At Least I Didn't Have to Leave the Room

1: Two more presentations completed today: Syrian Refugee and Malala, the representative of educational equality. We then crafted slippery slope fallacies and finished the review of fallacy types. Last presentation Friday.

3: After our discussion of autistic education, we moved into Syrian Refugees, which featured a historian, a presidential candidate, and a humanitarian. From the beginning of the presentation, our stars did not break character, reflecting logos, ethos, and pathos at appropriate times. (Even more impressive was the lack of notes or any aids to remember the information.) After our panel led the discussion, we ended class with the Malala and Girls' Education presentation, which resulted in all but the guys and me exiting the room to indicate the large amount of girls not allowed to enter the educational realm. We will briefly discuss this topic on Friday and have our last presentation.

7: Wowsa! Our presentations today were pathos, ethos, logos-filled spectacles of information, empathy, and conversation. Our Syrian Refugee presentation featured a skit in which our actors used actual dialogue from peers, teachers, and refugees to show the uneducated, empathetic, and first person perspectives surrounding this issue. (And, you knew your stuff - maps, facts, videos.) Our Autistic Education presentation started off with the adults, the representatives of the ethos-filled teachers and experts, and the three triplets, the very bright yet uneducated members of our society wanting to know more about why a classmate is different. As our three triplets morphed into teenagers, we were given direction on what we can do, how we can be empathetic to those diagnosed on the spectrum. Bravo!

As you may be aware, we have an assembly schedule during sixth and seventh hours on Friday. This will wreak some havoc on our class plans. After discussing this with the band (a lot of our class), we will start off Friday's class with our fifth class presentation. This way you will all be able to hear about Malala and girls' education across the world. Afterwards, we will have our discussion on autism with any students needing to leave early going first.