Monday, September 30, 2013
All Classes: How to Be Productive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maYwwQ8CYiA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Humanities: Socratic Seminar & Then We Built!
We started class in Mr. Dunbar's room and completed a quick socratic seminar. (You can also find it shared in your Google Drive.)
Then it was building time. We got loads of building and painting and more done.
Biggest development? Cardboard Challenges MUST BE READY FOR THURSDAY PERIOD 3.
This is a change from what as said last week, but it is must be this way for us to do this as part of a collective experience at Mt. Blue.
Cardboard Challenge
We have a lot of work to do by next Wednesday.
Here's everything that needs to happen for the Cardboard Challenge.
1. PBL/DT Project Proposal. The form is in your e-mail AND available at this blog post. You need approval before we will grant access to materials and tools.
DUE: ASAP
2. Cardboard Challenge. Build. Make. Create. Bring resources from home. (Do not bring knives/box cutters. We will provide box cutters in class.) Ask yourself this question: How might we construct a cardboard product without glue or tape?
DUE: Thurs., Oct. 3rd. Period 3. Lunch. Awesome.
3. Cardboard Challenge Research IGNITE. This is a slide show similar to your autobiography. It requires you to research a topic related to your particular cardboard project and create a 2 minute, 12 slide presentation about that topic.
DUE: Wed, Oct. 9th
Blogs
You have at least three blog posts due this week. One of them must document your cardboard challenge -- as many parts and pieces of your process as possible. Pics of drawings and designs, notes, prototypes, stages of assembly. The other two (or more) may be about anything related to class. It may be LoNGview work, it may be answers to questions raised in socratic seminar, it may be commentary about how class is going, it may be ideas on what you'd like to research for your ignite presentation part of the cardboard challenge.
DUE: Oct. 3rd or 4th (No school on the 4th, but it won't be late if it comes in on that day)
Here's a Schedule of Due Dates
DEEP Thinking Graphic Organizer: Due last week
Cardboard Challenge Project Proposal: Due ASAP
Roots Quiz #2 & Word Map/Product #2: Due Thursday, 10/10
Blog Posts (3+ including cardboard challenge documentation): Due Thurs or Fri, 10/3, 10/4
Cardboard Challenge: Due Thursday, Oct 3rd, Period 3
Cardboard Challenge IGNITE Research Presentation: Due Wednesday, October 9th
Then it was building time. We got loads of building and painting and more done.
Biggest development? Cardboard Challenges MUST BE READY FOR THURSDAY PERIOD 3.
This is a change from what as said last week, but it is must be this way for us to do this as part of a collective experience at Mt. Blue.
Cardboard Challenge
We have a lot of work to do by next Wednesday.
Here's everything that needs to happen for the Cardboard Challenge.
1. PBL/DT Project Proposal. The form is in your e-mail AND available at this blog post. You need approval before we will grant access to materials and tools.
DUE: ASAP
2. Cardboard Challenge. Build. Make. Create. Bring resources from home. (Do not bring knives/box cutters. We will provide box cutters in class.) Ask yourself this question: How might we construct a cardboard product without glue or tape?
DUE: Thurs., Oct. 3rd. Period 3. Lunch. Awesome.
3. Cardboard Challenge Research IGNITE. This is a slide show similar to your autobiography. It requires you to research a topic related to your particular cardboard project and create a 2 minute, 12 slide presentation about that topic.
DUE: Wed, Oct. 9th
Blogs
You have at least three blog posts due this week. One of them must document your cardboard challenge -- as many parts and pieces of your process as possible. Pics of drawings and designs, notes, prototypes, stages of assembly. The other two (or more) may be about anything related to class. It may be LoNGview work, it may be answers to questions raised in socratic seminar, it may be commentary about how class is going, it may be ideas on what you'd like to research for your ignite presentation part of the cardboard challenge.
DUE: Oct. 3rd or 4th (No school on the 4th, but it won't be late if it comes in on that day)
Here's a Schedule of Due Dates
DEEP Thinking Graphic Organizer: Due last week
Cardboard Challenge Project Proposal: Due ASAP
Roots Quiz #2 & Word Map/Product #2: Due Thursday, 10/10
Blog Posts (3+ including cardboard challenge documentation): Due Thurs or Fri, 10/3, 10/4
Cardboard Challenge: Due Thursday, Oct 3rd, Period 3
Cardboard Challenge IGNITE Research Presentation: Due Wednesday, October 9th
AP Lit: Discussing Dalloway (& More)
Today marks our first formally graded class discussion.
