Friday, April 29, 2016
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Informational Text
Declaration of Independence
2. Do you agree with what the colonies did?
3. Do you think that the founding fathers really meant it when they said that all men are created equal?
4. Do you think King George was as bad as Thomas Jefferson said or was the Declaration of Independence an exaggeration?
5. If you could change a part, what would it be?
6. Were the colonists foolish to write the Declaration of Independence or should they have broken away gradually?
7. Would you have signed the Declaration of Independence and risked your life?
The Bill of Rights
1. What right do you consider to be the most important one and why?
2. Were these rights written for everyone?
3. Did these amendments cover all personal freedoms?
4. Are these rights applicable to life in the United States today?
5. Did the right to bear arms apply to all people or only to state militias?
6. How did these rights evolve from the ideas of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?
Mayflower Compact 1620
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgZPiFgptdw
1. What stands out to you as you read this document?
2. Why did they choose a civil government when they were looking for religious freedom?
3. Should women agree to it when they didn't sign?
4. Why did they praise King James when they were escaping him?
5. Why did they choose self-government as opposed to monarchy?
6. Would this work today?
7. What would have happened if they had not signed?
Response Questions
Questions to guide you as you write your response/ Select one question and develop it with example.
- What seems important?
- What surprises you?
- Do you recognize connections to "big ideas?"
- What puzzles you?
- What do you like or not like and why?
- What ideas or thoughts come to mind that connect to other readings or experiences in your own life?
Use well-constructed paragraphs
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
4th 9 Weeks Book Study
The Law of Survival
White Fang by Jack London & Adrift by Steven Callahan
White Fang
"The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all."
― Jack London, White Fang
White Fang by Jack London & Adrift by Steven Callahan
White Fang
"The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all."
― Jack London, White Fang
Adrift
“There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving.”
― Steven Callahan, Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
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