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Locked & Loaded

2/25/2018

 
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Guns in schools. Are we ready? How would you feel if you had a pistol packing teacher for your English or Math class? Or the class you fell asleep in every day?

After the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting last month in Parkland, Florida, Trump wants to arm teachers. In some states, teachers think it's a crazy idea. In other states, like Ohio, teachers are already packing.

"Doesn't it get to be too much," asked Brianne Solomon, a teacher in West Virginia. "On top of all the things we do, to have to remember when we're supposed to use a gun?" 

A guidance counselor in Baltimore, Maryland, thinks often about a time he had to tackle a student to the ground who shot a classmate in the back with a gun in their school's cafeteria.

He told the New York Times, "Never have I thought, 'I wish I'd had a gun,'" and that he thinks the president's idea of arming teachers is "simplistic and misguided."    


On the other hand, according to the New York Times, "more than 100 districts in Texas" have been arming teachers with weapons since 2007, and Dallas Republican and State Representative Jason Villalba thinks that the president has recognized that teachers carrying guns is "clearly...the solution to the problem that we're seeing around the country."

And the world, continues to turn...


​Read the commentary above, then comment on the following: "What would schools become if teachers are armed with guns in schools?"

1. INCLUDE: First initial AND last name AND class period.

2. Respond in no more than 10 sentences and no less than five.


3. You MUST respond to at least TWO other posts from any student. Your replies cannot be identical comments on different posts and posting shallow comments such as "I agree" or "I disagree" will earn you a zero. Make sure your reply addresses the comment that you are responding to.

Be sure to--
  • Be clear about your position
  • Provide specific support for your argument
  • Use rhetorical devices and other grammar elements
  • Write EPIC Content-Engaging, Powerful, Informative, Creative

CAUTION!! Do NOT embarrass me, yourself, your class, the English department, the school or your parents with tasteless, meaningless comments. This is for a grade.

Due: Fri., March 2, 2018 11:59 p.m. CST​​​

Peril or Prosper?

2/23/2018

 
In the next 10 years, will your ages will range between 26-28-years old. Based on the statistics from the clip you just watched, will you be perishing? Or will you be prospering?

When I observe teens today, I get anxious about where they will end up. I listen to complaints about school work or having to read novels. I notice the effort and skill put into sneaking on phones or listening to headphones versus any effort or skill put into doing class work. I wonder what they are thinking when they ask to go waste time in the restroom. I wonder if they think adults do not know.

For some, any focus is difficult to detect. What motivates them besides, music, entertainment, food and trends? Do they weigh their investment on brand name clothes, shoes and gadgets against their return? What do they get? Do they not consider that they might be left behind? Do they look at the destitute on the streets and wonder, "what's the difference between him/her and me, 10 years from now?"? 

Then I observe the ones who are focused. What motivates them to get to class on time and work hard when they get to school? How do they fight off the struggles of peer and societal pressures? How are they preparing to not be left behind?

As you just saw in the clip, technology is becoming...is already...a "thing." Do you have the skills to survive in a technologically advanced world? 


​Assignment. Watch the video above, read the commentary after it, then blog about the following: Knowing the habits and work ethic you have today, and considering the stats in the video, in 10 years, will you perish or prosper? How?

1. INCLUDE: First initial AND last name AND class period.

2. Respond in no more than 10 sentences and no less than five.


3. You MUST respond to at least TWO other posts from any student. Your replies cannot be identical comments on different posts and posting shallow comments such as "I agree" or "I disagree" will earn you a zero. Make sure your reply addresses the comment that you are responding to.

Be sure to--
  • Be clear about your position
  • Provide specific support for your argument
  • Use rhetorical devices and other grammar elements
  • Write EPIC Content-Engaging, Powerful, Informative, Creative

CAUTION!! Do NOT embarrass me, yourself, your class, the English department, the school or your parents with tasteless, meaningless comments. This is for a grade.

Due: Sun., Feb. 25, 2018 11:59 p.m. CST​​​

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