Quarter 1 Blog Assignment

As I've talked about it in class, one of your major assignments during the first quarter involves participating in this blog. You are responsible for contributing one post of between 500 and 800 words, and five comments on the posts of others, each between 80 and 120 words. Your post may be an argumentative essay, an informative/explanatory essay, a narrative essay, or a short story. Your comments on the posts of others may address content, form, or style; and should be constructively critical.

In class, you all developed and decided on questions to do with the idea of American exceptionalism:

How has the U.S.' community evolved?
How or why does the US have an impact on human history?
How does the U.S. view the rest of the world?

There are also three questions that the junior teachers have developed, and are course-wide questions for this first quarter:

Is the US an exceptional country?

How have American writers encouraged the idea of American exceptionalism?

How have American writers critiqued the idea of American exceptionalism?

Your post should clearly address one or more of these six questions.

All posts are due by the time of your first English class the week of Monday, October 29. All comments are due by the time of your class on Friday, November 2. There will be regular English work that week. Plan ahead.