Vocabulary Test Lists 21 and 22 today.. If you missed it, it is your responsibility to take it when you come back to class.

I distributed the short essay, "Why are Beggars Despised?" by George Orwell.  Read it.  Annotate it.  Write a rhetorical precis.  Turn it in tomorrow when you walk in to class.

Be prepared to compare the Ascher and Orwell essays tomorrow.

Read Jonathan Swift's essay "A Modest Proposal" found on pages 914-21 in The Language of Composition.  Be prepared for a reading check quiz Friday.