1. Argumentative Scenarios
Agree/Disagree/Strongly Agree/Strongly Disagree

2. Every novel in Mr. A’s class
Directions
Read each statement and its accompanying quotation.
Decide whether you agree, disagree, strongly agree, or strongly disagree.
After you state your position, state two or three major claims to support your argument.
Later, anticipate what your opposition will say, and identify a counterclaim.
Every novel in Mr. A’s class
needs a meme (or three)

3. Truslow’s version of the American Dream is true today.
“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.”
—James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America
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4. Malcolm X’s view of the American Dream is accurate today.
“I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream—I see an American nightmare.” —Malcolm X