AP Lit 2B/3B: Gallery Walk and Hamlet

Today, we'll start with a quick recalibrating -- this feels more like a start to a new quarter than last week did.

Let's climb on to NoRedInk.com for a couple of minutes, play with Apostrophes 3, explore the practice areas.  We can do this while transitioning into our next work.

We'll review effective feedback.  Take a look at all of these pictures from the way back machine when we were doling out feedback on our last round of projects.  Let's see if we can increase our rate of meaningful, effective feedback for these.

Then it is time for the gallery walk for the latest round of book projects.  Post-It Notes will abound.


From there, a few minutes with How to Read Lit Like a Professor and powerful takeaways worth putting up on the board.

We will end today with a Hamlet viewing, picking up where we left off just after "To be or not to be."

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post: Create a visual 3x3 of the town (or county) where you live.  What does that place mean to you?  How can you capture your relationship with your town through pictures?  Consider taking or drawing/painting your own.  Give considerable thought to how you arrange them.

MUGS: Apostrophes 3 on NoRedInk.com
Quiz: Thursday/Friday Feb 6 & 7

Read:  Read & and review Joyce's "The Dead" & all three other Joyce stories; be certain to 3x3 "The Dead"
Be Prepared: To work with all four 3x3s, Wed/Th/Fri

Read & Annotate: How to Read Lit Like a Professor "Geography Matters . . ."
Post: Annotations on the blog

Heads Up: Frankenstein is next!  Will need to be read by Thursday AFTER Feb break.  Let me know if you need a hard copy.  Many, many, many places to get it free online including here.

Blogger Fodder: "Red Bull Stratos - The Full Story"

Last year, a couple of classes followed the story of Felix Baumgartner and his journey skyward.

On Friday, January 31st, 2014, the GoPro footage of the event was released.

Watch this.  Think about maybe grabbing a quote and responding to it.

Blogger Fodder: Short Film: "End of Dates"

Some silly fun.  And aliens.  And stuff blowing up.

And . . . some pretty fantastic storytelling here, too.  Why do we care about this guy?  I mean, I do.  I'm thinking others would, too.  And there are a few twists here on what we usually expect from this sort of relationship, as well.

What do you folks think?  Could you make something like this?

Blogger Fodder: Old People, Young People, Music & Pete Seeger

This letter to the editor in The Daily Bulldog this week raises some interesting points about the relationship between adults and teenagers in our communities.

What do you folks think?

Could make an interesting post.

http://www.dailybulldog.com/db/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-pete-seeger-and-our-youth/

BTW, who is Pete Seeger?  Just one of the most important voices in American music.  Ever.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2014/01/28/267488551/american-folk-singer-pete-seeger-dies-at-94