Homework, Monday, January 3

Seniors 

Read the 2015 Randomhouse Contest Winner Here: Click Here
AND
Choose one or two more winners to read -- poetry, memoir, fiction:Click Here (It takes a while to load. Then, scroll down). OR read two of the graphic novel submissions: Click Here (It takes even longer to load).

Then, reflect in your notebook:
1. How is this creative writing different from the narrative writing we did in the college essay unit?
2. What kinds of topics are addressed in the reading you did tonight and the excerpts we read today in class?
3.What moments and experiences from your own life do these stories make you think about?
4. What is your goal for this unit?

AP Language 

Read Hammond's Speech to Congress. Then, answer the following questions.

1.) What is his argument? Make sure to use a rhetorically precise verb.
2.) How does he respond to the New York Senator's claim that the "whole world has abolished slavery?"

3.
If your last name starts A-H: What allusions does Hammond include in his argument? What is their purpose? Make sure to include at least two.

If your last name starts I-M: Compare and contrast the descriptive diction that Hammond uses to compare various groups of people in the excerpt.

If your last name starts N-Z: How does Hammond justify slavery? What consequences does he fear if slavery is abolished?

4. Everyone: Paraphrase the few sentences below. Consider: What does Hammond mean by a "mud sill?" What is the purpose of the analogy of "building a house in the air?" If this is an example of figurative language, what does figurative language help speakers do?

Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement. It constitutes the very mud-sill of society and of political government; and you might as well attempt to build a house in the air, as to build either the one or the other, except on this mud-sill."