AP Lit 2B/3B: DT Challenge & Poetry

We'll open with this DT challenge:

Use one manila folder, two paper clips, tape, scissors, markers, and no more than five words to make a product that increases happiness, thoughtfulness, or connectedness in MBC. 25 min.

This kicks off our work of looking at poetry as a design challenge.

Here are some thoughts I've been having about that

• How might we create poetry?
• How might we create visual interpretations of poetry?

Those are fine . . . I'd like to see us go here though . . . 

• How might we increase happiness, connectedness and thoughtfulness through poetry?
• How might we express ourselves through poetry?
• How might we share ourselves through poetry?
• How might we solve our problems through poetry?

All of these working toward an answer to this . . . 

• How is poetry a human-centered design challenge?

Then we wrangled with a sonnet.  Period 2: "Altruism"; Period 3: Milton's "Light"

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ Posts

Period 2B: The Swimmer Playlist

Periods 3B/3G: Casting Call.  Hamlet.  Thus far.  Create the perfect cast list for Hamlet based on your reading so far.

Due: Friday, December 13

Watch:

Clips of Hamlet posted and shared for Act II in your Google Drive.

Reflect on Blog w/ Analysis/Thoughts on Versions

Due: Thursday, December 12

Design:

Poetry Project (create one poem, create visual interpretation of a found poem)

More info to follow soon

Due: End of 1st Week of January

Think ahead: 

Revisions of Synthesis Essay

Indie Book Project Due at Top of Q3

Humanities: Longviews & Project Work

Today, we'll start with a LNGView reading.




After this, you will have time to work on the projects, closing arguments, blogs, and more.

Some folks will be delivering closing arguments today.

Tomorrow, you will be self-assessing your projects.

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ Posts this week

Creative Blog Entry: Visualize Humanities Class.  Create a visual -- may be a diagram, may be a photo, may be  a collage, may be a painting, may be a sculpture, may be . . . wow . . . anything visual -- that represents what Humanities class means to you.  What do we learn? How do we operate? What is your work like? You may want to post a few to fully capture your thinking.  We will be at the halfway point soon and this a good way to get a sense of where your thinking is at.

Due: Friday, December 13

Complete: Project Proposal Form

Due: LAST WEEK

Study: Roots 7 Quiz & Product

Due: Thursday, December 19

Closing Arguments

Due: PAST DUE! Friday, December 6

Photo Essay/StoryCorps

Due: Tuesday, December 10 (Tomorrow!)

Humanities: Socratic Seminar Results

Results of power voting on most powerful idea we encountered this week.

Humanities: Ethos, Logos, Pathos Video!

AP Lit 3G: Sonnets & The Swimmer & Design Thinking (& Hamlet ?)

We'll start today with a deep dive into Foster's chapter on sonnets.  Woot.  We'll be doing a lot jot experience, then culling the sonnets you read for today for evidence of Foster's brilliant assertions in action.   It shall be grand and marvelous and cause people to christen ships with bottles of homemade brandy.

Then . . . design thinking.  A review of the DEEP design thinking stages and how you employed them to make meaning of Cheever's "The Swimmer."

Finally, we'll discuss your work for the weekend:  ideating & developing working prototypes of our personal analysis & writing process products.

How might we create a process of gathering evidence of our thinking/analysis & writing processes and how might we demonstrate our understanding through a product?

Document the development of your ideas on your blog so we can all see and share as we try to figure out what works best for us.

If there is time today, Hamlet!

Next class? Meet in commercial arts. 2nd floor.  boom.

HOMEWORK

Blogs: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post:  Hamlet Writes a Sonnet
Choose any character from Hamlet and write a sonnet from that character's point of view.  Pay particular attention to which sonnet form you choose.  Be certain to include all elements of that sonnet form within your creation AND to make those choices with deliberate intention.  How can the format and rhyme scheme reflect the character?
Due: Friday, December 6

Design THinking:
How might we create a process of gathering evidence of our thinking/analysis & writing processes and how might we demonstrate our understanding through a product?

Document the development of your ideas on your blog so we can all see and share as we try to figure out what works best for us.
Due: Monday, December 9

Sonnet Work:
Read: "The Sonnet" chapter in "How to Read Lit" and annotate. 
Read: you’ve got a pile of poetry to read and it’s gonna be great.  We will be examining the sonnet form and discussing why it endures.  I’ve put three links on Diigo — and highlighted the poems you need to read on the “Sonnet” page.  There are two Shakespearean sonnets you need to read as well,  ”Let Those Who Are in Favour”and “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”  
Annotate three of the above sonnets.  Your choice.  
Due: TODAY 

Read Hamlet:
Hold . . . we may be a little bit getting back to H.
Due: tBA

All Classes: David Bowden - "The Inner Net"

AP Lit 2B/3B: The Swimmer

AP Lit 3G: The Swimmer & Hamlet

You'll start class today by solving a design and literary analysis challenge.

How might we create a visual that maps the sequence of events in "The Swimmer," the change in the protagonist over the course of the narrative, and Cheever's means of  revealing truth?

Suggestion: work big.  You might use the roll paper in the closets in the hallway.  Feel free to use the back side of already used rolls.  Nothing is sacred out there.  Take advantage of LEGO bricks and any materials on the design cart or in the closets.  Use your design kits.

I strongly suggest following the DEEP process/stages here:

• Discover (what are we trying to answer? research and gather evidence from the text? how might we make this map? what might it look like?)
• Empathize (what will be useful to the viewer? how will this be presented in a way that makes sense to people looking at images of it online? what works best for the people making this? what mediums are most comfortable to those in the room?)  
• Experiment (what materials can be used? in what way?  how can this look? how might we draft it out? how can we build a prototype?)
• Produce (how do we produce a working model? how might we receive feedback on the model?  How might we create a 2nd iteration?)

Use the entire class time to do this.  If you are able to finish it, you may get rolling on more Hamlet aloud, but I've a feeling this may take the entire class to do well.

HOMEWORK

Blogs: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post:  Hamlet Writes a Sonnet
Choose any character from Hamlet and write a sonnet from that character's point of view.  Pay particular attention to which sonnet form you choose.  Be certain to include all elements of that sonnet form within your creation AND to make those choices with deliberate intention.  How can the format and rhyme scheme reflect the character?
Due: Friday, December 6

Sonnet Work:
Read: "The Sonnet" chapter in "How to Read Lit" and annotate. 
Read: you’ve got a pile of poetry to read and it’s gonna be great.  We will be examining the sonnet form and discussing why it endures.  I’ve put three links on Diigo — and highlighted the poems you need to read on the “Sonnet” page.  There are two Shakespearean sonnets you need to read as well,  ”Let Those Who Are in Favour”and “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”  
Annotate three of the above sonnets.  Your choice.  
Due: Friday, December 6 (NEXT CLASS)

Read Hamlet:
Up to Act 2
Due: Friday, December 6