Civil Disobedience: December 10, 2018

Focus: What is civil disobedience, and when is it justified?

1. Warming up with three good things, signing up for your presentation, and returning your Gothic literary essays

2. Sharing with you a trick I played on my unsuspecting Honors American Lit class back in the day and playing a round of "Yes, No, Maybe"

Follow-up questions:

Think about these “new requirements.”  What common denominator(s) do these requirements share? 

What relationship do they create between the government (in this case, the administration) and the individual (the student)?

Where did you draw the line for yourself, and why?

3. Engaging in high-velocity, highly opinionated writing using some of Thoreau's and Martin Luther King's statements from their time in jail

4. Finding your own understanding of "civil disobedience" on your blog

• Develop your own definition based on what we've read and reflected on today.

• Find an example of civil disobedience (any time from the last century is fine) and connect it to Thoreau or MLK.

HW:
1. Assigned book club reading and syllabus-creating for Tuesday. Keep in mind the feedback you received on your first and second syllabi.

2. Work on your final speech by writing/outlining, preparing your media, and practicing every night. Be ready to deliver it on the day you signed up; THERE IS A 50% DEDUCTION IN YOUR GRADE FOR NOT GOING ON THE DAY YOU SIGNED UP FOR.

3. Click HERE if you'd like to preview the rubric for your transcendentalist blog posts. Your blog, as well ALL MAKE-UP WORK / REVISIONS FROM THE LAST 6 WEEKS must be completed by 4:00 pm on Thursday, December 14. Please note: This will be one of the few assignments that you will not be able to revise or take extra time on because we are at the end of the semester.