Tonight's edition of "60 Minutes" contained a segment about Greg Mortensen (see it here) that presented a different version of the truth from what we read and were led to believe. The report sure didn't look good and now I'm confused. Should I teach his book next year? If I do, should I present it as fiction or non-fiction? Is he still a basically good guy who did amazing things that made a lot of people better for knowing about him, or is he a bad guy for embellishing the facts and misusing donations from schoolchildren?
This is where you come in. Write me an essay that organizes information from at least five sources to CREATE a view of Greg Mortenson that will guide my decisions. Notice that create is in capital letters; instead of forming an opinion and finding evidence to support it, you must FIRST do the research, and, based on what you read, THEN form an opinion. Amount of extra credit negotiable depending on the quality of your argument and sources.
"Amount of extra credit negotiable depending on the quality of your argument and sources." So does that mean this is an Extra Credit assignment and not a mandatory one?
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