Socratic Seminar - The Kite Runner

On 12/17(a) and 12/18(b) we will have a Socratic Seminar in class to discuss The Kite Runner. Be able to make connections to the book, consider:

🌍 -text to world
👍👍 -text to self
📖 - text to text

Using our discussion of theoretical lenses, develop insightful, original analyses for each of the questions below. In your responses, you will use textual evidence from the book to support your points, but feel free to be as creative and insightful as possible with your analysis. The important thing is you must support your answers with textual evidence or outside research.


Always use evidence from the book/text to prove your point – and cite the page number!

Be a good participant by sticking to the Excellent criteria of the rubric below.



We will arrange into small groups and each group will have about 30 minutes to discuss the questions with their group. The Inner Circle will be discussing while the Outer Circle will be evaluating.

1. Can you diagnose any of the characters with a mental disorder or mental pathology? If so, whom and why? More importantly, why would the author include this character in the story? That is, how does this character’s mental pathology contribute to an important theme or conflict in the book?

2. Some argue that this book incorrectly characterizes Afghanis as either radical terrorists or helpless victims who are reliant on outside help to ameliorate their own domestic problems. What do you make of Hosseini’s characterization of Afghanis and Islam? Does he portray Muslim Afghanis as weak, powerful, or simply human? Support your answer with direct quotes from the text and statistics on the War Against Terrorism?

3. Below is a list of secondary characters in the book. Choose one of the characters and explain how he or she is thematically important. That is, characters in books are often representative of entire populations or groups of people, so which group do you think your character represents, and why is this important to consider when reading The Kite Runner? 

Secondary characters to explore (Who do they stand for?):

• Rahim Khan
• Farid
• Sanaubar(Sasa), Hassan’s mom and Sohrab’s grandmother
• Kamal and Walid, Assef’s friends
• Soraya, Amir’s wife (you’d have to read a little on your own).
• Secondary characters in Afghanistan (taxi drivers, the beggar who knows Amir’s mother, the young boy selling “sexy pictures”)
• The children of Afghanistan

4. Finally, and most importantly, what did you ultimately learn from The Kite Runner? Please look at our opening day activity questions below, and explain how this book either changed (or didn’t change) your perspective regarding your initial stances on these questions. Also, do you think this book should be banned from the classroom? It certainly is one of the most controversial books in our curriculum, so explain why we should or should not continue teaching it as a whole-class text. 

1. If you have betrayed a friend, it is always possible to make up for that somehow.

2. The negative actions of our past will always haunt us; there is no way to entirely repent for our past sins.

3.  Your race, culture, and class—not your own individual choices—effectively determine your personality, habits and values.

4. In America, movies, television shows, and books do not intentionally or unintentionally perpetuate racial stereotypes. Stereotypes are formed and popularized by other forces.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/dust-bowl

List 5 stereotypes for men and 5 stereotypes for women. Where do stereotypes come from?

What is empathy? Is it an important human characteristic?

Why is it important to society for people to be accepting of those who are different? What lessons can we learn from those whose live lives different from our own?

What is an individual’s duty to others?

Why is it important for people to feel like they belong?

What can the struggles of others teach us about ourselves? How can people’s struggles define who they become?

What are the elements that build a strong friendship? How are people transformed through their relationships with others? How do you know if a relationship is healthy or hurtful?

Can mercy killing be justified?

How are the experiences of migrant workers similar to what people go through today?

What is the American Dream and to what extent is it achievable for all Americans? In what ways does the American Dream mean different things for different Americans?

Soledad, California

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Six-Word Memoirs: Life Stories Distilled : NPR

http://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/

http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/archival/documents/sixwords/

Once asked to write a full story in six words, legend has it that novelist Ernest Hemingway responded: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn."

In this spirit of simple yet profound brevity, the online magazine Smith asked readers to write the story of their own lives in a single sentence. The result is Not Quite What I Was Planning, a collection of six-word memoirs by famous and not-so-famous writers, artists and musicians. Their stories are sometimes sad, often funny — and always concise.

The book is full of well-known names — from writer Dave Eggers (Fifteen years since last professional haircut), to singer Aimee Mann (Couldn't cope so I wrote songs), to comedian Stephen Colbert (Well, I thought it was funny).

The collection has plenty of six-word insights from everyday folks as well: Love me or leave me alone was scrawled on a hand dryer in a public bathroom; I still make coffee for two was penned by a 27-year-old who had just been dumped.

