As of now (Sunday around 1:30 P.M.) 16 comments have been published
on the essay prompt post. On one hand, this isn't enough to get me to
write and publish the prompt ahead of time. On the other, 16 people
have commented, and I really do want to support your success, so here's
my offer. I am going to start a rough draft of the prompt below. If
you have an idea about what (else) the prompt should include, or how it
should be presented to give you the best chance to show what you know,
please comment to this post. The more prepared you are, the more
organized you can make your notes, and the better you will do on
Tuesday.
Here's what I'm thinking so far:
Frederick
Douglass was a leader of the abolitionist movement and a contemporary
of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Like Emerson, Douglass believed in the power
and the will of the individual, as you can see in the following quote:
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring
the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own
abhorrence.”
[Here's where you come in. How does this
quote align with Emerson's philosophy? What do you think I should ask
that will give you the opportunity to show what you've learned from
reading "On Self-Reliance"?]
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