Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Starter 24:  Step back and reflect
Freewrite:  How are your academic performance and community involvement this year impacting your personal journey?

SLC Prep and Sign-up

Documentary Film Screening:  The 99%: Occupy Everywhere
Take notes on the film that will help you prepare for the seminar.  Note specifics that you believe could become evidence in the seminar.
1. What are the elements of our government/society that the Occupy Wall Street movement is protesting and trying to change?
2.  Connect the Occupy Wall Street movement to specific elements of Thoreau's philosophy.
3.  Do you believe that the Occupy Wall Street movement can be an effective method to bring about change?  In what ways could it be successful?  What are its limitations?
 (due tomorrow)


TO DO
Film Annotations/Questions (due tomorrow)
Finish reading MLK's "Letter to a Birmingham Jail" (due tomorrow)
Give parents SLC letter/Work on your SLC prep!  (next Wednesday!)