Wednesday

We had a regular schedule today...finally! So we were back to doing our Philosophy. Today we talked about Chapter 10--Do Animals Have Rights? There were some disturbing comments about people kicking their dogs (or shooting them with bebe guns, ahem), but overall people agreed that the extremely mean tactics used to test drugs on animals are not necessary. But where do we draw the line?

I passed back your Philosophy Packet and we reviewed my expectations. I'm asking you to improve on your response for chapter 10. A lot of you didn't use evidence from the text, make sure you do that in chapter 10. I also found that too many of you are clearly rushing through your writing instead of trying to deeply think and respond to the question. I will collect your entire packet with chapter 10 stapled to the back, next Wednesday. Don't forget to check off each requirement. And remember that you are only allowed to respond to the questions that are circled on your packet.

On Tuesday you all had a sub. The sub asked you to finish your Literature Circle and then write a reflection on the back about the whole process. The sub left me a folder with those packets and some notes on how it went. It sounded like 8B was mostly off task and fooling around. I'm disappointed that you guys who misbehaved don't have a little more pride in your school and yourself to represent both maturely. I'll expect better next time. 8A--most of you did not turn in your packets, please make sure you get those to me asap.

Tomorrow we will get back to work on the Grad Project. Make sure you bring everything we've done so far: Timeline, 10 best and worst lists, 3 challenges. No one finished writing about their 3 challenges and I asked you to finish that for homework. Make sure you've got that ready to discuss tomorrow.

Also: Send your baby pictures to Luna!

emma