Today we didn't have a bellringer. Since we were going to take an assessment, we were shown tips on how to take a multiple choice assessment and wrote them down. A strategy discussed these notes was the process of elimination method. Then Mr. Rease gave us some questions and called on people in the class to come up with answers to use it on. After that, we tried the process of elimination method again on 5 actual questions in the test we were going to do. However, since we had to go get our chromebooks checked in, we did not have enough time to start the assessment, and I'm assuming we will do it next week.
Today in class we watched a film called "The Last 3 Minutes" for our bellringer. It was about a guy who was dying and seeing moments of his life flash before his eyes. After watching the video, we were asked to answer the question: "What is the purpose of life?" In my response I said the purpose of life was to enjoy it. We also started a new poem called "I, Too" by Langston Hughes. It was about him using situations and metaphors to describe the discrimination he faces in life, and when he ended the poem with "I too, am America." he meant that he hoped to be seen as an American and/or person of equal worth as everyone else in the way the people who live there are.
Today we viewed 7 of our classmates presentations about black owned businesses. Then we were shown the racial income disparity in the black communities of Atlanta compared to all other races. After that, we watched a video about the black upper class and took some notes about it. It was actually interesting to watch because I enjoyed seeing the black women be successful. The way the system is designed does not allow us to get far in life, but they did despite that and I thought that was amazing.
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