Thursday, November 11, 2010

Homework for Monday, Nov. 15 (Day 1), and Tuesday, Nov. 16 (Day 2)

On Monday and Tuesday, you will write the synthesis essay on Frederick Douglass. Again, I apologize for the delay. You will have 15 minutes to read the sources and 40 minutes to write the essay.

Click here for The 9/11 Commission Report; read the Preface and Chapter 1 ("'We Have Some Planes'") for Monday and Tuesday. (You can download the whole report at once, or you can scroll down a little to read individual sections. I recommend downloading the whole report so you won't have to keep going back to the site to find individual chapters.)

Also, click here for the story of Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery. The story goes from pp. 233-249 of The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1882), his third autobiography. To the left of the blue arrows to turn the page, you'll see a small box; enter "233" and you'll get to the start of the story.