Since the week before Turkey Break, we have been focused on reading Of Mice and Men. Two of the three classes have finished the novel, the other is nearly there.
We are reading with a bigger purpose in mind. We have a design challenge: How might we design tiny houses for the characters of Of Mice and Men?
So while we are going to take a look at the conflicts and plot and characters in the novel, we are doing so because need to know about these characters and their needs so we may design for them, just as we designed for our users in the Cardboard Challenge.
MONDAY and TUESDAY this week.
READING. We started with me reading the end of the book aloud and brief discussions of what happens to Lennie, George and the rest of the crew.
STATIONS. Then we broke into a three station rotation.
1. No Red Ink/Quizlet for Roots 6. Complete the No Red Ink assignment, get familiar with Roots 6.
2. Pre-Writing and Getting Started on Narrative Writing Assessment 2: Lesson of the Cardboard Challenge
3. DISCOVERY Phase for Of Mice & Tiny Houses Design Challenge. Explore the tiny house resources provided and complete Notice/Wish/Wonder graphic organizers.
Each class ended up in a slightly different spot because, well, every class is different and has different needs. What follows here is the timeline for when the various work is due so you can use this to manage your time and all of the goings on.
SHOW YOUR THINKING.
WRITE.
NARRATIVE WRITING ASSESSMENT 2: Lesson of the Cardboard Challenge.
Tell the story of a lesson you learned from completing the Cardboard Challenge.
See the rubric in Google Drive.
Period 4B/4G. WORKING DRAFT Due Wednesday/Thursday 11.30.16/12.1.16.
Period 2B. WORKING DRAFT Due Monday 12.5.16
Period 4B/4G. 2nd WORKING DRAFT Due Friday/Monday 12.2.16/12.5.16.
Period 2B. 2nd WORKING DRAFT Due Wednesday 12.7.16.
Period 4B/4G. 1st SUBMISSION DRAFT. TURN IT IN. Due Tuesday/Wednesday 12.6.16/12.7.16
Period 2B. 1st SUBMISSION DRAFT. TURN IT IN. Due Friday 12.9.16
READ/WATCH/LISTEN RESPOND.
DISCOVERY Phase Materials of Tiny House Design Challenge.
COMPLETE. 3 Notice/Wish/Wonder Organizers. Keep asking yourself: How might we use this knowledge to help design a tiny house for the characters in Of Mice and Men? Investigate for a purpose. When you are noticing, when you are wondering, when you are wishing, look for connections to the needs of these characters.
Period 4G. Due Friday 12.2.16
Period 2B/4B. Due Monday 12.5.16
Of Mice & Tiny Houses DISCOVERY Resources
- Experience of Building a Tiny House
- Couple's quest to settle down in mini-home encounters unexpected roadblock - The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
- Tiny house in Richmond is home to bigger life - Central Maine
"Waterville" - National tiny house building code could make tiny living safer, easier in Maine — Homestead — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine
- Living Big In A Tiny House - YouTube
- The Tiny Home Built By A Bad-Ass Single Mom - YouTube
- Couple Builds Tiny House for Just $420! - YouTube
- Young Builders of Tiny Houses
- Tiny & Small House Architects & Builders
- Meet the Maine Amish community making tiny houses, sheds by hand — Homestead — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine
- Builder of tiny homes predicts pint-sized housing trend - Central Maine
- Maine's Original Tiny House Company
- Jim Bahoosh has completed a small house on Vimeo
- Small Planet Homes | Holland & Foley Architecture
- Designing a Tiny House
- Moving on Up in Maine - to a Teeny Tiny House | Maine Public
- 41 of the Most Impressive Tiny Houses You’ve Ever Seen
- Sustainable House Sketch Book | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
- Small — but not tiny — houses right size for many | WGME
- Stylish designer houses made of cardboard - CNN.com
- Life in California for Migrant Workers in the 1930s
- The Migrant Experience - Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
- Depression Era: 1930s: Depression | Picture This
- The Migrant Experience - Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
"The Recording of Folk Music in Northern California" - About this Collection - Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941 | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
STUDY. VOCAB.
Roots 6 Quiz.
Thursday/Friday 12.8.16/12.9.16
STUDY. MUGS.
No Red Ink Quiz.
Commonly Confused Words I
Take by Thursday 12.8.16 (Already available. Take when you are ready.)