Larry Smith, founding editor of Smith magazine, and Rachel Fershleiser, Smith's memoir editor, talk about the experience of capturing real-life stories in six words — no more, no less.Fershleiser's six-word memoir? Bespectacled, besneakered, read and ran around. And Smith's: Big hair, big heart, big hurry.

Six-Word Memoirs: Life Stories Distilled : NPR:



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Poetry Outloud

Thanks Mrs. Whittington - blog post adapted from http://whittenglish9.blogspot.com/search/label/PoetryOutLoud

Your assignment is to memorize/present a poem as part of our class poetry slam.

If you would like to compete in the Poetry Out Loud National Competition, your poem must be from the anthology list and must be memorized.

If you do not want to compete beyond the classroom, the poem does not have to be from the anthology, but it must be approved by your teacher and must be a minimum of 10 lines. Presentation does not have to be completely memorized. 

Links:
Poetry Out Loud Poem Options (Required for National Competition)
Can We AutoCorrect Humanity?
Why I Hate School But Love Education
On Girls Lending Pens

Button Poetry is a great resource for ideas on spoken word poetry


Important Dates:
- Starting today - choose a poem to memorize
- Rehearse your memorized poem in class in small groups for the next week.
- Perform poem in class 12/2-12/5


How you will be Graded(in competition):

Socratic Seminar - Identity

Considering the pieces we read in the first quarter, how do the texts we have discussed, or that you have explored on your own, help you to answer the driving questions of the unit?

What role do other people play in constructing your identity?

How do our successes/failures shape our identity?

How does your identity change over time?

-ALSO-

Be able to make connections from the stories you have read, consider:

🌍      -text to world
👍👍 -text to self
📖      - text to text


Always use evidence from the book/text to prove your point – and cite the page number!

Be a good participant by sticking to the Excellent criteria of the rubric below.

We will arrange into three groups and each group will have about 25 minutes to discuss the driving questions with their group.  The Inner Circle will be discussing while the Outer Circle will be evaluating.

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The Sea of Crises by Brian Phillips

https://grantland.com/features/sumo-wrestling-tokyo-japan-hakuho-yukio-mishima-novelist-seppuku/

when he comes into the ring, Hakuho, the greatest sumotori in the world, perhaps the greatest in the history of the world, dances like a tropical bird, like a bird of paradise. Flanked by two attendants — his tachimochi, who carries his sword, and his tsuyuharai, or dew sweeper, who keeps the way clear for him — and wearing his embroidered apron, the kesho-mawashi, with its braided cords and intricate loops of rope, Hakuho climbs onto the trapezoidal block of clay, two feet high and nearly 22 feet across, where he will be fighting. Here, marked off by rice-straw bales, is the circle, the dohyo, which he has been trained to imagine as the top of a skyscraper: One step over the line and he is dead. A Shinto priest purified the dohyo before the tournament; above, a six-ton canopy suspended from the arena’s ceiling, a kind of floating temple roof, marks it as a sacred space. Colored tassels hang from the canopy’s corners, representing the Four Divine Beasts of the Chinese 1 constellations: the azure dragon of the east, the vermilion sparrow of the south, the white tiger of the west, the black tortoise of the north. Over the canopy, off-center and lit with spotlights, flies the white-and-red flag of Japan.

https://grantland.com/features/sumo-wrestling-tokyo-japan-hakuho-yukio-mishima-novelist-seppuku/

Narrative Voice, Description, Imagery and Steph's Shot

The game clock reads 6:31. The ball rises up Curry's body into the ideal shooting pocket just below his chest, while his middle finger and forefinger -- his shooting fork -- search instinctively for a seam at the center of the ball. As the ball continues its ascent, his right palm bends back flat until the skin of his wrist begins to wrinkle. The last thing Granger or any defender wants to see in this situation are the 16 Hebrew characters that Curry, in June, had tattooed on the inside of his shooting wrist. By the time that message from Corinthians (love never fails) flashes, it's too late.


-David Fleming
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End of Year Writing Reflection

For your final notebook entry of the year, I would like you to complete a reflection of your writing throughout this year.  You can write this in any form or style that you wish, but if you need more direction, you can follow the steps below.  It is important that you include a goal for improvement moving forward.

Collection of your works from the year is also an important step, so compile your works from the year into a "Writing Folder" titled - 9th grade PWP.

