Do you think we should fight for freedom?


Hi 605, 606, 607, 608, and 609!!!

I am in California right now and it is 3:07 AM in New York but only 12:07 AM in California!!!

I make time stop when I travel! I want to tell everyone that I hope they have a great Friday and that they complete the essay.

Make sure you turn in high-quality work! The video we are making for Dot-to-Dot is starting to look amazing! Keep up your hard work! Do well today and continue being LEGENDS!!!!

Mr. Davis

Objective 1

Are you free? Does freedom exist for you in this country?

Click HERE for the directions. They are slightly different from yesterday.

6 Frequently Asked Questions

1.) What do I do?

Click Here and read the directions. They are the same ideas as the Vision of Freedom you wrote already. You ALL know what to do!!

2.) Where do I do this?

You may do this in YOUR Blog!!! If YOUR Blog does not work, complete this in a Google DOC.

3.) What is a personal experience?

A personal experience is something that happened to you.

4.) What is limited freedom?

It is an example of how someone's freedom was stopped. You must use your knowledge from the VIDEOS!!

5.) I saved my Blog post yesterday and now I can't find it!!!

After you sign in, instead of clicking NEW POST, CLICK Edit Posts. You should find your work.


6.) What do you do when I am done?

You make sure you spelled EVERY word correctly. Read over your essay. Finish your Vision of freedom if you haven't already.


If you are done with EVERYHING- FREEEEEEE TIME!!!!!


Have a great weekend. Be ready to begin interviews on Monday!!

Mr. Davis

Why do people continue to come to this country? Is this the land of the free?

Objective 1

Answer the first 3 questions.

Objective 2

Watch- Sixth Sections

Objective 3

Are we free? Interviews

Objective 4

Does freedom exist for me in the U.S.A.?




This assignment is due on Monday CLICK HERE for directions.

I will not be here on Friday, please complete this assignment on paper and then in your blogs.

Does money make us free?

Objective 1

Answer the first 3 questions.

Objective 2

Watch: Struggling to Survive

Objective 3

Complete the remaining questions

Objective 4

Choose a favorite sentence from your Vision of Freedom. Copy and Paste it into a Microsoft Word Document. Make the font REALLY BIG!!!



MR. DAVIS WILL NOT BE HERE ON FRIDAY. ON Friday, I am counting on everyone to complete a written assignment that answers

Objective 1

Stereotype means: an idea that many people have about a thing or a group that may often be untrue





Watch: Girl Like Me

Objective 2

Discussion: Are we free when people consider us based on stereotypes?

Objective 3/Homework

2 Paragraph Essay: Are you free when people consider you based on stereotypes?

Are we free?


Poem: The New Colossus

Objective 1

Watch: Perversion of Justice
Take notes on the video in a Google Doc

Objective 2

Discussion

Memorize the poem: Those students that have it memorized will get a chance to go to the Statue of Liberty with me.

Are we free?

Poem: The New Colossus

POEM QUIZ ON FRIDAY!!!!!

Objective 1

Watch: Books Not Bars

Objective 2

Look over the statistics: HERE

Check out: Children Behind Bars

Homework:

Is the law fair?

Are you free in this kind of system?

Do you think the system wants people educated or in jail?

What is the symbolism behind this picture?


Poem: The New Colossus

POEM QUIZ ON FRIDAY!!!!!

Today is the LAST day, NO MATTER WHAT!, we will be working on our Vision of Freedom.
You must finish typing it in your blog today.

Tomorrow, we will begin on our quest to discover- Are we Free?


Song: Imagine

Homework: Are we free?

In our discussion of freedom, we are Philosophers.

Poem: The New Colossus

Vision of Freedom----
DUE DATE: At the END of CLASS Tuesday, May 19

Objective 1

Complete the rough draft of your VISION of Freedom

Objective 2

Find a partner to edit your paper.

Objective 3

Type your rough draft in YOUR blog.

Homework: Finish your rough draft

If you are finished, answer the question-- Are you free? Why or why not?

How might this be freedom?


Poem: The New Colossus

Vision of Freedom----
DUE DATE: At the END of CLASS Tuesday, May 19

Objective 1

Complete the rough draft of your VISION of Freedom

Objective 2

Find a partner to edit your paper.

Objective 3

Type your rough draft in YOUR blog.

Homework: Finish your rough draft

If you are finished, answer the question-- Are you free? Why or why not?

Think about Amerigo when you look at this picture.

Click on the link HERE to see the picture in a larger size


Read Poem: The New Colossus


Tomorrow, YOU will write Your very own VISION of Freedom to finish this week's activities.

This VISION should keep in mind all the stories and include parts of the definitions of freedoms we made for Amerigo, Gopi, Patricio, and Maya.

A VISION of Freedom is more than just a definition because as we learned one, single sentence is not enough and has too many loopholes.

A VISION of Freedom is 2-4 paragraphs and is detailed, specific, personal, and passionate!!!!

