Pop Culture Paper

TV Bad! TV Good? Orwell, Huxley, Postman Oh My!!! Squirrel....! What? Oh, sorry, I got distracted. Jersey Thursday, ya know.

Anyway.

Write to prompt 3 on page 787 of your book. Keep it to 1000 words +/- 10%.

Remember that a synthesis paper is essentially a research paper in that you are using sources. Those sources need to be cited. So, remember to look over the research paper resources for how to do that. Also, Easybib.com is your friend and he loves to help out with works cited pages.

It is due on Monday April 16th. That will give those music and FBLA people time to upload whatever they swyped on their phones to Google Docs and give it a quick revision before submitting it. ;)

Women's Brains

brains...braaaaaiiins

As we wrestle with the unpleasant, but important to understand Women's Brains by Stephen Jay Gould, work on the Rhetoric and Style questions 1-12 on pages 354-55 of the TLC book. They are due Friday.

As you work with this essay, think about the implications of the ideas in the essay -- both those of Gould and of those he quoted. Are there echoes of those ideas alive and kicking today? How? When? Where? To what extent? ;) Thinking about these issues will prime you for the next synthesis paper. (Yeah, I know we are just starting the Pop Culture synthesis paper, but we gotta keep moving. As a hyper but charming lemur once said, we've got "to move it, move it!")

TV B-Gone!

By Wednesday, blog the answers to the remaining essays in the TV conversation section (essays 2, 3, and 5). Remember that the grammar from chapter 7 is due on Monday and we'll begin working with our paper on Monday as well. Have a good weekend!

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