AGENDA 4/1

Read and discuss rhetorical techniques in Senator Obama's speech "A More Perfect Union"
NOTE: We couldn't watch the speech in class due to technical difficulties, but you can watch it here via YouTube or read the speech transcript and watch it here via the New York Times.

HW: Finish reading and annotating speech--look for rhetorical techniques. (We found anthypophora and antithesis and anadiplosis today among other rhetorical treats! Good times, good times...and guess what? Over the weekend you'll complete a rhetorical terms entry from this speech, so read carefully...)

Get a head start on seminar prep for Thursday's class. Select one of four passages from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and write an 8-10 sentence response--what does Twain seem to be commenting in terms of race/racism through this passage?

Choose ONE of the following four passages:
1) last four paragraphs of Chapter 15: from "Jim looked at the trash..." to "...if I'd a knowed it would make him feel that way."
2) Chapter 23: paragraph from "I went to sleep..." to "...Jim was."
3) Chapter 31: from "Once I said to myself... " to "...I tore it up."
4) Chapter 42: from "...How's that? Where's the raft?" to "...goodness alive, Aunt Polly!"