WELCOME TO THE ENGLISH 11 BLOG!
REMEMBER THE RULES: This BLOG must remain appropriate...you are putting it on the WORLD WIDE web, you know....
This is a site where you can post and comment on the literature that we are reading. Sometimes we will discuss deep ideas and sometimes we will just have fun; fun that might lead to deeper things. This is one of those weeks.
Thanks for the GREAT comments in regard to the first readings. I am impressed. I would like to turn your attention now to our three essential questions: What does it mean to be an American? What is the American Dream? What (or who) is the quintessential American?
Let's play with the concept of America and the word "quintessential". Merriam Webster defines quintessential as 1 : the purest form of something 2 : the most perfect type or example. In an article on About.com on Benjamin Franklin, Mary Ballis says "Historians have called him the quintessential American because of his creative pragmatism, scientific innovation, and democratic spirit."
http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventions/a/Franklin.htm
In your opinion,
1.What is the quintessential American music? Explain your choice!
2.What is the quintessential American food? Describe briefly.
3.What is the quintessential American literature? Why?
4.What does the quintessential American town look like? Describe briefly.
5.What is the quintessential American sport? Why?
