Assignments for Week # 5 ENL 121 (Vavra)
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. 
It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
-- Alvin Toffler
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Due In-class
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M/T.
Feb.
6/7
W5A
Be prepared to take Cornell Notes.
1. Read Frank O'Connor's "Guests of the Nation" The text is available at the following offsite links:
 
as html: Offsite # 1 Offsite # 2
as pdf at: pdf # 2

2. Make a thesis and tentative outline for an in-class essay (three concepts to support a theme) on "Guests of the Nation."

Collect Cornell Notes.
Quiz

Discuss

W/Th
Feb. 8/9
W5B
1. Edith Wharton, "Roman Fever"
Write an outline and draft of an essay on "Roman Fever" as if it is the assignment for MP#1. These will be collected at the beginning of class.
Collect Cornell Notes.

Collect the essays

Discuss "Roman Fever.

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A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
-- Bill Cosby