Pop Culture. Comedy Culture.

We're starting a new mini unit today: comedy.

Today, you'll start by designing two sketchnotes:

1. What do you find funny?

2. What do you find un-funny?

Consider the following:

People. Movies. TV.  Stand up. Social Media.  Situations.  Circumstances.


After that, watch this TED Talk.

Complete a Notice/Wish/Wonder experience as a class.  (Follow Mr. Davis' lead.)

HOMEWORK.

Blog Post.  See Tuesday's blog entry for the description.

Ads due Friday!  Excited to see them!

Brit Lit: Putting the Team Together & Canterbury Tales

We'll start by reviewing what it means to form a team.  Take a look at a handful of these clips.  What do you notice as trends across them?  What stands out as unique or different?



From there we'll complete an activity called 8Box.  It's a way for you to put together some ideas for the mini project around the corner and help me get to know you a bit better for the rest of this semester.  This will lead into our next work. . .

There'll be a bit of a pause in the team action as we take a look at No Red Ink and work with To/Too/Two and Then/Than.  You can choose to work with one of the teachers in the room or independently based on your needs.

Then it's back to the team . . .

We'll look at one of the oldest "pulling together the team" sequences in the English language: the Canterbury Tales prologue.  We'll look at the various characters that were pulled together at that time, see what the people were like when it was written, what they seemed to care about, what their skill sets were, and also some of their less fortunate qualities.

We'll work together through one of the characters and then you'll break into groups of 1, 2 or 3 to tackle the others and analyze each using a Notice/Wish/Wonder Graphic Organizer.

Each one is linked below.

Knight
Squire
Prioress/Nun
Monk
Miller
Doctor
Sailor

What we don't finish in class today, we'll finish up on Thursday.  This all leads into our first mini project: Portland Tales.

HOMEWORK.

Blog.
Req'd Post:  Putting together a team.  If you had to pull together a team of friends and family to solve a problem, what would that problem be and who would you assemble to solve it?  Justify each of your choices with specific reasons.

Due. Friday.  Feb 27.

No Red Ink.
If You Scored Below 90% on Their/To/Than Pre-Assessment Quiz
Complete All Listed Assignments
To/Too/Two
Their/There/They're

Due. Mon. Mar 2.

Pop Culture: And the Oscar Goes to . . .

Sunday night was a big evening for the movie industry as the Academy Awards were doled out.  The event pretty much caps the awards season after the Golden Globes (film & TV) and the Grammys (music) and some important but lesser known awards (SAG -- movies).

Today we'll take a look at the winners and the nominees and take a look the extent to which these awards reflect our tastes and interests as movie watchers.

We'll be using the movie ballot at Fansided.com

We won't use every category for our work -- only the following.

Best Picture
Director
Actor
Actress
Supporting Actor
Supporting Actress
Visual Effects
Animated Feature

You'll code the ballot with the following.
H. Heard of It.
S.  Seen It.
N. Never Heard of It.

We'll take your codes, collect the data, and see what trends merge.  Then we'll explore ways of visualizing these understandings.  Different ways to show the data.  Especially using http://memebase.cheezburger.com/graphjam as our inspiration -- because that will help us head into our comedy unit.


We'll develop questions from our data as well as we uncover the sorts of questions we should be asking for the rest of this semester as we explore pop culture.


HOMEWORK.

Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post.  Design Your Own Pop Culture Related Awards Show.
What would it be called?
What would be the categories?
Who would be the nominees this year?  The winner?
Explain your choices for the above and then . . .
Create a logo or promotional poster for the awards as well.

AP Lit: Anchors Await & Modest Proposals

Big Project Week.  Thursday and Friday, we get to see To Be or Not Be.  This is exciting stuff.

Monday and Tuesday, we'll be following up with "The Century Quilt" on demand by examining some anchor papers and comparing them to our own writing and thinking.  We'll be doing a tremendous amount of mark up on the anchor packets and busting out serious degrees of Post It notes.

From there we will conduct a close reading of Swift's "A Modest Proposal" right in class.  We'll be using our SCOUT/NWW/RBT triple lens.  And this will lead us to our next writing product (not the synthesis essay yet!).

We also have a collaboration with other seniors not from around these parts that is about to happen.  It involves redefining senioritis.  We'll look at this more closely on Wednesday and Thursday.

