Eng 9: Roots Quiz 2, Manila Folder Design Challenge, Blogs & Gearing for the Cardboard Challenge

ROOTS QUIZ 2.

Today we'll start with Roots Quiz 2.

It'll be just like the last one.  And if you've been studying, you'll likely crush it in the face.  Hard.

MANILA FOLDER CHALLENGE.

We'll be tackling this big ol' question:  "How might we bring joy to others?" following Mary Cantwell's DEEPdt design process.  We'll be using DEEPdt  all year long to practice empathy fueled, human centered problem solving.

Your creative constraints for this challenge?
1 manila folder.
4 paper clips.
Design kits (tape, scissors, markers, colored pencils glue, etc.).

DISCOVER.  What brings joy/what takes joy away.
EMPATHY.  Interview a partner.  What brings them joy?  What takes their joy away?  Ask for a story.
EXPERIMENT.  Doodle possibilities. Make. Make. Make.
PRODUCE. Deliver a prototype.  Get feedback.  Bask in the joy.

And all of this . . . in  20 minutes.

We'll see where we are at the end of this to figure out how we'll use the rest of class.  There's a number of things we need/can/should/might do.

OUT OF CLASS WORK.

BLOG.  Document your manila folder challenge.

What did you learn about others?  How did they respond to your design? What did it feel like to design for another?  What was successful about your design? What would you change?

AND

What was it like to have someone design for you?  How did they do meeting your needs?

If you haven't turned this in.

Write a one page letter in which you ask a teacher, a parent/guardian, a friend, a coach or some other specific individual for help.  Explain what it is you need help with, why you need that help, and how specifically that person might help you.

OR

Empathize with an individual struggling with one of the challenges we've explored in class.  Adopt that person's point of view and write a letter in which that person asks for help from a teacher, parent/guardian, friend, coach or some other specific individual for help.  Explain what it is they need help with, why they need that help, and how specifically that person might help them.

OR

Empathize and advocate for an individual struggling with one of the challenges we've explored in class.  Ask one of their teachers, parent/guardians, friends, coaches or another specific individual to help that person.  Explain what it is they need help with, why they need that help, and how specifically that person might help them.

Eng 9: Inspiration Shelves, Personal Symbols, Blogs and Vocab

Inspiration Shelf & Personal Symbols.

We'll start the day by looking at the Inspiration Shelf.  Your goal?  To figure me out.  You'll complete a Notice/Wish/Wonder tool for three different items, in an effort to answer these two questions:

Why might these items be on this shelf and what might they tell us about Mr. Ryder?

Then you'll repeat the same with the artifacts you brought from home.  We will look at each others' collections and try to determine what they tell us about that person and why those items were
included.

Then we'll take pictures of items that interested us most and post them to our blogs as our first blog posts.

Vocab: Roots 1.

We will start our very first work with vocabulary.  We'll be learning Greek and Latin roots this year; this will help you learn so many more words than just learning a list of vocab words from a story we read.

Blogger.

We will set up our blogs and I will explain your first creative blog prompt: 5 Card Flickr.

Show the Learning.

Blog. 3+ Posts.

Creative Blog Prompt.  5 Card Flickr & Problem Story.

Create a 5 Card Flickr that tells the story of a problem being solved.

Post your images and write out the story on your blog.

Due. Friday. Sept. 18.

Study.  Roots Quiz 1.

Due. Thursday, Sept 24.

Humanities: Little Things Essay Workshop

Today, we'll start with Roots Quiz 12.

Then. . .

Stations . . non rotating . . choices . . . follow the sketchnotes below to help you with the process . .  starts with a description of each station and then the process follow below.

Stations.

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.

Humanities: Teen Culture, Teen Music (Days 1 & 2)

Welcome to insane weather event 2015 . . . 

On Monday -- remember Monday?  What a day  . . . .

LNG.

On Monday, we started with an LNG from Mr. Brackett.  We spent time examining student samples and talking about what works and doesn't work in an LNG.  

