AP Lit Blue: Test Prep, Little Bits, Heart of Darkness & Roman Fever

Today we'll start with an on-demand test prep (Wordsworth vs Frost) and then jump into a making activity involving the Little Bits.

Tonight, start Heart of Darkness, reading pages 65-78.

Also, read Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever."  

SHOW YOUR THINKING.

Blog.  (4th Quarter.)  Map the Lit.

Take a Look at the Work of designer/illustrator/cartographer Andrew Degraff.

Then choose any of our works we've read this year as a class and create a map that illustrates the various passages and pathways of that text.  They may be the literal journeys of characters, but they may be internal as well.  There is opportunity for metaphor, symbolism, allegory and the like. 

Due. Monday. April 4.

AP Lit: Mutability & Blackout Poetry

SHOW YOUR THINKING.

Blog Prompt.  

After reading and analyzing Shelley's "Mutability" ["We are as Clouds"] and Wordsworth's "Mutability"  dig into one of the library discards or a text of your own and create your own "Mutability" in the shape of a blackout poem.

BEFORE you go too far, be certain to take a look at the text and context of your source material for your blackout poem.

Your intentions are two-fold:

1) Create a "Mutability" of your own that shares a united theme with the other two, as well as Frankenstein.

2) Explain your poem as well as how it transforms the original text into something new

DUE.  Next class.

Reminders.  Q3 Indie Book Projects. (Were Due at Top of the Quarter)

"To Be or Not to Be" Products and Story Bibles and 1-Page Rationales.

Synthesis Essays.

Blog Evidence 1 & 2.

All Due/Past Due.

Pop Culture: Rough Plan for Tuesday: Music Streaming

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Music Streaming

• How much do musicians really make from Spotify, iTunes and YouTube? | Technology | The Guardian
• A Musician's Guide to Streaming: The Pros & Cons of Spotify, Bandcamp, SoundCloud & More :: Music :: Features :: Paste
• Musicians Who Hate Spotify | Flavorwire
• Apple Music hits 10 million subscribers - The Washington Post 

SHOW YOUR THINKING.

Blog.  Imagine you are an aspiring musician.  What path would you take to making a living with your music?  Which streaming service would you use?  Would you stay independent or sign with a label?  Use information from the above articles and any other research you'd like to conduct to support your decision.  Include text evidence and/or links to video/audio that helped you come up with your decision.

Due.  Thursday.  March 24.

Next to last assignment for the quarter . . . last assignment lands Thursday.

AP Lit: Design a Word Blog Post

Design a Word:  After working with Shelley's Frankenstein, Keat's "Ode to a Grecian Urn" and Byron's "Prometheus," take a look at this link to UnderConsideration's Word It project.

http://www.underconsideration.com/wordit/

Look across those three works and identify a word that surfaces, emerges, captures them all and then . . .

Design a Word.

You may want to incorporate the word into your design, but you may not.  It is completely up to you.
Include a rationale explaining your choices.

Due.  Next class.

SHOW YOUR THINKING.

Synthesis #3.  Due Next Class.

Design a Word.  Due Next Class.

Eng 9: Sanctuary for Others & Speak

Sanctuary for Others Design Challenge

Single Point Rubric

HMW design a sanctuary for  . . .

Another Person in Class (That You Don’t Know Very Well)

or Another Character from Speak Besides Melinda

Criteria	Evidence of Exceeding the Standard (clever, insightful, unique, powerful, creative, meaningful, professional)	What Meeting the Standard Looks Like	Evidence of Needs for Improvement (gaps, missing pieces or evidence, incomplete thoughts)
Prototype Quality (MEDIA)		I like how your prototype looks like a finished product that you can present to the class; I like how there are no obvious signs that you didn’t get it finished -- even though there may be ways in which you might improve it; I like that it shows evidence you understand how to use the media you chose to solve the problem in an effective way
Research and Connections (RESEARCH/READING)		I like how your prototype clearly shows numerous accurate connections to your research (text, video, audio); I like how your explanations include page numbers/time stamps and quoted text as evidence to show that you really know what you are talking about; I like how you wrote or recorded your explanations;
PRESENTATION (LISTENING & SPEAKING)		I like how your presentation was clear and easily understood; even if you weren’t working from a script, you seemed very well prepared and comfortable sharing the information about your sanctuary;  you were able to field and answer questions asked about your sanctuary design
MUGS (MUGS)		I like how any writing included is properly spelled and features proper use of any words on Commonly Mistaken Words 1
Empathy (HABITS of MIND)		I like how you clearly show an understanding of your user’s needs and how to meet them; I like how you connect your ideas in your sanctuary to the needs of your user you were able to identify from your research
Timeliness (HABITS of MIND)		I like how you turned it in within 24 hours of the agreed upon due date

Design Challenge Checklist (And the DEEP Design Thinking Phases connected)

1. Define Sanctuary and Identify Examples (DISCOVERY Phase)
1. What are different forms sanctuary can take?
2. How might it look?
2. User and User Needs Identified (EMPATHY Phase)
1. Necessary research (interviews, articles, novel) conducted
2. Empathy maps completed
3. Experiment with Sanctuary Features (EXPERIMENT Phase)
1. Rapid fire prototyping
2. Explore possibilities
3. Create a working prototype linked to user needs
1. 3-D or 2-D, using any materials/tools that serve your purpose
2. Suggested: 2-D art, SketchUp, Minecraft, LEGO, cardboard, wood, photography
4. Produce and Present Your Prototype (PRODUCE Phase)
1. Deliver a presentation (2 to 3 min)
2. Subject your prototype to 4 Corners feedback
3. Revise and reiterate your prototype

5. Written Reflection (WRITING - new rubric and criteria to come after presentations)

NOTE FOR BLOGGING!  Any and all of the work above can be posted on your blog to demonstrate your understanding of the various standards.

