3.30.09

Write 2 to 3 paragraphs answering the question, "how do the texts we read this unit relate to the concepts of morality and responsibility?"

Interested in an outstanding? Relate one other text we read this year to the same topic and make sure your whole assignment is 3 full paragraphs.
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3.26.09

Write AT LEAST one paragraph analyzing one of the following quotes by answering, "What advice does Martin Luther King, Jr. or Malcom X suggest in their quotation?"

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys a community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and it doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence.

- Malcolm X

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03.20.09

5 paragraph essay on Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery". Also provide an outline.

Answer the question: is the lottery a collective act of murder? Is it morally justifiable?
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3.12.09

Finish any incomplete work. The marking period comes to an end Friday!
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3.6.09

Read to page 53 and write one paragraph about either Scout or Jem and how he or she helped Atticus in front of the jail house.
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3.4.09

Complete reading up to page 28 in the screen play of To Kill A Mockingbird and complete one side of the reading response sheet.







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