1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1102
ATTENTION ALL; HW DUE COMPLETED BY CLASSTIME TUES. 1/20:1) Over your long weekend (*MLK DAY/NO SCHOOL MON. 1/19), 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 FRI. 1/16 (JOURNALS section of binder/quotes copied below/AND!!! sheet linked on the Classroom):
2) NEXT, CHOOSE TWO (2) of those quotes and for JOURNAL #12 PART 1, please RESPOND TO THE TWO (2) YOU CHOOSE
2) NEXT, CHOOSE TWO (2) of those quotes and for JOURNAL #12 PART 1, please RESPOND TO THE TWO (2) YOU CHOOSE
3) Like your Sontag quote J#6 response LAST SEMESTER, 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 (i.e., Was he US Presient yet? Was this immediately following WWII? etc.)
- 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." (*1953 press conference)
"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." (*1946 speech)
"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." (*1954 speech)
"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." (*1949 speech)
"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." (*1946 speech)
"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." (*1954 speech)
"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." (*1949 speech)
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SO, TO RECAP YOUR TASK FOR THIS LONG WEEKEND/PRIOR TO CLASS TUES. 1/20:
- READ/BE FAMILIAR WITH these four Eisenhower quotes for class TUES. 1/20 (**We have more to do Tuesday with these besides your J#12 PART 1 response)
- PAY ATTENTION TO/MAKE NOTE OF the potential ideas for your J#12 PART 1 topic/direction listed above
- COMPOSE YOUR J#12 PART 1 RESPONSE TO TWO (2) of EISENHOWER'S QUOTES and be ready to show/share IN CLASS TUES. 1/20
- BE AWARE that TUES. 1/20 we'll be introducing some other ARGUMENT WRITING-BASED tasks with these quotes/what you choose to respond to; more info TBA!
- **KNOW that your J#12 PART 1 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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