Then you could choose any article from the Bangor Daily News that isn't about Snowmeggedon or sports to complete your LNG.

AYUHYALL: Teen Culture, Teen Music.

Our design challenge we are sharing with our friends in South Carolina:  HMW design lyrics that show others what it means to be a teenager today?

First Step: Analyzing Songs for Cultural Content

We took a look at "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran and extracted the cultural components that surface in there as they relate to teenage culture.   We used a Notice/Wish/Wonder strategy to kick it off.

We uncovered economic systems in the paychecks, language in the slang, and girls and friendships in the social groups.  We also talked about how challenging it can be to label and categorize culture because some things seem to cross over several components.

This is the graphic organizer we used to keep track of this all.

Homework:  Select another song from the playlist OR a song of your choice by a young artist about teen culture and analyze it for cultural components.  Complete another copy of the graphic organizer.  Use the sample to help guide your thinking.

TODAY!

ROOTS 7.  We start there.  Grab 'em.  Quizlet.  Explore.  Dive in.  Get our heads in the game.

Second Step:  Analyzing Songs for Poetic/Lyrical Devices

In order to better create our own, we have to figure out how others crafted their music.  We'll look at the tools a lyricist can use to shape a story, thoughts and feelings.  

We'll look at "Summertime Blues" and "Leader of the Pack" to see how song writers of early rock and pop did it -- and see if the tools they used show anything about their culture as well.

Let's put our ideas here today.

Created with Padlet

HOMEWORK.

Blogging: No blogs this week.  We start with Q3 Week 1 next week.

Teen Music/Teen Culture Analysis:  Complete an analysis of both the cultural components AND the poetic devices of another song from the playlist OR of your own choice so long as it is by a young artist and about TEEN culture.  Use the graphic organizer provided.

You Should Have a Collection of Three Graphic Organizers Completed.

1. "Summertime Blues"
2. "Leader of the Pack"
3.  Song of Your Choice
We will be assessing these for understanding of culture as ability to analyze lyrics

DUE: Monday, Feb 2nd

Humanities: Culture & Words & FRANKENWORD!

Today we'll do a quick review of the various dimensions of culture and review our Roots 6 words for a quiz on Thursday.  And we'll accomplish this through the following awesomeness . . .

We'll quickly brainstorm words in our language the reflect our modern culture as well as our modern teen culture.

FRANKENWORD!!!!!!!!! (It's ALIVE!)

Then you will do the following, built upon on the Shakespearean language station from a couple of weeks ago:

1. Choose an aspect/dimension of culture of interest to you.

2. Take any root from 6 and combine it with any other root to make a new word that is relevant to that dimension of culture. 

3. Define the new word including part of speech.

4.  Use the new word in a sentence that shows what the word means and how it would be used.

5.  Create a visual to illustrate the word (sketchnote, LEGO, digital, etc.).

Then you have time to work on your Romeo & Juliet project, revisions of essay paragraphs, and catching up on blogging.

We'll be looking at music and culture for the rest of the week.  Woot.

H/W:
Missing Req'd Blog Posts?
Revisions of Discovery, Empathy and Experiment paragraphs?
Romeo & Juliet projects?
Missing LNGs?
Get your evidence of understanding and skills submitted el pronto fasto.

Roots 6 Quiz & Product:  Due Thursday.   Remember, you can demo your vocab knowledge in two ways.

Humanities: Digging into Speak, Lies & Graphic Organizers

Yesterday we wrote about our first experiences of walking through the door of Mt. Blue Campus as students.  We then mapped the trends of emotions people felt as we try to build some empathy for one another.  This is going to be important as we move into our design challenges next week around Speak.

ROOTS.

Roots Quiz 2 (over lists 1 & 2) is right out the gate today.  Roots Product 2 is due as well.

SPEAK.

Today we'll read a little chunk of last night's reading in class.  And then we'll do an activity around the First 10 Lies They Tell You in High School.