We have a new rubric for blogging starting with this week, Q1 Week 3.
The rubric is below.
Today we also start using our discussion rubric.
Today's back channel is here.
Homework:
Write: College Essay Submission draft
Due Friday 10/4
Read: The Hours (optional b/c not enough copies to req.; Mr. Ryder cannot count.)
Will be extremely valuable in understanding Mrs. Dalloway and in creating a great Dallowinian Party event.
Due Wednesday 10/9
Start Planning & Thinking: Dallowinian Party - Character
See Materials & Rubric in Google Drive OUT folder.
Updated rubric coming soon
Due Friday 10/18
Blog
3+ Entries Including the Creative Entry of the Week
Creative Blog: For some writers, a character's attire is little more than an afterthought. Not so, with our most recent creators. Both Woolf and Cunningham use clothing and physical appearance to convey meaning in their respective works.
Use Polyvore, or another tool or physical materials, to create a wardrobe collage suitable for a character in either Mrs. Dalloway or The Hours. You may try to create a historically and textually accurate collection or you may choose instead to select contemporary equivalents. Explain your selections with regards to conveying meaning, not merely literal interpretations.
Added Challenge: Use physical wardrobe pieces and photography to do the same.
We have a new rubric for blogging starting with this week, Q1 Week 3.
The rubric is below.
Today we also start using our discussion rubric.
Today's back channel is here.
Homework:
Write: College Essay Submission draft
Due Friday 10/4
Read: The Hours (optional b/c not enough copies to req.; Mr. Ryder cannot count.)
Will be extremely valuable in understanding Mrs. Dalloway and in creating a great Dallowinian Party event.
Due Wednesday 10/9
Start Planning & Thinking: Dallowinian Party - Character
See Materials & Rubric in Google Drive OUT folder.
Updated rubric coming soon
Due Friday 10/18
Blog
3+ Entries Including the Creative Entry of the Week
Creative Blog: For some writers, a character's attire is little more than an afterthought. Not so, with our most recent creators. Both Woolf and Cunningham use clothing and physical appearance to convey meaning in their respective works.
Use Polyvore, or another tool or physical materials, to create a wardrobe collage suitable for a character in either Mrs. Dalloway or The Hours. You may try to create a historically and textually accurate collection or you may choose instead to select contemporary equivalents. Explain your selections with regards to conveying meaning, not merely literal interpretations.
Added Challenge: Use physical wardrobe pieces and photography to do the same.
PACE: Taking Stock of PACE & Proposing Hero Projects
We will continue our efforts to flip the classroom around a bit today. We'll meet in F 215 while taking advantage of all of our new tables and seating locations.
Teacher PACE:
* Work in Book Groups to Complete a Heroic Cycle Model using Design Kits & Your Book
* Complete a vision statement in class
* I Am Hero Project proposals submitted
Student PACE
* Choose your work groups for the vision
* Design & propose your I Am Hero project
Teacher PACE
How does the hero of your group's novel fulfill the heroic cycle/monomyth?
Here are a couple of models to help you remember the stages. Note! The stages don't have to have the exact same names, so long as the order looks pretty much the same. Some models are more simple than others and that's okay:
After Teacher PACE time, here's what needs to happen before you leave the room today.
Student PACE
1. Work in a group of 1, 2, or 3 people to craft a vision statement about PACE. Based on the ideas on the shared doc, what do you think PACE should look like this year? Put your vision on the PACE Vision Thinking doc.
Here's an incomplete example to help your thinking:
PACE is a class where we are productive and use freedom to our advantage. We pursue our personal interests but also do challenging work. It's important to us that we have time to do our work in class, and it's important to us that our individual needs are respected.
2. I Am Hero Project Proposal submitted and a conference with either Mr. Ryder or Miss Murphy.
3. Submit your I Am Hero Graphic Organizer Week #2 by placing it in your Google Drive PACE 2013 IN box.
Homework
I Am Hero Project
I Am Hero Project
Due: Wed, 10/16
I Am Hero Project Proposal
Due: Today, 9/30
I Am Hero Graphic Organizer Week #3
Due: Mon, 10/7
Blog
Q1 Week 2
3+ Posts this week to meet/exceed the standard
Creative Entry Required:
You can visit www.unclehenrys.com or www.craigslist.com to explore the formatting, the categories, the relative length, and the style used.
