Wednesday, June 08th - Work period
You will need to use this time wisely!
Article analysis and reading Act 1
Weekend homework reading Act 1
Monday, 13th - Homework Act 2 Due tomorrow!
Howard: What’re yuh skeered of? You was a worm once!
Melinda: (Shocked) I wasn’t neither.
Howard: You was so! When the whole world was covered with water, there was nothin’ but worms and blobs of jelly. And you and your whole family was worms!
Learning Goal: I will begin to examine Inherit the Wind and
Minds On: Recap of reading - journal reflection summary. What are your thoughts? Feelings? Where do you fit on the spectrum of beliefs?
Action: Brief discussion (How do you feel about your freedom to think? The Scopes Monkey Trial and the threat to intellectual freedom presented by the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era)
and reading of Act 2
Consolidation: How do you feel about this trial? Can you connect events to anything we have studied this semester?
The Scopes Monkey Trial
The jury found Scopes guilty of violating the law and fined him $100. Bryan and the anti-evolutionists claimed victory, and the Tennessee law would stand for another 42 years. But Clarence Darrow and the ACLU had succeeded in publicizing scientific evidence for evolution, and the press reported that though Bryan had won the case, he had lost the argument. The verdict did have a chilling effect on teaching evolution in the classroom, however, and not until the 1960s did it reappear in schoolbooks.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/08/2/l_082_01.html
Tuesday, 14th
What is an allegory..."The Crucible", "Fahrenheit 541"
Learning Goal: I will continue to examine Inherit the Wind and continue to develop my understanding of the court case and why the freedom of thought is so important.
Minds On: Things to think about....or are allowed to think about.
Action: Partner, Picture, Present - Character plot graph timeline task
Read Act 3
Themes - Education, Religion, Compassion and Forgiveness, Competition, Contrasting Regions (quaint little town vs. big city bustle), Defeat, Justice and Judgement, and Principals
Consolidation: What are your impressions of the verdict? Recap/review of a passage analysis
Wednesday, 15th - In-class passage analysis
Reading Schedule
Wednesday, June 08th - Act 1
Friday, June 10th/Weekend reading - Act 2
Monday, June 13th - Act 3
Wednesday, June 08th - Act 1
Friday, June 10th/Weekend reading - Act 2
Monday, June 13th - Act 3
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