Assignment – In Class – 01/23/2012

Part 1 – TS/IS, p.105/106

But yes, Bill did well in his subjects. When he talked about Spot the dog (or Plato, or any other topic), we knew that Spot (or Plato) was going to come up again. But Bill’s classmates sometimes switched up ideas between sentences, or even in the same sentence. But that doesn’t matter because in the end, they all sucked to read, mainly because you couldn’t easily figure out what they were trying to write.

Part 2a – NR, p. 606, Ernest Hemingway: from A Farewell to Arms

This piece seems to get to the point; a plain piece of writing, yet one that provides an emotional appeal. He incorporates a lot of pathos by contrasting the point of view of leaders and the point of view of soldiers, which he uses imagery of the landscape and advertisements to provide.

Part 2b – NR, p. 606, Ernest Hemingway: from A Farewell to Arms

I have always considered final exams to be a terrible method of teaching. Many institutions believe that the final exam is the single test that shows a student’s true worth as an academic. Many teachers use the final exam to consider the effectiveness of their teaching abilities. And yet, in the end, most students do worse than expected.