Student PACE Suggestions:
Teacher PACE:
* Work in Book Groups to Complete a Heroic Cycle Model using Design Kits & Your Book
* Complete a vision statement in class
* I Am Hero Project proposals submitted
Student PACE
* Choose your work groups for the vision
* Design & propose your I Am Hero project
Teacher PACE
How does the hero of your group's novel fulfill the heroic cycle/monomyth?
Here are a couple of models to help you remember the stages. Note! The stages don't have to have the exact same names, so long as the order looks pretty much the same. Some models are more simple than others and that's okay:
Clickable model of the Monomyth: http://orias.berkeley.edu/hero/index.htm
Page of explanations to help you with that model: http://orias.berkeley.edu/hero/JourneyStages.pdf
And finally, a great video to help as well.
After Teacher PACE time, here's what needs to happen before you leave the room today.
Student PACE
1. Work in a group of 1, 2, or 3 people to craft a vision statement about PACE. Based on the ideas on the shared doc, what do you think PACE should look like this year? Put your vision on the PACE Vision Thinking doc.
Here's an incomplete example to help your thinking:
PACE is a class where we are productive and use freedom to our advantage. We pursue our personal interests but also do challenging work. It's important to us that we have time to do our work in class, and it's important to us that our individual needs are respected.
2. I Am Hero Project Proposal submitted and a conference with either Mr. Ryder or Miss Murphy.
3. Submit your I Am Hero Graphic Organizer Week #2 by placing it in your Google Drive PACE 2013 IN box.
Homework
I Am Hero Project
I Am Hero Project
Due: Wed, 10/16
I Am Hero Project Proposal
Due: Today, 9/30
I Am Hero Graphic Organizer Week #3
Due: Mon, 10/7
Blog
Q1 Week 2
3+ Posts this week to meet/exceed the standard
Creative Entry Required:
HerosList
Everyone know the best way to get help on your heroic journey is by posting to Craigslist and advertising in Uncle Henry’s.
Create three advertisements based on your book: One for a helper, one for an amulet, and one for either an obstructor OR a hero (that last one provides a chance to really play around with point of view).
Quick example: Help Wanted: MWM, 36, seeks mortal enemy to challenge him at every turn and push him to excel at everything in life, especially teaching career, family time, and general nerding. Who wouldn’t want to be his nemesis? He’s balding, moody and weird. Strike now! dryder@mtbluersd.org
You can visit www.unclehenrys.com or www.craigslist.com to explore the formatting, the categories, the relative length, and the style used.
Student PACE Suggestions:
- Work on your I Am Hero Project
- Bring materials you need to class
- Keep checking the rubric for standards & requirements
- Show Mr. Ryder & Miss Murphy your ideas
Sunday, September 29, 2013
AP Lit: New Edition of T.S. Eliot's Modernist Masterpiece "The Wasteland"
And poet, Paul Muldoon, has a great deal to share about it on NPR's Weekend Edition.
Well worth your time to give it a listen. A load of great info about modernism & the world in which Eliot and Woolf and Joyce were writing.
Well worth your time to give it a listen. A load of great info about modernism & the world in which Eliot and Woolf and Joyce were writing.
Friday, September 27, 2013
AP Lit: Chess and Lit
Metaphors abounded as connected chess to the processes of both constructing and deconstructing literature.
Humanities: Cardboard Challenging
This time had the honors Eng class with us. Cars, rockem sockem, Jango Fett, skis, skeball and more.
AP Lit 2B/3B: Chess & Literature
We begin by submitting our synthesis essays. Create a Google Drive folder called "[First & Last Names] AP Lit 2013 IN," make me an editor of that folder. Finally, put a Google Doc version of your essay in that folder.
Note: It has to be a Google doc, not just a Pages document uploaded. I need to be able to comment on it using Google, not Pages.
This should only take a few moments.
Then . . .
Chess.
Why chess?
We'll discuss at length in class.
And speaking of discussions . . .
We will practice using a class discussion protocol that we will use next week for our first formally assessed class discussion.
Homework
Write: Work on your college essay. (If no school chosen yet, go w/ the common app prompt. You can find that all over the interwebs.) Your submission draft is due next Thursday or Friday, depending on which class you are in.
Due: Friday, 8/4 (I know there's no school! Yay internet!)
