Hi. You should have finished your summer reading by now and have written your post responding to one of the essential questions (English) in terms of your contemporary novel. Please don't start the year off by saying any variation of the following: "Well, I didn't know what to do, so I thought I would ask when school started." You have had my phone number and email all summer long with which to ask me questions, and we will not have time to revisit your summer work (which is a good percentage of your first semester grade) during the schoolyear.
Before you start back to school, please print off two copies of your posts, including dates and times, but not your peer responses, one of your English posts and one of your history posts. You will give the latter to Mr. Vigue. If you cut and paste, as I expect you will, make SURE that you do it neatly and in an organized way.
Finally, Mr. Vigue would like you to pick up the following two texts: THE AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION (RICHARD HOFSTADTER) and GREAT ISSUES IN AMERICAN HISTORY, VOL. III (1864-1981) (RICHARD HOFSTADTER). You can obtain this book at B&N or Borders or even Mr. Paperback, but Mr. Vigue recommends buying a used copy on Amazon. Link:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=richard+hofstadter
Final thematic questions for history (Frederick Douglass):
(1) How is it possible that slavery could exist in the United States until the Civil War?
(2) How do you think Douglass' autobiography helped to promote an end to the evil institution of slavery in the United States?
(3) Why would such a book be so controversial in the 19th Century?
Friday, August 15, 2008
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