Daily Log

Monday, February 7

Students turned in their vocabulary homework, and we reviewed several roots and added several others.

Next, students watched ten minutes of the film Koyaanisqatsi, showing a succession of natural images followed by images of modern technology and its impact on nature, backed by a musical score by Philip Glass. After the viewing students conveyed in written words what they thought the film conveyed in images and music. Certain students read their compositions aloud and we discussed them.

Tomorrow:
Mr. P will be absent; students will watch the beginning of Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man. There are brief instances of foul language and certain descriptions -- though not depictions -- of violence (people being eaten by bears). Students who wish to be excused from viewing the film should ask the substitute teachher for an alternative assignment to be completed in the library.