I hope you enjoyed this beautiful weekend!
Week of 1/30-2/3
We have been studying the spiritual aspects of transcendental and romantic literature through our study of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. We will now turn to more practical matters by looking at Henry David Thoreau's essay on "Civil Disobedience." We will consider questions about the purpose of government and if there is ever a right time to break the law. This will transition into a film study of Spike Lee's "4 Little Girls" about the 1963 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham. We will analyze the argument made in the film and the techniques Lee uses to force us to look into the face of racism and its consequences. Time allowing, we will end the week by beginning study of Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
Don't forget you have a vocabulary quiz on unit 9 on Friday!
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