Note: It has to be a Google doc, not just a Pages document uploaded. I need to be able to comment on it using Google, not Pages.
This should only take a few moments.
Then . . .
Chess.
Why chess?
We'll discuss at length in class.
And speaking of discussions . . .
We will practice using a class discussion protocol that we will use next week for our first formally assessed class discussion.
Homework
Write: Work on your college essay. (If no school chosen yet, go w/ the common app prompt. You can find that all over the interwebs.) Your submission draft is due next Thursday or Friday, depending on which class you are in.
Due: Friday, 8/4 (I know there's no school! Yay internet!)
Blog: 3+ entries for Friday, 9/27
Assigned Creative Blog Post: Mrs. Dalloway employs color in meaningful, powerful ways. Perhaps you have noticed this, perhaps you have not. (Pay particular attention to flowers, foods, skies, clothing and faces.)
Use Colourlovers.com to create a custom palette of at least three colors relating to meaning in Mrs. Dalloway. You will need to name the palette and each color within it. Be certain to choose purposeful names and push your self to go beyond the concrete. (Concrete: "blue sky" because the sky was blue.)
Share your palette on your blog w/ explanations of your choices.
Added Challenge: Create a piece of digital art employing the color palette in a way congruent to Virginia Woolf.
Read
Dallowinian Reading Chunks (pg. #s are Mt. Blue copies, Harcourt ed.)
1: a t an O an F (1 - 29)
2: he never saw her again (29 - 64)
3: Dr. Holmes, looking not quite so kind. (64-94)
4. Elizabeth Dalloway mounted the Westminster Omnibus (94 - 139)
5. For there she was (139 - End)
One reading per night.
Blue Day classes finish the book for Tuesday, the 1st. Gold Day classes finish for Monday the 30th.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
All Classes: Make Space Takes Shape
Thanks to Mr Tierney, Mr Bogar, Mr Leavitt, Mr B, Mrs Farley, Mr Kapiloff, Mr Logan, Mr Schoen, Mr Heath, Mr Feldspauch, Mrs Poulin and more, this is really taking shape
AP Lit 3G: Chess, Strategy & Literature
We begin by submitting our synthesis essays. Create a Google Drive folder called "[First & Last Names] AP Lit 2013 IN," make me an editor of that folder. Finally, put a Google Doc version of your essay in that folder.
Note: It has to be a Google doc, not just a Pages document uploaded. I need to be able to comment on it using Google, not Pages.
This should only take a few moments.
Then . . .
Chess.
Why chess?
We'll discuss at length in class.
And speaking of discussions . . .
We will practice using a class discussion protocol that we will use next week for our first formally assessed class discussion.
Homework
Write: Work on your college essay. (If no school chosen yet, go w/ the common app prompt. You can find that all over the interwebs.) Your submission draft is due next Thursday or Friday, depending on which class you are in.
Due: Thursday, 8/3, Friday, 8/4
Note: It has to be a Google doc, not just a Pages document uploaded. I need to be able to comment on it using Google, not Pages.
This should only take a few moments.
Then . . .
Chess.
Why chess?
We'll discuss at length in class.
And speaking of discussions . . .
We will practice using a class discussion protocol that we will use next week for our first formally assessed class discussion.
Homework
Write: Work on your college essay. (If no school chosen yet, go w/ the common app prompt. You can find that all over the interwebs.) Your submission draft is due next Thursday or Friday, depending on which class you are in.
Due: Thursday, 8/3, Friday, 8/4
Blog: 3+ entries for Friday, 9/27
Assigned Creative Blog Post: Mrs. Dalloway employs color in meaningful, powerful ways. Perhaps you have noticed this, perhaps you have not. (Pay particular attention to flowers, foods, skies, clothing and faces.)
Use Colourlovers.com to create a custom palette of at least three colors relating to meaning in Mrs. Dalloway. You will need to name the palette and each color within it. Be certain to choose purposeful names and push your self to go beyond the concrete. (Concrete: "blue sky" because the sky was blue.)
Share your palette on your blog w/ explanations of your choices.
Added Challenge: Create a piece of digital art employing the color palette in a way congruent to Virginia Woolf.
Read
Dallowinian Reading Chunks (pg. #s are Mt. Blue copies, Harcourt ed.)
