Extra-Credit Opportunity: Viewing,
Reading actively, and Responding
This is a link for Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech “Beyond
Vietnam”
This is a link for the transcript to that speech, so you can
follow along and read actively as you do so.
This are links to a blog about money and consumerism.
The man behind the blog has some very alternative and
provocative and useful views on American culture and his attempts to save
rather than spend. This link takes you
to a listing of all the posts he has written to date. Your task is to pick five articles of your choice
on this blog.
Your task:
Your extra-credit assignment is to actively read these sources. Take notes and quotes down as you read and
listen. You will turn these notes in
with your extra credit assignment and this active listening and reading will be
part of your extra-credit grade.
This will take you a couple of hours to do well.
Then write a response to both the Dr. King speech and the
Mr. Money Mustache blog. Your response
should be typed and double-spaced, and you should use at least two quotes from
the Dr. King speech and at least one quote from the Mr. Money Mustache blog
somewhere in your response. Your
response should be at least two typed pages (1000 words) in length.
If you do this well
and turn in both your written response and your active reading notes, you can
earn up to 4% total raise on your overall grade percentage. As an added benefit, you are also going to
learn a ton by doing this assignment.
How much better does it get than that?
You can either turn this in to the OSU secretary downstairs
on our Delaware campus, or you can scan or attach (or both) your files and send
them to mikelohre@gmail.com.
Have fun, raise your awareness, and really earn your extra credit. Man it feels good to earn it.
All my best,
P.S. This offer expires April 22 at midnight, so please turn this in or send it to me by midnight on Monday, April 22.
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