Homework:

• Write a second draft response to one of the two essays in the Appendix to the textbook pp. 162-165. (Unless you have a good reason, I strongly suggest you keep to the same essay you wrote about in your first draft.)
  • A “response essay” is NOT a 感想文.
  • You need to take a position (for or against),
  • summarize the article’s main points and give your response to each,
  • provide objective facts as evidence to support your reasons why you agree (or disagree).
• Bring it to class next Friday (Nov. 27th).
• If you did not finish today’s classwork (see below) during class time, please finish for homework.

Today’s class:

1. Hand in your first draft of your “Response essay”.
2. Read the sample academic reading #5 “False Flag operations“, and answer the questions:
   1. What is a “false flag” operation? Explain in your own words.
   2. Explain how a false flag operation uses ” the guise of fighting a foreign enemy”.
   3. What started the Spanish-American war of 1898? Why does the author refer to this as an intelligence “failure” (with qutoation marks)?
   4. What other incidents might be called false flag operations?
   5. Textbook:
      1. read page 118 D
      2. page 120 E and practice 5
      3. page 121 F and practice 6