Book Review

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*NOTE:  Book Reviews are due no later than Monday, March 2.

 *Today, as promised, I am giving you class time to complete and post your book review on Goodreads.  You will, of course, share it with me by filling out the "Book Review URL Form" under "Important Links" on my blog.

*We will resume reading "Letter from Birmingham Jail" on Monday.

  

"Stride Toward Freedom"

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NOTE: Book Reviews are due by Monday, March 2.  I am ready to start receiving them.

*"Stride Toward Freedom" -- You completed reading and responding to this text for homework.  I will review the reading to ensure that you did not miss some of the important points that King makes.

*"Letter from Birmingham Jail"  

*Tomorrow I will give you class time to complete your book review on Goodreads. 

HOMEWORK:  Book Review -- compose your book review following the rubric so you will be ready to put it on Goodreads tomorrow in class. 

"Stride Toward Freedom"

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NOTE: Book Reviews are due by Monday, March 2.  I am ready to start receiving them.

*Questions on Gandhi

*Martin Luther King Jr.: "Stride Toward Freedom" -- With a partner I would like you to read this excerpt from Martin Luther King and identify the main ideas in each section.  Quietly read each part and then discuss with your partner the appropriate responses.
(Handout)

HOMEWORK:  Book Review 

Articulation

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* NOTE:  Book reviews are due next Monday, March 2.  I am ready to start receiving them. 

*Articulation: Periods 1 and 6. Upon your return from the counseling office we will finish the movie.  Periods 3 and 4 we will finish the movie today.  There are questions on the movie to complete.  Discuss and complete with a partner.

Gandhi

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading (book review)

Gandhi

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I hope that you had an enjoyable weekend!

 

* NOTE:  Book reviews are due next Monday, March 2

 

*Articulation:  Because of articulation we will see another part of Gandhi.  Periods 3 and 4 today.

 

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading (book review)

Gandhi

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*Course Selection Cards due today -- Articulation on Monday for periods 3 & 4.  Tuesday for periods 1 & 6.

*Gandhi -- I hope that you are grasping some of the main events in the movie.  I know there is a lot going on to be attentive to.  I think you can see how the British are confused about how to respond to Gandhi and his gathering support.


Gandhi and his wife Kasturba

 

 

HOMEWORK: Book reviews are due Monday, March 2 

Gandhi

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*NOTE:  Book reviews are due Monday, March 2.

*Course Selection Card -- return tomorrow

*Gandhi:

    * "Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."
    * “I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am 
         prepared to kill.”
    * "Through our pain we will make them see their injustice." 
    * "Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

HOMEWORK: Independent reading



   

Gandhi

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*Independent Reading:  Please read quietly until we are ready to begin.  Book reviews are due Monday, March 2.

*Course Selection Card -- return asap

*Gandhi -- identifying main ideas and supporting quotations (handout)

*Gandhi -- the movie.  We will watch just part of this very long movie today and tomorrow.

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading 

Gandhi

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I hope that you had a great four-day weekend!

*Independent Reading:  Please read quietly until we are ready to begin.  Book reviews are due Monday, March 2.

*Course Selection Card -- return asap

 *Example of Civil Disobedience:  Last Thursday you looked at two examples of civil disobedience and located two more examples.  Please share what you found, and I will then collect your responses.

*Gandhi -- please read the biographical information on Gandhi on the back.  We will then read the excerpt from "On Civil Disobedience" together.  Annotate as we go along.  (Handout) 

HOMEWORK:  Complete the assignment on "From 'On Civil Disobedience'"

Examples of Civil Disobedience

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Please get your netbooks when you arrive.

*Please put your cell phone away when you walk in the door to this classroom and keep it out of sight until you walk out the door.  No exceptions.

*Course Selection Card

* Assignment:  Click on the following links and read the articles.  Explain the acts of CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (or if an act of civil disobedience has occurred) and what is being protested.  Provide a complete explanation. Record your responses on the HANDOUT provided.   Be sure to indicate the title of the article with your response.  You will also locate  an additional example and summarize.    (baltrushes.blogspot.com)

"Keystone opponents vow civil disobedience"

"Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan won't pay back taxes" 



HOMEWORK: Independent reading

Civil Disobedience

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*Independent Reading -- please read quietly until we are ready to begin

*Course Selection Card -- please return asap!

*Quiz on "Civil Disobedience -- take a few minutes to review your notes. The quiz is worth 100 pts.  This means that you were attentive to the reading of the essay, you took notes, you answered questions, and you reviewed the notes.

