AGENDA 4/29

Grammar Practice: Comparison Errors #2
Review first multiple choice passage from full-length test (questions 1-14)
Begin discussing "Learning to Read" by Malcolm X and "Learning to Read and Write" by Frederick Douglass (pages 109-113 in The McGraw-Hill Reader)

HW: Complete two rhetorical terms entries on humor devices using God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater as your example source (due Monday). Read "When Bright Girls Decide That Math is a Waste of Time" by Susan Jacoby, pages 140-142 in The McGraw-Hill Reader and "America Skips School" by Benjamin Barber, pages 153-162 in The McGraw-Hill Reader in preparation for Tuesday's seminar.