Honors English 9 Weekly #10

October 30- November 3, 2017

This Week in 102:

Monday Writing a Thesis Statement - Protests
SOAPSTone graphic organizer is due for a grade.
Punching Bag Debate Protests
Tuesday Writing a Thesis Statement - Protests
Writing a thesis statement that is debatable, defensible and nuanced.
Look at your current sources for some ideas of where you believe this should go.
Study some sample thesis statements. What makes some of them better than others?
Wednesday Honors English 9 Portfolio
Finish formal reflection for the Persepolis Literary Analysis
Add One Word Bio/English 8 Reflection to the HOME page.
Start personalizing your page.
Thursday Reliable Sources vs Unreliable Sources.
What makes a sources reliable and trustworthy vs a source that is weak or false?
Use the Source Tool to establish reliability of outside sources.
Post three additional sources for the topic of protest that you might use for this argumentative
essay.
Friday Organizing Documents Protest
Organize documents around potential points you would like to make in order to defend your
thesis statement. The documents should be doing one or more of the following things:
1. Illustrating
2. Authorizing
3. Borrowing
4. Extending
5. Countering
 Learning Objective for the Week:

Students will be able to respond in discussions and in writing, using personal, literal,
interpretative, and evaluative stances, to a film based on the topic of protest.
Students will be able to write a thesis statement that is debatable, defensible and nuanced.
Students will be able to organize their document to either Illustrate, Authorize, Borrow, Extend
and/or Counter in order to defend their position.
Students will be able to engage in formal writing assignments that require utilization of all stages
of the writing process by using the writers journal for pre-writing and rough drafts. This process
will end with a reflection on the experience of writing the essay.

Quotation: "If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."
Variations: None known.
Sources checked:

1. Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Digital Edition

2. Thomas Jefferson retirement papers

3. Thomas Jefferson: Papers and Biographies collections in Hathi Trust Digital Library

Other attributions: None known.

Earliest appearance in print: undetermined
Comments: This quotation has not been found in Thomas Jefferson's papers. It has been suggested that it is a
paraphrase of Jefferson's statement in the Declaration of Independence, "...whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government...," although such a paraphrase would seem to be taking some radical liberties with the original
version. The quotation bears a much closer resemblance to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s comment in his famous
letter from Birmingham Jail: "One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely,
one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."1
1.Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963. African Studies Center,
University of Pennsylvania.

Source: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. If a Law Is Unjust...(Spurious Quotation) | Thomas Jefferson's

Monticello, Jefferson Library , www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/if-law-unjustspurious-quotation.