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English II
You will have a quiz on the introductory material for Frankenstein on Friday. Please have your $5 by then, as well.

 English IV
We have been discussing "Into the Electronic Millennium" in class. Your homework is to answer the questions following the essay and to think of a focus for your paper on Friday. We will begin by writing thesis statements and introductions tomorrow. Your prompt concerns the following:
Birkerts argues that three categories of cultural problems have resulted from the evolution of media from print to digital formats: language erosion, the flattening of historical perspective, and the waning of the private self. Of these three, choose one to support, challenge, or qualify in an argument, updating the examples and support from a contemporary point of view.

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