Here's the blog prompt due NEXT FRIDAY.  March 6.  Use words/video/audio to define your now more accurately than "senioritis."  We'll be connecting with seniors in a HS in Northern Illinois around this very idea -- and perhaps elsewhere as well.  Here's an example of how one student tackled it.

HOMEWORK.

Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post:  From A to To Be.   Stack that blog full of images and explanation of your process.  Show how you got there.
Due. Friday. Feb 27.


Blog Prompt for NEXT WEEK.
Use words/video/audio to define your now more accurately than "senioritis."  We'll be connecting with seniors in a HS in Northern Illinois around this very idea -- and perhaps elsewhere as well.  Here's an example of how one student tackled it.
Due. Friday. Mar 6.

Literary 3x3:  Modest Proposal.  Bring it to your next class.
Due. Wed & Thurs.  Feb 25 & 26.

Complete the Design.  To Be or Not to Be.
Due Thursday/Friday Feb 25 & 26.

Humanities: Firing Up & Making Happiness. DT Flashlab.

This week we revisit two projects that are unresolved: fidgets and Romeo & Juliet.  To do so, we've got to re-familiarize ourselves with the DEEP design thinking process and today's class is intended to do just that.

LNG.

We'll start with a quick LNG.  We want to have a nice collection of evidence from all of you that you are understanding these texts and demonstrating those understandings.  It's why we keep hitting on this.  It is also how we tackle our current events portion of the curriculum.

During this time, we'll be circulating around and giving you lengths of blue painters tape.  We want you to make your desk into quadrants.

DEEP DT. DESIGN THINKING FLASHLAB. HAPPINESS IS A MANILLA FOLDER.

Materials. You will each be given a manila folder, 4 paper clips, and a length of tape. You may also access your design kits and the two drawers of markers, pencils, glue and scissors in the design cabinet.

Your challenge is:  HMW increase happiness at Mt. Blue Campus?
Constraint: these materials, graphic organizers, and 45 minutes on the clock

Process.  You may follow the DEEP DT process in whatever order you like.  If you already want to experiment, go for it.  If you want to jump right into empathy, that's okay as well.  If you want to go in order, that's why it's called a process.

Why the quadrants?  To help us track your progress through the 45 minutes, you will be putting evidence of each phase in the boxes as you complete the phase.  This way we can observe your process, offer guidance, ask questions, and generally assist you to the end.

If you would like a larger space to work, we've the tables in the room at your disposal or you may double up two desks.

HOMEWORK.
Blog. 3+ Posts.

Req'd Blog Post.  Choose any of the TED Talks posted here and on Google Classroom. (I've got a list going of three/four choices.) 

Explain how your folder challenge product relates to the ideas presented in that TED Talk OR how it doesn't connect at all.  Prove your case with specifics. (NOTE.  That last part is important.  We are stepping up the blog posts.  These should be demonstrating more and more evidence of your thinking and understanding moving forward.)

Some thinking prompts.
How would your product be similar or different had you watched this TED Talk first?
How does your product reflect the spirit of that TED Talk?
What might that speaker say about your product?
What kind of feedback would you expect from that speaker?

Due. Friday, Feb 27.

Humanities: Work the Essay.

Today we finish the work we've be wrangling with all week.

Complete the theme song essay.

Put up your blog post.

Finish LNGs.

Stick the landing.

After break?  Fidgets revisited.  Romeo & Juliet project revisited.  Everything is a process in the service of making exceptional product.


HOMEWORK.

Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post.  Look at the LNG choices for this week and find a theme song for one of the people featured in the article.  Post a video or the song itself and explain your thinking in 3 to 5 sentences.

Feel like doing others?  Go for it!
Due. Today.

Complete.  LNGs.
Due.  Overdue.

Design. Production Phase. Theme song essay.
Due. Today.

Submi

Pop Culture: Work Session: Ads & Blogs & More

Today we are going to take care of a bunch of housekeeping needs:

How to turn in blog posts on the blog tracker.

Expectations for blogging and the blogging rubric.


How to submit work on Google Classroom.

Information on design kits & Remind.

And finally, I want us to talk about what unit we'd like to do next.  We're a small class so let's see if our interests intersect.

Then there will be time to work and design.  We aren't going to pile on any more work today than you already have.

HOMEWORK.

Blog. 3+ Posts.

Req'd Post. Design a Grammy performance that people will talk about.

