Take a minute to read Nick Romero's essay and food review (yum!) below:
Don't forget: NO CLASS on July 22. Use the extra time to read "The Subject and the Predicate" in your Sin and Syntax book and write the rough draft of your Argumentative/Persuasive Essay. Don't forget to be prepared with four copies next Tuesday, July 27.
Here is some further discussion about A Modest Proposal from Wikipedia: click here
And here's another: click here Did you know that he published this anonymously as a pamplet?? Interesting...
Journal #14: A Popular Opinion and Why I Disagree
Think of an opinion held my many people that you disagree with. Write about the opinion and then how and why you disagree with it. Write for 10 minutes.
We also did an in-class exercise based on A Modest Proposal:
Using Jonathon Swift's example of a not-so-modest proposal, make your own modest proposal on how to solve a problem that you identify in a serious or not so serious way.
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