Readings and videos for 1st Quarter (not necessarily in this order) From Chapter 1: “An Introduction to Rhetoric: Using the ‘Available Means’” Lou Gehrig Speech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=626Dt9JdjQs) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYyUWn224AE) “We Can Afford to Give Parents a Break” Jody Heyman “Letter to Phyllis” Albert Einstein Excerpt from The Iliad Homer “The King’s Speech” King George VI http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/25/kings.speech.grandson/ “Not by Math Alone” Sandra Day O’Connor All the texts relating to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales Other readings: “What is Man?” Mark Twain “Allegory of the Cave” Plato “Pleasure and Happiness” Aristotle “Going with the Flow” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow#t-367079)