Day 21

Do Now: Share a question or observation with your group. Please select one question you can pose to the whole class.

Agenda:

1) Student Activists Club

2) "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"
3) Read the New York Times editorial “The Child in the Basement” by David Brooks

a. Which “reading” of “Omelas” that Brooks proposes, if any, do you agree with? What is your take on the child in the basement? What about those who walk away?
b. “Life is filled with tragic trade-offs,” writes Brooks. What in your life is only convenient or enjoyable because of others’ sacrifices?

HW: 1) Read, annotate, and respond:

-“I Hear America Singing” - what and whom is Whitman celebrating? 

-“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” - according to Whitman, what is the true way to learn about nature, at least for him? 

2) String Journals Week 3