No Current-Events Readings for this Week
Study for midterm; remember to review previously assigned current-events stories.
Study for midterm; remember to review previously assigned current-events stories.
Review previous articles, please.
Instead, please start studying this midterm review:
Midterm Review: Distributed Oct. 9, 2017
The midterm will be held in class on Oct. 25.
It will consist of several short answers and two essays. You’ll write the answers in a blue book.
Several of the short answers will be drawn from the current-events readings. There may also be an opportunity to work assigned current events into one or both of the essays. Be sure to take notes on the current-events readings, or copy them to your files, because there is no guarantee that those links will stay active. Note, too, that if a question has been asked and answered during class it makes it more likely that the question will reappear on the midterm.
One of the essays will definitely cover one of the films. You may also want to use what you learned from the films in analyzing current events – specifically, “Too Big to Fail.”
While I obviously can’t be too specific about the contents of the midterm, here are some other general areas to review: