AP Lit 3G: A Bit of a Wonky Day of Lots of Ends of Things

Today started with our MUGS Apostrophes Quiz 1 on NoRedInk.com

Then we made sure our projects were ready to go for the installation.  Everyone who wants their pieces on display should put them on the black cart and complete the curator's note document on the Google Drive.  There's no obligation -- I just think these are all well worth sharing.

I'll be installing between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. on Monday if you would like to come along and help.

After that we dug into Joyce's "Eveline," using the Literary 3x3 strategy to further illuminate the short story.  We marked up the text of the story while looking at the 3x3s, identifying the evidence that brought us to our conclusions.

We did not get to Hamlet today -- disappointing. Must rectify after our test prep on Monday.

Tuesday, during class, practice test.  Does not count in the gradebook.  Being assessed only for baseline & feedback data.  One multiple choice item (reading and 7 or 8 questions) and one writing prompt (reading and responding) in 45 minutes.  

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ posts
Req'd Post: Create a Literary 3x3 for Joyce's "Eveline" and for Houseman's "To an Athlete Dying Young."  Choose one of the those two 3x3s and turn it into a thesis statement & map your thinking about an essay.  Those maps can be visual! Or verbal!   Just get 'em up on your blog. 
AE Houseman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" 
James Joyce's "Eveline"
Due: Friday, Jan. 17

Revise: Synthesis #2
Due: Friday, Jan 17 (if you want a 2nd revision)

Installation of Poetry as Design: Monday, Jan 20 (voluntary) 9 a.m.

Read & Create:  Indie Book Project #3
Due: Tuesday/Wednesday, Jan 28/29

PACE: Mr. Ryder Went Off the Road

Mr. Ryder went off the road.

He's fine.

That's why there's no blog post today.

Hopefully people were productive.

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ Posts

Req'd Blog: What's next?  Where should PACE go from here?  More self directed? More guidance?  Should we tackle essay writing -- it's necessary 2nd semester that we write two essays -- or should we dive into Macbeth & the TV/Movie pitching project which helps meet our reading and vocab standards?  What are your thoughts and more importantly WHY?

Where does PACE go from here?

Due: Friday, Jan 17

Complete: Poetry/Music Projects

Due: ASAP

Complete: Project Reflection Paragraphs

Due: ASAP

1. Product (what did you make?)
2. Process (how did you make it?)
3. Outcome (how well did you achieve your goal? what would you change? what would you keep the same?)

Make Up Work: Blogs, Graphic Organizers, Thinking.  Due.  ASAP.

Quarter Ends: Next Friday, Jan 24.

AP Lit 3G: Hamlet & Literary 3x3 & Thesis Statements & Poetry as Design!

Today were supposed to start with getting NoRedInk.com up and running and the first lesson on there on apostrophes.  Quiz on Thursday.  We didn't get there in class.  It's very easy to set up.  

We'll didn't ripshod over Hamlet, Act II, scene 2.  We saved it because we had all of our poetry as design coolness to share.  Such as these . . .

Inspired by her own poem

Inspired by Mary Lambert

Inspired by Sarah Kay

Inspired by Wilfred Owen

Inspired by her own poem

 (Or at least, part of it. We have a tendency to get carried away on the Hamlet and we have other things to do!)

Then, we'll return to our Literary 3x3s for "Araby" and use them to shape thesis statements & essay maps.  (The results of our work were supposed posted here for perusal but I got caught so up in making thesis statements that I forgot to take pictures.  So . . . here's one I took of my cards afterward.)

Blog: 3+ posts
Req'd Post: Create a Literary 3x3 for Joyce's "Eveline" and for Houseman's "To an Athlete Dying Young."  Choose one of the those two 3x3s and turn it into a thesis statement & map your thinking about an essay.  Those maps can be visual! Or verbal!   Just get 'em up on your blog. 
AE Houseman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" 
James Joyce's "Eveline"
Due: READ for Thursday, Complete the 3x3 for Thursday, but you don't have to have the thesis statement & map on the blog until Friday, Jan. 17

MUGS Quiz: Apostrophes 1
In Class: Thursday, Jan 16 on NoRedInk.com


Revise: Synthesis #2
Due: Friday, Jan 17 (if you want a 2nd revision)


Installation of Poetry as Design: Monday, Jan 20 (voluntary) 9 a.m.


Read & Create:  Indie Book Project #3
Due: Tuesday/Wednesday, Jan 28/29

Note: We will be taking time Jan 28 - Feb 7 to explore our readings & share our products in depth 

Humanities: Extreme by Design Predictions & Metacognition

We started the day with roots knockout.  Big quiz on Roots 6 through 8 on Thursday.  Also, Roots products due that day as well.

We made some predictions about which Habits of Mind we expected to use today, based on knowing we'll be making predictions about a documentary, watching it, and then testing them.

Then we watched JUST the trailer for Extreme by Design.

We made predictions and think-pair-shared those predictions, highlighting key words in our partners' predictions.

Then we watched the first 17 minutes of the documentary.

After watching we looked at our predictions again and wrote two paragraphs using these stems:

Before we watched the documentary, I thought . . . .

Now that I have watched part of the documentary, I think . . . 

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ posts
Req'd: Post your thinking on Extreme by Design.  What do you think about the ideas being shared here? What do you think about this work?  What if Mt. Blue Campus students did this sort of work?

Roots: Quiz & Product 8
Due: Thursday

MUGS: Quiz
Due: Wednesday

Missing Work: Get It In!
Due: ASAP!

