"Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Good Morning!   

I hope that you had an enjoyable weekend!

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

* Gandhi Quotes
*"Letter from Birmingham Jail" 
   Some introduction to King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
  Please open your View Only folder in your Google drive and find "Letter from Birmingham Jail."  Make your own copy and share back to me (abaltrushes@gmail.com). 

Annotation -- You will annotate "Letter from Birmingham Jail" for main ideas.  Paraphrase the key ideas in each paragraph.

Homework:  Independent reading/book reviews.  Note: the grading period ends March 7th.

 

Gandhi

Good Morning!

Please read quietly until we are ready to begin. Your CELLPHONE is to be put away and entirely out of sight. 

 NOTE: The course selection sheet is due today.  I will be delivering them to the counseling office this afternoon.

*Gandhi -- We will see one more segment of the movie today and then move on to Martin Luther King on Monday.  I will collect your ten points today.  I am sure that you have numbered them, and you have skipped a space between each. I am also very sure that you will not be turning in paper ripped from a spiral notebook  because I supplied the paper.

Homework:  Independent reading/book reviews.

 

Gandhi

Good Morning!

Please read quietly until we are ready to begin.

NOTE: Please have your course selection sheet by tomorrow.

*Gandhi -- We will continue watching Gandhi today.  Please share the parts that caught your attention.  You might have already noticed some of Thoreau's ideas expressed by Gandhi: ". . . they do not know how much truth is stronger than error, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person."

HOMEWORK: Independent reading.  Two book reviews are due by March 7th.

Gandhi "On Civil Disobedience"

Good Morning!

Please read quietly until we are ready to begin. NOTE: the end of the grading period is March 7th.  You may submit your book reviews at any time before then.  Be sure to follow the rubric.

*NOTE: Please bring to me your course selection sheet which is due Feb 21st.

*From "On Civil Disobedience" --  For homework you completed a handout, recording five main ideas and supporting quotes.

*Gandhi -- the movie.  Assignment: Record ten parts that caught your attention.  

HOMEWORK: Independent reading.  Two book reviews are due by March 7th.

 

Gandhi -- From "On Civil Disobedience"

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

Please read quietly until we are ready to begin.

NOTE: The blue course selection sheet is due by February 21st.  Please bring it to me so I can deliver ALL completed schedules on that date.

*Examples of civil disobedience -- last Thursday you read articles that are examples of civil disobedience, and you recorded your responses in your English Journal (what was the act of civil disobedience and what was is the protest).

*Mohandas Gandhi -- From "On Civil Disobedience"

   Assignment -- Paraphrasing main ideas and quotes that support  

  main ideas. (Handout)

HOMEWORK:  Assignment on From "On Civil Disobedience" 
                           Independent Reading 

Examples of Civil Disobedience

Good Morning!

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

(The following had been planned for yesterday, so you will also see it on yesterday's blog).  

* 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 in your ENGLISH JOURNAL. Be sure to indicate the title of the article with your response.

"Thoreau and Anti-War Protest"

"Keystone opponents vow civil disobedience"

"Three Nuns and a Test of Civil Disobedience"

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

Civil Disobedience

Good Morning!

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

*"Civil Disobedience" -- we just have one final paragraph to read.

Assignment: questions on "Civil Disobedience" (handout)  

* 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 in your ENGLISH JOURNAL. Be sure to indicate the title of the article with your response.

"Thoreau and Anti-War Protest"

"Keystone opponents vow civil disobedience"

"Three Nuns and a Test of Civil Disobedience"

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

 HOMEWORK:  Independent reading