Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Happy day after Valentines Day (Because that's when I'm writing this)

                Yesterday in Western Civilization it was Valentine’s Day. Jess brought in heart-shaped lollipops for the whole class (and still had a small buckets-worth of candy at lunch). For the whole class we had an open discussion on the first amendment of the Constitution. This consisted mostly of talking about the right to practice religion. Mr. Schick talked about his trip to the Newseum, which I think influenced his choice of what the day’s discussion were about. We had four Moments of Zen today (Some which made some sense some which didn’t) and the discussion took up the rest of the class. I’m actually writing this blog a day late and my memories kind of fuzzy about the specifics of the discussion, but I’ll give this my best shot. At some point in the discussion Mr. Schick had us look up the oath of office for the president, and how different presidents swore on different Bibles. Each president would use a different Bible of their choice, while some would even use two (President Obama). We also looked up the first amendment’s exact script several times, as we were looking at the exact wording of it.

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