Monday and Beyond

Ok, For Monday: (Not in Lab)
We’ll finally finish discussing The Kite Runner

Feel free to be working on our last few projects during homework time.

1.) Annotated Bibliography. 15 sources. Due Sunday 5/15 by 11:59pm to my email box.

How to Annotated Bib:
1.) Find source.
2.) Put all of the source's info in MLA format.
(for example: Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention." Emerging Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000): 595-600. Web. 8 Feb. 2009.)
Don't forget to make the text hanging.

Also see the Owl at Purdue for help. here

3.) Summarize the article in one solid paragraph (see handout).
4.) Discuss whether this essay will be helpful to Essay 3, your classical argument, or not, and why.

5.) Move on to Source #2.

Also:
Essay 3 due Sunday 5/29. Classical Argument format:
1.) Stylized Introduction (review those handouts)
2.) Background
3.) Argument
4.) Counter-argument
5.) Rebuttal (counter the counter)
6.) Awesome, dazzling, stylized conclusion

The Kite Runner Essay (Final)
Topic of your choice.
You should have emailed this idea to me after Spring Break. If you don't hear back, assume your topic is fine. I do need to see topics, though.

You can discuss anything in relation to The Kite Runner:
Politics in Afghanistan
Islam in Afghanistan
Relationships between characters
The idea of the redemption story, who needs it, who gets it?
Role of homophobia in the story, or Islam, or both.
Etc.