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Free-Write : Due Tuesday September 24th in Class!

You’ve all started the hardest part of the paper : THE THESIS! Congrats! Now for the legwork. In order to help you with this I would like you to take 30 minutes this weekend and free-write about your proposed thesis.

Directions:

Find a relatively quiet space. Set a timer for 30 minutes. Mute that cellular device! (Put it on airplane mode so none of those calls come through!! ) Look at your thesis statement and without any judgement or even stopping to correct your grammar write for 30 minutes. When your 30 minutes are up, re-read what you’ve written, do a little bit of editing but not too much!  Make sure it is double spaced and at least one page long. Plan to print it before Tuesday’s class. 🙂

This will count as your 3rd response!

Can’t wait to hear how this went!

Kant wrote his famous essay “What is Enlightenment?” as a response to a call in a newspaper asking philosophers and thinkers to respond to this very question.

Keeping this in mind, for your first response you will create your own, contemporary version of “What is Enlightenment?” considering our contemporary situation, as if you were tasked with defining the idea today. You do not have to have the same title as Kant did so try to be creative and make a new one!

As mentioned in the syllabus, the response will be turned in Tuesday morning in class (Hard copy), 250 words, double spaced, times new roman. Make sure you title your paper and provide a thoughtful answer.

Also! Here is a video to help with your reading of Tartuffe. The performance is a bit cheesy but it stays very close to the text and can give you a general idea of how the play was to be performed and what is going on.