Step One: Look at your writings from the beginning of the year or your first drafts (or, writings since the last time you were asked to reflect on your writing).

What are your strengths?


Textual example(s) from your writing that reflect(s) this strength.


What are your weaknesses at that point?


Textual example(s) from your writing that reflect(s) this weakness.


Step Two: Look at your most recent drafts.

When looking at the strengths you had in Step One, how have you grown in regard to those strengths?

Textual example(s) from your writing that reflect(s) this growth.

Have you improved on the weaknesses you identified in Step One?

Textual example(s) from your writing that reflect(s) this improvement.

Based on this reflection, create a specific goal (or two) and detail the steps you will take to reach this goal.

Final DQs of the year - Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet Resources

Full Text
http://learningstorm.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/RMEOJLET-1.pdf

No Fear
https://www.biloxischools.net/cms/lib07/MS01910473/Centricity/Domain/440/No%20Fear%20Shakespeare%20-%20Romeo%20and%20Juliet.pdf

Article on Toxic Masculinity in Romeo and Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet, Prologue :|: Open Source Shakespeare

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Romeo and Juliet, Prologue :|: Open Source Shakespeare 

BYOT Integration - Go Mobile - Romeo and Juliet // Mobile Open Source Shakespeare:

Romeo and Juliet Anticipation Guide

Rate all of the following on a scale from 1 to 5: 1 being strongly disagree, 2 being somewhat disagree, 3 being neutral/not sure, 4 being somewhat agree, and 5 being strongly agree. Then provide a 2-3 sentence explanation defending your position. 

1. The punishment for murder should always be death.

1 2 3 4 5

Rationale:


2. Teenagers can’t understand what true love really is.

1 2 3 4 5

Rationale:


3. Killing someone in revenge for killing a close friend of yours is okay.

1 2 3 4 5

Rationale:


4. Good friends should stick together at all times no matter how wrong a friend may be.

1 2 3 4 5

Rationale:


5. Parents should make the decisions about their children’s lives.

1 2 3 4 5

Rationale:


6. It is possible to fall in love at first sight.

1 2 3 4 5

Rationale:


7. Telling lies or hiding the truth is acceptable for the right reasons.

1 2 3 4 5

Rationale:


8. Family feuds only affect adults.

1 2 3 4 5

Rationale:


9. Loyalty to your family is more important than love.

1 2 3 4 5

Rationale:

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Audrey’s Odyssey Storyboard! 👀

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Payton’s Odyssey Graphic Novel

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Ship of Fools - The Odyssey Storyboards

The Map - Odysseus

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Archetypes, Heroes and Villains

Archetype - Examples and Definition of Archetype: "Archetype Definition

In literature, an archetype is a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature.

An archetype, also known as universal symbol, may be a character, a theme, a symbol or even a setting. Many literary critics are of the opinion that archetypes, which have a common and recurring representation in a particular human culture or entire human race, shape the structure and function of a literary work.

Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist, argued that the root of an archetype is in the “collective unconscious” of mankind. The phrase “collective unconscious” refers to experiences shared by a race or culture. This includes love, religion, death, birth, life, struggle, survival etc. These experiences exist in the subconscious of every individual and are recreated in literary works or in other forms of art."

"[T]he journey of the hero … I consider the pivotal myth that unites the spiritual adventure of ancient heroes with the modern search for meaning. As always, the hero must venture forth from the world of common-sense consciousness into a realm of supernatural wonder. There he encounters fabulous forces--demons and angels, dragons and helping spirits. After a fierce battle he wins a decisive victory over the powers of darkness. Then he returns from his mysterious adventure with the gift of knowledge or of fire, which he bestows on his fellow man.

"Whenever the social structure of the unconscious is dissolved, the individual has to take a heroic journey within to find new forms. The biblical tradition, which provided the structuring myth for Western culture, is largely ineffective … So there must be a new quest."


Joseph Campbell, interviewed by Sam Keen, in "Man & Myth: A Conversation with Joseph Campbell,” Psychology Today, July 1971

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Good Human(BQ) Project Reflection

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Good Human Question Project Overview

Good Human Question Project Overview

Multimedia Project Rubric

Guidelines on Question Generation

Ask yourself: What problem is there in my life/society/school/community and how would I propose to solve it?

The questions should invite sub-questions to the larger question. For example, ‘Are we all alone?’ invites the simple answer of ‘yes’ or ‘no’. But it also invites follow up questions such as:


Why do people feel alone?


