Humanities: LNGview, Metacognition, No Red Ink & More

Metacognition & LNG View

We're going to follow a process to practice our metacognition

1. Read this article from BrainFacts.org on metacognition.

Important: Only read up to this moment here

(Of course, you can always go back and read more later.)

2.  Use our paint chip to determine your level of understanding of the article.  Record that.

3.  Read it again.

4.  Use the paint chip to determine your level of understanding of the article after the second reading.  Record that.

5. Work with a partner and think aloud through the article.  This should leads to lots of talking through and lots of scribbling on the paper copies provided.

6. Use the paint chip to determine your level of understanding after the thinkalouding.

7. Complete the LNGview form (it will be in your inbox) and be sure to include the levels of understanding you had at each step.

No Red Ink
Common Mistakes: Your/You're #1 is in the assignment section.  After LNGview go there and tackle that assignment.  It serves as a pre-assessment for the upcoming quiz.

• Your = possessive 

Four months ago, I borrowed your copy of Miley Cyrus' latest album and never gave it back.  Sorry.

• You're = contraction of "You are"

You're a tremendous friend for only texting me 47 times to bring that Miley Cyrus album back.  Seriously.

Edutopia: Learning Styles Quiz

After No Red Ink, complete this survey and be certain to record your results by taking screenshots.

Talking about the results would make a really great blog post.  Actually, everything you do in class today could make a great blog post.  Take pictures of your thinkaloud notes and put them up on your blog (make sure to flip them if you use your laptop to take the pics).


HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ posts
Req'd Post: Create your own list of "What If's" for 2014.  Look at Mr Ryder's example in the right sidebar.  He's posted his huge list. 
Due: Friday, Jan 11

Study: Roots 8 (& 6, 7)
Quiz: Thursday, Jan 16
Complete: Word Map or Product for Roots 8 

Practice: MUGS your/you're
Quiz: No Red Ink, Wed Jan 15 

Submit: Missing closing arguments & story corps/photo essays;  self assessments
Put in Humanities IN folder on Google Drive

AP Lit 3G: Poetry as Design & Back in the Saddle

We'll start today by revisiting the Poetry as Design project expectations and explaining where the project goes from here.

It's a short day, so we'll try to make as a deep a dive as we can into all that happened in AP Lit 2B/3B on Tuesday.

Blog: 3+ posts

Req'd Post: Create a Literary 3x3 for one of these other two poems that reflect the contemporary African-American experience of the poets in their respective times (consider them as a collection alongside Clifton's "miss rosie")

Rita Dove's "Vacation"

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy"

Due: Friday, Jan. 10

Read & Annotate: "Araby" by James Joyce (check your inbox)

Due: Friday, Jan 10

Revise: Synthesis #2

Due: Friday, Jan 17 (if you want a 2nd revision)

Design & Create: Poetry as Design pieces

Due: Monday, Jan 13

Installation: Monday, Jan 20 (voluntary)

Read & Create:  Indie Book Project #3

Due: Wednesday, Jan 29

Note: We will be taking time Jan 28 - Feb 7 to explore our readings & share our products in depth 

Heads Up

Reading Hamlet in Class starts again next class

MUGS quizzes & opt-in mini-lessons on the way

AP Lit 2B/3B: Back at It w "miss rosie" literary 3x3 and more

We started today by . . . well . . . period 2B rearranged the furniture a lot . . . 

Then we covered some of our business items.  The most important things to know? They are in the homework section below.

We will be exploring some new methods of literary analysis as-of-yet unexplored.  (And remember that How to Read Literature text?  It's a coming back . . . heads up.  Man, I love that book.)

The first?  Literary 3x3.  You can read more detail about it by reading Rebecca Daniel's explanation of William Melvin Kelley's technique in the AP Lit guide available here.

(BTW: Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" is known to us as her play, Trifles.)

Screenshot here.

From the AP Lit Writing Guide

The idea here is that by distilling our thinking about a text down to a 3x3, we can hone our thinking and then use it as a catalyst for further development into . . . oh . . . say . . . a piece of analytical writing.  I'd argue that developing a 3x3 is completely worth your time as a pre-writing exercise during the on-demand portion of the test.

