Secondary – March 8

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” -US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., born on this date in 1841. Describe the experience you’d like to have that you think would most stretch your mind.

Secondary – March 7

Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” was first published in The New Republic on this date in 1923. Write a scene describing what the narrator had to do before sleep.   Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must...

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.