*When you have finished the quiz, please get your netbook and in your ENGLISH JOURNAL write a well-developed paragraph on "Civil Disobedience."  This paragraph will be very useful when you are writing the final essay for this unit of study. Use your notes to compose this paragraph. 

        In "Civil Disobedience" Thoreau chiefly protests the __________.  He begins by arguing that it was the action  of

______.   According to Thoreau laws are ______

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading.

"Civil Disobedience"

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 *Independent Reading-- Please read quietly until we are ready to begin.

*Course Selection Card--  You need to return this course selection card as soon as possible.  The counselors want them ASAP! Return it with your parent's signature.

*"Civil Disobedience" -- we will continue with Thoreau's essay.  Take notes as we read this text.  There will be a test on this reading.
 

HOMEWORK: Questions on "Civil Disobedience" and review your notes on the text.  Test tomorrow.

"Civil Disobedience"

Good Morning!

I hope that you had an enjoyable weekend!

 *Independent Reading-- Please read quietly until we are ready to begin.

*Course Selection Card-- Please return this with your parent's signature ASAP.

*"Civil Disobedience" -- we will continue with Thoreau's essay.  Take notes as we read this text.  There will be a quiz on this reading.
 

HOMEWORK: Independent Reading.  Course selection card.

Henry David Thoreau

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For the Transcendentalist, the secret of successful living was to hold oneself above material concerns as much as possible and focus on the spiritual. 

*Independent Reading:  Please read quietly until we are ready to begin.

*Review of Quiz on Mexican-American War 

*Henry David Thoreau: Some background information on Thoreau:
Thoreau

Thoreau

*"Civil Disobedience" -- follow along closely as we read each part.  Take notes in the available space.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

Quiz on "Self-Reliance"

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*Independent Reading -- please read quietly until we are ready to begin.

*Course Selection Cards

*Quiz on "Self-Reliance"  -- take a few moments to review (I asked you to review for homework), and I will then collect your copy of "Self-Reliance."   This quiz is worth 100 pts. (same as "A Psalm of Life"). The objective here is for you to be closely familiar with these texts by being attentive in class as they are being discussed, taking notes (annotating), thoughtfully responding to review questions, and then reviewing.

*Research on Mexican-American War -- complete handout by checking with a classmate if your are missing an answer.  Then, we will correct the "quiz," score it, and turn it in.

HOMEWORK:  Independent reading

 

Mexican-American War

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Please get your netbook when you arrive and read quietly until we are ready to begin. 

*NOTE:  Course Selection Card

*"Self-Reliance" -- If you have not completed your paragraph on Emerson's essay, please do so today in addition to the assignment below. The purpose of writing about "Self-Reliance" is to make yourself more familiar with Emerson's ideas.  Through writing we are more thoroughly processing the ideas. You are explaining Emerson's ideas in your words.  Please study your notes on the esssay.  There will be a quiz tomorrow.  STUDY.

*Today you will do some research on the Mexican-American War because of its relevance to Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience."  Complete the "quiz" by the end of the period.  This is due by the end of the period.  The following are some links to use:

Mexican-American War

Mexican-American War  

Mexican-American War 


HOMEWORK:  Study "Self-Reliance"

"Self-Reliance"

Good Morning!

Please get your netbook when your arrive.

*NOTE: Put your cell phone away when you arrive to class and keep it out of sight until you walk out the door.

*Independent Reading -- please read quietly until we are ready to begin.

*Course Scheduling Cards -- return ASAP with parent's signature

* "Self-Reliance" -- After we review the questions on "Self-Reliance," please write a well-developed paragraph in your ENGLISH JOURNAL explaining the main ideas of "Self-Reliance."  Also, explain what connection these ideas might have in fighting injustices in the world. 
     *In "Self-Reliance" Emerson advocates . . . .
     *In "Self-Reliance" Emerson urges us to . . . .
     *In "Self-Reliance" Emerson emphasizes the need to . . . .

HOMEWORK: Independent reading book 

"Self-Reliance"

Good Morning!

I hope that you had an enjoyable weekend!

*Put your CELL PHONE away when you arrive to class and keep it out of sight until you walk out the door at the end of the period.

*Independent Reading -- please read quietly until we are ready to begin.

*Schedule Card for your classes next year -- return with parent's signature ASAP

*On Friday we did an activity in anticipation to reading "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.  The activity was to get you thinking about the importance of trusting your own beliefs and standing up for what you believe in versus following the crowd. We will read the text together and you will take notes as we go along.  Be attentive to the reading and the discussion -- the final writing assignment for this unit of study will require you to explain the important ideas of Emerson.

Emerson

HOMEWORK:  Complete the questions on "Self-Reliance"