Write your own declaration of independence. If you were to declare your own independence from something, what would it be? School? Your parents? Your coach? This is not a "b*tch session," so please don't use it to berate someone. However, do explain why you want independence and what you believe you are entitled to.
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Write your own, brief, jeremiad (200-300 words). Think about a problem you see in society or in our school, and parse it out in the form of a jeremiad. Although you do not need to include religious overtones or references to scriptures, you do need to explain why whatever situation you choose to address is morally wrong or how it is causing a social problem.
The Salem Witch Trials have had a lasting legacy. References to the trials have shown up in pop culture as well as in plays, movies, and music. Part of this has to do with the nature of humans. We are quick to judge and quick to believe without demanding real proof. This becomes especially true when we look at urban legends.
Go to Snopes, and find an urban legend that interests you. Read about the legend, explain it briefly in your comment, and explain why you think this myth or legend or rumor exists. What did people intend to incite (begin) by starting the rumor? Read the first 27 pages of Jaycee Dugard's captivity narrative (up to the section titled, "The First Time.")
How is Dugard's narrative style similar to Mary Rowlandson's (232-238, in our text)? Think less in terms of what they went through and more in terms of how they speak of their respective captors, their tone, and their rhetorical appeals to their readers. For example, are they appealing to our sense of sympathy (pathos), reasonability (logos), or to our sense of justice (ethos)? How do they do these things? How are we supposed to consider their captors after reading their accounts? Is there a call to action of some sort? Finally, how are their narratives different? Think in terms of why their captors decided to hold them hostage. What "learning artifact" did you choose? Explain why you chose it and how it relates to you "as a learner."
You do not need to respond to each other this week. In your own words (using quotes from the article if you need to), explain what Turkle means when she writes, "we feel at one with our objects"?
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