Assignment for Friday, December 2

Finish revising the research prospectus. It is due in class. Then, finish reading Matt Yglesias explanation of income inequality. Lastly, read this excerpt from Felix Martin's 2013 book, Money: The Unauthorized Biography.

Reading for Class

http://www.vox.com/cards/income-inequality/what-is-income-inequality

Assignment for Tuesday, Nov. 17

Complete the writing piece that responds to Between the World and Me. As we discussed in class, be sure to include a sentence that imitates a sentence written by Coates. Set that sentence in bold or underline it, and include a footnote with the original sentence. Be sure to include the page number of the original sentence.

Assignment for Tuesday, Nov. 15

Write as much as you need to to complete your writing piece on Between the World and Me. The final version is due on Thursday, Nov. 17. Also, develop a tentative version of your research question for the research prospectus. The research prospectus will be due on Wednesday, Nov. 30.

Assignment for Thursday, Nov. 10

Write one more page of your writing piece that responds to or is inspired by Between the World and Me. Given the work that you did in class, you should come to class with about three written pages.

Assignment for Tuesday, Nov. 8

Come to class with one and a half pages written for your writing pieces that responds to or is inspired by Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me. These pages should be printed. Also, read something interesting or informative about the election, and bring it to class. You can print it out, photocopy it, or have it available to you on a digital device (including your phone). Lastly, be sure to bring Approaching Great Ideas (the white book that we started the year with) to class.

Assignment for Friday, Nov. 4

Decide on your topic for a writing piece in response to or inspired by Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me. The writing piece itself will be due on Tuesday, Nov. 15. (If you'll be away at the MUN conference, it will due on Thursday, Nov. 17.) Below are the kernels of ideas suggested by both AP Lang classes:

A "letter" to a younger generation
A "letter" to the "older" generation
A "letter" to Coates in reaction to the book
A personal essay (possibly about the motif of physical vulnerabiliy or the illusion of race)
Is Between the World and Me pessimistic or realistic in its outlook?
Coates vis à vis Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Subjugation
About Coates having a process, but no answer, e.g., the open-ended struggle
Research on contemporary segregation
Coates in relation to his literary predecessors
Between the World and Me in relation to Coates's other writings
The illusion/social construct of race
The influence of black opinion makers on perceptions of race
How Coates's views influenced his parenting styles
The effectiveness of Coates's writing strategies
 Rhetorical analysis of a passage