For homework, please:
- read pp. 41-44 from "American History: A Very Short Introduction" by Oxford University Press featured in the Week Nine Reading folder. Select one of the figures or works featured in these pages and investigate it/them further. Bring one "fun fact" about this person or work with you to class next week. Be able to explain what this fact tells us about the US in the mid-19th century.
- find two or three political/editorial cartoons either by US artists or that address US culture/policy and use the terms discussed in our past two classes (i.e. discourse, narrative, framing and sub-types of framing) and others from the semester (e.g. cognitive blends, intertextuality) to analyze how the cartoons are constructed. Bring these cartoons with you to next week's class.
- choose two or three English words and look each of these up in the following dictionaries (how do explain the differences in the wordings of the definitions in each edition of the dictionary?):
Websters Dictionary 1828 - Online
Webster's 1913 (websters1913.com)
Dictionary by Merriam-Webster: America's most-trusted online dictionary
Links of interest:
The Art in the Oval Office Tells a Story. Here’s How to See It. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
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