Tuesday, April 11

Homework: For Wednesday, write an AP-style argument for or against either:

• Socrates' suggestion that the best rulers are reluctant philosopher kings: "the state whose prospective rulers come to their duties with the least enthusiasm is bound to have the best and most tranquil government," or
• Machiavelli's advice that "A wise ruler...cannot and should not keep his word when such an observance of faith would be to his disadvantage and when the reasons which made him promise are removed."  (For "rulers" consider substituting nations, and for promises, consider treaties with other nations.)

Whole class discussion of Plato's "The Myth of the Cave" the excerpt from Machiavelli's "The Prince."
COLLECTED paragraphs based on questions accompanying "The Prince."

DUE DATES

WEDNESDAY, April 12: AP style argument essay on either of the prompts listed above.