Hello, online folks! Happy Tuesday! Let me say something: you are awesome. For the most part, you’re keeping up with the reading, posting to the DB, and submitting weekly responses on time and well written. Bravo!!!

Some of you are e-mailing me with questions about the readings, and I love that as well. It shows you’re engaged and interested and not content to gloss over ideas in the reading without understanding them. So…outstanding ?

So, go to the assignments page and download essay 1 assignment. Then, YOU MUST e-mail me any questions you have about the assignment! Even if you have no questions, I’d like an e-mail telling me you’re all good ?

The rough draft will be due NEXT Tuesday, October 18th, at 6 pm. It’s a rough draft, so I’ll set up a guided peer review process next week in which you can help each other with your writing.

In the meantime, please read the assignment on the “Assignment” page and let me know what you think!!!

Talk to you soon!
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“Only Connect” by William Cronon

“This is Water” by David Foster Wallace

“Narcissus regards a Book” by Mark Edmundson

“Democracy” by Dorianne Laux

“America” by Tony Hoagland

“Hazel Tells Laverne” by Kathryn Machan

“On the Subway” by Sharon Olds

Of Individuality by Mill

Brian Barry excerpts from _Why Social Justice Matters_

Hazel Tells Laverne

American History by Judith Ortiz Cofer

Small Town with One Road by Gary Soto

“The American Embassy”

Five Faces of Oppression by Iris Young

Close Reading of a Literary Passage

Coleman

“Charlie Howard’s Descent” by Mark Doty