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“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
“To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.”
“Never say anything that doesn’t improve on silence.”
“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
Mr. Pogreba
Your first research paper is due at midnight on Sunday, October 21. The assignment and sample papers Citation Resources Please share the paper with me (giving me access to edit) to dpogreba@gmail.com. Don’t e-mail it or send it to my school address.
In his review of Malcolm Gladwell’s work, Steven Pinker writes, “[t]he reasoning in “Outliers,” which consists of cherry-picked anecdotes, post-hoc sophistry and false dichotomies, had me gnawing on my Kindle.” Is Pinker’s criticism a fair look at Gladwell’s work? Why or why not? In Outliers, Gladwell argues, “It is not the brightest who succeed. Nor is […]
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said that “there are no second acts in American lives.” Do the life and death of Jay Gatsby demonstrate this claim or refute it? Does the novel ultimately argue that one can never re-invent himself? Do we have the capacity to become someone entirely new if we commit to the new […]
Your revisions for your welfare essay will be due in class on Thursday, October 4. Please make sure that you have highlighted/bolded all changes, included the checklist, and stapled all three parts together for class. Some additional resources to use: Revision Checklist Topic Sentence and Thesis cheat sheet Naysayers General Persuasive Writing Handout The Comma […]
We have a number of deadlines for Honors 2 to be aware of, so here they are: Friday, September 28: Have read the Epilogue of Outliers and be ready for the Latin Roots 1-3 test. Monday, October 1: Outline for Outliers Essay Due Tuesday, October 2: Revision of High/School Middle School Essay Due Wednesday, October 3: Outliers Exam Friday, […]
