Thoroughly Thoreau

Hey Folks!

If you avoid email for long enough, you might start to look like this!

I just turned on the computer for the first time today, right now. Can you imagine a whole day - well until 5:00 p.m. - with no texting, no Facebook, no email, no electronic communication with the outside world? I haven't even talked on the phone today. I think Thoreau would have approved, and if you do your homework, which is to read the selection from his essay "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" (page 276), then this will all make sense, I hope. Note how the quotation here would have inspired Martin Luther King, CORE, and the Freedom Riders.

Yesterday we did Vocabulary Test 3, and then you read "The World Is Watching - Media and the Freedom Rides", which was the second article on the handout about the Freedom Rides. Questions on that were to be answered in point form, so we can continue our discussion on both articles tomorrow. 

We need to go over the terms listed on the board last week, and we may review some grammar tomorrow because you need to know some specific sentence types for the exam. What type of sentence was that? If you know the answer, please leave a comment. 

Until tomorrow ... out!