Tuesday, September 30th

Today's Goals:
1. Form an opinion on what you think patriotism means and whether or not you agree with the  Jefferson County School Board's ideology regarding the appropriate manner in which students should learn American History.

2. Be able to define rhetoric and respond to an example of rhetorical discourse

Announcements

• Honors Lunch meeting Wednesday
• Check in with me during "work time" at the end of class if you missed class Friday or yesterday OR if you need to finish the exam. 

Starter:  Read both of these quotes, and respond to ONE.
Your response should:

• Be 1 paragraph in length (5-7 sentences)
• Contain a 1 sentence summary of the main idea of the quote
• Contain your explanation of why you agree or disagree with the ideas in the quote

“If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, nor as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.” -Howard Zinn, Historian and Civil Rights Activist, in Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1991): "Obligation to the State"

“In my view, teachers in state-controlled public schools are hired to teach there…Certainly a teacher is not paid to go into school and teach subjects the State does not hire him to teach…..The original idea of schools, which I do not believe is yet abandoned as worthless or out of date, was that children had not yet reached the point of experience and wisdom which enabled them to teacher all of their elders. It may be that the Nation has outworn the old-fashioned slogan that ‘children are to be seen not heard’ but one may…be permitted to harbor the thought that taxpayers send children to school on the premise that at their age they need to learn, not teach”- Supreme Court Justice Black dissenting with the majority opinion of the Tinker v. DesMoines 1969 Supreme Court Case about student protests during the Vietnam War.

Agenda
**Journal #2 REQUIRED today (make up if you're absent)**


1. Jefferson County Schools' Student Protests over School Board Decision
A. Video about the protests and Video Interview with school board member (5 minutes)

JOURNAL RUBRIC:                                                                                  

4 = Excellent (entirely complete and shows effort beyond just “getting it done,” thoughtful, in-depth understanding of the material relevant to the journal prompt)– 100%

3 = Good (complete, shows good effort but not necessarily full comprehension of the material or required length) – 85%

2 = OK (partially to almost complete, shows some effort for the journal but is about half the required length or reveals big misunderstandings in the content) – 70%

1 = Needs Improvement (barely complete, does not show effort for the journal) – Not Passing

B. Journal #2: Response to Jefferson County Schools School Board Decision (30 minutes)
INSTRUCTIONS: Read this article with more specific details and answer the following questions (length requirement= 1-2 sentences per question)

• What is the purpose of this article?
  
• What type of materials has the School Board demanded be and NOT be in the new history curriculum
  
• What is the author’s bias?
  
• What evidence best reveals this bias?
  
• Do you think that the school board has the right to dictate the history curriculum in this way?  
  
• Which approach(es) to justice (security/welfare, liberty/equality) do you see involved in this issue?
  
• Which of our Constitutional Amendments do you see at play in this issue? 
  

FYI-- Who are the Koch Brothers?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_the_Koch_brothers

2. Introduction to Rhetoric

Discuss the following prompts (A-D) with a partner before we share out as a whole class:
A. How does this video make you feel?

B. Discuss the last time someone persuaded you to do something, buy something, or believe something.  What did that person do that was convincing? 
-OR-
Discuss the last time you persuaded someone.  How did you convince your “audience”?

C. Examples of Persuasion:
Tyler Durden's Speech

• What is his  message?
  
• Is it convincing?  Why?

D. DEFINITION OF RHETORIC:  WRITE THIS DOWN!
Rhetoric is symbolic expression (including, but not limited to, language) intended to modify
(ideologically or emotionally) the perspective (the ideas and/or feelings) of its audience.  

3. Read and respond to ONE student's edmodo posts from Friday (30 minutes)

• Read the article they posted
• Quote a line in the article
• React to that line and the article in general: Do you agree with the perspective? Why did you chose to quote that line? What other events can you connect this to? 
• Link one more article on that topic that provides a DIFFERENT perspective to help us think more deeply/critically about the issue?
• Once you're done, read  and comment on a few other posts. Get informed on current events! This stuff is interesting!

4. Take the survey to give me positive, specific and helpful feedback on how this class is going (10 minutes)

5. Ticket out the door: Share your Appreciations from Friday with the people whom you appreciated.