Yams for Days

Humanitarians,

We very much enjoyed your projects! Today, I saw some beautiful art, some MASSIVE villages, some wear-able masks, and ate a lot of yams, and for that I thank you. We've finally wrapped up Things Fall Apart and what a journey it's been (this feels like I'm writing a yearbook note to the novel), but we are ready to move forward into the art and literature of the crazy crazy 20th century.

ALL THE YAMS

Since we didn't have time today, we will discuss your humanities reading tomorrow, and CHECK YOUR CALENDAR, you have another little batch of pages discussing surrealism for Tuesday. What else is due on Tuesday...YOU GUESSED IT, humanities experience, so take your mom out for a nice Valentine's day trip to the museum and drop a sad sad reading check grade.

a preview of the crazy to come

So what happened on this illustrious day, Feb. 11, in history?!

• 1809: Robert Fulton patented the steamboat. 
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• 1929: Lateran Treaty was signed with Italy recognizing the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City. You know what this means....more Pope memes. 
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• 1945: Yalta Agreement signed by President Franklin Roosevelt (#1 president on Garafola's list), British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Preimer Josef Stalin during WWII; it was an agreement on what to demand of Germany and some logistics for after the war. 
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• 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini's followers seized control of the Iran government. 
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• 1990: South African resistance leader, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after more than 27 years. 
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• 2012: Pop star Whitney Houston died at the Beverly Hilton hotel in LA, the night before the Grammys. Fun fact, the soundtrack to The Bodyguard, was the biggest seller in the 1990's. 

Your Civil Rights Activist for today is Ida B. Wells. 

Ms. Wells was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement, working in the late 1800's and early 1900's. She documented lynching in the US, showing that it was often used as a way to control or punish blacks who competed with whites, rather than being based on criminal acts by blacks, as was usually claimed by white mobs. 

She was also active in women's rights and the women's suffrage movement, establishing several women's organizations. She was known throughout the world and helped temper some of the lynching in the American South.

And finally your social media to follow today is....

@basicbrunches on instagram. This blogger eats her way through Dallas (and occasionally other places), so if YOU LOVE FOOD, like me, check it. Also, for full disclosure, she is a friend of mine :)

Enjoy, ignore any mentions of mimosas. 

- cbg

#tbt to last year when I went to a Moby Dick party with one of the AMSTUD teachers....enjoy