Welcome back from vacation.
The hard way.
Yup. We've got a little ground to make up with the weather messing with us.
So we'll open with a test prep session: writing prompt.
You'll be given a poem and a writing prompt and fifteen minutes to complete
a) Pre-Writing
b) Thesis Statement
c) 1st Body Paragraph
That's it.
We'll then workshop your pieces and approaches. See if we can find trends and strategies that seem to be lending themselves to more confident thinking.
From there, we'll spend some time brainstorming our next synthesis pieces by digging into "How to Read Lit Like a Professor" and the Joyce decks you've built. We'll try to uncover some ideas and big thinking that could produce an epic synthesis.
We'll end our work today with Hamlet, as I'd like us to make some progress these next two weeks. I think Prince Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein could have some fascinating conversations.
HOMEWORK
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post: Casting Call. Frankenstein. Please. Please. Please. Can we have a good one? Please.
Due: Feb 28
Write: Frankliners: 1st Submission
Due: Tues/Wed., Feb 25/26
Note: Be certain to put a clean "1st submission" draft in your Google Drive IN folder
Read: Frankenstein
Due: Thr/Fri. Feb 27/28
Prepare: To discuss & explore at length!
Think & Design: Synthesis #3
Prepare: Thesis Statement & Map
Thesis & Map Due: Thr/Fr. Feb 27/28
Study: MUGS Comprehensive 1-3 Quiz
Prepare: Retakes & Comprehensive Quiz
Due: Thr/Fri Feb 27/28
Monday, February 24, 2014
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
AP Lit 3G: Frankliners Workshopping
Today was an early release day.
We chose to break into two smaller work groups: one for tuning, one for developing.
The conversations were fantastic.
We chose to break into two smaller work groups: one for tuning, one for developing.
The conversations were fantastic.
HOMEWORK
Blog: 3+ Posts (next week, you get to take off for vacation! woot!)
Req'd Post: Analytical work. By this week you will have read three chapters from "How to Read Lit" -- "Blind," "Geography," and "Season." Foster delivers a great deal of thinking across these three chapters and I believe strongly they apply to Joyce's stories.
Find three powerful ideas from Foster -- one from each chapter -- and then apply those thoughts as lenses for looking at Dubliners. Explain how each applies and can illuminate understanding from Joyce's work. (You might focus on multiple stories or only one or two -- that is up to you. Having a strong sense of Foster's thinking is more important than having a strong sense of each of these stories.)
You may write, record, film or otherwise capture your thinking, so long as it is clear and can stand on its own without tremendous interpretation on the part of your audience. Lots of digital tools you can use for this AND it could just be a series of paragraphs as well. Work to your strengths/interests.
Due: Fri, Feb 14
Read: How to Read Lit Like a Professor "And so Does Season"
Due: Fri, Feb 14
Write: Working Draft of "Frankliners" story/poem
Due: Wednesday Workshop, Feb 13
Upcoming: Read Frankenstein
Due: Thursday/Friday following Feb break.
PACE: Macbeth & Pitches & More
Today was an early release day, so we didn't have time to dig too deep. What we did today, however, can be repeated on Friday with a little bit more teacher PACE time at each area. Also, I'm hoping to create some flipped classroom videos for you folks.
One station: Independence. Work at your own pace on the Macbeth organizers, MUGS studying, QUACK studying and/or the Pitching Power project.
Another station: Pitching power. We looked at the show bibles in the Google Drive and the rubric for the project. We used a "I wish, I wonder, I noticed" protocol to capture our thinking.
And yet another station: Guided reading of scene 1.7 from Macbeth as Lady Macbeth and Macbeth discuss the possibility of Duncan's murder.
HOMEWORK
Blogs: 3+
Req'd Post: Pre-Thinking Your Pitch. Take some time to brainstorm, to mess around with ideas, to talk out loud, to sketch and design, to use whatever tools you like -- digital or not -- to come up with some ideas for your project. Questions you could answer that might help:
Would you make a movie, TV show, video game or book series?
Where might you set your story? Think about settings that feature a lot of people, a lot of relationships, and a lot of power dynamics.
Who might be an interesting main character? What does this character want? What is keeping this character from getting it?
Due: Friday, Feb 14
MUGS: Commonly Confused Words #2
Quiz: Friday, Feb 14
QUACK: Unit 1 Part 1
Quiz & Product Due: Thursday Feb 27
One station: Independence. Work at your own pace on the Macbeth organizers, MUGS studying, QUACK studying and/or the Pitching Power project.
Another station: Pitching power. We looked at the show bibles in the Google Drive and the rubric for the project. We used a "I wish, I wonder, I noticed" protocol to capture our thinking.
And yet another station: Guided reading of scene 1.7 from Macbeth as Lady Macbeth and Macbeth discuss the possibility of Duncan's murder.