That will lead to introduction of your graphic organizer choices for Speak.  

You need to complete a graphic for each ranking period in the novel.  The novel is divided into four ranking periods . . . thus . . .

The reading schedule and graphic organizer schedule is available to you in the Google Drive Humanities OUT folder.  And it's linked here.

You'll have a few minutes to get started on your first organizer and then we'll do a little more read-a-loud of Speak.


HOMEWORK.

Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd: Create a 3 song playlist for Mt. Blue Campus that plays as we walk from class to class.  Explain each of your choices.
Due: Friday, Oct 17th

Read:Speak pg 20-26
Due: Friday, Oct 17th (tomorrow)

Complete: Speak Graphic Organizer 1
Choose: Either Three 4 Thinking OR Notice/Wish/Wonder
Due: Monday, Oct 20

Humanities: Reset & Gear Up for New Unit

Today, we'll take a day to reset after a long weekend, get our mental workshops cleaned up, take care of those lingering projects, and get ready to start something powerful and new.

ROOTS & VOCABULARY.

Thursday, you have Roots 2 Quiz and a Roots 2 Product due.  Use the following slideshow to help you prepare.  Also, check out the link to the Quizlets over in the right sidebar.

GET YER WORK. 

Done.

Tomorrow we start Speak and our first big design challenge: How might we improv the climate and culture of Mt. Blue Campus?

Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post: Create a 3 song playlist/soundtrack for Mt. Blue Campus.  Imagine these three songs are played between every class; why have you chosen these three songs?  Justify your choices.
Due: Friday, Oct 17th

Roots: Roots 2
Study: Quiz Over Roots 1 & 2
Create: Roots Product (Uses at least 5 root based words effectively)
Due: Thursday, Oct 16th

Complete: Whole New Mind Portfolio
PAST DUE: Thursday, Oct 9th

Humanities: Whole New Mind Portfolio Work & Review & Tips on Better Presentations

Hey folks,

WHOLE NEW MIND.
On Monday, we reviewed the Whole New Mind senses by first putting the definitions in our own words (using the 3 second pause to check for understanding), then putting the senses on notecards to create maps that help us connect the dots between the senses we understand and the ones we don't, and then used doodle to think skills to create doodle representations of each sense on the cards.  We put those decks in our books for easy access and remembering later.  (That was a huge run-on sentence back there.  Sorry for that.)

Tuesday, we worked.  We also ate sweet blueberry kielbasa from Gavin.

On Tuesday, we forgot to assign Roots List #2.  There will be a quiz next Thursday over both Roots #1 & #2.  Also, a Roots Product #2.  It needs to use at least 5 roots-based words from Roots List #2.

DESIGN.
Here's a GREAT slide deck to help you with your portfolios.  Don't feel like you have to read every slide, especially if you don't understand the wording.  There are tons of great examples and tons of TERRIBLE examples.  Just be sure you know if you are looking at  good examples or bad examples.

Tweak Your Slides: Ten Design Principles for Educators (version 3.0) from Chiara Ojeda

Here's another one.  Each slide pairing is a bad one, then a better one.

Bad PowerPoint Slides from HADOMAN

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Blog Post:  #showyourwork. Share some of the images and ideas of your Whole New Mind portfolio as you are working on it.  What are you struggling with?  What are you proud of so far?

Roots: Roots 2
Study: Quiz Over Roots 1 & 2
Create: Roots Product
Due: Thursday, Oct 16th

Complete: Whole New Mind Portfolio
Due: Thursday, Oct 9th

Humanities: Vocab & Design & Blogging

Today, we start with a roots activity from Mr. Mason.

VOCAB.


Whole New Mind.
This will lead into our first exploration of Design sense from Whole New Mind.

In groups of one, two or three, we will create movie posters and tag lines for root-based words and vocab.  This serves a few different purposes.

One.  You will better learn your vocab.
Two. You will practice design.
Three.  You will have an item to add to your portfolio if you finish it.
Four.  You will have great material for a blog post.

