Wednesday, January 24 - AM Fluency

Opening discussion: Which decade had the best music? All three students present at the time voted for the 80s. I voted for the 60s. 

I concluded my lecture on the March on Washington. Based on King’s argument in his “I have a dream” speech, I posed the following hypothetical situation: Imagine you are creating a country. Let’s assume that your country will have equal rights for all its citizens. Why? Why should there be equal treatment under law? What are some arguments for this position, arguments that would appeal to a diversity of people. We discovered that defending an argument like this is harder than we thought. 

We then read some of King’s speech and listened to other parts of it.