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Millennial to the bone, the Macy Homeroom is a community of 21st Century learners at Denver Academy High School in Denver, Colorado. Students and teachers are committed to growing our traditional and new age media literacies through reading, writing, and daily interaction with technology.
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T- Tell me something about what you read
EX- Write out an EXcerpt from the book (with citation) related to the most significant or pivotal point in the reading
Example: "My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible" (Wiesel 19).
T- Try to understand better by asking a question
Y- How does it relate to you? OR, if it does not relate to you; How did reading this make you FEEL?
EX- Write out an EXcerpt from the book (with citation) related to the most significant or pivotal point in the reading
Example: "My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible" (Wiesel 19).
T- Try to understand better by asking a question
Y- How does it relate to you? OR, if it does not relate to you; How did reading this make you FEEL?
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(T) This pamhplet talks about civil disobidence
ReplyDelete(EX) "Civil Disobidence is Thoreaus most famous essay; it was written after Henry, protesting slavery..."(Thoreau 3)
(T) All of these quotes have a real influence on people.
(Y) I have known a person like this.
T This is about Henry David Thoreau's piece "Civil Disobedience" and the effect it had on the world and future leaders
ReplyDeleteEx I hardly accept the motto--"That government is best which governs least"
T Has anyone else read from this in our class?
Y My Uncle would like this.
T Thoreau left teaching at a university to wight poems about nature
ReplyDeleteEX " while Walden can be applied to almost anyones life Henry Thoreau's Civil Disobedience is like a venerated architectural landmark it is preserved and admired,and occasionally visited,but for most of us there are not many occasions, when it can actually be used"
T other than it is refrenced in Into The Wild how dose this relate
Y I am very opposed to war
(T) In the essay "Civil Disobedience" expresses his scruples (I do not to be bias) with the governmental system. (EX) "That government is best which governs not at all" is a sentence that is an example of powerful and passionate writing style that Thoreau adopted (Thoreau 3). "It has not the vitality and force of a single living man..." is another example (Thoreau 4). (T) Why don't we get to read the full document? (Y) This is so powerful.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, do we have to do the 5-paragraph essay, because I am confused.
T - this packet talks a ton about Civil Disobedience and about writeing poems about nature
ReplyDeleteEx - "i think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. it is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right " (Thoreau 65 )
Y - why write poems about nature?
T- maybe poems about nature and love are cool i've never writen about nature i'll try it some time
T: HI GUYS srry im hyper u know civil disobedience sounds like my type of thing even though i hates war aagh
ReplyDeleteEX: "Not a drum was hard, not a funeral note." (thoreau 68)
T: Like nick said how DOES this relate
Y: this makes me feel kinda confoozeed
t-I read aboyt Hennry Davis thoreua and Leo Tolstory
ReplyDeleteex-It is preserved and admired ( 64)
t- Why are we reading about stuff so far back int time
Y- I knowsomwone named Hennry
(T) It talked a lot about CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.
ReplyDelete(EX)"His many nature writings and records of his wanderings in Canada, Maine, and Cape Cod display the mind of keen naturlist". (Thoreau 63).
(T) Why did Thoreau die so early?
(Y) Maybe writing poems is a good thing to express your feelings in some way.
T thoreau was a poet how inspired gandhgi and Martin Luther King.
ReplyDeleteEX "I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterwards." (65)
T why are there so many poeople in this packet?
Y i like t read poems, not write so much.
T. Thoreau wrote this peice of writing in perticuler while he was in jail.
ReplyDeleteEX. "May also be brought against a standing goverment" (Thoreau 66)
T. How dose this relate....oh wait, i already know that.
Y. THIS GUY IS SO A MARXIST!
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ReplyDeleteT He protested in jail
ReplyDeleteEX "not a drum was heard"
T was he i jail
Y that i am wreiting a essay