Seniors 
Read to p. 238 of Carrie. Here are the guiding questions: Click Here. If you did your reading, they should be easy to answer. If they are difficult to answer, go back and do some rereading. Quiz tomorrow!

AP Language

Set the timer for 25 minutes (you already did fifteen minutes of planning if you were in class today) and write this essay: 

Read the following excerpt from The Decline of Radicalism (1969) by Daniel J. Boorstin and consider the implications of the distinction Boorstin makes between dissent and disagreement. The, using appropriate evidence, write a carefully reasoned essay in which you defend, challenge, or qualify Boorstin’s distinction.

Dissent is the great problem of American today. It overshadows all others. It is a symptom, an expression, a consequence, and a cause of all others. I say dissent and not disagreement. And it is the distinction between dissent and disagreement which I really want to make. Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which comes from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others.People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People my disagree and both may count themselves in the majority. But a person who dissents is by definition in a minority. A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.

You will be graded on completion, a clear thesis, reasons that draw on PEEPS and clear and connected evidence. Marjorie's handout and sample outlines for other prompts: Click Here