English 2200

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"Readings" for November 27th
Listen to (or read if you have a slow Internet connection) Barack Obama's speech, and then choose two others. After you listen to three speeches, write a paragraph about the literary techniques you see in these examples of creative non-fiction.

Barack Obama, "The Audacity of Hope"
Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream"
Bono, National Prayer Breakfast Address
Ronald Reagan, "A Time for Choosing"
Mary Fisher, "A Whisper of AIDS"

Poems for Class on November 29th

Dunya Mikhail, "The War Works Hard"
Francis Scott Key, "The Star Spangled Banner"
Kunwar Narayan, "Preparations of War" (handout)

Readings for Class on December 4th

Mark Twain, "The War Prayer"
Iraq Blog #1, "Last Days at the FOB"
Iraq Blog #2, "Deja Vu"

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Literature Online
The Academy of American Poets
Movie Clips for Class on November 15th

Clueless (Diction)
Henry V (Compare with Independence Day)
Independence Day (Compare with Henry V)
Mr. Holland's Opus (Figurative Language)
Wall Street (Denotation and Connotation)
Malcolm X (Characterization)
Ronald Reagan, Challenger Disaster (Notice the quote from a poem at the end)
The Shining (as a romantic comedy) Scroll down the page to find clip. (Notice how a horror film can be revised using music, selection of scenes, and stock characters). See also a trailer for Titanic as a horror film.

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