Happy Thursday!
There are no new English assignments today. Look for new assignments in Religion, Science, and Math. Literature Assignment due today--deadline extended to Friday, May 1, 7:00 PM I have previewed some of the responses to the questions for the "Afterword" of Farewell to Manzanar. Several students are struggling to write complete responses. I am extending the deadline and asking all students to revise their answers. Please consider these helpful hints below: 1. As always, please provide quoted and cited text evidence to support your ideas. 2. For Question #3, it is appropriate to include evidence outside the text such as personal observations and anecdotes and news reports. 3. To find the third type of reaction to the book (Question #2), please look at the first paragraph at the top of p. 187 and review the underlined text. 4. Please develop your response to Question #3 thoroughly. I have sent this note (or something similar) to a few of you already. Please revise responses with this in mind. In comparing and contrasting the pandemic quarantine/lockdown/stay-at-home orders and the internment at Manzanar, you could apply what you have learned in social studies class about Constitutional rights. You might think about the influence of the media then and today, the fear and even hysteria created by some news reports, the possibility of propaganda and misinformation (even disinformation), the rush to judgment of certain citizens and leaders. Wakatsuki points out that in 1941 (and again in 2001) U.S. citizens and leaders made quick (and far-reaching) decisions in the name of "necessity" that ended up being wrong. Are we in danger of doing the same thing, or is our situation different? Maybe take some time to talk with your parents and grandparents, to read some local and national news, or to text/chat with classmates about this before revising. You are living through a significant moment in history like Anne Frank and Jeanne Wakatsuki did. Writing Assignment: There is no change in this assignment. The Verbals Quiz at Google Forms is still due today by 7:00 PM. If you have not taken it, please study the video two or more times before doing so. I will be available today between 12:00-2:00 PM for emailed questions. The next post will be on Monday, May 4. Have a great weekend! Comments are closed.
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A Classroom Prayer
Holy Spirit, Giver of all good gifts, enter into my mind and heart. Give me the gift of knowledge and the grace to use it wisely. Help me in all my endeavors. Give me perseverance and fortitude. Help my memory, that I may remember what I learn and recall it when necessary. Guide me in the classroom.
O Jesus, You who are the Way, the Truth, and the Life, let me not be deceived by false teaching. Our Lady of Good Studies, pray for me. Amen. Mary, Undoer of Knots,
Pray for Us! A Prayer to Christ, the Divine Teacher
O source of all Wisdom, Christ the Teacher,
You are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Teach us to embrace the truths You have revealed to Your Church. Fill our souls with Your Grace that we may love God above all and our neighbors as ourselves. Christ Jesus, friend and Teacher most patient, bless us and teach us. O Light of the world, teach us always to follow You that we should not walk in darkness, but have forever the Light of Life! Amen. Archives
August 2023
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