AP English Language and Composition |
T]he American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages///We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island . . . we shall never surrender///Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. . . . Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead |
Call me Ishmael////Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. //////When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.///Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning///Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting |
at Pinewood |
Syllabus coming soon
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AssignmentsDo your summer reading. Check out the blog entries and have a little pre-class fun. Listen to these bands/crews/whatever: 7L and Esoteric, LadyHawk, Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, Jennifer Gentle. See these films: Les Quatre Cents Coups, Bowling for Columbine, The Life Aquatic, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Sunshine State Read these writers: Annie Dillard, Tom Wolfe, Montaigne, Francis Bacon, John McPhee |