Leo is relevant to everything

Hopefully everyone had a nice long weekend and you were able to catch up on sleep, school work, or TV.  But let's not forget the reason we had off yesterday - MLK Day. This day celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday (January 15), a man who promoted nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement. While we typically associate the movement with the 1960's, Dr. King's legacy lives on.  Here's a link to a recent NPR piece comparing the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter movements. Or, see Mrs. Garafola post from last Friday for some other thoughts and things related to MLK.

So many feels in TFA today! Murder, locusts (hint: an important insect in the novel), just to name a few things.  Next up are chapters 10-12, so please make sure you have that read by next Monday, January 25.

First quiz of the semester is tomorrow!  This quiz over Unit 5B (Imperialism...5A was Industrialization & Nationalism from December), covers your knowledge over:

1. WHAP Ch. 32 (Imperialism and migration) and pgs. 685-688 and 693-694 (Latin America)
2. Imperialism Case Study: The British Empire (packet is online)
3. Migration (packet is online)
4. The Decline of Imperial China & the Ottoman Empire (the PPT is online)
5. Russia & Japan's attempts at industrialization (the PPT key for your chart is online)

I know it's been pretty fast and furious, but you have a lot of resources at your disposal to study from:

• Unit 5B Study Guide (online)
• Imperialism Q&A based on the questions some classes asked in class on Tuesday (online)
• Tutorials (after school today and at 8:15 am tomorrow) 

Remember, just being able to define important terms like zaibatsu aren't good enough in the grand scheme of things.  You should be able to place these terms into the larger context.  As Japan industrialized, they too will need the same financial instruments and witness the same economic growth that western powers underwent in the 19th century.  

Anyway, we haven't had a S.U.P.E.R. (Siddiqui's Unbelieveable and Prepossessing Eating Recommendation) recently, so here's one for you - The Filament in Deep Ellum.  This is a new Dallas restaurant that features regional cooking.  I highly recommend the cauliflower gratin and the gulf shrimp.  If you like Texas/Louisiana cooking, this is a cool place for you. 

Oscar nominations were released recently. Hopefully this will be Leo's year.  The Revenant was an excellent film, but it's a bit violent. And Pixar films seem to dominate the animated film category whenever they produce a movie, so I bet Inside Out will be a shoo-in (they won the Globe already).  On a side note, referencing Leo is totally academically relevant because he starred in Gangs of New York in 2002 (a film about Irish immigrants to the U.S.) and Blood Diamond in 2006 (a film that centers around the diamond mining industry in Sierra Leone...hello, Imperialism). 

Truth...I always cry at the beginning of Up

Happy studying!

- Warrior Princess Siddiqui