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DEMOCRACY

DEMOCRACY. Do They Get It?. by Holly Smith, AASU, LLP. Freshman Comp I Assignment for E.B. White's “Democracy” Make sure you understand every word of this text before you come to class. Democracy E.B. White

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DEMOCRACY

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  1. DEMOCRACY Do They Get It? by Holly Smith, AASU, LLP

  2. Freshman Comp I Assignment forE.B. White's “Democracy”Make sure you understand every word of this text before you come to class.

  3. Democracy E.B. White We received a letter from the Writers’ War Board the other day asking for a statement on “The Meaning of Democracy.” It presumably is our duty to comply with such a request, and it is certainly our pleasure. Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don’t in don’t shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles; it is the dent in the high hat. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half ofthe people are right more than half of the time. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. Democracy is a letter to the editor. Democracy is the score at the beginning of the ninth. It is an idea which hasn’t been disproved yet, a song the words of which have not gone bad. It’s the mustard on the hot dog and the cream in the rationed coffee. Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

  4. Democracy: What Do They Get? Small Groups: Pick out concepts ESL students probably will not understand.

  5. Democracy: What Do They Get? Small Groups: Why don't the ESL students understand these concepts?

  6. Democracy: What Do They Get? Small Groups: What information must you (the instructor) provide the ESL students?

  7. DEMOCRACY What they didn't get...

  8. Democracy E.B. White We received a letter from the XXXXXXXX the other day asking for a statement on “The Meaning of Democracy.” It presumably is our duty to comply with such a request, and it is certainly our pleasure. Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. It is the xxxxxxxxxxxxx. It is the xxxx in the xxxxxxxxxxxxx through which the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; it is the xxxx in the xxxxxxxxx. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of xxxxxxxxx in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. Democracy is a xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Democracy is the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. It is an idea which hasn’t been disproved yet, a song the words of which have not gone bad. It’s the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and the cream in the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

  9. Democracy E.B. White We received a letter from the Writers’ War Board the other day asking for a statement on “The Meaning of Democracy.” It presumably is our duty to comply with such a request, and it is certainly our pleasure. Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don’t in don’t shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdustslowly trickles; it is the dent in the high hat. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half ofthe people are right more than half of the time. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. Democracy is a letter to the editor. Democracy is the score at the beginning of the ninth. It is an idea which hasn’t been disproved yet, a song the words of which have not gone bad. It’s the mustard on the hot dog and the cream in the rationed coffee. Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

  10. Democracy: What They Didn't Get Here's what they DIDN'T get!

  11. Democracy: What They Didn't Get Unedited responses from Regular Comp. I students

  12. Hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles • This deals with the working man, who labors for democracy. Everyone seems to think that democracy is small and insignificant like the hole in his shirt. • The shirt represents the government and the sawdust is the democratic idea, it slowly trickles through the government to the people.

  13. Hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles • The people are the driving force for the representatives of the people they support. • There are people who want to run this country their own way (stuffed shirt) and democracy allows us to see their bad side (sawdust).

  14. Dent in the high hat • A high hat is straight and stable. In the same way, a dent is an imperfection in the high hat, democracy has it flaws. • Dent in the high hat means that nothing is perfect and there will always be a flaw. • The dent in the hat because a government will never be perfect.

  15. Dent in the high hat • Democracy (the dent) is what prevents people with upper status and/or large incomes (the high hat) from controlling everything. • The dent in the high hat? Common people are not the only ones with flaws, those in high positions have them also.

  16. Score at the beginning of the ninth • People think that the scores in the beginning of the ninth do not matter. It mattered as much as the end of the ninth. Democracy's history is just as important as today's system. • The score at the beginning of the ninth: everything falls into place near the end.

  17. Score at the beginning of the ninth • The score at the beginning of the ninth? A struggle for success, once you establish what you have it is hard to change but it can be done. • Democracy allows us to know what the outcome of an election will be.

  18. Cream in the rationed coffee • There is irony in the fact that an army's limited supply of coffee comes with cream. This leads the reader to think that democracy has surplus benefits. • While the government may ration things that we like or want (coffee), democracy is the part of that government that makes it okay (the cream).

  19. Cream in the rationed coffee • Cream in the rationed coffee? It makes what little you have better.

  20. Democracy: What They Didn't Get If this is what the native speakers understood,

  21. Democracy: What Didn't They Get? Then what do you think the ESL students got from E.B. White's text?

  22. Democracy: What Didn't They Get? The regular students missed this reference, too...

  23. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E.B. White

  24. You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -- Abraham Lincoln

  25. Well, you could have fooled me... No matter who the student, we can't assume we're operating from the same cultural context!

  26. DEMOCRACY How can we help them get it?

  27. DEMOCRACY Do They Get It? Thank you for your attention! Holly Smith, AASU, LLP smithhol@mail.armstrong.edu smithkovalev@bellsouth.net

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