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.
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