1: a t an O an F (1 - 29)
2: he never saw her again (29 - 64)
3: Dr. Holmes, looking not quite so kind. (64-94)
4. Elizabeth Dalloway mounted the Westminster Omnibus (94 - 139)
5. For there she was (139 - End)
One reading per night.
Blue Day classes finish the book for Tuesday, the 1st. Gold Day classes finish for Monday the 30th.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
PACE: Working on Being Heroes
Thursday will begin in The Forum. We'll be looking at some work the teachers did on Wednesday afternoon regarding how to make the school a more welcoming, engaging place that gets more students to want to BE HERE. I'm curious to see what you think of the results.
I then need to show you how to complete the project proposal form for the I Am Hero Project. I'll do that by making a fake one right in front of your very eyes. The actual form lives on its own page right here on the blog.
I only received a little feedback the other day (7 out of 17) about how class went, but I'm applying it.
Proposal & Conf Due Monday, 9/30
I then need to show you how to complete the project proposal form for the I Am Hero Project. I'll do that by making a fake one right in front of your very eyes. The actual form lives on its own page right here on the blog.
I only received a little feedback the other day (7 out of 17) about how class went, but I'm applying it.
So I'll stop as close to 30 minutes as possible today, though it may go a little over. You will certainly have over half of the class to work.
And that work will include working by yourself or with your Student PACE reading groups on any of the following.
Homework
Reading
Student PACE: Whatever reading comes next for your group
Teacher PACE: Finish book by 9/30
Graphic Organizers
I Am Hero Graphic Organizer Week #1
Due Friday 9/20 -- Will Take Up to Wednesday 9/25 & Not Be Late
I Am Hero Graphic Organizer Week #2 (In the PACE 2013 OUT folder on Google Drive)
Due Monday 9/30
Blog
3+ Blog Posts Due Each Week (A Week is Monday to Friday)
1 Post Is Required (It Will Always Be a Creative Post), Others Are Anything You Want to Post Related to Class
Creative Req. Post: Write your own song or poem that tells JUST the story of your protagonist’s call to adventure and/or crossing of the threshold. It may take any poetic form you like -- it does not need to be an epic poem -- and there isn’t a particular length requirement so long as it fits a poetic form and tells that part of the story. (Note: This is also part of your graphic organizer Week #2 -- it counts for both! That’s one way to look at using your blog. A place to do your work.)
Due Friday 9/27
I Am Hero Project
The rubric is on the blog as well as here.
You should start your planning ASAP. There will be a proposal form that will be due next Monday 9/30 in class.
Due Wednesday, 10/9
AP Lit 2B/3B: Zones: Workshopping, Writing, Discussing
Hey folks,
You have four zones in which you may function today. The intention is to maximize our classroom time opportunities for folks to get what they need/want from the class period. We won't be able to do this everyday. But I'd like to try it out and see how well it works.
1. Use the inspiration area as a discussion hub to discuss Mrs. Dalloway. Please record your conversation for my benefit in some way.
2. Use a cluster of desks in the center of the room to run a peer editing workshop. I'll create a shared Google doc on which you should paste each essay examined and mark up with your comments. Start from the same place we began the other day: author cannot speak, comments and constructive criticisms given, author given a chance to ask questions and clarify.
3. Find a comfortable space and work on your synthesis essay in solo fashion. Again, share it with me through Google docs so I can see the results of your Wednesday.
4. Find a comfortable space and answer some of the questions on Google+.
Friday will be a very discussion and movement and chess oriented day. And next Tuesday will be rich with discussion.
Folks that intend to buy their own copy of The Hours should get their hands on it by early next week.
Homework
Write: Synthesis Essay 1st Submission Draft Due Next Class! Thursday! Rubric here!
Blog: 3+ entries for Friday, 9/27
Assigned Creative Blog Post: Mrs. Dalloway employs color in meaningful, powerful ways. Perhaps you have noticed this, perhaps you have not. (Pay particular attention to flowers, foods, skies, clothing and faces.)
Use Colourlovers.com to create a custom palette of at least three colors relating to meaning in Mrs. Dalloway. You will need to name the palette and each color within it. Be certain to choose purposeful names and push your self to go beyond the concrete. (Concrete: "blue sky" because the sky was blue.)
Share your palette on your blog w/ explanations of your choices.
Added Challenge: Create a piece of digital art employing the color palette in a way congruent to Virginia Woolf.
Read
Dallowinian Reading Chunks (pg. #s are Mt. Blue copies, Harcourt ed.)
