Week of 10/5 for 101-06 and 101-08

Today, we're doing peer review.

On Wednesday, your final drafts are due. What that means:

Staple together your first draft, peer reviewed drafts, and outline, and bring to class AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS on Wednesday. I will not be here. Someone else will be here for exactly 5 minutes to collect the essays. If you're not here with your essay, you are out of luck. (Yes, that is a cliché, and it means that your grade will suffer.)

Here are your assignments for the remainder of the week:

1. Listen to the following This American Life program online:

http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=360

click on full episode at the left side to listen to it. It's an hour long.

2. Find a partner in class. Exchange email addresses. Decide right now which one of you will write 100 words (slightly less than half a page, double-spaced) about why the approach taken in the story was morally right, and which person will write 100 words about why the approach was morally wrong. Once you have listened to the story, write your 100 words to each other in your emails. Then, if you like, have an email conversation in which you agree or disagree about your points and positions.

3. Now switch positions. Whoever wrote about it being morally right, write about why it was morally wrong. Whoever wrote about it being morally wrong, write about why it was morally right. You can write more than 100 words, but not less. It doesn't really matter what you REALLY believe; what I want you to do is try to think of what the arguments are for and against, no matter what you believe. We'll talk about this story more in class.

4. Once you've both written 100 words on both positions, print out the email or compile it into a Word file and print it out so that you can hand it in to me when we have class again on Wednesday, 14 October. (12 October is a school holiday.)

5. Reading that is also due that day:
Transitions, chapter 6 (this is a good one—read carefully)
Axelrod, chapter 5 (read carefully as well)

Have a good week!