American StudiesThursday, 21 November 2013

Time will pass; will you? 18 days remain in the fall semester.

Quote of the Day: The art of war is simple enough.

Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885)

Housekeeping and Recognition

The Class Website

Homework Reminders Tomorrow:

American Pageant, Chapter 21, “The Furnace of Civil War”, pages 497-512b—guiding questions due—tii upload required

Monday: FRQ Peer Reviews Due Grammar Lesson #5 (the last one for the semester!)

Tuesday: Twain biographies Bring in ALL annotated bibs, and the assignment page for your

research Wednesday:

Part I: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 1-18 Group 1: Socratic Discussion Groups 2 and 3 write questions w/answers for even/odd chapters

Today’s Class

American Pageant, Chapter 21, “The Furnace of Civil War”, pages 487-497

Antietam

Today’s Class, cont.

The “N-word”—what’s all the fuss about? Take a look at what your peers had to say…

what did you read? Intent, context and racism

What do scholars have to say? From Randall Kennedy’s book Nigger

What did Twain have to say? His essay “Only a Nigger”

It don’t matter if you’re black or white…