You will be using MoviePoster.com as a source of inspiration.

This video helps explain the rule of thirds if I'm not around.

Rule of thirds from Jayne Whitelock on Vimeo.

And Whole New Mind discusses CRAP-ify your design

Contrast
Repetition
Alignment
Proximity

found here: http://howtwosondesign.blogspot.com/2012/03/crap-theory.html

Consider each of these elements in your design.

So what do you need to do?
Imagine you want everyone to use your root or root-based word or imagine you are making a movie about your root or root-based word.
1. Choose your root or root-based word.
2. Create a tag line i.e.  "This Time It's Personal" or "Who Knows What Happens When the Sun Goes Out?" Look at movie posters.  There are tag lines everywhere.  Bonus challenge: Use four root-based words in your movie poster and you have your Roots 1 Product for next Thursday DONE.
3.  Use the elements of good design and CRAP-ify to design a movie poster.

You'll have 20 minutes or so in class to work on this today and some more time tomorrow.  We'd like to share and discuss these on Monday.

BLOGGING. 

We want to give you time to post to your blog today and to read others' blog posts, make connections.

HOMEWORK.

Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Creative Post: Creative Blog Post: Post a Six-Word Memoir & a Six-Image Memoir on your blog.  Consider how you present those images, the arrangement, the format, etc.
Due: Friday, 9/26

Complete: I Notice/I Wish/I Wonder chart.  Over Story, Empathy, Symphony.
Due: Thursday, Sept 25 (TODAY!  Put in your Humanities IN folder on Google Drive.)

Study:  Roots Quiz 1
Complete: Roots 1 Product (Use 5+ roots-based words in context.)
Due: Thursday, Oct 2

Start Collecting Evidence and Planning: Whole New Mind Portfolio
Due: Thursday, Oct 9

Humanities: Vocab Begins and Symphony

ROOTS EXPLAINED.
Today we'll start our first experiences with vocab by looking at Roots 1.  Most of our vocab this year will be from our Greek and Latin roots work.  You can see all of our lists for the year here.  There's also a link in the sidebar.


We will be working on vocab on Tuesdays and Thursdays.   Our first quiz will be next Thursday.  We will show you in class how the quiz format works.  It is also important to know that each quiz builds on the next.  Thus, Roots Quiz 2 is over roots list 1 and 2.

In addition to the quiz, you must create a vocab-based product for your list.  Products have to use root-based words effectively and in context.

A root-based word is any word that uses your root.
For example, anti- is a root that means "against."
The word antidote is a word that uses anti-.

For your product, you might create a song, poem, story, speech, movie, video game, comic book, art, who-knows-what?  It needs to use 5 roots-based words effectively from the current list.  These products are always due the same day as the quiz.

WHOLE NEW MIND.  I NOTICE/I WISH/I WONDER.

After intro to the vocab you'll be completing a I Notice/I Wish/I Wonder chart over the empathy, story and symphony sections of Whole New Mind.  The chart is in the Humanities OUT folder.


BLOGGING.

You'll have time to blog today.  During this time, you may want to complete your six-word memoir  or you might want to look at someone else's blog and make a connect.

WHOLE NEW MIND.  SYMPHONY.

Five Line Drawings.

Want to start building your skills in Whole New Mind?  Check out this slideshare!  All sorts of activities you can do -- most of the chunks of the portfolio.  

Pink Portfolio Exercises from ajohnsonwh

HOMEWORK.

Complete: I Notice/I Wish/I Wonder chart.
Due: Thursday, Sept 25

Study:  Roots Quiz 1
Complete: Roots 1 Product
Due: Thursday, Oct 2

Start Planning: Whole New Mind Portfolio
Due: Thursday, Oct 9

Humanities: Speak & New Design Challenge: How Might We Improve 8th Grade Orientation?

