Why oppress?

Today, students took their vocab quiz over their QUER words and their grammar quiz over linking/action verbs. Then, students acquired new vocab words for the week:

NAT= birth, origin
1. natural-adj- growing spontaneously, without being planted or tended by human hand
2. innate-adj- inborn, inherent
3. naturopathy-n- a system or method of treating disease that employs no surgery or synthetic drugs
4. native-adj- belonging to a particular place by birth
5. nation-n- large body of people, associated with a particular territory
6. nationalism-n- devotion to the interests or culture of one's nation
7. naturalize-v- to confer upon (an alien) the rights and privileges of a citizen
8. nature-n- the natural world as it exists without human beings or civilization

Then, we discussed the idea of oppression as a it related to colonial Latin America. We had a large discussion about what causes people to oppress other people and whether or not students believed that greed and selfishness were innate human characteristics. Then, we read and answered questions about ruling in the Latin American colonies and the building discontent that would lead to revolution.

Homework: Vocab pictures with new vocab words.