1st/2nd APLang/ENG 1101 HOMEWORK DUE **TUES. 10/27**

  1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1101

EVERYONE, QUICK REMINDER: please pay attention to your due dates for the beginning of the upcoming week; we will meet again TUES. 10/27; BE PROACTIVE and MANAGE YOUR TIME WISELY FOR THESE ASSIGNMENTS OVER THE NEXT FOUR DAYS!!!

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**HW ASSIGNMENTS DUE TUES. 10/27:

In the ANALYSIS, ARGUMENT, and SYNTHESIS ASSIGNMENT "WAR PACKETS PART I and II" given to you in class THURS 10/22 (4 1/2 pages total/SUPPLEMENTAL SECTION of binder), complete the following: 

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


2) Read CICERO, excerpt from On Duties (and background!), pp. 1

• JOT DOWN/WRITE AN ANSWER TO the qu's marked/#s 1, 2, 3 on the pg.  

3) Read Eisenhower’s “Message to Invasion Troops” (and background!), pp. 2:  

• JOT DOWN/WRITE AN ANSWER TO the qu's marked/#1 (First Rdg.) and #1 and #4 (Second Rdg.) on the pgs.

Here's also link to a transcript and audio of the text (we'll be working with these in class as well):

Eisenhower's D-Day Message 'Transcript' 
AUDIO of Eisenhower's D-Day Invasion Message 

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

• ANSWER the qu's marked/#s 1, 2 (First Rdg.), #8 (Second Rdg.) on the pgs.

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


5) Read CATALINE "Speech to His Troops" (and background!), pp. 4-5:

• ANSWER qu's marked/#s 1, 5 (First Rdg.) and #1 (Second Rdg.) on the pgs.

6) FINALLY, CAREFULLY READ James Boswell's BACKGROUND and his *POWERFULLY-ENTERTAINING (*yet no-less important!) 18th century essay 
"On War" [from the WAR PACKET PART II] 

• ANSWER qu's marked/#s 1, 2 (First Rdg.) and #s 3, 4 (Second Rdg.) on the pgs.
• PLEASE NOTE: FOR THIS BOSWELL ESSAY/READING, NEXT TUES. 10/27 YOU WILL BE GIVEN YOUR FIRST AP LANGUAGE-STYLE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS TO ANSWER RE: BOSWELL'S TEXT
• IMPORTANT!! This will be your first 'crack' at AP LANG EXAM-STYLE MChoice QU's, so it's a low-pressure situation...AS LONG AS YOU COMPLETE THEM AND DO YOUR BEST! The best way to get better at these is through effort and practice, which we're starting now

• afterward, we will check the practice MChoice qu's together to see how many you get correct, so BE HONEST; your score for this first one is just so we can get our 'sea legs' with MChoice practice, just do your best

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**FINAL NOTES: these questions/answers and your UPCOMING 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 OR THE BACK, write your answers on a separate sheet.  Whatever you do, BE PROACTIVE and DELIBERATE with your work!!

***NOTE: those of you who HAVE NOT added comments to discussion(s) in the last 2-3 classes, please be ready to volunteer!!! **REMEMBER this is a TREMENDOUS PART OF THIS COURSE!