Secondary – March 6

“Criticize by creating.” -Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni — better known as Michelangelo — born on this date in 1475. What would you create in response to the issue you most want to criticize?

Secondary – March 5

Gerardus Mercator was born on this date in 1512. In 1569, he developed a technique to map the globe that accurately projects a sphere onto a flat surface so the earth’s longitude and latitude lines are at right angles to each other. Polish mathematician Alfred Korzybski famously said, “The map is not the territory.” What does that mean to you?

Secondary – March 4

What sorts of lies do your friends get away with telling their parents … and do you think their parents know the truth?

Secondary – March 3

What do you most miss about being a child?

Secondary – March 2

“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” -Sam Houston, born on this date in 1793. Explain your understanding of why a reputation for honesty was so important to a person of Houston’s time and whether you think such reasoning remains valid today.

Secondary – March 1

Ralph Ellison was born on this date in 1914. Describe a time when you felt invisible.

Secondary – February 28

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.” -Daniel Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket, born on this date in 1970. Describe an event you think fate brought you, and then a response that’s better than the response you actually had.  

Secondary – February 27

John Steinbeck was born on this date in 1902. His novel Of Mice and Men is one of the most challenged and banned books of the 20th Century. Under what conditions would you support or oppose banning a book?