For Tuesday!

Hey everyone– hope you had a good 3-day weekend– our last weird weekend for a while. We DO meet this Tuesday!  And the homework for class is to read, annotate and write a difficulty paper (at least 250 words) on the First Draft of the Declaration of Independence HERE . Remember to read the crossed out parts, which are the parts that got deleted in the final draft. The final draft of the Declaration is HERE for your reference. I did hand these out in class, as you’ll recall. POST YOUR DIFFICULTY PAPER ON THE OPEN LAB BEFORE CLASS.

This is an important assignment– you’re not going to have to write a big long paper on the Declaration for Unit 2  (unless you want to) but you won’t be able to do your next paper if you start getting behind now! This is a very important step in Unit 2.

Also, remember what we read  about difficulty: “When we ask you to identify your reading difficulties, we are actually asking you to take notice of what you believe is hard to understand in a text.It might be hard to understand for different reasons– because it is perplexing, obscure, mysterious, remote, strange, unfamiliar, uncomfortable, disconnected, meaningless, confusing, ridiculous, contradictory, hypocritical, inconsistent. In other words, we urge you to take notice of whatever slows down or brings to a halt the physical activity of reading, leaving you mystified, wondering why, what how” (Salvatori and Donahue 2). I will also add, the difficulty paper should be much more YOUR words than those of the Founding Fathers!! 

(Below are some alternate cover possibilities to our revised book. We’ll talk about these in class)