Humanities Newsletter
News for the Month of February 2013
The Wave
Other Class Activities
Lord Of The Flies
THis is our current novel. It is about a group of British schoolboys that have been stranded on a remote island in the middle of nowhere and have no supervision or supplies. The book deals with how easy rules can fall apart without law and order.
The French Revolution
In class, we have been learning about the French Revolution and how it changed Europe. Some of the ideas we have discussed are if a government is not meeting the needs of its citizens then the people should have a right to throw it.
Soctratic Seminar
For our latest Socratic Seminar, we were assigned to research the topic "Is Terrorism Justifiable?" We are supposed to base our opinions on the article by Maximilien Robsepierre "Justification of the Use of Terror" and the article "Psychology and Torture" by Stanley Fish.