How do people try to escape the feeling that they are alone?


What consequences come from the impression that we are all alone?


How can we try not to feel like we are all alone?

Questions should be arguable, which is the context of this project, means that the questions are too large to have a single correct answer. If asked, you should be able to give two answers to your Good Human Question. In some cases, this may simply be looking at both sides of the argument, or recognizing the many possible answers to the question. If you can only see one correct answer to your question, then it is not arguable enough or you should broaden your perspective on the issue.

Questions should be something that you can take action on personally. At the end of the quarter you will create a multimedia presentation that includes your research into this problem as well as a direct example of how you went out into the world and tried to fix it.

Diversity in Children's books - 2015

The Danger of a Single Story

What Is Love? Teachers, Share This Prompt With Your Students : NPR

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9th Grade Semester Reflection

KYSO Flash: Ekphrastic Challenge: The DavenTree

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Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech - August 28, 1963 - YouTube

Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech - August 28, 1963 - YouTube:

Define the terms below, and state how does Dr. King employ the following rhetorical devices in his speech?


Allusion
Amplification
Metaphor
Repetition
Pacing

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My Name

From the Greek name meaning “manly”,
Which I aspire to be . . .

A multitude of men have had this name.
Two U.S. presidents,
Kings of Hungary,
A British prince,
A Scottish American steel-titan of the industrial revolution,
World famous artists,
A tennis champion,
and then;
there’s me . . .

My ancestors were from Scotland,
and my name manifests that heritage.
My first and last names linked by a middle name,
Which is the same as my dad´s . . .

Strong, simple
Bright, and clear.
As familiar as a copper penny,
easy to spell, and to say.
But a daunting history to meet.

Andrew Scott MacMillan

The Sun Is Also A Star

The Sun is Also a Star is a young adult romance novel written by Nicola Yoon. The two main characters, Natasha and Daniel, fall in love in a single day despite having nothing in common. Natasha is a Jamaican-American teenager who has lived in New York City for ten years as an undocumented immigrant. Daniel is a Korean-American teenager whose parents are pressuring him to attend Yale University and become a successful doctor. Natasha believes in science and factual information, while Daniel is poetic and not afraid to pour his heart out. After Natasha’s father gets arrested for drunk driving, her family is forced to leave the country and her world is shattered. Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alumni and crosses Natasha’s path on a crowded street in New York City. Fate seems to keep pushing these two lovers together, as they can’t seem to let each other go. Daniel and Natasha challenge each other’s beliefs about love, whether its an abundance of chemicals signaling temporary arousal or a genuine connection between two soulmates. Daniel is convinced that he can make Natasha fall in love with him in twelve hours, and they begin to understand each other’s views and passions.

This intense novel helped me relate to Daniel’s character as he attempted to please his Korean parents and achieve his own dreams of becoming a poet. In The Sun is Also a Star, Daniel voiced his thoughts by stating, “If people who were actually born here had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country.” This quote reflects the struggles that many immigrant parents, including Daniel’s, had to face while moving out of their country. Daniel’s parents had to earn enough money in the family business of selling fish in order to arrive in America and open a haircare store for African-Americans. The parents of Daniel and Natasha continued to remind them of the many opportunities that they had. But, Daniel also realizes that he must pursue his own passions. Near the end of the book, he decides to not attend college, but rather focus on his writings. While respecting his parents, Daniel understands that he must lead his own life, and not their dreams. He wants to live life with no regrets, which displays why he is open and honest about his attraction towards Natasha.

Additionally, I learned an important value from Natasha’s experience in the novel. Natasha starts out as a smart, brave girl who is searching for a legal way for her family to remain in America. She believed in visible proof and data, not hope and faith. However, Natasha’s critical perspective of life began to change after meeting Daniel. She realized that destiny brought her and Daniel together, and not all relationships were temporary or insignificant. The Sun is Also a Star teaches readers that its okay to live a happy life without worrying about what will happen next. Throughout the book, you realize that living in the moment helps you connect more with the people that you care about. I would highly recommend this novel to anyone who believes in destiny, or someone who is more skeptical about life. The Sun is Also a Star will open your eyes to a new world where you can understand different cultures, personalities, and experiences.

Does Anything Matter?

Nihal Boina


Does Anything Matter?

