Next, I introduced everyone to the "roving dialogue" discussion format (see slides 1 - 14 in the presentation linked below).
We then went outside and had enough time to discuss the following two prompts:
1 - Discuss the ideas and perspectives represented in the following two quote:
“But to establish the principles of the Declaration of Independence, we are going to need to go outside the law, to stop obeying the laws that demand killing or that allocate wealth the way it has been done, or that put people in jail for petty technical offenses and keep other people out of jail for enormous crimes.”
-- From Zinn’s “The Problem is Civil Obedience” (emphasis added)
“Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them.”
-- From Thoreau’s On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (emphasis added)
2 - Laws here and now: Identify and discuss laws that you believe benefit our community/society and ones that you would change.
We then returned to the classroom and reviewed the various ideas that had been addressed in peoples' discussion of the second prompt.
Handouts:
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Submitted Today:
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Homework:
Revisions (final opportunity for revision/submission)
Due Friday 4/17:
(read through page 13 with 10 annotations discussing
points of agreement, disagreement or questions you have)
