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Terrance’s Group Explains to the Class What They Have Been Doing
Other groups are located around the classroom, similarly engaged in making sense of the First Amendment. As they work, Ms. Ryan moves from group to group, monitoring her students’ progress, stopping to give support as needed, and listening to the insights or difficulties individual students demonstrate as they engage in the task. In one group, for example, Ms. Ryan assists students in clarifying the “establishment clause”: Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. She focuses students on the punctuation of the clause and helps them to use it Frank Mulle Replica to divide the clause into meaningful chunks and to clarify the referent of the adverb thereof. After several minutes of group work, Ms. Ryan calls the class together to share their progress and remaining difficulties with the text. Terrance’s group explains to the class what they have been doing:
Jamila: So far we have put “Congress cannot make laws based on favorable religion or take away your freedom of speech, the press.” But once we got past freedom of speech, we could not figure out what the rest of the sentence meant.
Terrance: And I was trying to get the point across that you can have, you can assemble anywhere you like, as long as you don’t like start throwing bombs and shooting things, and that’s where that “peaceful” came across. And when it says, to petition, they thought that you couldn’t petition the government. And I was trying to tell them that it doesn’t matter what you do, you can still petition the government, long as you don’t do anything dangerous.
Because she has listened to the group discussion, Ms. Ryan is prepared to draw other groups and individuals into the whole class discussion, to make the knowledge and strategic resources they have offered in small-group work available to the entire class, to solve problems that have emerged in common, and to make connections between historical texts and events and their lives today. She invites a student to respond Omega Speedmaster Replica to Terrance’s group: “All right! What are you guys thinking, Kevin?”
Kevin: Well, I was thinking, like he said, petitioning the government, like Martin Luther King, he did march and stuff. It isn’t against the law for you if you don’t agree with the government, like you can go to the White House and stuff, and you can get a group of people there, get the signs and stuff and March around and stuff. They can’t really do anything to you unless you start causing trouble.
With a locker located conveniently next to the head cheerleader and likely prom queen winner, Gigi Greene, Suzi is one of the first to hear about Gigi being attacked by a swarm of hungry spiders in the gym basement the Monday of prom week. Since Gigi’s beautiful tan legs are now mottled by spider bites, she drops out of the prom queen race. Suzi becomes even more curious when Gigi’s best friend and prom queen competitor Parker Peets’s perfectly blond hair is turned blue when her shampoo bottle is tampered with in the locker room. She, obviously, cannot continue to run for queen either. The curse soon claims its next victim, Kitty Sui, another member of Gigi’s posse, whom Suzi refers to as the BGs (Bimbo Girls). At the Kick War soccer game, Kitty is traumatized when the orca, supposedly the school mascot, comes up and swings her onto its shoulder, exposing her bare bottom underneath a very short skirt to the entire school body.
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