Cuckoo's Nest Reading for Monday (3/16)

Just a reminder that this weekend you are reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest through page 41. There is a quiz Monday! You have been warned...

Psychiatric Institutions Readings (due Wednesday, 3/11)

Tonight, please read these three articles and answer the questions below:

Steve Forbes: Why The Treatment Of Our Nation's Mentally Ill Is An American Disgrace

Institutionalization and Deinstitutionalization with Schizophrenia

Committing a mentally ill adult is complex

Questions:

1. What does each article describe (give a brief synopsis)
2. In your opinion, should the state be allowed to hold some people against their will? Why or why not?

Homework due February 6

Reminder: If you had to rewrite you "American Dream" mini-essay, those rewrites are DUE TOMORROW.

You all received an extension on the "God Bless America" & discrimination in the military paper. It is now also, DUE TOMORROW (FRIDAY):

1. Read the short story "God Bless America"
2. Read THIS article about discrimination in the military
3. Respond to the prompt below

In a well-written 1-page response, answer the following:

President Truman desegregated the military in 1948 by executive action, but in “God Bless America,” Joe serves in a segregated unit headed for Korea (around 1951). Clearly, the military was slow to end discriminatory practices. What evidence do you see in both the short story and the article that confirm this? Use direct quotations in your discussion. Why, do you think, did minorities continue to serve?

Snow Day Tomorrow & Homework Reminder!

Hi all and Happy Snow Day! Usually I would expect you to have the homework for Monday ready for class on Tuesday, but I never gave you those readings, so never mind! You get a snow-day without English homework (hooray)!

Hint, hint -- I would make really sure you have read The Things They Carried chapters 1, 9 & 17 by Tuesday. There could be a reading quiz in your future!!

Homework due Monday, February 2

Hi all! Thank you for a great first week. Here is this weekend's assignment:

Read The Things They Carried, Chapt. 9 ("Sweetheart") AND Chapt. 17 ("In the Field"), using post-it note annotation.

I would like AT LEAST: 

-5 new words (and definitions)

-8 important or intriguing quotations (4 per chapter)

-2 questions for class discussion (open ended questions)

If you have questions about annotation, check out THIS GUIDE.

Homework (Due Friday, January 30th)

Homework due tomorrow (Friday, January 30th) 

Tonight please read the first chapter of The Things They Carried and complete the quotation/response worksheet (minimum of 5 important, interesting, confusing or surprising quotations AND your responses). Be sure to include page numbers!

Homework Due Thursday (January 29)

1. Bring your ID's for the Book Depository
2. One page response: What is America to you? What is your American dream?