Notes
1. Steve Poizner, Mount Pleasant: my journey from creating a billion-dollar company to teaching at a struggling public high school, 27.
2. Ibid., 52.
3. Published in The New York Times, 18 April, 2010.
4. Featured on "Episode 406: True Urban Legends," This American Life, 23 April , 2010.
5. Chapter 1 "School Profile," Mount Pleasant High School, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Report 2013-2014.
6. Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts- Literacy, Speaking and Listening 9-10.2: Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source.
7. Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts- Literacy, Speaking and Listening 9-10.3: Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
8. Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts- Literacy, Speaking and Listening 9-10.4: Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.
9. Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts- Literacy, Speaking and Listening 9-10.6: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
10. James Jerome Murphy, The Rhetorical tradition and modern writing, 14.
11. Jay Heinrichs, Thank you for arguing: what Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson can teach us about the art of persuasion, 34.
12. Ibid., 35.
13. "Ethos, Pathos, and Logos," Ethos, Pathos, and Logos, http://courses.durhamtech.edu/perkins/aris.html.
14. Edward P. J. Corbett, Classical rhetoric for the modern student, 32.
14. Ibid., 72.
15. Edward P. J. Corbett, Classical rhetoric for the modern student, 22.
16. Biographical information for William Golding was synthesized from various resources including: William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 50th Anniversary Edition ed. New York: Penguin, 2003., William Golding, and Edmund L. Epstein, Lord of the flies: a novel, New York: Perigee, 1954., and Stephen Boyd, The novels of William Golding.
17. "William Golding," William Golding. http://www.uv.es/~fores/golding.html.
18. Quoted by Paul Crawford, Politics and history in William Golding, 81.
19. Quoted in Bansi, William Golding revisited: a collection of original essays, 76.
20. Ibid., 76.
21. Jack I Biles., and William Golding, Talk: conversations with William Golding, 30.
22. Paul Crawford, Politics and history in William Golding, 2.
23. Ibid., 2
24. William Golding, and Edmund L. Epstein, Lord of the flies: a novel. New York: Perigee, 1954. 212.
25. William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 50th Anniversary Edition ed. New York: Penguin, 2003, 6.
26. Ibid., 23.
27. Quoted in Bytwerk, Landmark speeches of National Socialism, 1.
28. Randall L. Bytwerk, Landmark speeches of National Socialism, 1.
29. Quoted in Bytwerk, 10.
30. William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 50th Anniversary Edition ed. New York: Penguin, 2003, 22.
31. Ibid., 53.
32. Ibid., 53.
33. Robert J. Brown, Manipulating the ether: the power of broadcast radio in thirties America, 27.
34. Timothy Raphael, The president electric Ronald Reagan and the politics of performance, 98.
35. Timothy Raphael, The president electric Ronald Reagan and the politics of performance, 97.
36. "Lesson 1: FDR's Fireside Chats: The Power of Words | EDSITEment," http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/.
37. Ibid.
38. "Miller Center," Fireside Chat 14: On the European War (September 3, 1939)-. http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/3315.
39. Chris Cook, and John Stevenson, The Longman handbook of modern British history, 1714-1995. 349.
40. Quoted in Lindsay, "The Munich Agreement | History Lessons." YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKA-lhWFbsE
41. Jean Piaget, The origins of intelligence in children, 19.
42. Tracy Garrett, and Dava O'Connor, "Readers' Theater: 'Hold On, Let's Read it Again.'",7.
43. Ibid., 7.
44. Ibid., 17.
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