It feels like just yesterday that I was blogging, but hey, time flies when you're talking about the cruel lives of slaves during the 1850's. Oh wait, that isn't the saying, now is it?
Yesterday - Election Day, for all of you living under a rock - we finished going over the people whose biographies we received. In those same groups, we were also given the task of reading through certain parts of the Constitution to decide whether or not it supported slavery, the same way Frederick Douglass did oh so many years ago. This took the rest of the class period, along with everyone voting for their candidates.
Over the course of the night, many of us realized that the paper Mr. Boyle gave us mentioned a writing assignment, causing several heart attacks. He started class by explaining it, and from there we moved into the roots of slavery in the South, like the start of the Industrial Revolution and the need for cotton. And cotton gins. Can't forget the cotton gins.
Insert more document reading and sharing notes here.
As for my thirty day challenge today, I complimented five people, at least. I lost track this morning when I complimented at least five people in a row. So ... progress.
No comments:
Post a Comment