Who?  One band?  Artist?  Collaboration? Special guests?

What song is performed? Old? New? Medley?

Stage Design?  What does it look like?  What happens during the performance?

Finally.  Explain it.  Justify it. Why did you design it as you did.

And don't feel confined to words.  Draw. Sketch.

Due. Friday, Feb 13

Mini Design Challenge.  Design an Ad for Something You Love.

Mini Design Challenge: Advertise Something You Love

How Might We Design Advertisements About Things We Love so Others Will Find Interest in Them Too? Create a print, video or audio advertisement of something you love to encourage others to explore that something as well. We'll use a rapid fire DEEP design thinking process flashlab to get us there: discover, empathize, experiment, produce to get us there. Rubric coming soon.

Due. Friday, Feb 27

Humanities: Theme Song Workshop

Today we'll do much as we did on Tuesday, but with a little more time.

THEME SONG ESSAY WORKSHOP.
We'll break right into four work stations.

• Kahoot.  Roots 6, 7, 8
• Introductions.
• Thesis statements.
• Body paragraphs.

We'll spend about 15 minutes in each station, rotating through, working on our drafts.  There will be a teacher at each table, so ask lots of questions.  Advocate for your own needs.

There should be time at the end of the rotations to work independently.

A first submission draft is due tomorrow, Feb 13.

Also due tomorrow?  Blogging.

HOMEWORK.

Blog. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post. Look at the LNG choices for this week and find a theme song for one of the people featured in the article.  Post a video or the song itself and explain your thinking in 3 to 5 sentences.

Feel like doing others?  Go for it!

Complete.  Production phase. Theme song essay.
Due.  Friday, Feb 13.

AP Lit: Hamlet & Power & Character

PROJECT SHARES.
Right out the gate.  That's where we'll start on Monday and Tuesday.

HAMLET.  POWER & CHARACTER.

Then we will carry out an experience to help us wrap our heads around both the  power structures and character development in Hamlet.

Using six-index cards, how might we create a model for the power structure within the six central characters of Hamlet? That's your challenge for the day.

Hamlet, Ophelia, Claudius, Polonious, Gertrude, Laertes

In addition to that design, you must also also identify whether each of the six characters is flat or round, static or dynamic and identify text evidence to prove your case.

All of this is in the service of developing your "To Be or Not to Be."  This is a means of exploring congruency -- determining how your soliloquy lines up with the rest of your interpretation of the work.

HOMEWORK.
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post:  Color Palette for Hamlet. Using Colourlovers.com, create a color palette for Hamlet. Each color should be given a unique name and a rationale for each. Consider how this can help you with your concept for To Be or Not to Be
Due. Fri, Feb 13.

Design.  To Be or Not to Be Design Challenge
Due.  Th/Fr Feb 26/27.

Complete.  Today's work if not done during class.

Humanities: Theme Song Essays: Intros & Thesis Statements

We'll start as we do every Monday: LNG.

Though I might be feeling some improv-ness or creative thinking quick hits to start us off . . . hrmmm . . .

We will also talk about Extended Day Program and how everyone in this class could be benefitting from getting some extra help after school.

Then LNG with Brackett so we can really start nailing those.  Boom.  Hardcore.  No quarter.

From there, we will share out our pre-writing.  I want to get a look at what ideas you already have going.  To hear which songs people are finding work best for their brains.

And then we'll run a thesis and introduction workshop, ideate a pile of ideas to help us.

HOMEWORK.

Blog. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post. Look at the LNG choices for this week and find a theme song for one of the people featured in the article.  Post a video or the song itself and explain your thinking in 3 to 5 sentences.

Feel like doing others?  Go for it!

Write.  Introduction & thesis statement.
Due. Tomorrow.  Workshopping in class.

1st Draft of Entire Essay.  Due Thursday.

Brit Lit CPI: Beowulf & Boasting Continues

Today . . . 

We'll start with some more boasting and smack talk -- this time via ERB.  

NO RED INK.

We're going to start our first work with commonly mistaken words.  We'll be looking at:

• their/there/they're
• to/too/two
• then/than

Their: possessive
There: location
They're: contraction of they are

To: preposition -- used with a verb -- to go, to swim; handed to, given to, run to
Too: also or quantity
Two: the number 2

Then: order, time  -- I took my snowmachine out for a run, then I ate forty-seven Ring Dings.
Than: comparison  -- I'd rather throw dead batteries at cows than listen to another Pitbull song.