SHOW YOUR THINKING.

Blog. Sanctuary Progress 1. Document your progress on the Sanctuary for Others design challenge. These may be drawings and sketches, interviews and notes, or experiments and rapid fire prototypes.

Due. Wednesday, March 23.

Design. Sanctuary for Others.

Due. Tuesday, March 29.

Read. Speak.

140 - 164.

Due. Next Class.

Blogging Standards Evidence 1 & 2.

Due. ASAP.

Choose from your blogging you've done this quarter which evidence you want to count toward your standards. Revise them into the best possible evidence.

Study.  Roots 6-10.  

Quiz. Friday. March 25.

Study. No Red Ink.  Independent/Dependent Clauses.

Quiz. Tuesday. March 29.

AP Lit: To Be or Not to Be Design Challenge

I've copy and pasted the text from the design challenge brief that was shared with you in your Google Drive. I thought it would be helpful for you to have here as you revise and explore new iterations. Any components of the project or documentation of your process could also serve as excellent content for your blog and standards evidence there.

To Be or Not to Be: Design Challenge

Design Challenge.  How might we create dramatic presentations of “To Be or Not to Be” to demonstrate our analysis and understanding of the play as a whole?

Soliloquy Criteria.

• Must include original Shakespearean language, though it may be filtered through any sort of creative interpretation you so choose

• Must take the form of a product that can be watched and experienced, including video, animation, animatic (storyboard w voice over), radio drama/podcast, live performance

• Must be accompanied by a 1-page well-composed rationale that explains the intentions behind the production

• Must feel like an excerpt from a larger production and be aligned to those grander intentions

To achieve that final criterion, you must also create the following “story bible”

Story Bible Criteria.

• One paragraph descriptions for each of the central six characters: Hamlet, Ophelia, Claudius, Polonious, Gertrude, Laertes

• Detailed description of the setting in which the narrative takes place

• One paragraph summaries of each Act in your production, with particular attention to the relationship these events have to your staging of Hamlet’s soliloquy; your goal here is alignment

You may include any visuals here that you believe will help convey your concept.

Design Process Criteria.

Document each of the first three stages of the design process with meaningful evidence.  

Discovery.  (Research & Exploration)

Empathy.  (Audience and User Needs; Character Empathy)

Experiment. (Doodles and Storyboards, Maps and Maybes)

Eng 9: Freaks and Geeks and Speak with Ms Pulito

Hi folks,

These are the graphic organizers and blog prompts from when I was away and Ms. Pulito was running the show.

Speak

Empathy Map on “Freaks and Geeks” Character

Your task is to create an empathy map based on a character from “Freaks and Geeks” that we did not examine together during class. Use the things they say and do in Episode 1 to help you determine what they may be thinking or feeling. Make sure to include specific details and interpretations. Then, write a 2-3 paragraph blog post in which you send this character to Mt. Blue High School for a day. What happens? Where do they go? Who do they talk to? How do they get along with the students and teachers? Use your empathy map to help you decide!

Character’s Name: _____________________________________

Say	Think
Do	Feel

Speak

Feature Chart: Comparing Mt. Blue High School, Merryweather High School (from Speak), and McKinley High School (from “Freaks and Geeks”)

Give each school a “rating” of 1-5 for each criteria, with a score of 1 meaning “nonexistent” and a score of 5 meaning “very prominent.” Then, provide a 1-2 sentence justification for your rating. For the last category, come up with a criteria that you feel is somehow expressed in each of the three schools (examples might include skipping classes, positive--or negative--student/teacher interactions, parent involvement, athletics, art, etc).

	Cliques	School Spirit	Bullying	Your choice of criteria:
Mt. Blue
Merryweather
McKinley

For your blog post, you are going to create a “casting call.”  Your job is decide the cast for EITHER a rebooted, remade version of “Speak” the movie (AKA no Kristen Stewart) OR for a TV series of the Mt. Blue Campus. You must choose at least 4 characters from “Speak” to cast OR 4 friends/faculty from MBC. Be specific and explain your reasoning.

SHOW YOUR WORK.

Blog.

1. Freaks & Geeks at MBC.  Write a 2-3 paragraph blog post in which you send this character to Mt. Blue High School for a day. What happens? Where do they go? Who do they talk to? How do they get along with the students and teachers? Use your empathy map to help you decide!

2. For your blog post, you are going to create a “casting call.”  Your job is decide the cast for EITHER a rebooted, remade version of “Speak” the movie (AKA no Kristen Stewart) OR for a TV series of the Mt. Blue Campus. You must choose at least 4 characters from “Speak” to cast OR 4 friends/faculty from MBC. Be specific and explain your reasoning.

Submit your Best Evidence for Blogging Standards Evidence 2!

Read. Speak up to page 140.

Due. Monday. 3.21.2016.

Start Planning. Design a Sanctuary for Others. 

Due. Tuesday, 3.28.2016