1: a t an O an F (1 - 29)
2: he never saw her again (29 - 64)
3: Dr. Holmes, looking not quite so kind. (64-94)
4. Elizabeth Dalloway mounted the Westminster Omnibus (94 - 139)
5. For there she was (139 - End)
One reading per night.
Blue Day classes finish the book for Tuesday, the 1st. Gold Day classes finish for Monday the 30th.
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Humanities: Cardboard Challenging
Three teams hard at work on ping pong, four door cars and giant rock em sockem robots.
Humanities: Preparing for a Roots Quiz & Diving into the Cardboard Challenge
Today starts with preparing for Roots Quiz #1 by using Quizlet, which we believe really helps.
Remember that in addition to Roots Quiz #1, you have a Word Map OR a roots-based word product due on Thursday as well. (A roots-based product could be a short story, a poem, a song, a video, most anything that uses 10 roots-based words, such as "antidote" or "antecedent" or "bicameral.") These count THE SAME in the grade book. Both fall under the vocabulary standard.
Cardboard Challenge
We have a lot of work to do by next Wednesday.
Here's everything that needs to happen for the Cardboard Challenge.
1. PBL/DT Project Proposal. The form is in your e-mail AND available at this blog post. You need approval before we will grant access to materials and tools.
DUE: ASAP
2. Cardboard Challenge. Build. Make. Create. Bring resources from home. (Do not bring knives/box cutters. We will provide box cutters in class.) Ask yourself this question: How might we construct a cardboard product without glue or tape?
DUE: Oct. 2nd
3. Cardboard Challenge Research IGNITE. This is a slide show similar to your autobiography. It requires you to research a topic related to your particular cardboard project and create a 2 minute, 12 slide presentation about that topic.
DUE: Oct 9th
Blogs
You have at least three blog posts due this week. One of them must be your 6 slide autobiography. The other two (or more) may be about anything related to class. It may be LoNGview work, it may be documenting your cardboard challenge designs, it may be commentary about how class is going, it may be ideas on what you'd like to research.
DUE: Sept 27
Here's a Schedule of Due Dates
DEEP Thinking Graphic Organizer: Due last week
Cardboard Challenge Project Proposal: Due ASAP
Roots Quiz #1 & Word Map/Product #1: Due Thursday, 9/26
Blog Posts (3+ including 6 slide autobiography presentation): Due Friday, 9/27
Cardboard Challenge: Due Wednesday, Oct 2nd
Cardboard Challenge IGNITE Research Presentation: Due Thursday, October 9th
Remember that in addition to Roots Quiz #1, you have a Word Map OR a roots-based word product due on Thursday as well. (A roots-based product could be a short story, a poem, a song, a video, most anything that uses 10 roots-based words, such as "antidote" or "antecedent" or "bicameral.") These count THE SAME in the grade book. Both fall under the vocabulary standard.
Cardboard Challenge
We have a lot of work to do by next Wednesday.
Here's everything that needs to happen for the Cardboard Challenge.
1. PBL/DT Project Proposal. The form is in your e-mail AND available at this blog post. You need approval before we will grant access to materials and tools.
DUE: ASAP
2. Cardboard Challenge. Build. Make. Create. Bring resources from home. (Do not bring knives/box cutters. We will provide box cutters in class.) Ask yourself this question: How might we construct a cardboard product without glue or tape?
DUE: Oct. 2nd
3. Cardboard Challenge Research IGNITE. This is a slide show similar to your autobiography. It requires you to research a topic related to your particular cardboard project and create a 2 minute, 12 slide presentation about that topic.
DUE: Oct 9th
Blogs
You have at least three blog posts due this week. One of them must be your 6 slide autobiography. The other two (or more) may be about anything related to class. It may be LoNGview work, it may be documenting your cardboard challenge designs, it may be commentary about how class is going, it may be ideas on what you'd like to research.
DUE: Sept 27
Here's a Schedule of Due Dates
DEEP Thinking Graphic Organizer: Due last week
Cardboard Challenge Project Proposal: Due ASAP
Roots Quiz #1 & Word Map/Product #1: Due Thursday, 9/26
Blog Posts (3+ including 6 slide autobiography presentation): Due Friday, 9/27
Cardboard Challenge: Due Wednesday, Oct 2nd
Cardboard Challenge IGNITE Research Presentation: Due Thursday, October 9th
AP Lit 3G: Lot Jotting & Google+ & An Experiment
When you walk in, I will ask you all to take five minutes & write an essay about whether or not I should wear a tie to school. Have fun with it. (It's for my daughter. I'll explain.)