You'll take a quick quiz for me to get a baseline of your skills in this particular area.

BRAGGING & BEOWULF.

We'll share out the work you folks did the other day.  It's here I'll show you how to access the folders on Google Drive and turn in work on Google Classroom.

Most every group finished the work so we should be in good shape to look at what happens when Beowulf arrives and how he battles Grendel.

Those chapters you'll work on individually.  The idea here is that if you were able to work with partners before  -- as most of you did -- you should be okay tackling a chunk on your own.

And this is also where Beowulf starts talking serious smack and Grendel shows up and claws and gnashing and all the good stuff.

You'll complete a second organizer, but this one focused on Beowulf's boasts.

Here's a graphic organizer to keep you rolling.

Then today there will be time to start this, which we intended to do last week . . 

Req'd Blog Post for the Week:  Letting Fly the Taunts and Volleys of a Thousand Suns Upon the Ears of the Meek Before Us a.k.a. Running Our Mouths

Boast, brag, run yer mouth about anything you like -- just keep it relatively school friendly.  It could be aggressive and calling someone or something out or it could be talking about how great you are at knitting.  I trust you to use your best judgement there.  Remember: swearing is lazy.  It can be fun.  And it's lazy.   Your boast

Write or audio/video record two versions:
One. Your style.  Your words.
Two.  Beowulf style.  His words.

Your goal?  To show me you understand how the language used in Beowulf, the style and format, isn't all that different from today by using it yourself.

Option.  Not feeling like bragging about anything particular about yourself?  Do what the bards & the scops did back in the day: make up a character.  Just let me know whether it is invented or real.

Due.  Friday, Feb 13.

Humanities: Theme Song Essays: Discovery Phase: Brainstorming

Today we dig into: HMW we design our theme song essays? (hardcore.)

We are in DISCOVERY phase today, brainstorming & ideating.

We'll start with an improv game of sorts involving . . . well . . . you'll see.

Then we'll create "Who Am I?" charts for ourselves so that we are more in tune with the ideas that might show up in our essays.

This will lead to printing off the lyrics of 2 to 4 possible theme song choices and a color coding mark up activity.   You will be using your design kits.  I will be putting up pictures of this process so you can reference it.

What it comes down to is the we are throwing three different activities at you today intended to help you get your heads wrapped around this assignment.

HOMEWORK.

Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post.  Drum Kit prompt.  See Tuesday's blog post.
Due. Today, 2/6.

Design.  Theme Song Essay.  Create at least three pieces of pre-writing.
Maps. Sketchnotes. Outlines.  Webs.  Freewrites.
You don't have to write the essay.
You have to plan & design the essay.
Due. Monday, 2/9.

Complete: Theme Song Essay
Due. Friday, 2/13.

Brit Lit CPI: Blogging, Bragging & Beowulf

We start with this today.

Get More: Comedy Central,Funny Videos,Funny TV Shows

We'll make some predictions about why we opened with this and how it might relate to what's coming next.

Today we start building our routines and diving into the first of the texts we're going to read this semester: Beowulf.

NO RED INK.

We'll be using NoRedInk.com this semester to help with our MUGS: Mechanics, Usage, Grammar, Spelling.  You'll be taking a pre-test today for me to get a baseline of your strengths and weaknesses in those areas.  We'll also be doing some goal setting.

I know I have a goal for you folks: complete sentences, proper capitalization, and commonly mistaken words. If you can wrangle these three things, you can navigate most any writing and communication situation: job applications, official letters, e-mails to people that aren't your friends, etc.

So, we'll get started with the Semester PreTest.

GUIDELINES & EXPECTATIONS.

After No Red Ink & MUGS, we'll review our sketchnotes from the Guidelines & Expectations quickly.  I want to make sure people understand what is being asked of everyone in the room the semester including me.

BRAGGING & BEOWULF.

Then we'll talk about bragging, about smack talk, about running our mouths, about rumors, about getting in people's faces, about how we handle them, and then taking a look at how long this has been a problem by looking at ancient and modern poetry.

We'll be breaking up the reading into group chunks with a few key questions for each.  We'll use this time to get a sense of what the heck is going on in Beowulf, the central characters, and then we'll look at the language more specifically.

We'll be using a graphic organizer to keep track of our thinking.

All of this leads to . . .

