June 9- brave and interesting questions

Answer as many questions as you'd like. I'm looking for 200 words total- You can answer 200 questions with one word each or 1 question with a 200 words or 10 questions with 20 words each... Whatever you want.

1. What’s the toughest decision you made today?
2. What’s the toughest decision you made this year?
3. What’s the toughest decision you ever made?
4. What have you forgotten?
5. What do you want to be when you grow up?
6. What’s it like being you right now?
7. What makes you nostalgic?
8. If you had two hours left on earth what would you do?
9. What’s the most beautiful word in the world?
10. Who makes you laugh more than anyone?
11. What did your father teach you?
12. What did your mother teach you?
13. What’s the best gift you’ve ever given?
14. Best gift you ever received?
15. How many times a day do you look in the mirror?
16. What do you bring most to a friendship?
17. If 100 people in your age group were selected randomly, how many do you think they’d find leading a happier life than you?
18. What is or was your best subject in school?
19. What activity do you do that makes you feel most like yourself?
20. What makes you feel supported?
21. Whom do you secretly admire?
22. What time of the day do you feel the most energetic and what do you usually do in those moments?
23. What’s something you never leave home without?
24. What’s a recurring dream you have?
25. What makes you feel safe?
26. What’s the best thing that ever happened to you?
27. What do you want people to say about you once you’re gone?
28. What’s the coolest thing about science?
29. What’s the best money you ever spent?
30. What’s a bad habit you have?
31. What are you grateful for?
32. Whom are you envious of?
33. What’s an image you’ll never forget?
34. Describe a near-death experience.
35. If you had a clone, what would you have the clone do?
36. What’s your idea of Heaven?
37. What’s your idea Hell?
38. When did you know?
39. What can you do better?
40. When are you most yourself?
41. What superpower would you most like to have?
42. If you were granted three wishes, what would you do with the second wish?
43. What is your actual superpower?
44. If you won 100 million dollars, what would you buy first?
45. What's the best sound in the world?
46. What’s perfect about your life?
47. What song do you sing only when you’re alone and what memory does it bring back?
48. Describe a moment you were so embarrassed you wanted to disappear.
49. How many times a day do you think about money?
50. Who has been the biggest influence on you in your relationship to money?
51. What's one thing you're certain of?
52. Describe one of your colossal failures.
53. What makes you cringe?
54. What does your inner voice tell you?
55. What crime have you considered committing?
56. What's great about your mom?
57. What’s great about your dad?
58. Which day would you gladly re-live?
59. What are you awesome at?
60. What do you want people you meet for the first time to think about you?
61. When were you most afraid?
62. What are you terrible at but love to do anyway?
63. What weapon would you carry during the Zombie Apocalypse?
64. Which of your five senses would you keep if you could only keep one?
65. What’s something you love to make?
66. What do you cook better than anyone?
67. What do you wish you’d invented?
68. What would you like to invent?
69. Out of 100 random people, where would you rank yourself in terms of your intelligence?
70. Where do you want to be right now?
71. If you could be someone else for a day who would it be and why?
72. What makes you feel powerful?
73. What’s the meanest thing you’ve ever said?
74. What’s the meanest thing someone has ever said to you?
75. What three words would you have on your grave stone?
76. What’s your first thought when you wake up?
77. What’s one thing you wake up to in the middle of the night worrying about?
78. If you could tell someone something anonymously, what would it be?
79. Whom would you like to forgive and forget?
80. If you could get rid of one of your responsibilities today, what would it be?
81. What type of person angers you the most?
82. What is your greatest strength?
83. What is your worst weakness?
84. How do you show your love for others?

June 8- Asia presentation

I couldn't figure out how to get Asia's powerpoint on here, but here are a bunch of videos that she linked to:


https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2012/03/13/11351/the-top-10-most-startling-

facts-about-people-of-color-and-criminal-justice-in-the-united-states/

http://www.daveyd.com/nword.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_hx30zOi9I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTcSVQJ2h8g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gElpbgR6Keg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nV5xVb7zog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMA_qmtqzIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYjqBqrZVTY

June 5 and 8- Senior letter

Today we wrote a letter to our future senior self. If you want to write this letter, follow the guidelines below, seal it in an envelope, then turn in to Schachter.

