Wait, What's an "RQ" again?

Immediately after our attendance-taking, and a wee stretch, I returned students' Speak Reading Quiz #1.

Which was good. They could see what they got. And maybe think about coming to see me, on their own time, to ask me questions about their grade.

I had to give that quiz back, so I could give out

Speak Reading Quiz #2. It was not over everything we've read; rather, it was only over last night's reading assignment.

After the distribution and completion of the quiz, I invited students to examine Mr. Neck's "debate" on IMMIGRATION, in the context of the First Amendment and Free Speech.

This the slide I threw up on my powerpoint:

BUT LET ME BE CLEAR:

I did not open the discussion referenced above to student debate.

It was simply a visual reminder of Mr. Neck's debate.

With this slide in view, I asked students to answer a few questions (leading, of course, towards sharing and discussion), in their Classwork Composition Notebooks:

1. What is the First Amendment?
2. (a) Did Mr. Neck's class' debate observe, feature, or otherwise uphold free speech? (b) Was Mr. Neck's debate fair?
3. Have you ever, as a student, been a part of a class at all like Mr. Neck's discussion? How did it go? How did you feel? Connect personally, if you can and wish to, to this passage.
1. I neither required, nor forced, students to draw a personal connection. Nor did I require that any students share feedback of a personal nature. It was an invitational journal response only. That being said, several students, in all of my classes, had something to say about connections between Mr. Neck's "debate" and their own educational careers.

HW:

• Tomorrow, we're focusing on the Sordino Family Thanksgiving. You might wish to review pgs. 57-65 to prepare.
• Keep studying Membean.