Period 3 Class Scribe

Today is September 11, 2012, the 11the anniversary of the terrorist attacks mainly on the Twin Towers.

Below is a link to today's agenda                    https://docs.google.com/a/lpsk12.org/presentation/pubid=1ThuyFhV9QLWSK_22n10U7cNyJD0D4Fp44taMvA7fTE&start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.g1c35b9bc_2_0

Today in class we...

• Split into groups of three or four based on what short story we read(The Interlopers or The Open Window) and discussed our annotations and questions.
• Subsequently had a class discussion about how the short stories were a motivator for social change, the morals of the stories, and our opinions of them.
• The Open Window
• We come across "widows" of opportunity and if we wait too long we will lose our chance
• We tend to give trust easily to characters until we are proven otherwise
• This is why we believed the girl's story even though it seemed incredible
• The Interlopers
• The worst can bring out the best in us
• Fate determines what we do 
• Were handed back SAT tests and exercises 
• Watched the music video for "Smells like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana
• Here is the link to the music video in case you feel like watching it again
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg
• Smith also asked us to look up the lyrics to the song so that we could analyze the song
• Here is the link to the lyrics
• http://www.lyricsfreak.com/n/nirvana/smells+like+teen+spirit_20101055.html
• How did this motivate us? What was the message?
• Be unique
• "Fight the man"
• Hello= Wake Up!
• How do(es) music/music videos inspire social change?
•  it makes you feel something
•  inspires change; change is natural
• Had relatively quiet work time to do
• our memoir
• SAT work

                                 

HOMEWORK!

• Memoir 2 DUE TOMORROW!
• SAT exercises DUE FRIDAY