Senior Letter:

You will be writing a letter to yourself that you will read when you graduate from high school. 

Address the envelope to yourself and begin the letter as if writing to a friend.  Be sure to use your own name- as in “Dear Own Name.”  It’ll give you this neat feeling of Déjà vu when you read it three years from now.

Write as if you are talking to yourself.  You can write about anything you want, but here are some ideas.

Description of yourself                                               Funtimes in the past

Freshman year so far                                                   Strong feelings

Embarrassing moments                                               Advice to self as a senior

Current worries, problems                                           Career Plans

Daydreams, Nightmares                                             Predictions about 3 years from now  

Future goals                                                                Attitude towards school

Secret loves, hates                                                       Opinions towards drugs

Boyfriends, girlfriends, best friends                           Hobbies

Favorite songs, movies, stars                                      Family

Prices of items                                                             Weather

Fads in hairstyle, clothing                                           Summer plans

Write a lot.  The biggest complaint you will have in three years will be that you didn’t write enough.  Seal it in the envelope, write your name, and turn it in.

June 3 and 4- type out Simple Paper

Type out the following paper:

THE SIMPLE PAPER

Want some easy points?  Then let’s write a simple paper. 

Choose one of the following prompts to write on…

1.  In Monster, Steve Harmon is given a verdict of not guilty.  However, Steve is guilty of different things he’s done and choices he’s made 

2.  There are many other topics you may want to write about: Length of the school day, Tony Robinson, American intervention in foreign affairs, the drug war. Choose ANY topic that you would like to argue.

Ultimately you will write a 4 paragraph paper.

·        Your first paragraph will have a grabber and a thesis sentence.

·        Your second paragraph will have at least two specific examples with an explanation for each as to how they support your thesis.

·        Your third paragraph will have a counter-example and a rebuttal

·        Your fourth paragraph will restate your thesis and have a kicker

June 1 and 2- Simple Paper

We finished watching 12 Angry Men today and then I handed out the outline for the Simple Paper:

They will work on this tonight and then type it out in class tomorrow.

THE SIMPLE PAPER

Want some easy points?  Then let’s write a simple paper. 

Choose one of the following prompts to write on…

1.  In Monster, Steve Harmon is given a verdict of not guilty.  However, Steve is guilty of different things he’s done and choices he’s made 

2.  There are many other topics you may want to write about: Length of the school day, Tony Robinson, American intervention in foreign affairs, the drug war. Choose ANY topic that you would like to argue.

Ultimately you will write a 4 paragraph paper.

·        Your first paragraph will have a grabber and a thesis sentence.

·        Your second paragraph will have at least two specific examples with an explanation for each as to how they support your thesis.

·        Your third paragraph will have a counter-example and a rebuttal

·        Your fourth paragraph will restate your thesis and have a kicker

May 28 and 29- 12 Angry Men prewriting

In preparation for reading 12 Angry Men, students worked with a partner on the following:

You are a reporter for a murder case. You’ve been listening to the entire trial and the closing arguments have just finished. Here are the facts of the case:

STRANGE KNIFE

There was a very unusual knife found stuck in the body of a man.

The man’s 18 year-old son was seen showing off the exact same knife to his friends earlier in the day.

OLD MAN

The old man who lived downstairs heard the son shout “I’m going to kill you!”

The old man heard the thud of a body hitting the floor, then he ran to the door and watched the son run down the stairwell.

OLD WOMAN

An old woman who lived across the street looked out her window and saw the son stab his father in the chest with a knife

BOY’S MEMORY

When the son was questioned by the police after the murder, he said that he was at the movies. But he couldn’t remember the names of the movies or the people who starred in them.

BOY’S PAST

The son was raised in a poor neighborhood

In the past, the son has been arrested for assault and knife-fighting

 

Discuss the five pieces of evidence.

Cut them out and paste them to the back of this sheet in order of most convincing to least convincing

STRANGE KNIFE           OLD MAN          OLD WOMAN               BOY’S MEMORY     BOY’S PAST

Most convincing-1	2	3	4	Least convincing-5

               

Explain your thinking behind placing the evidence in box 1.

Explain your thinking behind placing the evidence in box 5.