Day 84 - Yo, what's up?
Today in WHAP we took a clicker quiz.
We started WHAP today by listening to Amazing Grace, and to our classes credit we have two people in the class who knew the origin story of the song/had seen the movie "Amazing Grace." Nothing to see here, just 6th period outshining the rest of the classes once again.
After that, we moved on to start a lecture, after Mr. Profitt gave a brief but well said speech on how we may not get to the crash course clicker quiz because the other stuff we were learning about was more important in the grand scheme of things and that if we couldn't get to the quiz then everyone would get 100s. A silent cheer quickly and quietly erupted over the classroom, thinking that all we'd have to do is ask some good questions and stall for time, and we'd walk away with free 100s. Boy where we wrong.
Mr. Profitt started his lecture and then noticed Patee talking to Nickols, and asked if they had something to say. Patee responded by saying that he didn't know that we had a clicker quiz today, to which Mr. Profitt then asked the class who had known we had the quiz. Unfortunately for John, all the class except Holloran (that I could see) raised their hands. Mr. Profitt then was about to start the lecture back up but then suddenly had a change of heart, deciding to give the quiz as he was now "curious." Huh. We then took the quiz, and while I did get a 6/6, I don't think we got the bonus point. The real "look at the fish" question here is why did Mr. Profitt change his mind on prioritizing the lecture over the quiz, but I suppose that's a mystery for another day.
After this, he started to talk about some of the statistics from the trade, and eventually led into us watching a movie clip from the movie Amistad. Essentially, the clip emphasized how slaves were sold by their fellow Africans to the Europeans, and the conditions in which they were transported were absolutely awful. It was a very graphic and chilling scene to watch as the Europeans whipped the slaves and threw them overboard. After this, Mr. Yo came in to pay us a quick visit and talk to us about his POV.
He first started off by talking about how some of his students from the public schools he used to teach at would say how they wouldn't let that happen to them in that scenario, but then gave us a real life example of if Nickols said he wasn't going to do the classwork, and then Mr. Yo in lieu of giving him a speech on why he should do his work just slapped him across the face. Then, instead of all of us being like "yeah, we don't wanna do any work" we would instead be more subdued by fear. Essentially, that's the same thing that happened on the slave ships except the Europeans killed the people who would rebel.
Mr. Yo then went on to talk about how if a thirsty man was given the choice between a clean mug and a dirty mug, he'd obviously choose the clean mug. Then, with his parting words of class, he mentioned how maybe African Americans were given the dirty mug right from the beginning, a possibility which would explain some of the problems they currently face.
With that dropped upon us, the bell rang and we were dismissed. Until Tomorrow!
We started WHAP today by listening to Amazing Grace, and to our classes credit we have two people in the class who knew the origin story of the song/had seen the movie "Amazing Grace." Nothing to see here, just 6th period outshining the rest of the classes once again.
After that, we moved on to start a lecture, after Mr. Profitt gave a brief but well said speech on how we may not get to the crash course clicker quiz because the other stuff we were learning about was more important in the grand scheme of things and that if we couldn't get to the quiz then everyone would get 100s. A silent cheer quickly and quietly erupted over the classroom, thinking that all we'd have to do is ask some good questions and stall for time, and we'd walk away with free 100s. Boy where we wrong.
Mr. Profitt started his lecture and then noticed Patee talking to Nickols, and asked if they had something to say. Patee responded by saying that he didn't know that we had a clicker quiz today, to which Mr. Profitt then asked the class who had known we had the quiz. Unfortunately for John, all the class except Holloran (that I could see) raised their hands. Mr. Profitt then was about to start the lecture back up but then suddenly had a change of heart, deciding to give the quiz as he was now "curious." Huh. We then took the quiz, and while I did get a 6/6, I don't think we got the bonus point. The real "look at the fish" question here is why did Mr. Profitt change his mind on prioritizing the lecture over the quiz, but I suppose that's a mystery for another day.
After this, he started to talk about some of the statistics from the trade, and eventually led into us watching a movie clip from the movie Amistad. Essentially, the clip emphasized how slaves were sold by their fellow Africans to the Europeans, and the conditions in which they were transported were absolutely awful. It was a very graphic and chilling scene to watch as the Europeans whipped the slaves and threw them overboard. After this, Mr. Yo came in to pay us a quick visit and talk to us about his POV.
He first started off by talking about how some of his students from the public schools he used to teach at would say how they wouldn't let that happen to them in that scenario, but then gave us a real life example of if Nickols said he wasn't going to do the classwork, and then Mr. Yo in lieu of giving him a speech on why he should do his work just slapped him across the face. Then, instead of all of us being like "yeah, we don't wanna do any work" we would instead be more subdued by fear. Essentially, that's the same thing that happened on the slave ships except the Europeans killed the people who would rebel.
Mr. Yo then went on to talk about how if a thirsty man was given the choice between a clean mug and a dirty mug, he'd obviously choose the clean mug. Then, with his parting words of class, he mentioned how maybe African Americans were given the dirty mug right from the beginning, a possibility which would explain some of the problems they currently face.
With that dropped upon us, the bell rang and we were dismissed. Until Tomorrow!
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