Bell Ringer: Monday, February 6 th

1. Bell Ringer:Monday, February 6th • Write down the objective! • No Bell Ringer Stamp if you don’t have an ID on and/or you are talking! • Divide your Monday section into two columns. • In the left column, answer this question: What do you know about the Civil Rights Movement? • In the right column, answer this question: What do you want to know about the Civil Rights Movement?(QUESTIONS)

2. Bell RingerTuesday, February 7th • Write down the objective! • No Bell Ringer Stamp if you don’t have an ID on and/or you are talking! • Takeout your homework! • Sentence corrections: Subordinating Clauses SentencesCombine the two sentences into one sentence using a subordinating clause • William Clark was not officially granted the rank of captain prior to the expedition's departure. • Captain Lewis more or less ignored this technicality and treated Clark as his equal in authority and rank. • AlthoughWilliam Clark was not officially granted the rank of captain prior to the expedition's departure, Captain Lewis more or less ignored this technicality and treated Clark as his equal in authority and rank.

3. Bell RingerWednesday, February 8th • Write down the objective! • No Bell Ringer Stamp if you don’t have an ID on and/or you are talking! • Takeout your homework! • Name the geographical region of these following states: (North, South, East Coast, West, Midwest) • California • Illinois • Alabama • New York • Texas • Massachusetts

4. Homework • Correspondence: • Communication by exchange of letters, email or text messages • Synonyms: Letters, Messages, mail • Antonyms: NONE EXIST • A close similarity, connection or equivalence • SYNONYMS: Accord, Consistency • ANTONYMS: Difference, Disagreement

5. Jewel prices a gallon of milk at $1.29; in Indiana, milk costs $1.89 with taxes; in Schaumburg, it costs $2.13 with taxes, and in Chicago, it costs $2.39. In each location, milk is taxed at a different percentage. Now, what if that gallon of milk was $2.13 no matter where you went in America? I propose that America should go to a proportional national sales tax.America’s current tax system is already regressive with income taxes and progressive with property taxes. In America’s cities, most lower and middle class people cannot afford to buy property due to the purchase price as well as higher income taxes. With a national sales tax, inner city Americans will no longer be penalized for living in the city through the purchase of goods and services.Moreover, the national sales tax can work in favor of lower and middle class citizens. A consistent sales tax would mean that they would pay less for goods. Since they are paying less, Americans would be more inclined to spend more. If consumers spend more money, the economy grows. A growing economy means more jobs, and more opportunities for people to rise to different jobs.Finally, a national sales tax would stop the burden on regional businesses and companies. If the sales tax were the same wherever one goes, then companies would not have to worry about consumers going to another city, county, or state, to purchase a product. Thus, companies would have more control over what makes their product successful.Therefore, in my opinion, I believe a national sales tax is an excellent idea because it would lesson the financial burden on America’s lower and middle classes as well as stimulate the economy.

6. Bell RingerThursday, February 9th • Write down the objective! • No Bell Ringer Stamp if you don’t have an ID on and/or you are talking! • Takeout your homework! • Give two antonyms and two synonyms for the following word: • Compel • Engage • Foster • Vicious

7. Bell RingerFriday, February 10th • Write down the objective! • No Bell Ringer Stamp if you don’t have an ID on and/or you are talking! • Takeout your homework! • This week, what did you learn about the Civil Rights Movement? • Complete the behavior section of the Bell Ringer.

8. Bell RingerTuesday, February 14th • Write down the objective! • No Bell Ringer Stamp if you don’t have an ID on and/or you are talking! • Turn In your Bell Ringer & Practice Quiz from Friday • Happy Valentine’s Day! • In your opinion, is “separate but equal” constitutional? Why or why not? (5 sentences)

9. Bell RingerWednesday, February 15th • Write down the objective! • No Bell Ringer Stamp if you don’t have an ID on and/or you are talking! • Take out your MLK Handout • Write a sentence using each of the following words: • Deplore • Agitator • Cite

10. Bell Ringer:Thursday, February 16th • No Bell Ringer Stamp if you don’t have an ID on and/or you are talking! • Takeout your homework! • Based off of your homework assignment, answer the following questions: • Who is your audience? Who are you writing your letter to? • What is your purpose and goal? • Ideally, what would you like to see come from this?

11. As a black man in the South who was arrested and kept in jail for no reason for 24 hours, I'd like to suggest a new movement. I think most people know that they can film cops during most situations. I'd really like for those of us who live in fear (and those who don't want to live in fear in the future) to start filming the police as frequently as possible. Make it impossible for them to keep track of those who film them until they expect to be filmed in all situations. Please. God damn I hate cops. PS: I was arrested because my one of my tail lights went out, and the officer thought I was high on "weed". I don't smoke. They let me go. I still have a court date for "reckless driving". Edit: Wow. I did not expect to see this on the front page. I should have added that I'm a WORKING black man. I noticed a few people suggest that I left out some details. Since this was a morning rant, I obviously went a little overboard with the race issue. By the way, this happened in the great state of Mississippi (southern, for all of the accusers). My tail light had been flickering for the past few days, and I was hoping I could make it until pay day (today) to fix it. This week has not been the greatest, and I guess I might have come across as a little douche to the cop, but NOT to the point where I deserved the weed accusation...and eventual arrest. I'd like to not add anymore because this IS the internet...hence, the new username. My point, while suspiciously hyperbolic to those out in internet world, still remains that people should film cops whenever reasonably possible. They are hired to protect, not treat others as anyone different than themselves. Edit: Thank you to those who responded.

12. Paragraph Presentation Rules • Divide yourself into 4 groups. • Each group member reads his paragraph out loud. • As a group member reads, the rest of the members: • Write down feedback about the message and presentation. • Give the speech a score 1-10* • If you completed a speech, you will get full credit. Score based on thoroughness, articulation, and inspiration. • After each group member reads, each group member totals their scores. The highest score will present to the class.

13. Bell RingerFriday, February 17th • No Bell Ringer Stamp if you don’t have an ID on and/or you are talking! • Get out your DEAR Book! • Over the past two weeks of class, what were things that you learned about the Civil Rights Movement? What are things that you found interesting? (3 sentences) • Finish behavior section of bell ringer

14. Practice Quiz • Synonyms & Antonyms: • Answers need to be similar synonyms and antonyms for the same definition. • For example: • 1) Definition: Having a great deal of money; wealthy • Synonyms: Wealthy, rich, prosperous, well off, rich, loaded • 2) Definition: Flowing freely or in great quantity • Synonyms: Stream, flow

15. Practice Quiz • Essay • Talk about key themes: • “Separate but Equal” and the constitutional debate • Non-violent direct protests • Sit-ins, boycotts • A way to make change without being violent • Role of Christianity in Non-violent protests • Emergence of the Black Power/Black Panther Movement • Use of words – correctly. • If the word is a noun, use it as a noun.

16. Practice Quiz • ACT Passage