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Assignment

% Final Grade

Journals and other Writing Activities

10%

Essay 1 (Introductory)

6%

Essay 2 (Autobiographical)

10%

Essay 3

12%

Essay 4

12%

Research Presentation

10%

Participation (In class)

10%

Quizzes

10%

Final Exam

20%


Format Guidelines for Essays

1. Out-of-class essays should be typed and double-spaced. Save your work-in-progress often and print a hard copy every time you shut down the system.

2. See Chapter 6 of Bedford for guidelines on manuscript form.

3. The top of your first page should look like this (DO NOT USE A COVER SHEET):

Your Name
ILA-8
Hale
Assignment Name
Date

Title


JOURNALS

Journal entries are due at the beginning of class and should generally be around 250 words each. You should submit your journal to rhale@monm.edu  via e-mail AS MICROSOFT WORD ATTACHMENT with the subject header Journal # (fill in the number after the number sign). You should also bring a hard copy of the journal to class.  We will often use journals as a springboard to our class discussions, and occasionally I will ask you to submit your journal entry to the class public folder so classmates can review your comments and even respond to them online.  Make sure to save electronic copies of your entries.  When I grade the journals, I consider how well you answered the question or responded to the text or convocation, how well you supported your response with evidence and explanation, and how clearly you wrote the response.  I will often ask you to develop your own journal topic into an essay. 

# Topic
Journal #1 Define "liberal arts" and give specific examples of what you think it means.  Also explain why you chose to attend a "liberal arts" college.
Journal #2 What are Dean Jakoubek's definitions of liberal arts and how are her definitions similar to and or different from yours? Which of her definitions seems most related to the idea of "exemplary lives"?
Journal #3

At the end of class, I left you with a question about trying to equalize opportunities for people OR letting "the marketplace" determine who gets what opportunities (a "survival of the fittest" model).  Do you think our society should attempt to equalize opportunities when we can or just let the marketplace decide who gets what opportunity?  Explain your position with specific examples.

Journal #4 Pick a passage from a chapter in the Chicago section that you think is central to some of the issues Obama discusses and explain why it is so significant.
Journal #5 Check-up time--so you've been at school a little over two weeks now, write a letter to me telling me how things are going.  What's going well? What's not? What's causing you stress? etc.
Journal #6 Pick a passage from the Kenya section (anywhere between a sentence and a paragraph) that you think is the most significant passage in the section and explain why you think it is so significant.  (Type the passage in your entry, but don't count it as part of your journal.)
Journal #7 After you have read today's reading assignment for Billie Holiday, go back and reread the first chapter.  Give two or three reasons why you think Clarke begins with this information.
Journal #8 Pick two issues from 13 Days and explain how the book and the movie treat them differently based on the strengths and/or constraints of their genre (book or movie). 
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Journal #12 Using evidence from the book to support your reasons, argue for whether or not Virgil should have had the eye surgery.
Journal #13 Based on your viewing of the documentary, should the college fund speakers like Bill Ayers?  Justify your answer with clear reasons, evidence, and explanation.
   
   

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