A few weeks ago, Guidance asked Mr. Dunbar and Mr. Ryder if our students would be interested in redesigning eighth graders' high school orientation experience.  We said yes.  (We did not consult you folks; we just figured you'd be keen on doing a project around something that actually matters, will actually happen, and for which you have a lot of expertise as you went though it all yourselves.

All of the work we do for the next several weeks will be about the following design challenge:

How might we improve the eight grader's orientation to the high school?

We did some writing in the lobby, the food court, and the forum, three places were the current ninth grade spent a lot of time last spring and fall.   We tried to recapture our experiences in those places.   We've done some examining of that writing, and will finish off that work on Friday -- for now.

This week, we started Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.  One reason we are reading it now?  It's all about a girl and her transition into ninth grade and dealing with very grown up situations.  We are going to be using the "reciprocating questions" strategy a great deal -- where you folks as Mr. Ryder questions that stem from the reading.

And finally we started on Roots 9.

This blog post is a bit of a messy catchall for the week.  We will get back on more proper track next week with the blog.

HOMEWORK:

Blog: 3+ posts
Req'd Post: "Ten Lies."  Make up a your own list of "Ten Lies" inspired by the list in Speak.  You may want to come with "Ten Lies They Tell You About Freshman Year" or "Ten Lies They Told Me on the First Day that I Found Out Weren't True on the Second."  How creative and insightful can you be?

Vocab: Roots 9
Study & Complete: Word Map or Roots Product
Roots Quiz: Thursday Feb 6 over 6 to 9

Humanities: Knockout & Habits of Mind & Blogging

Today we'll start with an activity to help with vocab, in particular, Roots 8. Knock out.  Roots style. Boom.

From there we will consider the work we have done for the past couple of days and figure out which of the Habits of Mind we've been practicing.  Yup, we've been focused on metacognition, but which of the others as well?

Then we'll briefly review the article we read on metacognition from BrainFacts.org and we will blog.  We'll look at "What If" 2014 over in the right side bar, as well as the other tools under "blogging prompts & rubric" and you will be set up to do your own list on your blog.

That will lead to the survey on learning styles from Edutopia that we didn't take yesterday. Take screen shots. Posts your results.


HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ posts
Req'd Post: Create your own list of "What If's" for 2014.  Look at Mr Ryder's example in the right sidebar.  He's posted his huge list. 
Due: Friday, Jan 11

Study: Roots 8 (& 6, 7)
Quiz: Thursday, Jan 16
Complete: Word Map or Product for Roots 8 

Practice: MUGS your/you're
Quiz: No Red Ink, Wed Jan 15 

Submit: Missing closing arguments & story corps/photo essays;  self assessments
Put in Humanities IN folder on Google Drive

Humanities: Habits of Mind Work Continues

Thursday, you have two options.

1) Completing the missing work  that demonstrates your understanding of the Of Mice & Men/Poverty Culture unit.

Or

2) Create a short film, play or comic strip that demonstrates your understanding of four of the sixteen habits of mind and where they have appeared in our work thus far this year.

This extends from the work we did on Tuesday and Wednesday, paraphrasing the Habits of Mind, identifying those we think most critical to understanding, and then doing some work around our strengths and weaknesses.

All of this is so we can best identify ways of developing our habits of mind moving forward and so Mr. Dunbar & I can develop a system of tracking and reporting your growth.

Here's some pics of the work we did.

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ Posts 
Req'd Post of the Week:  What do you think of these habits of mind?  Why do they seem important?  How well developed are these habits for you?
Due: Friday, December 20

Study & Complete Roots 7: Product & Quiz
Due: Thursday, December 19 TODAY!!!!

Projects & Arguments, Self Assessments & Reflections
Due: ASAP

Humanities: Work Session

Today you will have time to do work.

Start by working on roots 6. Remember, we brainstormed a number of products you could make that are not word maps.

In your inbox, you have an exit ticket that MUST BE COMPLETED at the end of the day.  This will be an academic initiative grade.

