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




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