Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Last Hump Day in February

Scholars,

Today we watched a 60 Minutes segment about the Facebook Revolution in Tunisia.  Please ponder this real-life phenomenon in relation to 1984.  If you were in eighth grade, and your teacher asked you to draw a Venn diagram of the Tunisian Protests and Winston's rebellion in 1984, how interlocking would your circles be?

We also took a multiple choice quiz? practice exercise? on Goldstein's book.  Afternoon classes were a bit rushed.  However, if you are nice, extremely nice, to me, I might, just might, give you a little more time to work on this next Tuesday when our classes are 17 minutes long.

Tomorrow we will enter the magical world of TAKS review.  Friday you will write a persuasive essay and receive your graded books back.

Please peruse your vocabulary lists nightly.  Learn, don't memorize, your words.

We will close with a quote from Albert Einstein, of which I became aware through Bybee:

"Everybody is a genius.  But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid." 

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