This seminar was about the current racial injustices and injustices in the book just mercy. I tried hard on this seminar and got an exceeds on the written part because I used bonus evidence and wrote multiple extra sentences. I brought multiple people into the conversation but forgot to site the page where I got my evidence, so I got a meets plus on the spoken part. Because of my meets plus grade not being as good as possible, by the next seminar I want to remember to include the page numbers to boost my grade to an exceeds.

Our TED talk initial research was there to give us a starting point for one of our larger exhibitions. I got a meets because I included all details required to make my research meet the standard. We found our first and second choices for our TED talk subject and I chose the school to prison pipeline. It is shocking how some people are more likely to be sent to prison or suspended based on their disabilities and skin tone. In 2016, black students made up 15 percent of the student population but 31 percent of all school related arrests. This is disproportionate because skin color has nothing to do with the way you act, implying bias from schools and SROs. People with disabilities made up 12-13 percent of all students, and made up 28 percent of arrests. This is over double of what it should be proportionately. 

The TED talk source research is an extension of the initial research. It includes four sources we must analyze in detail to get a meeting the standard grade. I finished these four main sources but did not do a fifth and final one for an extra credit grade. The first of the four source I found was about the negative effects underfunded schools can have on students. The second source was about the racial bias some schools implement to further segregate people with darker skin. People with disabilities suffer too. The third source was about the percentages of how diverse people are arrested more. The fourth and final source is about how certain races suffer in some school systems, partly because of SROs. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_DBpbOWxxVT_pQygfvz8AULGlEXUrQXqQptzi1_9L3w/edit?tab=t.0

The Just Mercy readers log was designed to have us pay attention to what was happening in the book so we retain enough information to find a quote from the chapter we are reading and write a summary. Our readers logs are not graded yet bus I suspect I will get a meeting the standard grade because I did all the required writing but little extra. Just mercy was a book about a lawyer named Bryan who helps death row inmates get treated fairly and punished according to their crime. Many of them were innocent. There were several cases of people with severe mental and intellectual disabilities getting sentenced to death because the state refused to address their illnesses. There were also multiple accounts of children getting sent to die in prison.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qrGt4fsCsk0EKxvV3fZj_C0fItjHUlQufgHhfbppGXY/edit?tab=t.0

My TED talk was about the school to prison pipeline. I got a meets because I did not go above and beyond, but did put effort into the project and hit all the requirements. In the future I will do some extra work and/or make additional slides for a better grade. 

Our first Blood and Thunder socratic seminar was about whether or not Kit Carson was guilty of mass murder. I got an exceeds because I met all the requirements, spoke with confidence while reciting page numbers, and brought other people into the conversation. I will not prepare any more for a socratic seminar than I did this time because I felt adequately prepared.