New Site

We're making a change to the way that we release work for our classes. The main lessons (the things that we'll do in class each day) will now be found at the site "Optimal Beneficial Moreover Detrimental: Classroom." We're keeping this site, with a slightly different name, in order to release a reading a day for students to practice their reading at home. Each post will contain a link to a reading, along with a list of assignments that can be completed for that reading.

Friday, April 26, 2013

32.5. Quotation Essay Final Practice

Objective: To create a reusable structure for constructing a quotation response essay.


Writing Prompt

 Consider the following quotation:
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. 
In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who 
can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often 
proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, 
the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs. 

-Daniel J Boorstin, historian, professor, attorney, and writer (1914-2004)

What, in your opinion, does this quotation try to teach? Do you agree with the sentiment? How might knowing this benefit a person?

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