When Mr. Bank was growing up, kids could just run the streets - all day. No one worried much about their kids' safety. Now, you can be arrested just for letting your child go to the park alone! 1. What changed? What is happening in our world, that's making it get crazier all the time?
2. Smart people say to "Live like you were dying." To live every day like it's your last.
If you knew that today was your last day on earth, how would you act differently? Would you be kinder? Who would you go out of your way to talk to?
- collect all stuff for week - neat little piles please.
- back computers - quit trying to guess password! Just get me, reboot.
2) Analyze this famous poem by Robert Frost: Nothing Gold Can Stay
- break it apart, explaining each set of lines.
1. Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. - what do those two mean?
2. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. - what do those two mean?
3. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, - what do those two mean?
4. So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. - what do those two mean?
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3) Rep your set: Write a rhyme about your block, or about Cleveland.
- 12 lines minimum
- Write a poem if you don't want to do lyrics
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This is a Quiet Clip. If you are rude during it I will ask you to leave.
Discussion Questions1. Addiction tears apart many families. Who struggles with addiction in this film?
2. What relationships are hurt by addiction in this film?
3. The teacher is suspended for fighting MMA. Is this fair, if it doesn't affect his job?
4. Tommy is violent and likes to pound his opponents. How do you think his time in Iraq as a soldier made him unable to deal with his feelings?
5. This movie proves the point that tough is good - but trained is better. How does Brendan use music to train? How does his attitude take him to the top?