Students practice close reading of sources about World War I, including archival photos, a History Channel video, a PBS website, and selections from Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, and W.E.P. French; compare the Nobel Prize acceptance speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Barack Obama to learn how to make text-based claims; analyze and assess literary technique in poems by Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost; conduct research on the impact computer technology has on society; and construct an argument on how conceptions of privacy and national security have changed over the years.
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