Stride Toward Freedom -King

 We have seen how Thoreau's ideas on civil disobedience influenced Gandhi. Today we will see how those ideas were used during the American civil rights movement.

"Prior to reading Gandhi, I had about concluded that the ethics of Jesus were only effective in individual relationships. The "turn the other cheek" philosophy and the "love your enemies" philosophy were only valid, I felt, when individuals were in conflict with other individuals; when racial groups and nations were in conflict a more realistic approach seemed necessary. But after reading Gandhi, I saw how utterly mistaken I was."  -MLK

We will read an excerpt from Stride Toward Freedom by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. You will work with a partner to read the text and answer the questions on this form about what you read.

Going Public

Many of you are ready to publish your Origin Story to the web. Today I'll show you how to do that in Google Docs.  I highly recommend you take your last name OFF your story BEFORE you publish it.

AFTER you publish your story THEN you can visit this form to publish it to the web. The form will fill up a spread sheet and I will publish the spread sheet shortly.

Read published stories here.

The Final

Good morning,
   If you are reading this then you are done with your essay. Thank you.  I look forward to posting quotes from your essays.
   The second part of your final is on-line. Read the directions at the top of the form! FINAL PART II.

Thank you for a great year. I'm so glad we were able to learn so much together.

I forgot to show you this. The School Library Journal did an article about the Google block. It's mostly about our class! Read it.

Finals are Coming

Good morning,
   As you know well, your final for American Lit class will be next Friday 2/5. You have very helpfully prepared your own study guides by reviewing the blog since September. You may use the study guide from either period or both.

Period 3 Study Guide
Period 4 Study Guide
I have also made you a form you can use to suggest questions you think I should ask on the final.  You can suggest questions until tomorrow afternoon (Thursday 1/28). Then I will publish your suggestions and you can use that question bank to study from.

Suggest a question for the final.

What does this say about life?

Good morning,

Yesterday we read The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin.  Today you need to work with a partner to answer this question:

What is the story saying about life?

You and your partner should collaborate on your answer using google docs and then copy (Ctrl-C) and paste (Ctrl-V) your answer into the form below. Your answer should be at least 2-3 paragraphs and include quotes from the story.


Form for submitting your answer.

So show me that you are making progress towards mastering standard 3.2. Can you read a story and identify the theme? Can you explain what the author is saying about life? Can you backup what you say with evidence (quotes) from the story?

Archetype Presentations

Good morning,
Today groups will present their slides on archetypes. After each presentation you will click the link below to evaluate what you just saw. Your comments will be shared with the group with out your name so please keep that in mind as you write notes to them.

GRADE PRESENTATIONS HERE

Don't Forget Open House Tonight!
(See poll at right)

Turn in your paper...

USE THIS FORM TO "TURN IN" YOUR WHERE I'M FROM PAPER

READ OTHER PEOPLE'S PAPERS HERE.

1. Open your English Journal (in google docs)
2. Write a new entry at the top.
3. Date it today
4. Write about what you think about your Where I'm From paper. Are you proud of it? Did you work hard on it? What did you learn about yourself or about writing from this project? What else should I know about your paper or about you.

Bring your textbook tomorrow!