Monday, December 15, 2008

Second Blog Entry
Why did Lee order the attack up Little Round Top? Why wasn’t the attack successful? What should Lee have done at that point?

Who is your favorite character? Why?

This response needs to be only 1 paragraph. There will be two more blogs after this -- we will wrap this up during finals week. PS -- there will be questions from the novel Killer Angels on your final.

Response to this must be posted by next Tuesday (December 23)

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Killer Angels Blog #1

On page 27, Chamberlain says that the “curse of nobility” is worse than slavery. What did he mean by that? How does what Chamberlain thinks, feels and says – to himself and to the Maine men – reflect the Free Soil ideology that we have talked about in class? (See notes for 11/12/08 and 11/13/08). If Chamberlain could have voted in the election of 1848, which party would he have voted for? And why?

You have until November 19th, 5:00 PM to respond to this posting