1.14 - Speak Sanctions on Google Drive

At the beginning of class today, we had a class discussion around our viewing of the pilot episode for Freaks and Geeks. The discussion questions and highlights from our discussion are included below.

 

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Discussion of this question lead into a discussion of whether or not fighting Alan was the best option. This question also lead to a wider discussion of what bullying and peer victimization behaviors tend to look like in high schools today and how those behaviors tend to differ between the average group of boys and the average group of girls.

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Discussion of this question revealed cultural differences between then (the 1970s) and now where we are much more aware of bullying behaviors and where teachers actively try to connect with and help students instead of telling them "to be a man" (as the teacher in the cafeteria says to Sam). Overall, people also felt that Lindsey's story of feeling conflicted after her grandmother's death and not knowing which social group to hang out with were more relevant to teens today than Sam's story of bullies and going to the dance.

Following this discussion, people got together with their partner group for the Speak sanction tracking activity and began entering these sanctions into Google Drive. This complete collection of observed sanctions from the book is something that I will hand out to people as a tool to help respond to our final question for Speak which will be:

How does Melinda grow and change as a person throughout Speak? In your discussion identify what role sanctions play in her development.

The collected sanction sheets are available here. Everyone in the class should be able to edit this document. If you do not have editing privileges, email Mr. Collins at ccollins@lisbonschoolsme.org.

Homework:

If you and your partner did not finish recording all of the sanctions that you observed, finish recording your sanctions on the collected sanctions sheet (don't forget that there are four tabs at the bottom of the sheet, one for each marking period).

If you did not do so in class, finish the word list portion for the set 7 roots and prefixes.

Study the set 7 roots and prefixes in preparation for our quiz on Friday.

Complete missing work and revise any assignment that scored below a 3.