My students read the first chapter of Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic for homework today. They came into class and were handed the following assignment...
Write for a few minutes on one of following quotations that Horwitz uses as epigraph:
"Southerners are very strange about that war." ~ Shelby Foote
"There never will be anything more interesting than that Civil War never."
~Gertrude Stein
They grumbled.
"What do you want us to write about?"
"We have nothing to say on this topic!"
"I don't think about the Civil War!"
Funny, after ten minutes they just couldn't stop writing...didn't even want to stop.
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