1. # Texts 12/10
Finish this entry from yesterday. We will reform groups in a few minutes.
The texts are on the cart- come get the one you need.
If you finished yesterday, you may read your IR book or do other schoolwork.
1. - Subject
Purpose
Underpinning- Support
Devices and Tone

2. Seminar #2 tomorrow
Read Anthem to page 68. Please write THREE questions, 1 quote, and 1 explanation of your quote on the BACK OF THE RUBRIC. Make sure it is ready when class starts.
Your quiz will cover Anthem up to page 68 as well as the Death Penalty texts we have read this week.

3. GROUPS OF 3. Same as yesterday if possible.
Share your #46 with your colleagues. Discuss what the texts were about, your response to them, and how they relate to the ideas in Anthem.

4. How it Used to Be: The Death Penalty and the Mentally Disabled
You may stay in your groups, but let’s read together. Annotate as you read:
Underline or circle important information
Record your thoughts/ reactions/ connections in the margins
Use ! ? X 

5. #47 Mental Disability
In your group- each read one of the three texts. Respond in your notebook and then share.
1. Person’s name
2. What was the crime?
3. One example of their disability
4. Why unfair?
5. What should have happened?

6. How It is Now: Read the Death Penalty Information Center handout.
On the back:
1. Take notes on the Scott Panetti video. What basically happened?
2. How are things better than they used to be?
3. What problems/ inconsistencies/ ambiguities still exist?
4. What questions would you like to have answered about these issues?