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UNIT 3 Key Skills & QUESTIONS & Big Ideas
These questions drive your knowledge of the BIG IDEA topic, THE RHETORICAL SITUATION. Use on any/all reading assignments to guide your understanding and assignments, especially Unit 3. There are additional questions in each unit. Most importantly, these KEY QUESTIONS should help you generate ideas about what to say in your commentary and discussion.
The excerpt linked, from the NY Times, May 2009, considers how working with our hands [a figure of speech, but only just] has become somewhat of a lost art that arguably...well, you tell me!
Note: The above talk seems to have audio cut out; for this reason, I have provided some of the following videos , which may not follow the transcript or book more closely. Still, they provide similar content in Crawford's argument.
The Case for Working with Your Hands [Link]
Assignment: Create (construct) something "with your hands." Transcript provided here; Questions / After Reading Assignment; Construction Assignment
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's speech given Oct. 22nd, 1933, during the Great Depression. Depressing Thought of the Day: How does this relate to our times? Are we in another "great" depression? If so, what is keeping us from collapse? Read / listen to the speech, and answer the questions on the document here.
A.P. Prompt - linked in the document above. Her father in law was Edward Stacey and resided in England.
Biographical Info:
A Frontier Farmer's wife in Canada
BIRTH
11 Jun 1827
DEATH
27 May 1894 (aged 66)
BURIAL
Manistee, Monroe County, Alabama, USA
Essay by Robert Cohen, editor of the book which contained many letters from youth of the great depression who sent over 300,000 letters to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
by Marco Antonio Cavallo
Thomas Malthus' gloomy argument predicting the inevitability of collapse.
Complete the reading, questions, and poster assignment. Note the focus on line of reasoning.
Then, complete the MCQ when assigned.
Why Malthus is Wrong (argument by Shermer)
Analyze Visuals/Apply to the economics discussion/essay prompt: Chancellor Seguier at the Entry of Louis XIV into Paris in 1660
Analyze Visuals/Apply to the economics discussion/essay prompt: Chancellor Seguier at the Entry of Louis XIV into Paris in 1660
Famous painting by Charles Le Brun regarding what the title indicates.
The Reimaging of Power (contemporary update of the painting)
poem by Marge Piercy
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