Assigning "Nothing", Thrive and self reflecting

HW: 
Experiment on last 2 pages of the packet, "Don't just do something, stand there." Due Tuesday 9/27

Read the last long reading in your packet called Thrive.  Please look for cultural differences between what Americans value and what Buettner finds we should value in order to thrive. Due Tuesday 9/27

Lastly - Just Mercy chapters 3 and 4 due next wednesday.

Today, we introduced the first two homework assignments above.  Then we did a self reflection for the last few weeks.

In period 3, we watched a bit of the movie "God Grew Tired of Us." (SHS students - click here to watch the movie via mediacast).

God Grew Tired of Us is a documentary about the "Lost Boys of the Sudan."  These boys were survivors of a civil war in Sudan.  They fled their homes at a young age and left with only what they were wearing.  They fled to Kenya where they were able to live in a refugee camp.  They were stuck there for 10 years before they began being placed in the United States.  This documentary details their flight from Sudan to the Kokuma refugee camp in Kenya to the USA where they experience the difficulties of a new country.

The view from the lieu...taboo?

This port-a-potty was the creation of an artist in Switzerland.  Would you be able to use it?
It looks like this from the inside:

Would you be able to use a toilet if it looked like everyone could see you, even though you knew they could not? This is a taboo because even though people could not see us, the mere thought of them seeing us would make us hesitant. In other words, simply thinking about doing this is embarrassing and so we don't want to even think about it. Perhaps, that is why we have so many euphemisms for using the toilet: using the john, the restroom, the bathroom, the lavatory, the men's room, etc...