Tuesday, January 20, 2015 Baraka Response

Please leave a comment expressing your thoughts on the film Baraka.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Language Arts:

Warm Up: Education is the Key

Period 3/4, 5/6 responded to the following quote:

“It’s an universal law—intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Period 7/8 responded to the following quote:

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”  – Helen Keller

A Mason-Dixon Memory

After completing "A Mason-Dixon Memory" story (pg. 559-564) in our big literature text books (the ones that you have at home), we answered questions 4, 5, and 6 from pg. 565 (Literary Response & Analysis) in our Journals.

We then watched a video about Martin Luther King Jr. & The Civil Rights Movement. This video helps to set the tone for this unit.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Language Arts:

Warm Up: Introduction to Tolerance

In your Journal, please copy down the following quote. Below that, please write your response to this quote. What does it mean to you? How does this quote relate to tolerance?

“In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else’s path is wrong.”

–Paulo Coelho

Vocabulary Words:

tolerance:  the willingness to allow something, especially the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.

justice: the process or result of using laws to  impartially judge and punish crimes and criminals.

impartial: treating all people equally

Vocab from "A Mason-Dixon Memory" by Clifton Davis

predominantly: mainly

forfeit: lose the right to something

resolve: decide

ominous: threatening

bigotry: prejudice, intolerance

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Language Arts

Period 5/6 were given homework due to their incessant noise level. Homework was "Figurative Language Worksheet 3", due Wednesday, 1/7/2015.

Monday, January 5, 2014

Language Arts

Students were either given a copy of or were asked to copy down a list of all Journal Entries from October 6 to December 17, 2014.