The week was exciting and chaotic with illness, recovering from my only child’s wedding, volleyball and football playoffs.  The step back and punt psychology lesson for Monday was to finish the film Rainman and answer questions about it.  Tuesday  & Wednesday there was lecture and discussion on the ‘Behaving Brain’ as well as an educational film by reknowned psychologist Dr Philip Zimbardo.  Thursday we were out of school for state volleyball. Friday we watched three of five parts of film about the actual ‘Rainman’ Kim Peek and discussed the implications of new brain research and autism.

J1 pursued current events, newspaper analysis and viewing of the film Newsies based on the 1898 New York newsboy strike.  The history of the period has been examined and discussed.