"Hidden Intellectualism"

Good Morning!

1.  Independent Reading -- Today we will begin independent reading and read for about ten minutes.

2. Activity #8 -- Yesterday you responded to this activity with writing a page in your Writer's Journal about a time when you overcame failure.

3. Activity #9 -- Under Activity #9 in your Writer's Journal, record one of the following quotations about intellectuals that best matches your definition of an intellectual.  Explain why you selected this quote.

Quotations about intellectuals:
     "The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."  Bertrand Russell

    "An intellectual is a person who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."  Dwight D. Eisenhower

    "An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."  
                                                                              Albert Camus

4.  Vocabulary -- In your Writer's Journal, record and define the words on the whiteboard.

4.  "Hidden Intellectualism" -- Annotate your copy of the article as we read and discuss.  I will pause at intervals. 


HOMEWORK: Independent Reading