May 18

Humanities 8.
                Students were given back their 'Middle Ages Test'.
                We continued from yesterday’s class by talking about some background information on post-WWI Germany and the rise of Hitler. We revisited some of yesterday’s conversation topics (How could someone murder people by the hundreds and then turn around and be loving and sensitive to their families?) to wonder if the person's dichotomy made their crimes even more horrible.
                With their neighbours, students discussed what ‘prejudice’ meant to them. As a class, we discussed some of their thoughts on this as well as what causes prejudice (fear, learned, ignorance) and how it might be prevented or overcome (talking about it = education/knowledge).
                We finished the class with the teacher reading the first chapter aloud as the students read along and then students silent reading the second chapter.


English 10.
                Class continued the viewing of “West Side Story” from ~41:00 (the kiss) and stopped again at 1:46:58 (another kiss).