Educational Quote

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
-William Butler Yeats

Friday, March 21, 2014

3/18/14-Tuesday-A Day

ENG 9
No quiz
Silent Reading
Warm Up: Copy quote and analyze.
“…If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—”
Classwork: Target Notes on on Atticus. His quotes go in the center circle and the meaning of the quotes go in the outer circle. His name goes in the middle
Journal: Would you want Atticus as your father? Why or why not?
ENG 10
Silent Reading
Warm Up: Copy and reflect on the following quote from the fox news article.
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who wants to destroy a piece of his own heart.”- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Classwork: Answer and discuss numbers 1 and 2 of analytical questions for article.
1.Why does Lauren Green begin the article by mentioning events such as Nazi Germany and the genocide in Rwanda?
2.What is the main idea of the Zimbardo’s book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil? (hint: “Good people turn evil,” is not the answer.)
3.What complications are there in the discussion of the origin of evil?
4.Do you believe Secular and Sacred worlds have common ground? Explain.
5. What does Zimbardo believe about prisons? Do you agree with him? Explain.
6. What do you think the author’s purpose is in writing this article?
No Journal
Hw: complete numbers 1-3 of questions.

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