**ATTENTION 1st/2nd AP/1101: WKEND HW J#6 DUE COMPLETED/READY FOR CLASS MON. 10/6**

1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1101

HW DUE MON. 10/6:

OVER THE WKEND, & BEFORE CLASS BEGINS MON. 10/6, in the 'SEMESTER/YEAR JOURNALS' SECTION OF YOUR BINDER, COMPLETE:

JOURNAL #6 RESPONSE RE: photojournalist Susan Sontag's QUOTE below concerning war experiences and the civilian perspective (**A JOURNAL PAGE/INFO/MODEL for this response is LINKED ON this wkend's CLASSROOM POST and a PINK hard copy was given to you in class today FRI. 10/3, and, again, the quote to respond to is ALSO COPIED HERE BELOW--->):

We--this "we" is everyone who has never experienced anything like what [these war dead] went through--don't understand. We don't get it. We truly can't imagine what it was like. We can't imagine how dreadful, how terrifying war is; and how normal it becomes. Can't understand, can't imagine. That's what every soldier, and every journalist and aid worker and independent observer who has put in time under fire, and had the luck to elude the death that struck down others nearby, stubbornly feels. And they are right. (126) 
-from Regarding the Pain of Others

**Consider Sontag's comments above about the nature of war, the 'civilian disconnect,' and WRITE/FREE RESPOND in an **open-ended manner that you feel is appropriate

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**A FEW NOTES RE: OPEN-ENDED JOURNAL RESPONSES: 

• TYPED/PRINTED ON YOUR OWN!!! or WRITTEN, 150-200 words (**Y'ALL REMEMBER: BE PROACTIVE; I HAVE NO *EXTRA* TIME FOR PRINTING, SO GET IT TO ME EARLY!!!)

• ARGUE/DEFEND/RHETORICALLY ANALYZE/USE A PERSONAL ANECDOTE/MAKE A CONNECTION TO OTHER TEXTS WE'VE/YOU'VE READ; ANY/MANY OF THESE!!!!

• FOLLOW THE GUIDE and INSTRUCTIONS/TIPS SHEET LINKED ON THE CLASSROOM POST (**PINK SHEET GIVEN TO YOU IN CLASS FRI. 10/3) WITH THIS SONTAG JOURNAL PROMPT/QUOTE 
• these 150-200-WORD JOURNAL RESPONSES are for discussion purposes, whether your response be RHETORICAL, ARGUMENTATIVE, READER RESPONSE-BASED, TANGENTIAL, etc.

**REGARDLESS, it's *been a minute* since y'all have had writing response HW, so DO NOT RUIN THIS OPPORTUNITY OR SABOTAGE YOUR GRADE. 

THIS IS YOUR ASSIGNMENT, & YOU HAVE THE WEEKEND to get your response COMPLETED; PLEASE HAVE a WRITTEN/TYPED J#6 response with you IN CLASS MONDAY 10/3 FOR DISCUSSION (**OR SENT WAYYY AHEAD OF TIME to me to print!!) 

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**AND, SOME USEFUL, "GRADE-SAVING" FINAL THOUGHTS TO REMEMBER HERE AS WE END THE 9th WEEK OF THE SEMESTER: 

• CHECK THE CLASSROOM/REMIND FROM ME EACH NIGHT
• HAVE YOUR COURSE BINDER WITH YOU DAILY
• BE *PRESENT*--mind AND body--AND PARTICIPATE
• PUT CELL PHONES/COMPUTERS AWAY--JAIL, or DAILY POINTS OFF YOUR GRADE!