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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 essay about policing in the United States is due by the start of class on Wednesday. Please be sure to read the prompt and follow all of its requirements, including the use of sources and MLA citation. Don’t forget that first drafts should reflect careful editing and attention to detail. You will have some […]
The revision of your Sanders essay will be due on Friday. Please print it and attach it to your previous draft. Make sure that all changes are bolded on your second draft. The revision guide is available here. Please attach the checklist from it to your revision. The CRISPING handout is available here.
We will have a test over Letter from a Birmingham Jail on Monday. Completing the study guide is an optional assignment, but doing it will almost certainly improve your score on the exam.
These are the templates you can use for the rhetorical device assignment: Word Google Docs
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