1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1101
ATTENTION ALL; HW DUE COMPLETED BY CLASSTIME MON. 11/6:1) Over your long weekend, FIRST make sure you throroughly read/study/understand the FOUR (4) quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower on the sheet given to you in class THURS. 11/2 (JOURNALS section of binder/quotes copied below/also linked on the Classroom):
2) NEXT, CHOOSE TWO (2) of those quotes and for JOURNAL #8, please RESPOND TO THE TWO YOU CHOOSE
2) NEXT, CHOOSE TWO (2) of those quotes and for JOURNAL #8, please RESPOND TO THE TWO YOU CHOOSE
3) Like your Sontag quote J#6 response, I'm giving you *space* to respond here in your own voice. **However, I know some of you like more specific directions, so to get you thinking between now and then, I SUGGEST YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE FOLLOWING HELPFUL WRITING SUGGESTIONS:
- Choose TWO (2) of the FOUR (4) quotes on the sheet given to you in class today from [General and] President Dwight D. Eisenhower (and copied below) and discuss your "take" on each
- compare the two quotes and their 'take' on war
- research the DATE/CONTEXT of each quote and Eisenhower's varying perspectives of war
- DEFEND/CHALLENGE/QUALIFY each one, etc.
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FOUR QUOTES FROM DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER:"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity. War settles nothing."
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government."
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity. War settles nothing."
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government."
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SO, TO RECAP YOUR TASK FOR THIS LONG WEEKEND/PRIOR TO CLASS MON. 11/6:
- READ/BE FAMILIAR WITH these four Eisenhower quotes for class MON. 11/6 (**We have more to do Monday with these besides your J#8 response)
- PAY ATTENTION TO/MAKE NOTE OF the potential ideas for your J#8 topic/direction listed above
- COMPOSE YOUR J#8 RESPONSE TO TWO (2) of EISENHOWER'S QUOTES and be ready to show/share IN CLASS MON. 11/6
- BE AWARE that MON. 11/6 we'll be doing some other tasks with these quotes/what you choose to respond to; more info TBA
- **KNOW that your J#8 response WILL BE USED FOR DISCUSSION POINTS, and I MAY BE CALLING ON EVERYONE TO SHARE ONE THING THAT THEY RESPONDED TO!!**
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