April Assignments

April 7th

Essay from Class: Type it up and send it to me.

Post outlines and thoughts in the forum titled "Surprise Essay".

Reading:

Abraham Lincoln:

"Gettysburg Address"
http://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/lincoln-gettysburg-address-speech-text/

"Second Inaugural Address" 1865
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html

Booker T. Washington "Atlanta Compromise" 1895: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/39/

W. E. B. Dubois. From the The Soul of Black Folk:

"Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others":  http://www.bartleby.com/114/3.html
"Of the Wings of Atalanta": http://www.bartleby.com/114/5.html

Writing:

Choose one of the speeches above and write a 1200-1500 essay analyzing the rhetoric. Due next class period.


April 14th

Reading:

George Wallace "Segregation Today, Segregation Forever"

http://web.utk.edu/~mfitzge1/docs/374/wallace_seg63.pdf

Martin Luther King Jr.:

"Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/kingweb/liberation_curriculum/pdfs/letterfrombirmingham_wwcw.pdf

"I Have a Dream"
http://www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf

Malcolm X:

"Ballot or the Bullet"
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html


Writing:

Write a compare and contrast paper in which you consider the rhetoric and message of either of MLK's speeches with Malcolm X. You have two weeks for this assignment (due April 28th).

Mr. Petersen,

Where can we find the Surprise Essay forum?