WEEK OF 9/27 - 10/1

Study your rhetorical terms. This week there will be a quiz each day: Monday I & J; Wednesday K & L; Friday M & N.

We will work on another Great Books Essay: Observation & Experiment by Claude Bernard. We will discuss the prereading questions on Monday, you will write on three interpretive questions for Wednesday, and Friday you will turn in a half page on one of the post-discussion questions.

From the Bedford Reader, you will turn in a one page essay modeled after Black Men and Public Spaces. We will read your essays together Wed & Fri.

WEEK OF 9/20 - 9/24

We will continue with Elements of Style, Section IV (a few matters of form), followed by misused expressions.

We will review the next two lists of terms (G & H) and you will take a quiz on them.

We will read aloud from the Great Books the essay by de Tocqueville, and discuss your answers to interpretive questions. You will write a comparative essay on de Tocqueville and Adam Smith.

We will read aloud your essays modeled on Virginia Woolf's Death of a Moth. You will write a second drafte based upon the group's input.

Week of 9/13 - 9/17

This week we will begin with the Adam Smith Great Books essay on Wealth of Nations. We will read it aloud, and you will choose two interpretive questions for homework and write a paragraph each. Then you will choose a Post-Discussion question and write a half page typed double spaced.

You should have written your essay modeled after the Death of the Moth essay by Virginia Woolf. We will read these aloud in class and make corrections as we have been doing.

You will be quizzed on 2 more sections of rhetorical terms. We will continue reading from the Elements of Style, section 2, on style.

Below is a preliminary description of the upcoming event at UHH that we have been invited to:

Event title: Economics Economic Education Forum 2010: Financial Sector Fallout and the Economy
Presented by: University of Hawai`i at Hilo, College of Business and Economics, Department of Economics
Date: Saturday, November 13, 2010
8:15AM: Breakfast and Registration
9:00: Speaker I
10:00: Speaker II
11:00: Short Break
11:15Speaker: III
12:15: Forum Ends
Speakers: Professors Ilan Noy, Economics Department, University ofHawai`i at Manoa; Professor Theresa Greaney, Economics Department, University of Hawai`i at Manoa; Professor DavidHammes, Economics Department, University of Hawai`i at Hilo.
Topics: causes and consequences of the financial system breakdown,international, national, and state impacts.
Target Audience: college-bound/highly motivated high school students (typically juniors and seniors, but need not be limited to them only)wishing to augment their studies of social sciences, government, andeconomics.

work for the week of 9/7-9/10/10

RHETORICAL TERMS

This week you will need to push ahead and learn two more columns of words: C & D. You will be quizzed on Thursday.

GRAMMAR

We will continue with the Elements of Style, Part II, Elementary Principles of Composition. This will help you to build effective paragraphs through strong topic sentences, with a minimum of deadwood. We will also learn to keep to a positive form in the use of adverbs and verbs.

ESSAY & WRITING

You should have read the two essays, both entitled Death of a Moth, and answered a question from each, as taken from Bedford Reader. We will have a brief discussion on your answers, and then it will be your task to construct an essay along similar lines. Find some detail in life and write of it as precisely and as descriptively as you can. Then find a way to connect that small detail to a larger view of life generally. Let me know if you are having trouble coming up with an idea and I will help.


GREAT BOOKS

Our next reading is by Adam Smith: Concerning the Division of Labor. We will begin on Thursday with a Prereading question & discussion, and then a read aloud session for the first part of it. You will finish it on your own and choose two of the Interpretive Questions for a paragraph each.