1. Suppose a child used the word tunnel when driving through a tunnel and also when driving under an overpass, and finally, when hiding under a table. Is this overextension or underextension? What might account for this error? Think about the perceptual properties that these instances have in common.
2. Suppose another child used the word fish only for goldfish. Is this overextension or underextension? What might account for this? Think about what might be the prototype or core member of this category.

In the 7th debate in Alton, Illinois on October 15,1858 , Lincoln retreated slightly from his "House Divided" stance, agreeing that state sovereignty should generally be constitutionally protected, but slavery is a moral wrong for which expansion must not be allowed, and which should eventually be quashed completely.

 

Lincoln: The Judge [Douglas] alludes very often in the course of his remarks to the exclusive right which the States have to decide the whole thing for themselves. I agree with him very readily that the different States have that right. He is but fighting a man of straw when he assumes that I am contending against the right of the States to do as they please about it. Our controversy with him is in regard to the new Territories... He says that upon the score of equality, slaves should be allowed to go in a new Territory, like other property. This is strictly logical if there is no difference between it and other property. If it and other property are equal, his argument is entirely logical. But if you insist that one is wrong and the other right, there is no use to institute a comparison between right and wrong. You may turn over every thing in the Democratic policy from beginning to end, whether in the shape it takes on the statute book, in the shape it takes in the Dred Scott decision, in the shape it takes in conversation, or the shape it takes in short maxim-like arguments-it every where carefully excludes the idea that there is any thing wrong in it.

 

That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles-right and wrong throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it." No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.

1. Did Braidie's decision at the end of the play seem plausible? What finally convinced her to speak up? Was this a good solution to the problem? What is likely to happen next? What might happen to Sofie if no one intervenes?

2. How has media coverage of the tragedy influenced Braidie's perception of events?

3. What are the long-term effects of bullying on the victim? What are the effects on the bully?

4. What makes some people bully others? Is this made clear in the play?

5. Does Braidie's silence make her as guilty as Adrienne?

6. Discuss the symbolic significance of the setting, especially its proximity to the Blind Children's Camp.