Humanities

For homework:

1. Finish the JUSTICE placemat activity. Regardless of how it is completed (creatively in journals or digitally), please make sure the final product is put it into your journals

• it is...
• it is not...
• it looks like...
• synonyms
• antonyms
• symbols for...

Touching Spirit Bear

2. Today we read until the end of Chapter 8.
- please complete the following questions for Thursday (can be done digitally but has to be put into journals)

Chapter 4

1. According to the Keeper, what is the point of the Circle, and why does regular justice often fail?

Chapter 5

1. Review the four comments made about Cole at the Circle on page 46. Which comments do you agree with? Which ones do you disagree with? Justify your answer.

Chapter 6

1. Garvey discusses some of the reasons that isolation works to help heal a criminal. What are these reasons?

2. Outline what will happen to Cole after the banishment is over (what do you think will happen to Cole? What will he learn? Will he change?).

Chapter 8

1. As Cole lays bleeding, he thinks to himself “What luck… [t]o end up on an island with a stupid bear that didn’t have brains enough to run away.” Has Cole realized his responsibility for what has happened?

2. Cole states he would rather be in a prison cell than on the island. What are his reasons?

3. What does Cole’s crushing of the caterpillar indicate about his personality, even in his beaten state?

4. Look back to Peter’s comments at the Circle on page 50. What parallels are there between what Peter wanted for Cole and what has happened to him?

5. Do you feel bad for what has happened to Cole? Why or why not?