Honors:  Presentations continued today in each class with the strongest one of the day coming out of period two.  You know who you are.  Great job.

I was a bit disappointed that on the third time I asked each class why we are doing the presentations, the responses tended to look at the specific topic instead of the bigger picture.  I am having you question the success of the Civil Rights Movement not just to get you thinking about its success, but instead, to open your eyes to the need to question inconclusive information presented as fact. You need to be stepping up and respectfully sharing an alternative perspective/viewpoint/reading/analysis, especially if you have evidence that supports that contrary perspective/viewpoint/reading/analysis. That's what you are doing with the Civil Rights presentations, but that's what you should be doing more often in daily life.

Moving on, we have several things to tackle tomorrow.

We need to complete the presentations in a couple classes.

There are a few pictures I want to share from the media that demonstrate its power in the racism struggle.

I need to return the in-class timed writings.

We need to have our discussion over Warriors Don't Cry, returning to essential question number one among others.

I have an example of history repeating itself.

There are a few In Your Words videos I'd like to share.

We need to discuss the nonfiction book and what's coming up with that.

Can we expand to block scheduling for tomorrow?

Get ready.  We'll be busy.

Standard: We completed our fishbowl discussions with perhaps the best one of the series.  Great job to the group in period three!

We then started talking about symbolism.  You have a good grasp on what it is, so now I'm having you create your own to represent what you read in Warriors Don't Cry.  We got off to a good start today, and I was impressed with some of the creative symbols you came up with to represent the part of the text you are focusing on.  We'll get more into the drawings tomorrow and offer well-thought out and well-written explanations to go along with them.  These explanations will be typed to avoid the disrupting the effectiveness of the symbol.

We also have a lot to get through tomorrow.

We'll be discussing your reactions to the text.

We have an essential question I want you to consider, write about and discuss.

I'll also have a few presentations I want you to examine to help your comprehension of the essential question.

Busy.  Busy.  Busy.