Update Sept. 18

Bellwrite: Read to your neighbor what you wrote about agency in your homework last night.

We examined Arthur Miller's argument about a belief in the existence of the devil and its effect on American liberty. We then considered how a restored gospel perspective provides keys to understanding how obedience to Christ and His church actually creates freedom. We discovered that denying the existence of a devil actually makes man susceptible to fall into captivity. We noted that Miller is, probably unintentionally, committing a strawman fallacy by judging all Christianity in the context of a play about one of the most extreme examples of American religious fanaticism.

Homework: Read or listen to the talk "Obedience to Law is Liberty." https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2013/04/obedience-to-law-is-liberty?lang=eng

AP
We learned about parallelism, a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. Parallelism gives the written or spoken word rhythm and balance. It can help set up comparisons of ideas and create emphasis. We practices rewriting sentences with faulty parallelism, including sentences using correlative conjunctions.

We continued working on our marriage essays. We reviewed citation of sources in MLA style. (See http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/). Now that we have learned to present counterarguments and refute them, we will be developing a core argument in support of the position that the U.S. government should not legalize same-sex marriage. (Note this is an argument of policy, not fact or value.) One core argument might be that Legalization of same-sex marriage would is having serious legal repercussions limiting freedoms of conscience and expression.

Homework: Write a draft of your core argument paragraphs. Insert appropriate in-text citations for the evidence you have already included in your refutation paragraphs.