Implications

As you work through the implications article, you may wish to discuss and compare notes with your fine colleagues. To that end, I put the article up on the AP Text annotation site for you to work on.  Please make use of it. I put up a contextual comment at the end (nothing new -- we talked about it in class) to help you orient yourself.

Remember, you won't see everything.  You don't have to.  Pick a line of reasoning and work on that for your paper.  Focus. Eat turkey. Eat pumpkin pie. Eat more pumpkin pie. Watch some football. Enjoy your weekend. Work some on this. Have some leftover pumpkin pie. With whipped cream.  Lots of whipped cream.

Reflecting on the Destiny of Humankind

Decide which of the three texts has the most effective argument. Why is it more effective than the others? Please explain.

Then, read the Pico Iyer article on implications. That's all you have to do with it. Read it. Well, make an attempt to understand it, I suppose. ;) We'll discuss it on Monday.

Have a good weekend!

Tri-Text Discussion

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Good work today on some difficult texts. Tomorrow we'll pull the whole thing together in an evaluative discussion of the three texts together.

A special thanks to Jesse who filmed during 2nd period. We figured out what went wrong with the microphone so that shouldn't be a problem tomorrow.

Let's move the vocab test to Monday so we can finish our discussion. Spreading it over 2 days is enough; I don't want it to span the weekend as well.

No homework tonight, though check back tomorrow for some homework to tide you over for the weekend. Don't worry, it is not at all onerous.