Monday, October 22, 2012

DISCUSSION QUESTION #4


Prove the statement below. Write passages from the book that provide evidence, write the page number and analyze.

STATEMENT:  Chanda can shape her future, regardless of her present surroundings.

DISCUSSION QUESTION #3


Prove the statement below. Write passages from the book that provide evidence, write the page number and analyze.

STATEMENT:  Chanda’s future is determined by her current surroundings.

DISCUSSION QUESTION #2


2.     Circumstance & Masters
a.     How in your life have you been the product of your  surroundings?
b.    How in your life have you been able to overcome the circumstances or surroundings in order to achieve something in your life? 

DISCUSSION QUESTION #1


1.       Why is there poverty? Write passages from the book that give evidence provide page numbers, and analyze the passage. 

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Passage #2


Choose a passage from  your book that: 

(1) Connects to one of our Essential Questions for the unit and (2) You found especially interesting or important. 

Write the passage as a COMMENT below with the page number.
Then, in the same comment, write why your group found the passage interesting/important AND how it helps you answer one of our essential questions.  

 Be sure you put a label for which of the essential questions it helps answer. 

Passage #1



Choose a passage from  your book that: 

(1) Connects to one of our Essential Questions for the unit and (2) You found especially interesting or important. 

Write the passage as a COMMENT below with the page number.
Then, in the same comment, write why your group found the passage interesting/important AND how it helps you answer one of our essential questions.  

 Be sure you put a label for which of the essential questions it helps answer. 

Labor in Apartheid


Post a comment responding to the image above.  Write a paragraph by responding to one more of these questions: 

  • What is the significance of the image?
  •  How does it connect with what you read? 
  • What is this historical context/background of the image?
  •  Analyze the image closely, what clues are in the image to indicate how people felt during that time?
  •  Why must they have felt that way?