Martin Luther King Day today. Years ago, I remember when we debated as a faculty whether to take this day off from school. One argument was to be in school where you could do some activities to honor Dr. King and his legacy. I was on the side to honor Dr. King and the civil rights movement by making it a holiday. In our community, I thought it was more important to honor the day and make it important publicly. In any case, that struggle still exists on many levels and for many people. A couple of MLK quotes. The first for those lovers of captialism and career climbing ... the second is for me to live by this coming year.
"Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’"
“Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.”
We missed school on Friday because of ice and a little snow. Last Thursday in AP Biology, we finished the Diffusion and Osmosis Lab in AP Biology. Tomorrow, we begin a mathematical modeling lab on population genetics using an Excel spreadsheet. It is one of the required investigations and one of the entirely new labs from last year's overhaul of the AP Biology curriculum.
My 5th period computer programming class will continue our unit on arrays and sorting tomorrow with another sample problem. We did a simple single dimension array as an example last Thursday.
Sunny this morning, pouring honey into bottles later, moving the Christmas tree downstairs (been at the hospital with Granny), putting more seeds in the freezer for stratification and going to get outside for a walk. Lots of doves and finches at the bird feeders this morning, flickers working the yard. A few juncos scattered among the finches.
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