Humanities: Symbaloo (for LoNGview work)

Humanities: What Is Humanities & Clarifying 9/11

Today in Humanities we developed a more solid answer to "What Is Humanities?"

Warm Up

We started with another improv game, this one called "What Are You Doing?"

Watching & Discussing

And then we turned off the laughs for some serious watching, thinking and discussing courtesy www.Upworthy.com and ESPN's Outside the Lines.

If you watch here, you get some great notes via Upworthy.

We then discussed clarifying questions about 9/11 and ended the day by discussing "What IS Humanities?"

Homework

Be thinking about Cardboard Challenge; practice round tomorrow!

Get in any missing work (signatures, goals, artifacts)

AP Lit: Jago, Viz Think, Ender, Pip & Miles Roby

Monday and Tuesday, AP Lit will be all about finding common threads and ideas, training our brains to get beneath the surface, and practicing visual thinking or "viz think."

Discussing

We begin by looking at the "What Is Literature?" chapter from Carol Jago's text and identifying highlights, the moments that stuck with us, and the poetry and fiction we each chose from the selection.  We'll be tossing ideas up on the boards.

We'll take a moment to watch this video on visual thinking.

Analysis & Visual Thinking

This will propel us into work with Ender's Game, Empire Falls, Great Expectations and the selections from the Jago chapter.  

We will use visual thinking to conceptualize the connections between these two works as we continue our question to answer the essential question: Why do we study Literature?

Homework

Read: The rest of Ender's Game for the first class of next week.
Read: "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams for next class
Write/Create/Answer:  
Part I: What makes a great analytical essay? What are the essential qualities? Necessary component?  
Part II: To what extent are you capable of producing a great analytical essay?  What are your strengths & weakness as an essayist?    

AP Lit: Designing, Sharing, Norming, Discussing, Connecting

Discussion & Analysis

Today we talk about the introduction Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor.   We'll share our insights & understandings and how Gibson's ideas connect to our past experiences.

Design

We will also post our design models of the classroom and plot our thinking on what changes should be made and how we can get those changes to happen.

Community

We will take time to discuss our norms as a class, the habits of culture in the room that each of us really need to be successful.  For example, I need a space where it's okay to be raggedy -- to express half-ideas, not quite formed thoughts, almost there notions, and to then be able to say, "You know what? I wasn't quite on with that."    

What are your particular needs?

Producing & Sharing

But we'll start the day with another round of sharing our summer projects.  Four more folks will share their thinking, ideas, and products.  

Homework

Read: Ender's Game (1-100)
Prepare to Discuss: To what extent does EG qualify as "Literature?" 

Read: "Thinking About Literature" packet
Complete: One of the activities based on the poetry & short stories embedded in the packet.  This is another benchmarking piece for me.  I'm looking to see what you choose, the quality of the work you produce.