Essays:

You are required to read each of the essays.  You are required to annotate each assigned essay.   You are required to complete the Reading Response Sheet according to the rhetorical analysis SOAPSTONE for each essay.

AFRICAN AMERICAN ESSAYS

Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.

The Brother Seal

INDIGENOUS AMERICAN ESSAYS

We May Be Brothers After All  by Chief Seattle

Black Hawk’s Surrender Speech  by Makataimeshekiakiak (Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak)

Superman and Me  by Sherman Alexie

WOMEN RIGHTS ESSAYS


No Name Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston

The Chase by Annie Dillard

Ain’t I A Woman?  By Soujourner Truth

Shunned by Meredith Hall