I = Independent Work; G = Group Work; W = Whole Class; R = Review; PK = looking for Prior Knowledge; E = building Empathy
1. Take-it-back Tuesday: 01/29/2013 ~ How bad do you want it?
- Put your name, dates, and hours on both sides of the NEW Threshold sheet.
- Reflection time! We are officially past the 1/2 way point in the school year. What are your plans to either maintain your success, or get on track to achieve and maintain it? What kind of support will you need?
- Are you ready to take control of your life now, or will you follow others and let them control you?
- 7th: I will be coming around to check and grade your progress. This is your 1st grade of the 4th Marking Period!
- How would your personal/school life be different without the work of Dr. King and those who fought along side him for Civil Rights in America?
- What are some differences between the life that Miles and Randy have in the present and the life that Dr. King lived as a teenager in the past in America?
- Do you think life in America would be better or worse if Dr. King weren’t assassinated in 1968? Make sure to explain your choice.
2. 4th hour: Summarization Assessment
3. Finish up Dr. King: ”Our Friend Martin” : Today is a day of reflection more than any other as it is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Even though we take time to reflect every day in this class, today is a day to make a special effort to give thanks to Dr. King and those who supported him and the cause of Civil Rights in our country making it possible for us to be here together today.
- Prepare your lined piece of paper for Type 1 & 2 questions.
- Interpret these words to live by from Dr. King:
- “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”
- “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
- “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”
- “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
- “Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
- “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
- “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
3. Exit Card (60% Assessment Grade)
*HW*~ Blog Post; due tomorrow 01/30 by 9:00pm at the latest!
- Do you think life in America would be better or worse if Dr. King weren’t assassinated in 1968? Make sure to explain your choice.
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Worry-Free Wednesday ~ 01/30/2013
1. (I and G) Threshold (Warm-up): 01/30/2013 ~ DO YOUR BEST and FORGET the REST!!!*
- Today is Worry-free Wednesday. Write down a small worry that you have today that you can leave on the paper and move on from for the school day so that you keep your focus. BIG worry = “Where will I sleep tonight?”. Small worry = “My friend is mad at me.”
- What message is “Kid President” trying to send you? Are you listening?
- PK: India is a subcontinent of the continent of Asia.
- What do you think a subcontinent is?
- Interpret these words to live by from Dr. King:
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- E: “The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”
- E: “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”
- E: “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
- E: “Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent”
- E: “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
- E: “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
2. India: Ancient Harrapa and Mohenjo-Daro
- Objective: By the end of the hour you will be able to explain, with evidence, why 3 branches of government were needed in order to keep the country of falling apart with the weak, but necessary Articles of Confederation.
- Geography of the Indian Subcontinent (Himalayas, Indus and Ganges Rivers)
- Monsoon seasons (Summer and Winter)
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Forgiveness Friday ~ 02/01/2013
1. (IGW) Threshold: Friday, 02/01/2013 ~ DO YOUR BEST and FORGET THE REST!!!
- R: If you could thank Dr. King in person, what you thank him for? Be specific about how he has positively affected your life today!
- PK: What do you know about India, if anything? (Religion/culture?)
- PK: If you could visit any of the climate types of India that we saw on the Incredible India video, which would you visit and why did you choose it?
- E: What powerful message can you learn from 13 year-old Shelby Grebenc?
2. India: Ancient Harrapa and Mohenjo-Daro
- Objective: By the end of the hour you will be able to explain, with evidence, why 3 branches of government were needed in order to keep the country of falling apart with the weak, but necessary Articles of Confederation.
- Geography of the Indian Subcontinent (Himalayas, Indus and Ganges Rivers)
- Monsoon seasons (Summer and Winter)
3. Diwali: Culture and the major religions of the Indian people (Day 1)
- Objective: By the end of the hour you will be able to explain, with evidence, why 3 branches of government were needed in order to keep the country of falling apart with the weak, but necessary Articles of Confederation.
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Dominique Maestas 3rd hour
January 29, 2013 at 3:39 pm
I think it would be the same if he was not assassinated because he made black and whites go to school together and to let them wait in the same room with each other but what else could he do because there is nothing else to really do beside stop racism and that will take a long time to stop because people hate other people for there color and you could not change the color of your skin and so that will live until all of use die.
Emily Lewman
January 30, 2013 at 6:47 pm
I think it would be the same. Maybe a little different. If I were him and he did not get assassinated I would probably still do the job i was doing. I think actually he would have stopped racism period. He would have made america more peaceful and settled down about racism. He would have probably achieved something no one could achieve, make America a better place. For all colors. Just stop everything and take a look at yourself and see if you tae things for granted or even judge people. Every person has and we can change that to the kind of community were kids aren’t getting addicted to drugs and alcohol. Were people aren’t bullied and kill them selves. A place were people aren’t killed for something illegal and stupid. A place were people can call home. Come and sit at the dinner table and with their family. A better and fixed Community!