HOMEWORK
Blogs: 3+
Req'd Post: Pre-Thinking Your Pitch. Take some time to brainstorm, to mess around with ideas, to talk out loud, to sketch and design, to use whatever tools you like -- digital or not -- to come up with some ideas for your project. Questions you could answer that might help:
Would you make a movie, TV show, video game or book series?
Where might you set your story? Think about settings that feature a lot of people, a lot of relationships, and a lot of power dynamics.
Who might be an interesting main character? What does this character want? What is keeping this character from getting it?
Due: Friday, Feb 14
Macbeth Graphic Organizers: Must Complete 3
Teacher Pace Due Dates:
Wed: Feb 12
Tue: Feb 25
Wed: Mar 5
MUGS: Commonly Confused Words #2
Quiz: Friday, Feb 14
QUACK: Unit 1 Part 1
Quiz & Product Due: Thursday Feb 27
Start Thinking & Planning: Movie/Video Game/TV Show Pitches & Bibles
Due: Early March
Due: Early March
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Humanities: Working on the Merryweather RAFT Project
Today we started with some time on Roots 10. You'll find a link over in the right sidebar.
Then there was a big chunk of time to work on the Speak/Merryweather High RAFT.
You have presentations due on Friday. There WILL be an audience you must impress.
At the end of class will be a few minutes to read Speak. Please have finished the Second Ranking Period for Wednesday.
HOMEWORK
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post:
Empathy. After break we will be interviewing students, faculty, and others about orientation so we can create the best experience possible.
Create a list of 5 to 7 questions for each of the following users/demographics. You might use some of the questions for multiple users.
Then there was a big chunk of time to work on the Speak/Merryweather High RAFT.
You have presentations due on Friday. There WILL be an audience you must impress.
At the end of class will be a few minutes to read Speak. Please have finished the Second Ranking Period for Wednesday.
HOMEWORK
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post:
Empathy. After break we will be interviewing students, faculty, and others about orientation so we can create the best experience possible.
Create a list of 5 to 7 questions for each of the following users/demographics. You might use some of the questions for multiple users.
- 8th Grade Students
- 9th Grade Students
- Upperclassmen Students
- Middle School Teachers
- High School Teachers
- Middle School Administrators
- High School Administrators
- High School Guidance Counselors
- Parents of 8th Grade Students
- Parents of 9th Grade Students
- Upperclassmen Parents
Due: Friday, Feb 14
Need ideas for more blog posts? Check out the tag "Blogger Fodder" and the videos/links that have been posted.
Read: Complete the "Second Ranking Period" (pg 102)
Due: Wednesday, Feb 12
Joycean Qualities and Frankliner's Workshop
Happy Birthday, Thomas Alva Edison!
FREE BOOK ABOUT AWESOME THINGS.
Ryder will undoubtedly rant. This is simply a fact. It will probably be pretty entertaining.
Next we will delve into Joyce for exactly fifteen minutes. The goal is to look for evidence of three of his styles: epiphanies, manipulation of language & aesthetics and free indirect discourse. To do this, we will bust out your design kits and mark up hard copies of the stories. There doesn't need to be any rhyme or reason to how you do your marking-- doodles, brackets, lines, etc-- as long as you know what it is you are highlighting from the text and why... so feel free to get creative!
Following the Joycean Exploration we will sort all the feedback stickies from the board and place them all together on the dragon board, again in a spectrum from least to most helpful.
To wrap up class we will have a writing workshop using the Frankliner's drafts you brought in today.
HOMEWORK
Blog: 3+ Posts (next week, you get to take off for vacation! woot!)
Req'd Post: Analytical
work. By this week you will have read three chapters from "How to Read
Lit" -- "Blind," "Geography," and "Season." Foster delivers a great
deal of thinking across these three chapters and I believe strongly they
apply to Joyce's stories.
Find three powerful ideas from Foster -- one from each chapter -- and then apply those thoughts as lenses for looking at Dubliners.
Explain how each applies and can illuminate understanding from Joyce's
work. (You might focus on multiple stories or only one or two -- that
is up to you. Having a strong sense of Foster's thinking is more
important than having a strong sense of each of these stories.)
You may write,
record, film or otherwise capture your thinking, so long as it is clear
and can stand on its own without tremendous interpretation on the part
of your audience. Lots of digital tools you can use for this AND it
could just be a series of paragraphs as well. Work to your
strengths/interests.
Due: Fri, Feb 14
Read: How to Read Lit Like a Professor "And so Does Season"
Due: Fri, Feb 14
Write: Working Draft of "Frankliners" story/poem
Due: Wednesday Workshop, Feb 13
Upcoming: Read Frankenstein
Due: Thursday/Friday following Feb break.
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