**ATTENTION 3rd Honors AMLIT: LONG WKEND HW DUE COMPLETED MON. 11/4!!**

3rd Honors American Lit./Comp.

**HW DUE MON. 11/4:

Given to you in class THURS. 10/31  (multi-paged packet/NOTES section of binder/also LINKED on Classroom),

1) OVER THIS LONG WKEND, CAREFULLY read Vonnegut's short story "Harrison Bergeron" (**take note of author info/background/our brief pre-reading discussion in class) 

2) After closely reading the text, use the story to answer thoroughly (**NOT JUST A ONE-WORD ANSWER, PLEASE!) the SEVEN (7) QUESTIONS at the end; you MAY WRITE YOUR ANSWERS ON THE PAPER PROVIDED, print your own, or SEND EARLY to me to print!

• **also note: THIS HOMEWORK IS ***NOT A JOURNAL!!** (NOTES section of binder w/story, please!**)

**...and, also, just in case, here is a LINK to the short story online:
"Harrison Bergeron" -Vonnegut

**AND FINALLY, PLEASE REMEMBER: you are part of a PRE-COLLEGE/HONORS-level course at the end of the 11th week of class. Be prepared to FULLY DISCUSS the details/plot/themes/insights of this story Monday in class AS WELL AS share your answers to the seven reading check questions at the end! I WILL BE CHECKING TO SEE IF YOU COMPLETED YOUR WORK; ZEROS IF NOT COMPLETED!

**ATTENTION 1st/2nd AP/1101: LONG WKEND HW JOURNAL#8 ASSIGNMENT DUE COMPLETED FOR CLASS MON. 11/4**

1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1101

ATTENTION ALL; HW DUE COMPLETED BY CLASSTIME MON. 11/4:

1) Over your long weekend, FIRST make sure you throroughly read/study/understand the FOUR (4) quotes from [General and then President] Dwight D. Eisenhower on the sheet given to you in class THURS. 10/31 (JOURNALS section of binder/quotes copied below/AND!!! sheet linked on the Classroom): 


2) NEXT, CHOOSE TWO (2) of those quotes and for JOURNAL #8 PART 1, please RESPOND TO THE TWO (2) 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."

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SO, TO RECAP YOUR TASK FOR THIS LONG WEEKEND/PRIOR TO CLASS MON. 11/4:

• READ/BE FAMILIAR WITH these four Eisenhower quotes for class MON. 11/4 (**We have more to do Monday with these besides your J#8 PART 1 response)
• PAY ATTENTION TO/MAKE NOTE OF the potential ideas for your J#8 PART 1 topic/direction listed above 
• COMPOSE YOUR J#8 PART 1 RESPONSE TO TWO (2) of EISENHOWER'S QUOTES and be ready to show/share IN CLASS MON. 11/4
• BE AWARE that MON. 11/4 we'll be doing some other tasks with these quotes/what you choose to respond to; more info TBA
• **KNOW that your J#8 PART 1 response WILL BE USED FOR DISCUSSION POINTS, and I MAY BE CALLING ON EVERYONE TO SHARE ONE THING THAT THEY RESPONDED TO!!**

**ATTENTION 1st/2nd AP/1101: HW DUE COMPLETED BY CLASSTIME FRI. 10/25; NO EXCUSES!!!**

1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1101

EVERYONE, QUICK REMINDER RIGHT NOW FOR A **NO-EXCUSES** HW ASSIGNMENT DUE FRI. 10/25: please pay attention and make sure you're prepared for class **TOMORROW AS WE'LL WORK ON THIS TOGETHER, and HAVE THIS COMPLETED BY FRI. 10/25; BE PROACTIVE and MANAGE YOUR TIME WISELY FOR THIS BUSY TIME; AND, I'LL BE CHECKING THAT THIS IS COMPLETE/DISCUSSION FRI. 10/25!!!

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HW DUE FRI. 10/25:

In the ANALYSIS, ARGUMENT, and SYNTHESIS ASSIGNMENT "WAR PACKET PART I" given to you in class WEDNESDAY 10/23 (FIVE pages total/SUPPLEMENTAL SECTION of binder/LINKED ON THE CLASSROOM AS A PDF AS WELL), complete the following: 

1) FIRST and FOREMOST, read/REREAD the "WAR 'Background and Purpose'" statement, pp. 1


2) Read CICERO, excerpt from On Duties (and background!)

• ANSWER the qu's marked on the pg.: #s 1, 2, 3

•  ATTENTION, PLEASE, EVERYONE:  SKIP EISENHOWER'S "D-DAY INVASION MESSAGE TO TROOPS" SPEECH; instead, we'll read and work on this IN CLASS TOGETHER TOMORROW/TBA

3) Study the PHOTOGRAPH "Allied soldiers wading..."

• ANSWER the qu's marked on the pg.: #s 1, 2, 8

**ALSO, PLEASE USE *THIS link to a CLEARER IMAGE of this photo (*also linked on the Classroom):  
PHOTO: Allied Soldiers Wading Through Water and Gunfire, D-Day, 6/6/44 


4) Read CATILINE "Speech to His Troops" (and background!):

• ANSWER qu's marked on the pg.: First Rdg. #s 1, 5; Second Rdg. #1

• FINALLY, ATTENTION, PLEASE, EVERYONE: DO NOT COMPLETE "WAR PACKET PART II FOR HW; more on when to complete this TBA....

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**NOTE: these questions/answers and your UPCOMING/FRI. 10/25 GRADED CLASS DISCUSSION RE: THESE SHORT YET SIGNIFICANT RHETORICAL ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENTS are for YOUR benefit; 
i.e., LIKE ANYTHING IN LIFE, YOU GET OUT OF THEM WHAT YOU PUT INTO THEM.

**You may WRITE/ANNOTATE your [COMPLETE/THOROUGH] answers in the margins of each sheet of the packet/the back, ON POST-ITS, OR write your answers on a separate sheet to go w/this packet in SUPPLEMENTAL SECTION of your binder

  

Whatever you do to complete this analysis activity, BE PROACTIVE and DELIBERATE with your work!! AGAIN, we'll be working on this some tomorrow in class, and I WILL BE LOOKING FRI. 10/25 FOR YOUR ANSWERS/DISCUSSION TO THE MARKED QU'S!