Req'd Blog Post for the Week:  Letting Fly the Taunts and Volleys of a Thousand Suns Upon the Ears of the Meek Before Us a.k.a. Running Our Mouths

Boast, brag, run yer mouth about anything you like -- just keep it relatively school friendly.  It could be aggressive and calling someone or something out or it could be talking about how great you are at knitting.  I trust you to use your best judgement there.  Remember: swearing is lazy.  It can be fun.  And it's lazy.   Your boast

Write or audio/video record two versions:
One. Your style.  Your words.
Two.  Beowulf style.  His words.

Your goal?  To show me you understand how the language used in Beowulf, the style and format, isn't all that different from today by using it yourself.

Option.  Not feeling like bragging about anything particular about yourself?  Do what the bards & the scops did back in the day: make up a character.  Just let me know whether it is invented or real.

AP Lit: Projects & On Demands & Projects

INDIE BOOK PROJECTS.

We'll start with two project shares.

ON DEMAND.
From there, we complete the On Demand: Discuss Shakespeare's use of a literary device such as allusion, symbolism and characterization to develop a theme of power and control.  15 min.  One powerful paragraph.

We'll use these On Demands as well as our last rounds for an On Demand workshop, focusing on the design of an analytical paragraph.  It will also give us an opportunity to discuss Hamlet.

HAMLET.

Finally, I'd like us to do some rapid prototyping of the character card idea so we can build some congruency.  We'll take a look at considerations we should be giving when staging our "To Be or Not To Be's" and develop a deeper list of criteria i.e. costumes, portrayal, color palette, physical setting, music (I think I'm getting a lot of it here already . . .)

HOMEWORK.

Blog. 3+ Posts.
Req'd Post. How to Read Lit Like a Professor. "When In Doubt . . . Shakespeare . . ."
How might Foster's position on Shakespeare inform our reading of Hamlet and/or our design of "To Be or Not to Be?"

Due. Friday, 2/6

Complete.  Hamlet.

Read/Watch.  (Clips on Google Drive.)

Due. Monday, 2/9

Start Designing.  "To Be or Not to Be"
Dramatic Presentation & One Page Analysis/Justification
Due.  Thursday/Friday after Feb break. 

Humanities: Roots Quiz, Culture & Theme Songs

VOCAB.

We kick off with our Roots Quiz 7.  You are all over this.  Worry not.  Do your best.  And if you are struggling with quizzes, remember that FrankenWord and other vocab work can demonstrate your understanding just as well.

5 MIN PLAYLIST.
You've got five minutes to make the playlist you will carry with you for the rest of your life.  What goes on it?  Make it now.

Here's mine.  This was stressful.


CULTURE.

We've got a way to pull all the culture work you've been doing these past couple of weeks together.

Check Google Classroom for this assignment.


THEME SONG ESSAY.

HMW express the reasons why particular songs serve as our theme songs?

We're going to tackle this essay as we have any of our design work because really, writing an essay is a piece of design.

DEEP.
Discovery. (What song might serve as my theme song? Why? Might it connect to an experience?  Might the sounds relate to me?  What might I focus on?  How might I hook the reader?)
Empathize.  (Consider your reader.  Consider your audience. What do they need to know?)
Experiment.  (Drafts.  Play around with order.  Play around with details.  Make maps.  Make sketchnotes.)
Produce.  (Complete a 1st Submission Draft.  Get Feedback.  Revise.  Reiterate.)

Today we will use a couple of brainstorming & ideating techniques including our 5 Min. Playlist  to help get us started.  Friday, we kick into introductions and thesis statements.


HOMEWORK.

Blog. 3+ Posts
Req'd Post. Drum Kit Post.  (See this week.)


Complete. Culture Graphic Organizer (Google Classroom.)  The new one.

Brainstorm. Theme song essay.

Pop Culture: Sketchnotes & Expectations, Super Bowl Ads

We'll start with finishing our sketchnotes of the guidelines & expectations for this class, sharing them, and getting ourselves on the same page.

From there we'll take a look at this year's Super Bowl commercials, one of the annual pilgrimages most of the US takes into the world of pop culture.



We'll complete this graphic organizer to get a sense of how these ads function and operate, as well as what values they suggest matter to their audience.

This is all leading to our first design challenge: HMW design advertisements for something we love?

