**ATTENTION ALL: 1st/2nd BLOCKS AP/1101WKEND HW DUE COMPLETED MON. 9/20 BY CLASSTIME**

 1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1101

HW DUE MON. 9/20:

BEFORE CLASS BEGINS MON. 9/20, in the 'SEMESTER/YEAR JOURNALS' SECTION OF YOUR BINDER, COMPLETE:

JOURNAL #3 RESPONSE RE: photojournalist Susan Sontag's QUOTE concerning war experiences and the civilian perspective (**A JOURNAL PAGE/INFO/MODEL was given to you in class FRI. 9/17, it's a PDF attached on the Classroom post, and 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 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!!!)

• 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 GIVEN TO YOU IN CLASS 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, you HAVE THE WEEKEND to get your response COMPLETED; PLEASE HAVE a WRITTEN/TYPED J#3 response with you IN CLASS MONDAY FOR DISCUSSION!! 

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**AND, SOME USEFUL, "GRADE-SAVING" FINAL THOUGHTS TO REMEMBER AS WE APPROACH THE SIXTH WEEK OF THE SEMESTER: 

• CHECK THE CLASSROOM/REMIND FROM ME EACH NIGHT!
• HAVE YOUR COURSE BINDER WITH YOU DAILY
• BRING YOUR COPY OF TTTC TO CLASS EVERY DAY; **more on where we're going with the novel next week...