PACE: Analyzing "The Mask" by 8 Feet Tall

Today in class we started with a quick review of our key poetic terms for this unit:

Diction

Figurative Language

Repetition

Rhyme

As projects are due, and graphic organizers too, I wanted to make sure our thinking is calibrated going into the final two weeks of the quarter.  

Plus, last night I got a Facebook message from Pete Doom, vocalist/MC/songwriter/generally good dude from the Boston hip hop/funk band, 8 Feet Tall.  They've got a new record out and he sent me a link outta the blue.  It seemed like it fit into the work we've been doing and would be a nice refresher.  Plus, does it get any more "new" than eight hours?  Eight hours, 8 Feet Tall.  See? Strange mojo afoot.  Afoot.  Feet.  See?

Folks started by using their design kits to mark up the lyrics after a first listen.  

Then, in Ohana teams, they analyzed parts of the song on the marker board.  

We wrapped by circulating, sharing, debriefing and connecting.  Very cool when we realized that two or three people in the room had similar ideas even though they weren't working together.  Alignment.

Check the homework below . . . 

The coding? All her idea!  Nice.

Early in the process

Early on

the first big idea that popped

fleshing out the thinking

"Bring your gimmick if you challenge mine" might mean "If you question my opinion, have your own" 

Thinking about repetition and how it contributes to meaning

Articulating some big thinking 

Had a few thoughts about those lines . . . um . . . this is good thinking too!

repetition strikes again

Now the big ideas are coming on fast & furious

Checking out what the others wrote

Boom. (or.. Doom?)

This feels important.

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ Posts

Req'd Blog: What's next?  Where should PACE go from here?  More self directed? More guidance?  Should we tackle essay writing -- it's necessary 2nd semester that we write two essays -- or should we dive into Macbeth & the TV/Movie pitching project which helps meet our reading and vocab standards?  What are your thoughts and more importantly WHY?

Where does PACE go from here?

Complete: Poetry/Music Projects

Due: ASAP

Complete: Project Reflection Paragraphs

Due: ASAP

1. Product (what did you make?)
2. Process (how did you make it?)
3. Outcome (how well did you achieve your goal? what would you change? what would you keep the same?)

Make Up Work: Blogs, Graphic Organizers, Thinking.  Due.  ASAP.

Quarter Ends: Next Friday, Jan 24.

Humanities: Habits of Mind, Howe & Howe & Extreme by Design

We are just hammering you with big thinking right now and here comes some more . . .

We'll start with an opt-in MUGS activity to help you with "your/you're" before your quiz on Wednesday.  If you'd like to participate, work with Mr. Ryder on one side of the room.  You may choose to use this time to blog instead, if you feel like you don't need any help understanding the differences between your and you're.

From there, we will do a sorting activity based on the learning styles quizzes you took the other day. You will be up.  You will be moving.  It will be most fantastic.

That takes us to watching a couple of videos that tie in directly to all the work we've been doing with design thinking, habits of mind, and learning styles.

One is this episode of SplitScreen with Shannon Moss featuring the Howe Brothers from Howe & Howe.


The other is a preview of a design thinking documentary we'll be watching in chunks this week, Extreme by Design. 

You can see even more a preview here and more of the documentary here.


We'll be using a variety of strategies to help capture our thinking about these videos and how they tie into the work we've been doing with Habits of Mind.

HOMEWORK
MUGS Quiz  NEXT CLASS!
Habits of Mind Assessment next Thursday and Friday!
Roots Quiz Thursday!

Get your missing work IN!!!!  Revisions!

Literary 3x3 Into Thesis Statements Essay Maps & Poetry!

Today we'll start with getting NoRedInk.com up and running and the first lesson on there.  Quiz on Friday.

We'll run ripshod over Hamlet, Act II, scene 2.  (Or at least, part of it. We have a tendency to get carried away on the Hamlet and we have other things to do!)

Then, we'll return to our Literary 3x3s for "Araby" and use them to shape thesis statements & essay maps.  (The results of our work will be posted here for perusal.)

Then we'll complete the lesson plan from last week:

"From there, we are going to try a little experiment connected to our "Poetry as Design" work.
We will transfer our literary 3x3s to index cards, one word per card.  Thus, every student will end up with a deck of nine cards.  We will start by rearranging our down decks.  What other configurations can we make of those nine words?  It's okay to mentally adjust tense and such to make it work.  
From there, we will continue the experiment by passing decks.  See if you can create a 3x3 with another deck.
And from there, things great really crazy.  We will take the decks.  Combine.  Shuffle.  Deal nine.
And then . . . design poems.  Design a companion poem to Joyce's "Araby" using the nine words (and others) and what you understand about design." 

Blog: 3+ posts
Req'd Post: Create a Literary 3x3 for Joyce's "Eveline" and for Houseman's "To an Athlete Dying Young."  Choose one of the those two 3x3s and turn it into a thesis statement & map your thinking about an essay.  Those maps can be visual! Or verbal!   Just get 'em up on your blog. 
AE Houseman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" 
James Joyce's "Eveline"
Due: Friday, Jan. 17

MUGS Quiz: Apostrophes 1
In Class: Friday, Jan 17 on NoRedInk.com

Revise: Synthesis #2
Due: Friday, Jan 17 (if you want a 2nd revision)


Design & Create: Poetry as Design pieces
Due: Wednesday, Jan 13 (Next Class!)
Installation: Monday, Jan 20 (voluntary)


Read & Create:  Indie Book Project #3
Due: Wednesday, Jan 29

Note: We will be taking time Jan 28 - Feb 7 to explore our readings & share our products in depth