Monday, January 10, 2011

Do Now: Are you failing this class? Are you satisfied with your grade? Have you checked engrade or spoken to us? What can you do to improve your grade this report period? 5 lines/5 minutes.
Extra Credit Opportunities:

1. Review the "Options" handout for projects that must be submitted by Sunday, January 16. There are absolutely no exceptions.

2. Saturday PSSA tutoring

Missing Work:

We are here after school today to review your grade and distribute missing constructed responses that must be submitted by Thursday, January 13. Laptops are available this week after school.

This week's readings: Civil Disobedience

We begin the unit with Henry David Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government, 1846

Open your laptops to Safari, go to pbworks  -
http://mrswillisenglish3.pbworks.com
Log in and create a new page.
Title it with your initials and Civil Disobedience.
Select the template we tell you to use.
Put this page in your folder.
Read the Thoreau excerpt and answer the reading questions on your wiki page.
Be sure to save your work.
Homework:

Do you agree with Thoreau point of view? Do you have the right to disobey laws you believe are unjust? What’s the best way to do this? ( 50 points )