Homework

• Prepare your presentation for Nov. 24th.
• Presentations can  be made with a poster or with PowerPoint.
• Each student should present, even if you are doing a group presentation.
• Each student’s presentation should be 3-5 minutes long.
• The topic MUST be some topic of USA history.
  • I understand some students would like to research about present-day America – you will have a chance to do that, but not for this presentation.
• Read chapter 5 of ITHOTR.
  • Request: to help me make suitable reading for you, I ask you to underline or mark on your copy of chapter 5  words and expressions that you need to use a dictionary for, and then show me your copy of the chapter next time. Thanks in advance.

Today’s class

• Mini-lecture about the first Americans, the first Europeans and why so many Americans feel strongly about the right to have guns.
  • I mentioned the movie “The Seven Samurai”. This is a Japanese class. If you have not seen it, you’re missing something!
  • Here is a commercial for gun control. If you were the woman in this video, would you prefer to have a gun, or just wait for the police?