{"id":190,"date":"2023-02-23T17:49:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T17:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/?p=190"},"modified":"2023-02-24T17:22:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T17:22:55","slug":"for-thursday-2-23-and-tuesday-2-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/2023\/02\/23\/for-thursday-2-23-and-tuesday-2-28\/","title":{"rendered":"For Thursday (2\/23) [and Tuesday 2\/28]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Last Policeman\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CaB3Si97v4w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For Thursday, read up to the end of Part Two of Ben Winters&#8217;\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Last Policeman<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Our asynchronous activity for Thursday is pretty straightforward: Toward the end of Part Two, Henry tells Ruth-Ann, the waitress at his favorite diner, that he feels like he &#8220;wasn&#8217;t made for these times.&#8221;\u00a0 Ruth-Ann answers: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know kid . . . I think maybe you&#8217;re the only person who was.&#8221;\u00a0 Is Ruth-Ann right or wrong?\u00a0 I.e. in what ways is Henry the kind of person &#8211; &#8211; and\/or not the kind of person &#8211; &#8211; made for the pre-apocalyptic times depicted in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Last Policeman<\/span>?\u00a0 Write a couple of paragraphs answering this question &#8211; &#8211; and use concrete examples to illustrate\/develop your response.\u00a0 (Remember: just open up your google doc and make a new entry.) Try to finish this up by Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted a page describing your first two-page reflection essay.\u00a0 See the link to the right titled &#8220;The Omega Men assignment&#8221; or click on <a href=\"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/the-omega-men\/\">this link<\/a>.\u00a0 Read over the assignment and bring any questions to class on Tuesday, <strong>when we&#8217;ll discuss the whole of Winters&#8217; novel.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Thursday, read up to the end of Part Two of Ben Winters&#8217;\u00a0The Last Policeman. Our asynchronous activity for Thursday is pretty straightforward: Toward the end of Part Two, Henry tells Ruth-Ann, the waitress at his favorite diner, that he feels like he &#8220;wasn&#8217;t made for these times.&#8221;\u00a0 Ruth-Ann answers: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know kid . &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/2023\/02\/23\/for-thursday-2-23-and-tuesday-2-28\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For Thursday (2\/23) [and Tuesday 2\/28]&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.lfhanley.net\/english465sp23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}