Goals for the Day
- Compare and contrast the rhetoric of conflicting
ideologies
- Evaluate multiple perspectives on US foreign policy (and
continue to develop our own)
Starter 9.16: What was most interesting, surprising, or disturbing about the experience of reading Bin Laden's letter?
Discuss: The Bush Doctrine
What are the advantages of the Bush Doctrine?
What are the disadvantages?
What are the disadvantages?
Group Work: Rhetorical Analysis of Osama bin Laden's open letter to America.
Whole Class: T-chart
- What are the similarities and differences between Osama bin Laden's and George Bush's rhetoric?
Discuss
- Whose rhetoric is more effective? Why?
- How does our own ideology influence each rhetorical
transaction?
- Read and annotate "Commit for the Long Run" by Robert Kagan and Ronald D. Asmus
- Read and do post-it note or stand-alone 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 in your Digital Comp Books
- 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?
HOMEWORK?
Finish readings/comp book questions for Wednesday
Edmodo (optional)
Continue personal research into these topics (optional)