Then we will do the Lot Jot question generating activity described here.
After lunch, we are trying an experiment.
There will be three zones.
A book discussion zone.
A synthesis solo work zone.
A synthesis group work zone.
I will work my way through all three, as you will choose the zone that most suits your needs. You can also move fluidly from zone to zone as your needs dictate.
This is an effort to maximize the class time for you, while still affording a structure in the room.
1: a t an O an F (1 - 29)
2: he never saw her again (29 - 64)
3: Dr. Holmes, looking not quite so kind. (64-94)
4. Elizabeth Dalloway mounted the Westminster Omnibus (94 - 139)
5. For there she was (139 - End)
One reading per night.
Blue Day classes finish the book for Tuesday, the 1st. Gold Day classes finish for Monday the 30th.
Then we will do the Lot Jot question generating activity described here.
After lunch, we are trying an experiment.
There will be three zones.
A book discussion zone.
A synthesis solo work zone.
A synthesis group work zone.
I will work my way through all three, as you will choose the zone that most suits your needs. You can also move fluidly from zone to zone as your needs dictate.
This is an effort to maximize the class time for you, while still affording a structure in the room.
Homework
Write: Synthesis Essay 1st Submission Draft Due Next Class! Thursday!
Blog: 3+ entries for Friday, 9/27
Assigned Creative Blog Post: Mrs. Dalloway employs color in meaningful, powerful ways. Perhaps you have noticed this, perhaps you have not. (Pay particular attention to flowers, foods, skies, clothing and faces.)
Use Colourlovers.com to create a custom palette of at least three colors relating to meaning in Mrs. Dalloway. You will need to name the palette and each color within it. Be certain to choose purposeful names and push your self to go beyond the concrete. (Concrete: "blue sky" because the sky was blue.)
Share your palette on your blog w/ explanations of your choices.
Added Challenge: Create a piece of digital art employing the color palette in a way congruent to Virginia Woolf.
Read
Dallowinian Reading Chunks (pg. #s are Mt. Blue copies, Harcourt ed.)1: a t an O an F (1 - 29)
2: he never saw her again (29 - 64)
3: Dr. Holmes, looking not quite so kind. (64-94)
4. Elizabeth Dalloway mounted the Westminster Omnibus (94 - 139)
5. For there she was (139 - End)
One reading per night.
Blue Day classes finish the book for Tuesday, the 1st. Gold Day classes finish for Monday the 30th.
PACE: Taking a Step Toward Independent Learning Today
Today I tried an experiment in terms of helping folks meet the vision of PACE described on your sheets the other day. I'm very curious to see what people thought. So
I limited my direct instruction to 30 minutes. (During that time I shared another student I Am Hero project and ran a summary vs. paraphrasing activity. Remember, summaries say it in much fewer words. Paraphrase say it in your own words, but about the same amount of content.)
From there, folks had the rest of class to work at their own PACE as I circulated around and added some more information and helped folks out.
It was a little confusing because I didn't explain the new graphic organizer for Week #2 before hand. That's something I wish I had done.
Here's the work and due dates for I Am Hero.
I limited my direct instruction to 30 minutes. (During that time I shared another student I Am Hero project and ran a summary vs. paraphrasing activity. Remember, summaries say it in much fewer words. Paraphrase say it in your own words, but about the same amount of content.)
From there, folks had the rest of class to work at their own PACE as I circulated around and added some more information and helped folks out.
It was a little confusing because I didn't explain the new graphic organizer for Week #2 before hand. That's something I wish I had done.
Here's the work and due dates for I Am Hero.
Homework
Reading
Student PACE: Whatever reading comes next for your group
Teacher PACE: Finish book by 9/30
Graphic Organizers
I Am Hero Graphic Organizer Week #1
Due Friday 9/20 -- Will Take Up to Wednesday 9/25 & Not Be Late
I Am Hero Graphic Organizer Week #2 (In the PACE 2013 OUT folder on Google Drive)
Due Monday 9/30
Blog
3+ Blog Posts Due Each Week (A Week is Monday to Friday)
1 Post Is Required (It Will Always Be a Creative Post), Others Are Anything You Want to Post Related to Class
Creative Req. Post: Write your own song or poem that tells JUST the story of your protagonist’s call to adventure and/or crossing of the threshold. It may take any poetic form you like -- it does not need to be an epic poem -- and there isn’t a particular length requirement so long as it fits a poetic form and tells that part of the story. (Note: This is also part of your graphic organizer Week #2 -- it counts for both! That’s one way to look at using your blog. A place to do your work.)
