAL

12/20 pages 288-309

12/21-12/25 pages 310-336

12/26 pages 337-370 and blog

12/27 pages 371-395 and blog

12/28 pages 396-429 and blog

12/29 pages 430-456 and blog

1/2 pages 457-480 and blog

1/3 pages 481-501 and blog

1/6 – Review

1/7 – TEST on MALCOLM X

Wednesday

So - I'm stuck in Juneau.  He is what you can do today: 1) Rewrite WALDEN essay and let me know when you have the next draft done.  2) Make sure all your dialectical journals are posted (I need to check this today).  3) Read the next chapter of Malcolm X.

Text me if you have questions or problems.

Monday - Tuesday

Make sure you post your essay on Walden and begin reading the finest 50 pages or so of Malcolm X.

Email me if you have questions.

Wednesday

Then answer the following in preparation for your essay:

1.) Does Walden appeal to our "sense of rebelliousness and individualism"? Are we "inspired by his idealistic actions and principled and good-humored erudition"? Do we enjoy thinking about how we might take a more "Thoreauvian approach" to our own lives?

2.) How do modern conveniences and gadgets influence our culture? After reading Thoreau, are we now eager to give them up?

3.) Can we consider how doing and thinking for ourselves is made possible (or impeded) by modern educational and cultural institutions?

4.) To which "genre" (or genres) does Walden belong?

5.) What is Thoreau's relationship to his audience and to society as a whole? How does he situate his narrative persona? That is, what kind of person is the "I" in the text, and how do we know?

6.) How can Walden be considered as an application of Transcendental philosophy?

7.) Choose one tenet of transcendentalism and explain how Thoreau affirms, complicates, or rejects it in a chapter in Walden.

8.) Locate passages in the text that seem directly comparable to one of the other authors we've read -- especially Emerson, but possibly also others, like Franklin. How does Thoreau use one or more of the ideas of this author?

9.) Discuss the way that Walden redefines a familiar word, such as economy, travel, or shelter.

10.) Since Thoreau's text proceeds from the central metaphor of Walden Pond (in the same way that Whitman's "Song of Myself" on p. 1238 proceeds from a blade of grass), how does each chapter of Walden define some overlooked philosophical or metaphorical aspect of nature?

11.) How can Walden be considered as a response to the "runaway train of nineteenth-century growth, industrialization, mass agriculture, and capitalist values?

12.) Consider Thoreau's work as a reformist response to one of the following:

• industrial capitalism
• manifest destiny
• technological progress
• slavery

ESSAY QUESTION:

As describe in Walden what is Thoreau's assessment of American Culture (what is wrong with it)?  Using specific evidence from the text discuss and outline his argument.  Then respond to it.  Do you agree or disagree with his insights?  Discuss.

A good website to look at is Cumming Study Guides - go here