No Class or office hours, Tuesday, 15 November

Due to illness there will be no class, Tuesday, 15 November; instead, you will be working on your own practicing pace of writing up to speed.  This new essay will be due on Thursday, 17 November.  

Write a five paragraph essay one one of the following topics.  Allow 1.5-2 hours for pre-writing and drafting and 1-1.5 hours for revision and proofreading.  Have your essay ready to print out and turn in AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS on Thursday:

1. "Human rights" is a term frequently used but seldom defined. What rights should belong to every human being? Discuss.
2. Should American students be required to learn a second language? Why or why not?
3. Robert Frost said, "We come to college to get over our littlemindedness." Discuss in
relation to your own experiences.
4. If you were awarded an expense-paid trip to any one place in the world, where would you go? Why?
5. Do you think that you have the qualifications of a good parent? Discuss.
6. If you were guaranteed a steadily improving standard of living (in terms of buying power, free time, quality of goods and services, etc.), would you be willing to give up your right to vote? Explain.

Note: you can use the topics you decide not to write on as a source of topics, and you can practice your pre-writing skills, that is, coming up with a thesis statement and three topic sentences for each topic as quickly as possible.

See everyone Thursday,

Steve