Class Agenda 9.17: Blog Advice, Flour Riot, Entering 1877

NO QUIZ - there will be a quiz Monday. 

1. Blogging Advice: What should we consider as we write? Who is our audience? How should we begin? What do our readers need to know? What else?

2. Review of the Flour Riot: Briefly tracing out Headley's argumentative logic: does he contradict himself? What assumptions does he make?

3. Essay Assignment One: Review of Goal: For future reading: pay attention to: Tone, Arguments, Contradictions

4. Draft Riot: 1863: From PBS New York

4. Entering 1877: Rioters, Unions, and Communism: Key passages