Monday's assignments

Greetings all. Your reading assignment for Monday: read Ch 2 (45-59) in Everything's an Argument and Ch 1 (3-17) in Confederates in the Attic.

I'm also providing the blog assignment now--to be posted before class on Friday. I would like you to find an artifact or text that makes an argument about your home town (or neighborhood, or region, or state, etc.). This can be an image, a website, a video file, an audio clip, etc. Embed or link your blog to this (or, if it's a tangible thing, bring it to class), and analyze the argument. Tell me what it suggests, who the audience is, what appeals it makes, and what contextual information I might need to understand it.