Daily Log

Tuesday, November 9

Students submitted all parts of their persuasive essays on the abolition of slavery.

In most sections students took a "race literacy test" from California Newsreel to survey what they knew about the subject, after which we began to look at the answers. Based on modern genetic science, the quiz suggests that race does not exist as a biological fact, and that it is instead socially created.

Wednesday:
Students will watch a documentary film entitled A Class Divided, about Jane Elliott's famous educational experiment in discrimination.