Wednesday, March 9, 2011

American History 3/9

Choose from one of the following and write an essay:

1. Explain Booker T. Washington's ideas about education and work by citing examples from the autobiography.

2. Why did Booker take up public speaking? How successful was he? Why was the Atlanta Exposition speech so important?

The essay should be around 800 words and please keep in mind thesis statements, transitions and parallelism.

Also read Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County at
etext.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/jumpfrog

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