It's a Leap Year...what will you do with your "extra" day???
Welcome back...hope you enjoyed the break!
U.S. History= You have homework due soon...that means this week for some of you! Your homework for this unit (maps of the European & Pacific Theaters of World War II as well as the Chapter 10 & 11 Study Guide), is due on Friday, 3/2 (for odd periods) & Monday, 3/5 (for even periods). We will be taking your World War II Unit Test that same day...so be sure to study & be prepared!
Extra Credit Alert...here is another way to earn some extra credit for class to make-up some points or pad your grade a bit on Thursday, March 1st by attending Peer Court after school in the Social Hall from 3:05-5:05. To earn the extra credit (and even some community service hours) you must be there the entire time!
To get the extra credit answer the following questions about each case (there will be a maximum of 4 cases):
a- What was the case about? (i.e. what are they in trouble for doing?)
b- What was the jury's decision & did the judge change anything?
c- Did you agree or disagree with the outcome? Why?
Additionally some of you will have the opportunity to be jurors and ask questions (if you end up being chosen for that please answer the above questions for your case only AND write about what the jury experience was like...hard, easy, confusing, etc.)
This write up on Peer Court will be due 1 week after the event (Thursday, March 8th).
LEAP DAY!!!
Today is an ephemeral ghost... A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not "exist." In mundane terms, it marks a "leap" in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up! But this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability... A day of unlocked potential. Will you or won't you? Should you or shouldn't you? Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!” ― Vera Nazarian
U.S. History= You have homework due soon...that means this week for some of you! Your homework for this unit (maps of the European & Pacific Theaters of World War II as well as the Chapter 10 & 11 Study Guide), is due on Friday, 3/2 (for odd periods) & Monday, 3/5 (for even periods). We will be taking your World War II Unit Test that same day...so be sure to study & be prepared!
Extra Credit Alert...here is another way to earn some extra credit for class to make-up some points or pad your grade a bit on Thursday, March 1st by attending Peer Court after school in the Social Hall from 3:05-5:05. To earn the extra credit (and even some community service hours) you must be there the entire time!
To get the extra credit answer the following questions about each case (there will be a maximum of 4 cases):
a- What was the case about? (i.e. what are they in trouble for doing?)
b- What was the jury's decision & did the judge change anything?
c- Did you agree or disagree with the outcome? Why?
Additionally some of you will have the opportunity to be jurors and ask questions (if you end up being chosen for that please answer the above questions for your case only AND write about what the jury experience was like...hard, easy, confusing, etc.)
This write up on Peer Court will be due 1 week after the event (Thursday, March 8th).
LEAP DAY!!!
Today is an ephemeral ghost... A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not "exist." In mundane terms, it marks a "leap" in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up! But this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability... A day of unlocked potential. Will you or won't you? Should you or shouldn't you? Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!” ― Vera Nazarian
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