Let's send our letters!
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Please submit to me by email today. In the body of the email, please paste the following reflection questions for this assignment. (If you would like to add this assignment to your DP along with the reflection, you may. This is optional, however.)
1. How did you connect to this assignment?
2. How was this difficult for you?
3. If you had more time, what would you do to improve the letter?
Small Group Brainstorm: What are positive examples of "progress"?
American Progress by John Gast
- In pairs: Analyze the ideology of the painting.
The Melish Map
What is Manifest Destiny?
Ideology in Poetry: Walt Whitman's America
Peruse Leaves of Grass. You may focus on the prologue of the book or on the poems themselves, or read "By Blue Ontario's Shore." Locate 5 quotes or passages that you believe to represent American ideology.
For each, 1) write out the quote or passage, 2) explain what you believe to be Whitman's meaning or purpose, 3) explain the connection you are making to to your experience or America's. Why does the quote resonate with you (as an American)?
EDMODO:
1. What do we love/celebrate/appreciate about America and her ideology? Let's appreciate!!
2. What did Whitman say to you today?
Homework
1. Edmodo
2. Read John O'Sullivan "The Great Nation of Futurity"
- Annotate and look up words that you don't know in the dictionary.
- Answer the following:
1. What does John O'Sullivan think America stands for?
2. What does he think is America's mission?
3. What does he mean by "progress" in this essay?
3. Do you still see elements of O'Sullivan's ideology in America today?