AP Lit: "Eveline" & Hamlet & Prepping for Poetry Installation

We'll start with our MUGS Apostrophe 1 Quiz and from there . . . 

We have to get our pieces for the poetry installation identified and on the black cart.  We can also talk further and share further about our pieces at this point.  If you are having a piece installed, be certain to complete a curator's sign.   The template is in your Drive.

Then we explore Joyce's "Eveline" via our Literary 3x3 strategy.  We will do an activity where we illuminate the evidence that led to our 3x3s.  It will involve big thinking.  And design kits.

Then more from Hamlet.  

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

Humanities: Continued w Extreme by Design

Today we started with Roots 8 Quiz.

Then we watched the rest of Extreme by Design.

This was followed by an explanation of the Habits of Mind assessment due next Thursday:

Using your Google Drive, create folders to collect evidence of  your strengths and weakness for each of the 16 habits of mind.

What evidence might you include?
 Screenshots of blog posts, calendars, tweets, FB statuses, etc.
Photos and art
Interviews with friends and family and neighbors
Video footage
Scripts and dialogues
Written explanations

Look in the Humanities OUT folder for an example of how to organize it and what sorts of evidence to collect.

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?

Habits of Mind Assessment (Strengths & Weaknesses)
Due: Thursday, Jan 22

Roots: Quiz & Product 8
Due TODAY

Missing Work: Get It In!
Due: ASAP!

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.