• Exceed the standard by providing DETAILED, SPECIFIC information about your work for the day.
• Meet the standard by providing specific information about your work for the day.  
• Partially meet the standard by providing some information about your work for the day.  How might you go deeper?
• Do not yet meet the standard by providing minimal information about your work for the day. How can we help you fill this out more effectively?

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ Posts this week

Creative Blog Entry: Casting Call.  Select at least two actors/actresses for a new version of Of Mice & Men. Explain your casting decisions by referencing the performers prior roles, embedding images that prove they have the necessary "look," and making an argument that these are the BEST people for the roles.  

Due: Friday, December 6

Complete: Project Proposal Form

Due: TODAY (one day later  than due date)

Study: Roots 6 Quiz & Product

Due: Thursday, December 5

Closing Arguments

Due: Friday, December 6

Photo Essay/StoryCorps

Due: Tuesday, December 10

Humanities: Projects, Closing Arguments, Blogging and Back to Basics

Hi, folks.  We have a routine in Humanities that can get disrupted sometimes.  We are going to get back on that routine this week.

• Monday: LoNGview & Project Proposals & Blog Quality
• Tuesday: Roots Activity & Project/Closing Argument Work & Exit Tickets
• Wednesday: LoNGview & Project/Closing Argument Work & No Red Ink & Exit Tickets
• Thursday: Roots 6 Quiz & Product Due & Closing Argument Workshop
• Friday: No Red Ink & Closing Arguments DUE & Blogs Due

Today, we will start with a LoNGview reading that ties into your work with Of Mice & Men and poverty.

"The New Face of Homelessness"  and also here.

From there you will have to complete a project proposal form for your photo essay or StoryCorps IN CLASS.  It can be found in your inbox. This is due today, in class.

I posted a tutorial to help you with your blogging.

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ Posts this week

Creative Blog Entry: Casting Call.  Select at least two actors/actresses for a new version of Of Mice & Men. Explain your casting decisions by referencing the performers prior roles, embedding images that prove they have the necessary "look," and making an argument that these are the BEST people for the roles.  

Due: Friday, December 6

Complete: Project Proposal Form

Due: Today, Monday, December 2

Study: Roots 6 Quiz & Product

Due: Thursday, December 5

Closing Arguments

Due: Friday, December 6

Photo Essay/StoryCorps

Due: Tuesday, December 10

Humanities: Closing Arguments, Photo Essays, StoryCorps & Roots Quizzes

Yesterday, we did an activity around the closing arguments, helping determine to what extent various characters are responsible for the death of Lennie.  We worked big on sets of desks, sorting arguments into ethos, pathos and logos.

http://www.leaderthoughtship.com/2012/12/using-ethos-pathos-and-logos-for.html

Here's a video on ethos, pathos & logos that could help you when we aren't around to explain.

Here are some pictures of the work we did in class.

Today we begin with our Roots 5 quiz.

From there, we will look at examples of how to make 

a) StoryCorps

and 

b) Photo Essay

After going through the examples and the process of making each of those, you will have time to do one of the following:

a) Write your closing argument - Due Friday, December 5 (solo)

b) Plan your photo essay or story corps using storyboard materials (solo)

c) Start the design thinking process around our mobile Humanities booth project 

Use this video to help with your interview planning.  

As well interview techniques and guidelines at StoryCorps.

Homework

Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Creative Post:
Get suited up.  Using a tool such a Polyvore.com or Pinterest or even just by finding images from various sources, design your "lawyer" wardrobe for yourself.  What would you wear in the trial of the death of Lennie and why?

Also, what would the person on trial wear?  Post images and explain your thinking there.

The idea is to consider the types of appeal (ethos, pathos, logos) and how what we wear can influence how audiences think.  Also, consider, what makes this extra challenging for people from poverty to tell their stories and be heard?

Closing Argument:
Write the closing argument in the death of Lennie
Due: Friday after Thanksgiving (December 6)

Photo Essay/Story Corps

Due: Tuesday, December 10

Roots 5 Quiz & Word Maps
Due: Today!