Starter #16: What was most interesting, surprising, or disturbing about the experience of reading Bin Laden's letter?
Goals for the Day
- Compare and contrast the rhetoric and ideology of seemingly conflicting primary sources
- Evaluate multiple perspectives on US Foreign Policy and develop our own
Group Work
- Each group should make a T-chart. Create a list comparing and contrasting the rhetorical discourse of George Bush with that of Osama bin Laden. What do they have in common and how do they differ?
Similarities
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Differences
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Compile whole class list.
Discuss
- Whose rhetoric is more effective? Why?
- How does our own ideology influence each rhetorical transaction?
FOUR CORNERS: US Foreign Policy
Homework (due Wednesday)
- Read and annotate "Commit for the Long Run" by Robert Kagan and Ronald D. Asmus
- Read and do post-it note annotations for Chapter 24 and 25 of A Young People's History of the United States (sign out book on sign-up sheet)
- Answer the following questions
- 1. What ideological bias on foreign policy do Kagan and Asmus represent?
- 2. What recommendations do they make?
- 3. What ideological bias on foreign policy does Howard Zinn represent?
- 4. What recommendations does Zinn make?
- 5. With whom do you agree more? Why?