Socratic Seminar

The socratic seminar was completed after two periods. During the first one, i was sick and absent. Thankfully my great teacher Mr. Carpenter had the gratitude of sending me the notes explaining what the seminar was so that I would know what was going on when I attended the next class. Mr carpenter sent me the following notes:

We will have an inner circle of students listening and
discussing each of the Essential Questions with the remainder of the
class sitting on the outside. Different students from time to time
will enter the inner circle. Mr. Carpenter will facilitate with
starter questions and help guide the participants to ask further questions not only to the students presenting their response to the EQ but to anyone in the inner circle.

The next class wasn't completely what I thought it was be. My teacher was absent so Ms. Connaway substituted for him. At first the class was going well but then it got out of order. I blame all our class for this because we were irresponsible and disrespectful towards ms. Connaway whoom I owe an apology. My classmates the Myriams, Hanane, Mohamed B. and Karim helped me come up with important points. As a class and as an individual, we worked well but towards the end of class, it was chaos.

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HaitiQuake

A horrible 35 second-lasting earthquake struck Haiti on January 12th. It Three of the many aftershocks were of magnitude 5. The largest one was of magnitude 7. Two days later, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake strucked them again. Chaos is running on haiti. A man that was buried under layers of stones called his wife on the phone so she would save him. He did not know where he was, the only thing he could move was his arms. Unfortunately, a couple hours later, he wouldn't answer his phone so he is considered dead. Celebrities are giving benefit concert to raise money that they will later on send to Haiti.Not only Haiti is a poor country, but everything is destroyed. People are starving, they fare suffering from the loss of the loved ones. They have been working for decades to be where they are, but unfortunately all their effort has been destroyed in a couple of minutes.

Sources: LCI news and my dad

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Success and Failures

Successes -After years of conflict, a final resolution has been made to reunify the states. -Even though African americans did not have the same right as the other americans, they were now free.

-Education was now provided everywhere for everyone.

-The land was equally distributed to people

-Taxes were higher so there was economical profit.

-Black people had the right to speak as freedmen and vote

-Compromise of 1877

-Expansion of north and south economy

Failures -Although the blacks were free, the whites still discriminated them and gave them less rights. -Jobs were not provided for everyone and that resulted to poverty (especially black people). -Corruption became very common .Richer people were more powerful even though they didn't deserve this power.

-Hard workers didn't gain as much money as people who did corruptions -the Ku Klux Klan clan that supported the Jim Craw Laws and discrimination were very powerful.

-sharecropping and tenant cropping

-The south's industrialization was moving on too slowly

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