Due Friday 9/27
I Am Hero Project
The rubric is on the blog as well as here.
You should start your planning ASAP. There will be a proposal form that we complete next Monday 9/30 in class. I’ll send it along so you can work ahead if you like.
Due Thursday, October 9
Monday, September 23, 2013
AP Lit 2B/3B: Workshopping Synthesis & Lot Jotting Mrs. Dalloway
As we continue our work together, I continue to learn more about our various classroom dynamics and strive to find methods that gets everyone what he or she needs to feel confident with our work. It's a challenging work in progress. Thank you for bearing with it and engaging with the work heretofore present.
We accomplished two key goals today: workshopped synthesis thinking & discussed Mrs. Dalloway.
To be honest, the latter was mostly determining great questions for later discussion of Mrs. Dalloway, though I would argue in formulating those questions, ideas were considered. We will have much closer textual examinations on Wednesday and Friday and next week as well. (I had something of an a-ha! moment today.)
Here's pics and description of our modified Lot Jot work.
We also got everyone started on Google+ and nestled into his or her correct Google+ AP Lit class community.
The in-class synthesis workshops are accessible in your Google Drive. Just look for AP Lit Synthesis Workshop inside the AP Lit 2013 OUT/Synthesis Thinking folder. I'm making all of them visible to all AP Lit 2013 students. (None of us is smarter than all of us.) You can see what other folks have been doing for thesis statements and introductions.
1: a t an O an F (1 - 29)2: he never saw her again (29 - 64)3: Dr. Holmes, looking not quite so kind. (64-94)4. Elizabeth Dalloway mounted the Westminster Omnibus (94 - 139)5. For there she was (139 - End)
One reading per night.
Blue Day classes finish the book for Tuesday, the 1st. Gold Day classes finish for Monday the 30th.
Write
Next working draft of synthesis for workshopping on Wednesday.
1st Submission draft of synthesis #1 due on Friday.
We accomplished two key goals today: workshopped synthesis thinking & discussed Mrs. Dalloway.
To be honest, the latter was mostly determining great questions for later discussion of Mrs. Dalloway, though I would argue in formulating those questions, ideas were considered. We will have much closer textual examinations on Wednesday and Friday and next week as well. (I had something of an a-ha! moment today.)
Here's pics and description of our modified Lot Jot work.
We also got everyone started on Google+ and nestled into his or her correct Google+ AP Lit class community.
The in-class synthesis workshops are accessible in your Google Drive. Just look for AP Lit Synthesis Workshop inside the AP Lit 2013 OUT/Synthesis Thinking folder. I'm making all of them visible to all AP Lit 2013 students. (None of us is smarter than all of us.) You can see what other folks have been doing for thesis statements and introductions.
Homework
Blog: 3+ entries for Friday, 9/27
Assigned Creative Blog Post: Mrs. Dalloway employs color in meaningful, powerful ways. Perhaps you have noticed this, perhaps you have not. (Pay particular attention to flowers, foods, skies, clothing and faces.)
Use Colourlovers.com to create a custom palette of at least three colors relating to meaning in Mrs. Dalloway. You will need to name the palette and each color within it. Be certain to choose purposeful names and push your self to go beyond the concrete. (Concrete: "blue sky" because the sky was blue.)
Share your palette on your blog w/ explanations of your choices.
Added Challenge: Create a piece of digital art employing the color palette in a way congruent to Virginia Woolf.
Read
Dallowinian Reading Chunks (pg. #s are Mt. Blue copies, Harcourt ed.)1: a t an O an F (1 - 29)2: he never saw her again (29 - 64)3: Dr. Holmes, looking not quite so kind. (64-94)4. Elizabeth Dalloway mounted the Westminster Omnibus (94 - 139)5. For there she was (139 - End)
One reading per night.
Blue Day classes finish the book for Tuesday, the 1st. Gold Day classes finish for Monday the 30th.
Write
Next working draft of synthesis for workshopping on Wednesday.
1st Submission draft of synthesis #1 due on Friday.
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