AP Lit: Rose, Bud, Thorn & Synthesis Essays

Today we'll be doing just as last Friday's class did.

We'll be using the Rose/Bud/Thorn DT strategy to explore first, the food court, and then, our synthesis essays.

You  can see some of what the other section came up with here.

This will lead to a synthesis essay workshop to help us with this last week for revisions.  (Pinning Frankenstein revisions can come in next week because not everyone has them back yet.)

HOMEWORK.

Blog: Graded blogs are done for the quarter.
Revise/make up/enhance

Read: T.S. Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Due: Friday, Oct 24th.

Check AP Lit Due Dates doc.

Humanities: Speak & Characterization

We'll start today with an LNG.

LNG View
Rather than using the form, however, we're going to ask that you post your thinking on your blog.  A) This should help folks who keep losing their responses.  B) You are writing so much good stuff, we're actually finding it harder to read through Google Forms than we thought.

STEAL Characterization

We'll do a little activity to familiarize ourselves with characterization and the STEAL methods of characterization.  I made this doodle to help you out.

Speech
Thoughts
Effect on Others
Actions
Looks

From there, we'll watch the first ten minutes of the pilot episode of Freaks & Geeks so we can practice applying our new STEAL knowledge.  We'll use this graphic organizer, doodling, and our own brain pieces to make this happen.


SPEAK.
We'll use the rest of time to read Speak and either complete the graphic organizer due today, or start working on your next.  Tomorrow we'll do an activity to help us make sure we know what's happening in Speak so far as well as the big ideas coming up.

HOMEWORK.

Blog: Catch Up.  No New Posts Required.  Be Certain to Post Links in Blog Tracker.

Read: Speak 49-61
Due: TOMORROW

Complete: Graphic Organizer 2.
Focus: On characterization.  How might you work in STEAL through your responses?
Due: Thursday, October 23rd.

AP Lit 3B: Rose Bud Thorn & Synthesis Essay Revision

On Friday, we're going to try something a little different.

We're going to use the Rose/Bud/Thorn strategy -- we use it in design thinking all the time -- to open up opportunities and problem solving with our synthesis essay revisions.

It should make for some interesting thinking.

HOMEWORK.

Revise.  Catch up.  Breathe.

Check the AP Lit Major Due Dates Schedule.

Humanities: Speak & Understanding

Today we'll be focusing on Speak and the  graphic organizers you are using to demonstrate your understanding of the characters and events of the book.  

We're going to try something a little different though.

You'll need your design kits and white paper and I'll have copies printed of the graphic organizers.  Before filling out the organizers online, we are going to try note taking and doodling on paper, first.  The idea is to try and eliminate some of the distractions working only digitally might be cause. Doodle and note on paper.  THEN, use those notes to fill out the graphic organizers online.

So first, we'll break up the work areas into four-seat desks, three people at each desk with an open seat for Ryder/Brackett.  Speak books, paper, design kits, graphic organizers.  The teachers will bounce around and help you out, check for understanding.

With about twenty minutes to go in class, I'll start reading from the beginning of tonight's reading assignment.

HOMEWORK.

Read: Speak 36 - 46 (End of the 1st Ranking Period) (Full Schedule Here)
Complete: 1st Graphic Organizer (Choice of Notice/Wish/Wonder or Three 4 Thinking)
Due: Monday, Oct 20

Humanities: Digging into Speak, Lies & Graphic Organizers

Yesterday we wrote about our first experiences of walking through the door of Mt. Blue Campus as students.  We then mapped the trends of emotions people felt as we try to build some empathy for one another.  This is going to be important as we move into our design challenges next week around Speak.

ROOTS.

Roots Quiz 2 (over lists 1 & 2) is right out the gate today.  Roots Product 2 is due as well.

SPEAK.

Today we'll read a little chunk of last night's reading in class.  And then we'll do an activity around the First 10 Lies They Tell You in High School.

That will lead to introduction of your graphic organizer choices for Speak.  

You need to complete a graphic for each ranking period in the novel.  The novel is divided into four ranking periods . . . thus . . .

The reading schedule and graphic organizer schedule is available to you in the Google Drive Humanities OUT folder.  And it's linked here.

You'll have a few minutes to get started on your first organizer and then we'll do a little more read-a-loud of Speak.


HOMEWORK.

Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd: Create a 3 song playlist for Mt. Blue Campus that plays as we walk from class to class.  Explain each of your choices.
Due: Friday, Oct 17th

Read:Speak pg 20-26
Due: Friday, Oct 17th (tomorrow)

Complete: Speak Graphic Organizer 1
Choose: Either Three 4 Thinking OR Notice/Wish/Wonder
Due: Monday, Oct 20

AP Lit 4G: Time to Work

Today, time to work.  

I'm going to make a point of providing a couple of class periods in a row each quarter for time to get caught up, ask for help, workshop with peers and otherwise freestyle your day.

Today was the first of those days this week.

You've quite a collection of due dates on the horizon, including today.

Remember that they are all available on the AP Lit Major Due Dates schedule.

HOMEWORK.

Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post: Read Foster's "Is That a Symbol?" and then complete one of the following two tasks:

Apply one of the symbols Foster uses to your own life.  To what extent does it hold true to your experiences with that symbol?

or

Identify a motif in your life that Foster would apply to literature with great aplomb.  Make a case why this is so.

Complete: Frankenstein Pinned

Due: Today!

Revise: Synthesis Essay

Complete: Revision Form

Due: Last Day for Revisions - Fri, Oct 24th

Design: Power Guide: Composition

Due: Oct 27th/28th

Read & Complete: Indie Book Project Q1

Due: November 3rd/4th

Humanities: Reset & Gear Up for New Unit

Today, we'll take a day to reset after a long weekend, get our mental workshops cleaned up, take care of those lingering projects, and get ready to start something powerful and new.

ROOTS & VOCABULARY.

Thursday, you have Roots 2 Quiz and a Roots 2 Product due.  Use the following slideshow to help you prepare.  Also, check out the link to the Quizlets over in the right sidebar.

GET YER WORK. 

Done.

Tomorrow we start Speak and our first big design challenge: How might we improv the climate and culture of Mt. Blue Campus?

Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post: Create a 3 song playlist/soundtrack for Mt. Blue Campus.  Imagine these three songs are played between every class; why have you chosen these three songs?  Justify your choices.
Due: Friday, Oct 17th

Roots: Roots 2
Study: Quiz Over Roots 1 & 2
Create: Roots Product (Uses at least 5 root based words effectively)
Due: Thursday, Oct 16th

Complete: Whole New Mind Portfolio
PAST DUE: Thursday, Oct 9th