Humanities: Roots Sorting & PBL/DT Proposing

Today will start w/ another quick improv game.

We'll follow this with a Roots #1 activity called a concept sort.  Remember there is a quiz & product due next Thursday, 9/26



After this, we'll introduce the PBL/DT proposal form. This form is due by Monday, 9/23.  We use this to keep track of group work, to check with understanding ahead of time.



We HIGHLY RECOMMEND you write up your answers in a different app and then cut and paste your responses.

 If you need a hardcopy to fill out, holler!  We can give you one.

Homework

Complete: PBL/DT Proposal Form - Due Monday 9/23

Build: Cardboard Challenge: Due Oct 2nd.  Challenge is on Oct 3rd!

Gather: Materials and resources for Cardboard Challenge

Roots 1: Quiz & Product (Either Word Map or create a story/poem/song/animated film/puppet show that uses 10 root-based words)

Blog: Play around w/ your blog and get some content on there. Next week, it becomes a regular assignment to blog 3+x 

Humanities: PBL/DT Proposal Form

AP Lit: ENDER'S GAME - Official Trailer #2 (2013) [HQ]

AP Lit: Great Expectations (2013 Trailer)

Curious what people think about this.  Coming out in limited release Nov. 8.  Expect it to land in Waterville at Railroad Square before Christmas.

AP Lit: Synthesis Thinking Brainstorming

Three classes of brainstorms.

AP Lit 3G: Synthesis Workshop 1 & Mrs. Dalloway Begins

Two goals on this far too short of a day.

1. Workshop Synthesis Essays.  Our focus for this session will be strictly upon the introduction & thesis statement.  Why?  Go back and take a look at our data on where we believe our strengths and weaknesses as writers lie.  Also, important to have that foundation and as we discuss them, we can also raise ideas from Ender's Game and the other texts for which we haven't had much opportunity.  Yet.

We'll start with you posting your introductions on this Google doc right here.

For those anxious to discuss, know that there is a graded class discussion/seminar in our near future.  It is on its way.

2.  Discuss Mrs. Dalloway.  We will look at Woolf's style & techniques, clarify characters & plot events, and make sense of it all.

Homework

Blog: 3+ entries (3 effective, meaningful entries = meets; exceeds = 4 OR mindblowing, uber brilliant 3)  for Friday including 1st creative prompt:

Soundtracking a Most Cinematic Moment: Each of our novels thus far has possessed certain cinematic qualities.  Choose a passage from a particularly cinematic moment, post that passage, and link/embed a song that you believe would serve as an effective soundtrack to that moment.  Added challenge? Compose your own original.

Write: Synthesis Essay: 2nd Workshop worthy draft due in class on Friday, 9/20

Read: Mrs. Dalloway up to "He went away that night.  He never saw her again."

PACE 1G: An Improvised Heroic Journey

Meet in the Mt. Blue Campus Food Court.

Be prepared.

For anything.

Epic.

Monomyth style.

Homework

Reading
Teacher PACE: Finish book by Sept. 30
Student PACE: Your group's next assignment.

Reading/Writing
Teacher PACE: I Am Hero Graphic organizer #1: Due Friday, Sept 20

Next Class: Meet in Food Court for a Heroic Journey!