{"id":273779,"date":"2022-04-20T12:33:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T08:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=273779"},"modified":"2022-04-20T12:33:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T08:33:11","slug":"grade-8-english-and-individuals-and-societies-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2022\/04\/20\/grade-8-english-and-individuals-and-societies-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 8 English, and Individuals and Societies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In English we are continuing our investigation into how we know what is the right thing to do. \u00a0We are reading \u2018Red Scarf Girl,\u2019 and seeing things gets progressively worse for Ji Li and her family during the cultural revolution. \u00a0Students have just completed a four corner debate asking for their reactions to statements, with reasons which are based on the book. \u00a0For instance, they considered scenarios such as whether books that promote harmful ideas should be banned or whether loyalty to the leadership of a country is more important then family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/04\/4340988B-FC15-4143-BE0D-121CBCDA482B-scaled.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-273780 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/04\/4340988B-FC15-4143-BE0D-121CBCDA482B-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Individuals and Societies we have continued our investigations into revolutions. \u00a0This time we are looking at political revolutions, using Russia and China as examples. \u00a0Students have created mind maps on causes of political revolutions and have just completed source analysis on the February revolution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/04\/15D3AD45-735A-4286-BAEE-C34AD902975D.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-273781 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/04\/15D3AD45-735A-4286-BAEE-C34AD902975D-300x248.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/248;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In English we are continuing our investigation into how we know what is the right thing to do. \u00a0We are reading \u2018Red Scarf Girl,\u2019 and seeing things gets progressively worse for Ji Li and her family during the cultural revolution. \u00a0Students have just completed a four corner debate asking for their reactions to statements, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":827,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myp","category-grade-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}