Gandhi

Good Morning!

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

Good Morning!

*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

Good Morning!

*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

Good Morning!

*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

Good Morning!

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

Good Morning!

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

Good Morning!

*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.