TKAM Discussion

1. Why does Aunt Alexandra come to stay with Atticus and his family? What is she like? How does she view herself in comparison to the family? How does she view the “Finch Family” in comparison to Calpurnia and other folks from Maycomb?
2. Why did Dill run away? What can we infer about Dill’s life based on Scout’s retelling of events? In other words, can we trust the narrator to tell us the “true” story? How does Scout’s naive perspective shape Dill’s story, the story of Boo Radley, and Jem’s story?
3. What was (and is) the Ku Klux Klan? What do you think of Atticus's comment “The Ku Klux's gone. It'll never come back"?
4. Why was the mob at the jail? Why was Atticus at the jail? What stopped the mob from following through with their goal?
5. Other questions or observations? Consider the analyzing through a literary len to deepen your analysis. If you finish with time, note important points in your digital notebooks.

Ch 13-15

TKAM Discussion

Today, my group discussed the following questions.

• In chapter 9, we are introduced to the controversial case Atticus has been given. Who is he representing? What has this person been charged with? How does the town feel about Atticus taking this case? What does this reveal about the time period?
• he is representing a young black man named tom Robinson
• he is charged of raping an Ewwels daughter
• Atticus knows that this case is impossible but takes it because he is moral courageous, and wants to lead by example for his kids
• The town is strongly opposed and the kids get harassed bc of it
• this reveals an inherent racism in the town and how strongly they feel about black people common for this time
• What is the significance of the scene with the dog? What does this scene reveal about Atticus and how the kids view their father?
• Atticus is the character that introduces the title explaining that his father told him it was “a sin to kill a mockingbird.” What do you think this means? Why might Harper Lee use this for her title?
• How has the kids’ perception of Boo Radley changed?
• Now that scout and Jem are preoccupied with more important and stressful things than seeing Boo's face like defending their dad's schoolyard honor
• after fire scout is still disgusted by the idea of boo touching her but I think has warmed slightly over time to the him
• Other questions?
• Why is rabies seasonal?
• How is it Transmitted

#BLM

Today we read this blacklivesmatter article from wired about the leveraging of technology as an activist tool over time.

Article

My biggest takeaway, in a purely analytical sense, was the huge shift in the way activists spread the word about their cause. In the 60's protesters and activists had to use special phone lines to contact each other, spread word and recognition of a misdeed, or simply to organize. Now activists can reach millions with a tweet or a viral video. They can organize away from federal eyes with encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp. The one big drawback is that with ease of spreading, an ease of harassment is inevitable. Harassment on an app like twitter makes it easy for awful people to harras activists. This hasn't changed much since the 60's, protesters were harassed, but it was in person. Now, with the age of social media, a "troll" can attack someone's post without at least being brave enough to face them in real life. This depersonalized harassment is encompassed well in the drake lyric,  "trigger fingers turned to twitter fingers"(Drake). While, in the past, people used to attack people in person, with guns or slurs, now with the use of social media platforms, (like twitter) they can attack people with no threat of personal retaliation. This welcomes bad people to attack others with differing opinions. In this lies the paradoxical nature of activism on social media. As this continues to be a hot topic 2 years later, it is going to be interesting to see how online activism will shape society and politics.

CH9

• uislands bc gov law that engoarged farmers to deforeest but scientists saw oppurtunity for controlled experiment 
• fragmwntologist
• 50 000 000 square miles are ice free
• half of his land to cropland and pasture cities hopping mals etc
• 3/5 of remaining is forrest 
• rest is high mountains tundra or desrt
• im confused about why anthromes are a better clasification than bioms
• one road becomes branches of deforestation
• ring and fling band and release
• for first year popoulation of birds i deforested raea  join and bigger
• keeps on dropping (number and variety)
• bc more mpetition for fewer recorces
• keps on going down
• islands tend to be specis poor
• smaller populations ae morevunerable to hance
• smaller popultaion means that there is a bigger effect of mall casue s on the population
• smal populations lead to local extintion
• also corerates with speciation
• many species in relsation with army ants
• the tropics were home to as many as thirty million species of arthropods.
• much more than number of bird or mammal species
• very fast species lost due to habitat rduction
• ther is  lag to the process
• hard to know but bc populations remain but will eithersurvive or die iff due to chance
• if we cut the forrests up we wil lose bith flora and fauna
• arnt enough colonie sof ants to support birds when some go into satatr y phase

