Your book this summer
David &
Goliath
Seriously — start here
The PDF is the full assignment
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- Read the Introduction, “Goliath” (pages 3–15), and Part I, “The Advantages of Disadvantages” (pages 17–96). That’s it — one part of one book. Your teachers will lend you a copy if you need one.
- Notes in the margins are recommended — future-you will thank you when the talking starts.
When school starts
- Nothing to turn in — no writing is due.
- Come knowing the chapters cold, ready to talk about what Gladwell is arguing.
“Your initiation into the world of rhetoric and argument.”
— Mr. Kramer & Ms. Yoshiyama
The arguing starts here.
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