JE9

exam grades define us?

How did this spoken word make you feel? Do you agree with all or part of this clip? What part resonated with you the most? Do you agree with the statement that you love education but hate school?

What other connections or ideas did you come up with while watching this clip? Be ready to share what you have written.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-eVF_G_p-Y

JE8

What makes the relationship between the boy and his father so powerful and poignant? What do they feel for each other? How do they maintain their affection for and faith in each other in such brutal conditions?

Journal 7

A world wide event has destroyed most of the world's population and it's infrastructure. You are among the world's only survivors. You are confined to a small bomb shelter because you are unsure if the environment outside is safe. To survive you must work together and organize your new society.

A few rules to guide you:

-you can use anything in the classroom to facilitate your plans

-you cannot leave the room.

-you must elect a leader

-you must record your history

-you must establish law and order

-you must delegate responsibilities

-you must tally your resources and consider alternatives

YOU MUST SURVIVE

What was your first thought when the clip came on? Do you think this activity simulated an end of days scenario in a believable way? Were you able to work together to survive? Were you surprised at how people reacted? Were your surprised about others ideas of how to do things? Were you surprised as to whom was elected leader of the group? What else surprised you about this activity?

Journal Entry 6

Journal entry 6
Cormac envisions a post-apocalyptic world in which "murder was everywhere upon the land" and the earth would soon be "largely populated by men who would eat your children in front of your eyes" [p. 181]. How difficult or easy is it to imagine Cormac's nightmare vision actually happening? Do you think people would likely behave as they do in the novel, under the same circumstances? Does it now seem that human civilization is headed toward such an end? (200 words)

Journal Entry # 5

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  Cormac's work often dramatizes the opposition between good and evil, with evil sometimes emerging triumphantly. What does The Road ultimately suggest about good and evil? Which force seems to have greater power in the novel?  (200 words)

Journal entry #4

Cormac doesn't make explicit what kind of catastrophe has ruined the earth and destroyed human civilization, but what might be suggested by the many descriptions of a scorched landscape covered in ash? What is implied by the father's statement that, "On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world," [p. 32]?

journal entry #3

How is Cormac able to make the post-apocalyptic world of The Road seem so real and utterly terrifying? Which descriptive passages are especially vivid and visceral in their depiction of this blasted landscape? What do you find to be the most horrifying features of this world and the survivors who inhabit it?