A reminder to all students:
Many of our assignments are assigned and completed during class time. Please take care that these are finished within a timely manner. Also, if no specific homework is listed for a given evening, please consider re-reading your notes and typing them up for future reference. Both the Americas and Government classes will be having tests in the near future. The Americas class with be tested on the current unit, which is the Civil War later next week, depending on how much time we need. The Government test will be late next week or early the week after depending on time constraints as well. The current unit in Government is the Executive Branch.
Thanks.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Civil War
Sullivan Ballou Letter:
http://www.civil-war.net/pages/sullivan_ballou.asp
Questions to be answered:
1.Why do you think Sullivan Ballou wrote this letter?
2.If you were Sullivan’s wife or children, would you plead with him not to enlist in the Union army? Why or why not?
3.In how many ways does Sullivan comfort his wife by what he writes to her?
4.Does he have regrets for himself, or only for his wife and children?
5.Sullivan writes that he is "communing with God, my country, and thee." What is his relationship to the claims that each of these make upon his life?
6.Images of "wind" and "breath" appear and reappear in the letter. How are these images related at different times to "God, my country, and thee"?
7.Sullivan says that he is perfectly willing to die to pay the debt owed to those who fell in the American Revolution. What debt, if any, do you feel you owe to Sullivan Ballou and other men like him?
http://www.civil-war.net/pages/sullivan_ballou.asp
Questions to be answered:
1.Why do you think Sullivan Ballou wrote this letter?
2.If you were Sullivan’s wife or children, would you plead with him not to enlist in the Union army? Why or why not?
3.In how many ways does Sullivan comfort his wife by what he writes to her?
4.Does he have regrets for himself, or only for his wife and children?
5.Sullivan writes that he is "communing with God, my country, and thee." What is his relationship to the claims that each of these make upon his life?
6.Images of "wind" and "breath" appear and reappear in the letter. How are these images related at different times to "God, my country, and thee"?
7.Sullivan says that he is perfectly willing to die to pay the debt owed to those who fell in the American Revolution. What debt, if any, do you feel you owe to Sullivan Ballou and other men like him?
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