College Prep English for Homeschoolers at EIE, November 20, 2014

Dear Homescholars,

Class Agenda November 20, 2014

Last week’s online class feed DID NOT WORK: Google Plus dropped the feed after a few minutes. Let’s hope this week will work better after some testing.

Note: No class next week: THANKSGIVING.

November 20, 2014 class
Class event on Google Plus
https://plus.google.com/events/c0nqghl4v6bddpj0g4fbcq1q3g4

Youtube Page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2imF5rMbsbc

The playlist for our 2014-2015 classes is here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLExCxI6q5_Xnpxfr0yI8ATzOnU6SmkO2x

To learn more about the class, please visit: http://abacus-es.com/eie/advancedwriting.html, see the links and watch the video.

The playlist of 2013-2014 classes is also on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLExCxI6q5_XmwbFdBDNpSar91svWKDe9Y

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Project discussion

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Assignments discussion

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Essay Study

Essays by David Berlinski, a remarkably eloquent and incisive American author. Let’s start with All Those Darwinian Doubts.

Here are a few more to choose from:

Where Physics and Politics Meet

A Scientific Scandal

What Brings a World into Being?

The Advent of the Algorithm The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer

Was There a Big Bang?

 

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Let’s discuss chapter 6 in the text.

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Let’s continue with Hamlet and prepare recitations.

Gutenberg e-text

• Wikipedia – William Shakespeare
• Wikipedia – Hamlet

 

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Updated Assignments

Please continue to submit papers, poems, diatribes, ruminations.

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Let’s read Chapter 7 in the text.

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Language immersion
Let’s finish up ongoing assignments: the Jonathan Miller documentary: The Body in Question and The Machine That Made Us, documentary on the Gutenberg press by Stephen Fry.

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Let’s go on to:

Rowan Atkinson on freedom of speech

David Berlinski lecture: The Devil’s Delusion
A really rather fascinating lecture. Listen to it specifically for the language.

Documentary by Jonathan Miller: Madness Note that some of this material is rather heavy. Please skip any parts.

Documentary by Stephen Fry: Planet Word

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Lower Priority Assignments
Terry Eagleton on the war on terror. Prof. Eagleton is one of the great speakers.

Please read: Flying High by Christopher Hitchens. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2009/12/flying_high.html

Robert Fisk on writing and journalism. Fisk is one of the most highly honored journalists in the world.

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