Ch 10

• bwst tie to take bat po is in winter bc they hibernate
• white stuff all ovr bats
• sae substance was found i oerbat caves 
• affected the bats notes
• Geomyces destructans.
• whithout human help hard for spicies to cross pysical oandrays
• darwin found tat ocean wernt as uch as problem as hethoght
• realized that continent smust have shifted
• causes them to be itchy and use up fat storse that would be used for hibernation
• loose moisture through skin 
• magority o f ariving species
• if it sucides pouatioon expans rapidly
• only a fe invasive spevies will get tobe sicessul
• invasive spieces either fillor take ver niche
• if eithe rthe ost or parasite wants to survive ne has to adapt to beat the other
• chestnut trees were wipe out when resitenat japanese trees wer brought 
• incasesive specis are a hugeee e problem
• we are recraeting pagea like connetions
• we are the moset succeful invasive pseccies
•  eventually if this keps upbiodiversity will go away
• white nose eveloved in europe along withother species
• V

CH11

• only 5 specie of rhino still exist
• lonly not pack animals
• rhinos being reescued inot into captviity is simply not working 
• used to be large birds that filled niches of derr
• darwin concluded that over hunting caused so,e global extinctions
• 3 pulses of exinction centered at diffrent places worls=dwide
• mans arival is only possible eason
• climate change would lead to a megea fsuna extinction
• large ani,als tend to reproduce lowly
• humans would just have to be avg for an wieot to take place like it did

12

• neadathral bones turn up all over te place
• consitint they seeem to be vansihing
• lots of causes ar cited
• thier bad luck was us
• humansarived 40 000 years ago
• when they made thier way nto a reigon nethndls disapeered
• people are aruond 4% neandrathal
• humans breeded with neandrathals, and as a result neadrathalgnes were added to tthe pool
• lots found in neander valley
• they could probably paas for humans
• enzymes destroy dna when die
• depending on country more ir less simiar to nendrathals
• before replacing had ex
• non human apes re clever
• social cues are stronger in humans
• easier to be tght if human
• could b ea s simple a cause as 1 mutation
• must have bred with denisovans also
• one main suspect for earyly himi species
• other primate spoulations ar declining fast
• we will be last great apes
• neaantrathal used tools
• lacke asthetic mutation

13

• saved the dn of the po'uli
• scintests preserve whatof left of species by frezing tels
• humans have evidence but refuse to act
• we can still revitalize species population
• you can support presvationindrctly by joing funds for wildlife

Chapter 9 10 Sketchnotes

Annotations ch 9-11

CH9

• uislands bc gov law that engoarged farmers to deforeest but scientists saw oppurtunity for controlled experiment 
• fragmwntologist
• 50 000 000 square miles are ice free
• half of his land to cropland and pasture cities hopping mals etc
• 3/5 of remaining is forrest 
• rest is high mountains tundra or desrt
• im confused about why anthromes are a better clasification than bioms
• one road becomes branches of deforestation
• ring and fling band and release
• for first year popoulation of birds i deforested raea  join and bigger
• keeps on dropping (number and variety)
• bc more mpetition for fewer recorces
• keps on going down
• islands tend to be specis poor
• smaller populations ae morevunerable to hance
• smaller popultaion means that there is a bigger effect of mall casue s on the population
• smal populations lead to local extintion
• also corerates with speciation
• many species in relsation with army ants
• the tropics were home to as many as thirty million species of arthropods.
• much more than number of bird or mammal species
• very fast species lost due to habitat rduction
• ther is  lag to the process
• hard to know but bc populations remain but will eithersurvive or die iff due to chance
• if we cut the forrests up we wil lose bith flora and fauna
• arnt enough colonie sof ants to support birds when some go into satatr y phase
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