This is the first part of out Dot-to-Dot Project part 1- What is Freedom?

Objective 1

1.) Find a partner

2.)Get the slip of paper--- DO NOT SHOW IT TO YOUR PARTNER

3.) Partner A: Make the statement on the slip to your partner.

4.) Partner B respond and agree/disagree with the statement. Argue why/why not

5.) Partner B: Make the statement on the slip to your partner

6.) Partner A respond and agree/disagree with the statement. Argue why/why not


Objective 2

Read the story of Gopi- Click HERE


Objective 3

Homework: Make a list of ideas/factors that need to be included in your VISION of Freedom.

Memorize the POEM!!!!!

List of Legends

What do you think the word- Exploiter- means?

Read Poem- The New Colossus

Objective 1

Watch Video Documentary


Objective 2

Read Amerigo's Story: Click Here

Objective 3

Objective 4

1.) Find a partner
2.)Get the slip of paper--- DO NOT SHOW IT TO YOUR PARTNER
3.) Partner A: Make the statement to your partner:
4.) Partner B respond and agree/disagree with the statement. Argue why/why not


5.) Partner A: Make the statement to your partner
6.) Partner B respond and agree/disagree with the statement. Argue why/why not

Homework:

Complete the 2 HWs from Monday and Tuesday Night!!! It is DUE on Thursday!

List of Legends

Women are treated differently from men. What do you think this picture is saying?


Read the poem- The New Colossus

Objective 1

Read Maya's Story- Click Here

Objective 2

Objective 3


Discuss with a partner or your group this statement. Do you agree or disagree? Why?

Maya still has freedom because she has a little education, is not a slave, and will have the opportunity to get married and work in the fields.

Homework:

Write two paragraphs answering this question.

Why should everyone have a chance to have an education?

Refugee Camp-

A place for people to live that were kicked out of their home country


Read the poem: The New Colossus

Objective 1

Read Patricio's story-- Click HERE

Objective 2

Complete the questions about the story

Objective 3- Challenge

Read Ancient Greece chapters from your computer

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3

Homework: In 2 paragraphs- Compare your life with Patricio's life. What is different? What is the same? What do you both want? What do you both dream of?

List of Legends

What is this message behind this picture?

Objective 1

Ancient Greece Quiz #2



Objective 2

Objective 2: Socratic Dialogue

The text: Freedom Riders


Question 1: What do you think the "Freedom Riders" believed freedom meant?


Directions HERE!!!

Open up the e-mail I sent you to get the page so you can EDIT it.



List of Legends

What is freedom?

Objective 1

Chapter 1 and 2 Readings

Chapter 1 Quiz

Chapter 2 Quiz

Challenge: Choose your favorite god and write two things you like about him/her in your blog. Then find a picture(s) of the god and put it in your blog.

Objective 2: Socratic Dialogue

The text: Freedom Riders


Question 1: What do you think the "Freedom Riders" believed freedom meant?

Script:

Rule 1: Each student MUST speak.

Rule 2: While students are speaking, take notes on the main idea of what each person is saying.
Where? In a GOOGLE Doc.

Directions HERE!!!

Open up the e-mail I sent you to get the page.

List of Legends

Homework: 4 paragraphs of writing

See handout.

Does freedom mean the same thing across the world?

Objective 1

Objective 2

Read Chapter 1.

Complete the quiz in the remaining time.

Warm-up 5/5/2009-

A picture from the journey of the Freedom Riders.

Objective 1

Objective 2

The Freedom Riders Story

Three roles per group---

Connector--- This person shows how the ideas of students are connected

Clarifier----- This person makes sure the comments are clear--- Has the power to stop the group and ask if everyone understands the comment.

Summarizer----- Tries to see how many people agree with each other.
Says: So far many people in this group, think this....

Rules:

1.) Each person can only speak once until everyone else has spoken.

2.) The clarifier can speak after each person has spoken to make sure everyone understands

3.) The connector can speak after two people have spoken to connect.

4.) The summarizer can speak after all people in the group.

Question: Is non-violence the best way to solve problems?

Objective 3

Check out these sites!!!

Adventures in Ancient Greece


Design a Greek Pot


List of Legends

Remember this quote from Friday's class-

Freedom is something people take, and people are free as they want to be.


Do you still agree or disagree?

Is freedom something else?

Objective 1

Objective 2

Read and Listen to the story of the Freedom Riders.

Homework:

Memorize the 1st 2 lines of the poem.

Writing: Imagine you are one of the Freedom Riders. Write a letter to your mother pretending you are one of the buses about reach Montgomery. Your mother is very worried about you and she doesn't understand why you are fighting for the rights of people you don't even know.

1.) Tell her why you are doing what you are doing.
2.) Share with her your emotions and your feelings.
3.) Then try to convince her at the end of the letter why you are doing that by writing what freedom means to you.