Has what it means to be human changed?

 In looking at the evolution of humanity, there are moments of turmoil and there are moments of celebration.  We know that to be human physically speaks to science, but does being human mean more than the basic definition?

Your blog this week is to examine your choice book and Hamlet in order to answer the question: Has what it means to be human changed throughout time?  

Pull in quotes from your texts, and if you want to look at your world, please do so. 

Your response should be about two paragraphs and then I am asking you to reply to at least two other people’s responses.  

Please have a great week! 

A new year. A new hope.

 Happy New Year!  

This week we start incorporating blogs into our weekly work.  These blogs are our place to respond to each other and to build our ideas about the world, literature, and poetry.  

For this week's blog, I am asking you to read the poem by Richard Blanco, "One Day."

Once you have read the poem, I want you to think about how new years bring with them new hopes and dreams.  Identify the dreams and hopes that you think we need as a country, a school, a community, and an individual.  

Your response explaining these hopes and dreams for the future should be about two-three paragraphs in length.  Please be sure to cite examples from the poem.

Once you have posted, please go back and read the responses of others and comment on at least three people's ideas.