Imagine spending your whole life working up to something very important to you and then one day realizing that none of it mattered, because your end goal did not have an appreciable effect on the world, much less the universe. Almost everyone has had, or will have, the thought of ‘Does anything we do matter?’; it’s a question that many spend their whole lives attempting to answer. This question is of top importance because if nothing did matter, then there would be no point of living life. When considering that we are pretty much nothing when compared to the everything surrounding us, the afterlife, the butterfly effect, and the Uncertainty Principle, I believe that there is no answer to the question. Instead of attempting to answer the question, we should choose to believe that life does matter, even if it doesn’t, because every living being would benefit.

Sometime in the 1920s, Edwin Hubble made the astonishing discovery that the universe is expanding, and at an increasing rate, or an acceleration, which basically meant that as time progresses, our presence in the universe becomes less and less noticeable. I currently occupy a space of around 24 cubic feet. The universe, on the other hand, is of a space of around 408 sextillion cubic light years (keep in mind that one light year is 31,039,141,970,400,000 feet). Through extensive calculation, this puts me as occupying 6.106 * 10-57 % of the universe-- .00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000006106. On top of this, there is also the possibility that there could be an infinite number of universes, which would make me 6.106 * 10-57 % of a grain of sand in the biggest beach ever; we are just too small in order to make any sort of appreciable change in our surroundings.

Put simply, life only matters if there is some sort of afterlife that becomes more pleasant/harsh based on our actions in the physical life; this is because if there isn’t some sort of afterlife that acts in this way then that would mean that our choices made in our physical life (our only life) wouldn’t have any, real, long-term repercussions. The reason why this is being brought up is because right now there is no concrete evidence for how an afterlife would exist and why an afterlife would exist for us, because, we are infinitesimally small when compared to everything. Even if an afterlife existed, it wouldn’t remain permanently because not even the universe is permanent, and will likely end itself through a heat death in about 101000 years due to the decaying of protons; this is contradicting to the whole idea of an afterlife because an afterlife is supposed to last forever.

The butterfly effect is the phenomenon that even the smallest actions in one moment of time can have the greatest effects in the future relative to that moment of time. It’s represented through the book 11/22/63 in which a young man named Jake finds a wormhole that brings him back to the year 1958, where he prevents the assassination of JFK, believing that he will make a positive change in the world. However, after taking out Lee Harvey Oswald and returning to his original time, he found earthquakes everywhere, half of the world destroyed due to a nuclear war, and his old home destroyed. Even the smallest actions, like the presence of a butterfly can have the greatest, most arbitrary effects. Because of the butterfly effect, it would be reasonable to believe that even the smallest actions that we have could make huge ripples in space-time.

In a book that I am currently reading, Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, the fabulous Stephen Hawking talks about something called Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and how it changed our perception of the universe completely. Back in the 1900’s Newton’s laws of motion gave rise to the philosophy of determinism-- the idea that every action that we do can be predicted. What determinism meant was that nothing we do matters because every action we take can be determined; what is the point of living life if you already know the end result? Eventually, Werner Heisenberg came along with the Uncertainty Principle. What the Uncertainty Principle says is that we can’t know both the present position and velocity of a particle accurately because the more we know of one, the less we can now of the other; this meant that determinism is wrong, and that it’s impossible to accurately predict the actions of all parts of the universe.

From here on out, the evidence for whether or not anything we do matters tends to delve more and more into pseudoscience, or areas that can not be solved through the application of the scientific method (like astrology or religion), so I will have to solve this question through taking a step back. Let’s analyze what the universe would turn out to be if every intelligent living being believed in the idea that nothing matters vs. what the universe would turn out to be if every intelligent living being believed in the idea that everything matters. Through extensive analysis, if everyone believed that nothing matters, the universe would turn into a place of destruction, disorder, nihilism, and pessimism, proving bad for everyone. If everyone believed that everything we do matters, the universe would turn into a place of peace, pleasantry, order, and optimism, proving helpful for everyone.


When considering the arguments of expansion of the universe, the afterlife, the butterfly effect, that we choose our own fate, and the analysis of what would happen if everyone believed that nothing matters, I conclude that there is no answer to whether or not anything we do matters. Our physical life is very short as is and if we spend the majority of it searching for an answer we probably won’t ever find then we will miss out on most of the joys of life. Live life as if it matters, even if it doesn’t, because of the effects that it would pose on the the universe.







Works Cited





Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time. Bantam Books, 2017.





King, Stephen. 11/22/63: Part 1. Scribner, 2011.

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