This Week In Class

We talked about sustainability and we watched a video called Did You Ever Wonder. It was really interesting and inspired me to write a post about it (see below). This video made me think about our school and how it teaches green but doesn’t act it.  We also created a google reader account that will help us learn about new blogs our friends have posted.  We also started reading to book, The Wave.  In the process of introducing this book Mr. R told us to make a power pyramid and do  a free write on the quote “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutly.” I though this was an interesting thing to think about.  We talked about how everything has power over something, but I don’t understand how this could be possible. I mean there has to be a bottom of the food chain. If everything had power over something then it would be a circle, which means the bottom would have power over the top, which means the bottom would have power over everything. For example if the government was at the top and animals were at the bottom then animals wouldn’t have control over anything.

I learned that I have opportunities that more than half the world doesn’t have.  Students in the United States have a 1 in 14 chance of learning in a rich and supportive learning environment, and everyone at our school in part of that 1. I think we are all extremly lucky.  I also learned that since I do have those opportunities I have to take action to improve the education of the people who are in the other 13.

I daydreamed about, actually I can’t remember. I tend to daydream about alot of things but I was probably thinking about the weekend, softball and my load of homework i’ll be stressing over during the weekend.

I said everything I wanted to, like usual.

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