Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Current Events paragraph due Friday

  • Find a story that captures the theme of humanity or lack of humanity. 
  • Use recent local, national, or international news, a ted talk, or other modern day writing. 
  • Briefly describe the story and discuss how the theme of humanity exists in the story. 
  • Argue why this is significant? (Is it politically, socially, economically relevant? Why?) 
  • How does this connect with Ernie Pyle's piece (compare / contrast the message, delivery, effect, etc) 
  • Record the source you used using MLA format (see easy bib)
  • 1 sufficient paragraph in length typed or neatly written