HW for weekend 3/4

1. Keep reading & doing Dialogue Journals (you should be on 8 & 9)--PLEASE SAVE ALL YOUR JOURNALS, YOU WILL HAND THEM ALL IN NEXT FRIDAY.
2. 1-2 page (handwritten) freewrite about your choice of essay topic, possible thesis & examples. The essay is described on the Middle East Unit sheet and is pasted below:
Essay
Choose one of the quotations below and use it as a lens through which to analyze the book you are reading with your group. We will talk more about how to do this essay down the line, but you should talk about the following quotations in your groups and explore how they apply to your book.

1.“A liar should have a good memory” Quintillian
2.“History, with all her volumes vast, / Hath but one page” George Gordon, Lord Byron
3.“Only the spirit of rebellion craves for happiness in this life. What right have we human beings to happiness?” Henrik Ibsen
4.“There is no greater sorrow / Than to be mindful of the happy time / In misery.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
5.“The best prophets of the future is the past.” Lord Byron
6.“Remember that man’s life lies all within this present, as ‘t were but a hair’s breadth of time; as for the rest, the past is gone, the future unseen. Short, therefore, is man’s life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.” Marcus Aurelius