Back to a regular week for us with school each day and co-op on Wednesday. We are nearing the end of 8th grade, and I am so proud of how hard you have worked this year and so excited for you to experience EC next year. I love you!
Religion
- Read Mark 16:1-20 and the corresponding pages in Heaven's Roar.
- Read Mother Teresa's Lessons of Love pages 111-129, also look at the pictures don't skip those pages
-Language Arts
Literature- How to Kill a Mockingbird
1. This week you will read chapters 24-31.
2. In literature, the theme is the message about life expressed in a complete sentence. Theme subject: love Theme statement: Love stinks. In TKAM, Lee explores many theme subjects including: Racism, Growing up, Sexism, Perceptions, Schooling, Harming the harmless, Lineage and family, Courage, Religion / morality, Family, Hypocrisy, Tolerance and understanding. Assignment: 1) Choose a theme subject to analyze. 2) Find textual evidence that relates to this theme. 3) Put the theme subject into an accurate theme statement. 4) Organize your presentation as a paper or a powerpoint slide presentation or other format you prefer. Suggested presentation format:
● Introduction (theme topic and theme sentence)
● Key character(s)
● Key dialogue
● Key point of view (e.g., Scout’s point of view on her schooling shows...)
● Key description (Think about Lee’s word choices.)
● Key plot event
● Key symbol or motif (e.g., Mayella’s geraniums symbolize...)
● Conclusion (main idea about how Lee develops the theme)
Windows to the World
- Read A Jury of Her Peers, annotating the story. Then write down a list of questions you have after reading the story (for example: What does “pleatin’ at her apron” mean, or Why did Minnie change so much from when she was younger?). Next week, we will work on determining the theme of this piece.
- Do the Worksheet on pages 120-121 (you can copy it) on A Jury of Her Peers. Look back at chapter 8 or 9 if you need help remembering what to do. Hand it to me to check for you.
- After Mom checks the worksheet, then read page 122 on Journal Writing and do the Journal Writing assignment on page 123. Here is a sample for you: I think Susan Glaspell was unhappy with the way women were treated in her day and what men thought of them. The men in the story think of women as their inferiors. They are only neat and organized housewives who submit to their men, are ignorant, and worry about the smallest things. The men’s attitude is very condescending. They laugh at the women and aren’t interested in anything they find – they don’t even listen to the women’s opinions. This makes me think two things. First, I wonder if Glaspell’s picture is true. Did men really treat women this way? It seems very harsh yet my own reality makes me think it probably was the case 100 years ago. Second, I’m glad I live in a time where women can vote, serve on juries, go to college, and stay home or have a career. Yet I wonder, have we really come so far from that time after all in the mind’s of men?
English From the Roots Up
- Learn the four new roots for this week - tempus/temporis, para, inter, techne
- List as many extra words that fit the new roots as you can on a piece of paper.
- Study the roots throughout the week.
Modern World History
- Read the redlining and housing discrimination article. Are there neighborhoods in Monroe that can be labeled types A, B, C, and D. What are they?
- Look at the maps and do the worksheets I included and fill out both sides of the worksheet.
- Now watch Segregated by Design.
- Read the article on the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the Proclamation of Alcatraz. Just the first three pages. The last four pages are not necessary unless you want to read them.
- Watch this documentary with interviews from people who were participants.
- Watch this documentary on Cesar Chavez
- Read the speech from CC I printed and answer the questions at the end.
- Watch this documentary on LGBTQ rights and the Stonewall protests
- Next fill out this worksheet using the sources included
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