Brit Lit CPI: Setting Up Blogs, Sketchnoting Expectations & Best Writing

Today we'll set up our blogs.  This is will be the primary place where you write and share your thinking in class this semester.

For your first blog entry, write the best paragraph you can -- an example of your best quality writing -- in five minutes.  Describe how you spent these past several snow days. Where were you? What did you do?  How did you wrangle with the snow?

After this, we'll be creating sketchnotes of the Guidelines & Expectations in groups of 1, 2 or 3.  The sketchnote should be based on the information in the packet you were given an answer these questions:

What do we need for class?
What will class be like?
How much work will there be?

Next class we dig into our first text: Beowulf and take a look at boasting and bragging and vanity plates.

AP Lit: Hamlet: Designing To Be or Not To Be Continues: Storyboards

Today we take our best, most intriguing ideas for staging "To Be or Not to Be" into the next round of Experiment phase: storyboarding.  You will create at least 4 storyboard panels for the sequence you stage, accompanied by annotations to explain the visuals.

This will lead to determining criteria for our project.  HMW demonstrate our depth of understanding of Hamlet by designing the staging of a single soliloquy?  (I intended to dictate these terms to you folks and then realized this is a great opportunity to talk about what really matters in terms of analysis, synthesis, creativity and showcasing knowledge.)

Then we will On-Demand: Discuss Shakespeare's use of a literary device such as allusion, symbolism and characterization to develop a theme of power and control.  15 min.  One powerful paragraph.

Also, we will share two of our indie book projects.

HOMEWORK.

Blog.  3+ Posts.
Req'd Post.  How to Read Lit Like a Professor. "When In Doubt . . . Shakespeare . . ."
How might Foster's position on Shakespeare inform our reading of Hamlet and/or our design of "To Be or Not to Be?"

Watch/Read. Rest of Hamlet by Friday/Monday. See Google Drive and e-mail for clips.

To Be or Not to Be.  Due Tuesday/Wednesday after break.

Humanities: FrankenWord, LNG & Teen Culture/Music Culture

Hey!  We have school today!

Remember improv?  Let's do a little of that this morning.  I've got an idea.

VOCAB.

We'll start with FrankenWord.  Take any root from Roots 7 and combine it with a Root from any other list to create a brand new word that relates to . . . wait for it . . . music and/or culture.

Remember the FrankenWord expectations.
Word.
Definition & Part of Speech.
Used in a Sentence that Shows What the Word Means.
Visual.

LNG.

From there, we will LNG because we missed out on it yesterday and we are trying to get game on with it.

MUSIC CULTURE/TEEN CULTURE.

Finally, there will be time to complete/refine our music culture/teen culture work.  Three graphic organizers are due.  One on Leader of the Pack, one on Summertime Blues, and one on a song about teen culture of your choice.  (It might be one from the playlist.)

HOMEWORK.

Blog.  3+ Posts.
Req'd Post: My Heart Like a Kick Drum.  If your life  -- your self -- was a drum kit, what would it look like?  Double bass?  Bongos?  Set of toms?  Take a look at clips below for inspiration.

Neil Peart from Rush.

Art Blakey.

The famous "Amen Break" from G.C. Coleman (this has been sampled a TON.)

Buddy Rich & Gene Krupa

and Joe Morello who is crazy rad and I only heard about because of this rad teacher

Then doodle your life as a drum kit.  Actually draw it out.  Check out Mr. Ryder's here as an example.

And explain your thinking.  You might want to look at the anatomy of a drum kit.  Learn a bit about the parts and pieces and most certainly the names.

Mr. Ryder's would be super simple.  One kick drum.  One snare.  One hi hat.

• Snare. Sharp. Quick.  Super flexible & can make a lot of different sounds.  It's a lot like how he's involved in a lot of different things.  Goes anywhere.
• Hi hat.  Punctuation and that snap that goes underneath everything else.  It's my brain.  Never quite stops.  Sometimes it's constantly going because of a pedal.  
• Kick drum.  Boom.  Thud.  Right in the chest.  I love that feeling.  I love when I get hit by an idea or an experience and lands right in the center of my being.  And I hope I can create experiences for others that do that as well, whether it is in the classroom or on stage or on social media.

Teen Music/Teen Culture.  Complete the three graphic organizers.  Look on Google Classroom.

Vocab.  Roots 7 Quiz & Product (FrankenWord counts!)
Due. Thursday 2/5