Links for the Spanish Civil War

Here are links to the pages I showed in class today:

Posters for the Spanish Civil War (click on "Chronology of the War," too, for clarifications and additional information).

UK History Channel site on the Spanish Civil War (click on "Gallery").

As I mentioned, you will need to use one illustration from each of these sites to supplement the essay you will write about Homage to Catalonia. You will receive the essay topics on Monday; the essay will be due Tuesday, March 17.

Assignments

Note that your assignments for the third quarter are posted to the right under "AP Lang Assignments." For Thursday, in addition to reading and annotating Lionel Trilling's introduction to Homage to Catalonia, read Emerson's "Self-Reliance," which was handed out today in class. If you were absent from class, you can find the PDF of Emerson's essay here, and see me for a copy of your book.

Assignments for Wednesday, 2/11, and Friday, 2/13

Clarification: Complete the writing component of these assignments within forty minutes. This means you should write a full response within this allotted time. Do not "do as much as you can" within that time; strive to complete it within that time. 

For Wednesday, read Alice Walker, "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self," in 50 Essays, pp. 441-449.  Write a coherent and cohesive response to question 4.

For Friday, read Sarah Vowell, "Shooting Dad," in 50 Essays, pp. 433-440. Write a response to question 4. With this response, you do not need to compose an essay; you may list the humorous moments and explain them, and then include your hypothesis at the end. 

Assignment for Monday, 2/9

Read Mike Rose, "I Just Wanna Be Average," in 50 Essays, pp. 350-363. As you read the essay, keep in mind our discussion of ethos as a rhetorical appeal. Also, give yourself forty minutes to write a coherent essay in response to the following topic:

In paragraphs 26-31 (pp. 359-361), Rose describes an influential high school teacher. Write an essay in which you analyze the rhetorical strategies, including stylistic choices, that he uses to convey the powerful impact of this experience on him.

Assignment for Thursday, 2/5 (Day 6)

For Thursday, read Advanced Composition Skills (the orange book) pp. 88-91. Complete the writing assignment on p. 90, but be sure to read the guidelines for writing it on pp. 90-91. Be sure to give yourself only forty minutes to complete it. You may write it by hand or type it.