Assignment for Tuesday, February 23, 2010

As always, please learn your vocabulary words before doing the reading assignment.

Vocabulary:
cajole
craven
demographics
diminution
forego
forensic
genocide
gravamen
maternal
monopoly
paternal
procreation
rebarbative
recrimination
sartorial
usurp

Reading: "The Parent Trap" by Glenn Reynolds

Be prepared in class to share the main idea of your research paper and discuss your general plan for finding and organizing information.

Extra credit for quiz: Who is chief justice of the United States Supreme Court?

Reminder: Remember the "class motto."

Unable to access email

For some reason I haven't been able to access my Motlow email account this week.

Update: I'm up and running again, at least on my home computer.

Bonus question for Thursday's quiz

What nation recently announced it would deliver a "punch" that would stun the world on Thursday, February 11, 2010?

Vocabulary for Thursday, February 11, 2010

academia
articulate (adj)
consensus
demagogue
efface
freighted
hemorrhage
locution
orthodoxy
pseudo- (prefix)
remnant
resurgence

Readings for Thursday, February 11, 2010

"Has the Right Surrendered in the Culture War?"
"Touching at Work: The Good Ole Girl Network"
"The Media Mob"