English 024
Spring 2009
Mary Kay Mitchell

Assignment Materials

Class forms:
Good Writing Shows These Qualities
Academic Integrity Policy
Argument Outline
Self-evaluation
Editing Marks/unneeded words
Works Cited

Class 1
Bring book, travel drive, and latest draft of each essay to all classes.
Article:
25 Ways to Get the Most Out of Now.

Class 4
Article:
Drug Prohibition
Latin Americans Decry U.S. Drug War
The War on Drugs Is a Failure
Decline in Blacks in State Prisons for Drugs
Drugs Won the War
U.S. Rates of Incarceration: A Global Perspective
Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?

Class 7
Articles:
Wal-Mart: Low Prices, but at What Cost?
Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices, documentary by Robert Greenwald
Wal-Mart: The Facts Tell the Story

Class 10
Articles:
Totally Spent
Losing Our Will
From Afar, America Resembles a 2nd-Rate Power

Class 12
Articles:
What’s Going on Here?
Five Reasons to Love $4 Gas
Excerpts: How a New Energy Order Will Dramatically Change Our Lives
Limiting Climate Change: The Neglected Obstacle
Betraying the Planet

Class 16
Articles:
How We Go About Our Daily Lives
Fifty Ways to Help Save the Planet
Basic Forms for Electronic Sources

Class 17
Articles:
10 Immigration Myths & Facts
The Faces of Immigration in Mercer County
The Part of Illegal We Don’t Get
Indentured Servants in America

Class 18
Articles:
Immigrant Crackdowns Are Building the National Security State
Perfectly Legal Immigrants Until They Applied for Citizenship
Trenton Teen Cherishes Freedom
Ill and in Pain, Detainee Dies in U.S. Hands
Enforcement Gone Bad
A New Deal for Immigrants?