Assignment for Wednesday, December 17

Read and annotate ch. 3 of Sandel's What Money Can't Buy. We will discuss it for at least the first half of class. Print out two copies of your exploratory essay. You will peer edit it in the second half of class.

Assignment for Monday, December 15

Have at least three pages of your exploratory essay written, and email them to me at mrmontasmph@gmail.com. Bring a digital copy or laptop to work on it in class. Also, bring What Money Can't Buy. We will continue the discussion about economic thinking, and see how it should or shouldn't apply to everyday decisions.

Assignment for Thursday, December 11

Write one page of the exploratory essay. The handout describing it is posted to the right. Email it to me at mrmontasmph@gmail.com, and bring a digital copy to work on in class. Also, bring What Money Can't Buy.

Assignment for Friday, December 5

Prepare for your poetry recitation on Tuesday, December 9. Also, read and annotate chapter 1 on Sandel's What Money Can't Buy.

Click here for the transcripts of all the interviews in the Park Avenue documentary we viewed in class.

Assignment for Wednesday, December 3

Continue to prepare your poem for the recitation on Tuesday, December 9. Read and annotate the introduction to Michael Sandel's What Money Can't Buy.

Assignment for Monday, Nov. 24

Before class email to me (mrmontasmph@gmail.com) your essay on Much Ado about Nothing. (Topics are posted to the right.)

Bring a printed copy of your Poetry Out Loud poem. We will work on it in class. The date of your recitation is Tuesday, Dec. 9.

Lastly, bring your copy of Michael Sandel's What Money Can't Buy. We will begin discussing it in class.

Assignment for Tuesday, Nov. 18

Finish reading Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing. You will have a writing exercise in class (four-to-five short answer questions) about the play. You will not be able to use your book.

Also, continue looking at poems for the Poetry Out Loud recitation. Some of you will be happy to know that Philip Larkin's "The Mower" is eligible for the competition. You can find it here.