Transformational Thinking Essay

"Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded?"

                                                               -- Thoreau

Please get your netbook when you arrive to class

1.  Independent Reading -- Please begin at the bell as you wait for you netbook to power up.  

2.  Final draft of Essay is due no later than tomorrow

3.  Review of Essay Rubric

4.  Writing Response Group for those who are ready -- I will tell you who you are and you will receive credit for participating in this scheduled activity.

Transformational Thinking Essay

"So long as it is your endeavor to control us with justice and love, we will let you do so.  But if you wish to strike at us from behind, we cannot permit it."

                                                     -- Mohandas Gandhi

Please get your netbook when you arrive to class

1.  Independent Reading -- Please begin reading at the bell.  Two book reviews are to be posted on Goodreads by March 8th.  One of the book reviews must be from the required list.

2.  Essay -- Transformational Thinking Essay

     You have another day to COMPLETE your essay.  This will be the third day of working in class, and you have been asked to work on this for homework as well.  The plan for tomorrow is for writing response groups for help in improving your essay.  Friday the FINAL DRAFT is due. I will be checking your work off at the end of the period for work completed in class TODAY.

Transformational Thinking Essay

"If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."

                                                                             -- Henry David Thoreau

Please get your netbooks when you arrive

1.  Independent Reading -- Please begin at the bell as your netbooks are powering up.  

      NOTE:  The end of the grading period is March 8th -- a week from this Friday.  Two book reviews are to be posted on Goodreads by that date

2.  Transformational Thinking Essay -- Make sure that you share your essay with me at abaltrushes@gmail.com

      

Name your essay Period ___ Transformational Thinking Essay

     

*I will be checking your completed drafts off today at the end of the period.  Tomorrow we will have writing response groups.  Friday a final draft of your essay is due.

Transformational Thinking Essay

". . . the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it . . ."

                                                            -- Emerson

Please get your netbook when you arrive to class

1.  Independent Reading -- Please begin at the bell. Remember, March 8th is right around the corner and you will be posting two book reviews for this six weeks.  One of the books will be from the required list.

2.  Essay -- For homework I asked you to write an introduction to your essay.  Today we will continue working on the essay in class.  This is NOT a collaborative effort, and I expect you to be quietly concentrating on this writing task which does require concentration.  If you have questions, please ask me.  I am providing you with an outline which I believe will be helpful in guiding you in the writing of this essay.

    Below are the links to the published collection of quotes for your reference.

    Published spreadsheet of quotes
 
    Spreadsheet of Gandhi and King Quotes

Gandhi & King Quotes

"No clapping is possible without two hands to do it, and no quarrel without two persons to make it.  Similarly, no State is possible without two entities (the rulers and the ruled).

                                                                                                   -- Mohandas Gandhi

Please get your netbook when you arrive to class.

1.  Independent Reading -- Please begin promptly at the bell.  We will read for just a few minutes today because we have a lot to do.

2.  Review Of Essay Prompt 

HOMEWORK: Compose your introductory paragraph and be ready to continue working on your draft on Monday in class.  If possible, work in Google docs so you can easily continue on Monday.  

3.  Review of Emerson and Thoreau Quotes -- Go to the following
        link to access quotes:
       Published spreadsheet of quotes

        Reviewing these quotes should be helpful as you compose your 
      ESSAY. 
  
4.   Click on the following link to collect quotes from Gandhi and King:   Gandhi and Martin Luther King Quotes

 

Quotes from Emerson and Thoreau

"Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience . . . It was practiced superbly by the early Christians, who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of the chopping blocks rather than to submit to certain unjust laws of the Roman Empire."

                                           -- Martin Luther King

Please get your netbooks when you arrive

1. Independent Reading -- Please begin at the bell.  Please be mindful that the grading period ends March 8th and of the required two book reviews to be posted on Goodreads.

2.  "Letter from Birmingham Jail" -- quick review of questions.

3.  Writing Assignment -- Transformational Thinking Process Prompt

4.  Collecting Quotes -- Click on the following link to collect quotes from "Self-Reliance" and "Civil Disobedience."   (Baltrushes.blogspot.com)

         Quotes from Emerson & Thoreau

HOMEWORK: Locate two important quotes for both Gandhi and King 

"Letter from Birmingham Jail"

"for the cause of Peace and Brotherhood"

                                                                                -- Martin Luther King

1.  When you arrive to class please get your netbook.  While your netbook is powering up, please read quietly.  The end of the grading period is March 8th, so please be mindful of the two book reviews that will be due.  

2.  "Letter from Birmingham Jail"  -- assignment is due.  You may refer to your notes to complete the assignment below.  I will collect your work at the end of the period. 

    Please click on the following link and respond to the questions.  When you are finished answering the questions, please click on SUBMIT.  Work quietly.  This is due at the end of the period.

  Questions on "Letter from Birmingham Jail" 


3.  NOTE:  Please have all your handouts on our readings -- Emerson, Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.  We will be working on the essay assignment tomorrow.