February
12
ELA 10: Feb 12 Finish School Ties and discuss questions…
- Students were watching the video School Ties while I was away. Our recent focus on discrimination and prejudiced thinking allowed the
students to more clearly watch for subtle and overt examples of these both from the movie. I don’t know if they realize it but they’ve been talking about racism and prejudice, albeit joking around with the delicate “Jewish” word, but they haven’t crossed a line of being disrespectful. They finished watching the movie and were given a handout of higher-level questions to consider individually. They all seemed to have really enjoyed the movie and gotten the true message from it so I’m glad. - Students had to consider what type of individual or event or issue related to prejudice or discrimination they would like to investigate. Each student chose a topic of interest to themselves (except for three who’ll have to have that decided for tomorrow) and started brainstorming what about their topic they want to investigate. We’re a bit rushed for time (considering how few school days we have in the month of February) so students will research their topics tomorrow and Thursday and Friday will write an In-Class essay based on their research and will have to integrate one quote or reference into each of their body paragraphs. We’ll go over the details tomorow!