To practice 3x3 thinking, we used Lucille Clifton's poem, "miss rosie."

Here are some notes & thinking from both classes.  You might want to look and see what the Humanities class did later in the afternoon with the same poem.  (I really LOVE this poem with all the feels.)

And Humanities students thinking aloud later. . . 

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ posts

Req'd Post: Create a Literary 3x3 for one of these other two poems that reflect the contemporary African-American experience of the poets in their respective times (consider them as a collection alongside Clifton's "miss rosie")

Rita Dove's "Vacation"

Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy"

Due: Friday, Jan. 10

Read & Annotate: "Araby" by James Joyce (check your inbox)

Due: Thursday, Jan 9

Revise: Synthesis #2

Due: Friday, Jan 17 (if you want a 2nd revision)

Design & Create: Poetry as Design pieces

Due: Monday, Jan 13

Installation: Monday, Jan 20 (voluntary)

Read & Create:  Indie Book Project #3

Due: Tuesday, Jan 28

Note: We will be taking time Jan 27 - Feb 7 to explore our readings & share our products in depth 

Heads Up

Reading Hamlet in Class starts again next class

MUGS quizzes & opt-in mini-lessons on the way

Humanities: Habits of Mind & Metacognition

Today we dove into "Thinking About Your Thinking: Metacognition," one of the most important habits of mind to be successful in school.

We'll started with a pre-assessment of Roots #8.  These scores will be recorded and when we take the quiz next Thursday, after we do all sorts of activities and thinking around these terms, the goal is that your scores improve.  And if you've already mastered them without that thinking & learning?  AWESOME. You need not stress about the quiz.

This was followed by a self-assessment of our Habits of Mind.  We did this by hand.  Hopefully lots of people took pics of their thinking and posted them to their blogs.

Mr. Dunbar introduced metacognition through the metacognition paint chip rubric.

My thinking is crystal clear; 

My thinking is a little hazy; 

My thinking is cloudy; 

My thinking is in a fog 

We used that thinking as we did a think aloud activity around Lucille Clifton's "miss rosie"

Notice the big Q's getting asked; all student markup except first stanza & "self mirror"

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ posts
Req'd Post: Create your own list of "What If's" for 2014.  Look at Mr Ryder's example in the right sidebar.  He's posted his huge list.
Due: Friday, Jan 11

Study: Roots 8 (& 6, 7)
Quiz: Thursday, Jan 16
Complete: Word Map or Product for Roots 8 

Submit: Missing closing arguments & story corps/photo essays;  self assessments
Put in Humanities IN folder on Google Drive

Humanities: miss rosie think aloud

All Classes: JOHN DONNE "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Zen Pencils

Click on this link & read a GREAT web comic based on this poem.

Zen Pencils: 117. JOHN DONNE: For Whom the Bell Tolls

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Zen Pencils

No Man Is An Island

No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee. 

John Donne

Humanities: Habits of Mind Work Continues

Thursday, you have two options.

1) Completing the missing work  that demonstrates your understanding of the Of Mice & Men/Poverty Culture unit.

Or

2) Create a short film, play or comic strip that demonstrates your understanding of four of the sixteen habits of mind and where they have appeared in our work thus far this year.

This extends from the work we did on Tuesday and Wednesday, paraphrasing the Habits of Mind, identifying those we think most critical to understanding, and then doing some work around our strengths and weaknesses.

All of this is so we can best identify ways of developing our habits of mind moving forward and so Mr. Dunbar & I can develop a system of tracking and reporting your growth.

Here's some pics of the work we did.

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ Posts 
Req'd Post of the Week:  What do you think of these habits of mind?  Why do they seem important?  How well developed are these habits for you?
Due: Friday, December 20

Study & Complete Roots 7: Product & Quiz
Due: Thursday, December 19 TODAY!!!!

Projects & Arguments, Self Assessments & Reflections
Due: ASAP