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| Reading and thinking solo |
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| Think alouding and annotating in pairs |
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| Metacognition paint chips |
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| Filling out a LNGview reflection form after going through the process |
Thursday, January 9, 2014
What We Did: Humanities Jan 8th
Pics of our work with metacognition and paired think alouds on Wednesday, Jan 8th.
AP Lit 2B/3B: Literary 3x3 & "Araby," Close Reading to Powerful Writing
We'll start class with a sharing of literary 3x3s of James Joyce's "Araby." We will use these 3x3s to formulate thesis statements and propose structure of essays about Joyce's short story.
From there, we are going to try a little experiment connected to our "Poetry as Design" work.
We will transfer our literary 3x3s to index cards, one word per card. Thus, every student will end up with a deck of nine cards. We will start by rearranging our down decks. What other configurations can we make of those nine words? It's okay to mentally adjust tense and such to make it work.
From there, we will continue the experiment by passing decks. See if you can create a 3x3 with another deck.
And from there, things great really crazy. We will take the decks. Combine. Shuffle. Deal nine.
And then . . . design poems. Design a companion poem to Joyce's "Araby" using the nine words (and others) and what you understand about design.
And then, we return to Hamlet. Or maybe we start with Hamlet. Yes. Let's do that.
Blog: 3+ postsReq'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 #2Due: Friday, Jan 17 (if you want a 2nd revision)
Design & Create: Poetry as Design piecesDue: Monday, Jan 13Installation: Monday, Jan 20 (voluntary)
Read & Create: Indie Book Project #3Due: Wednesday, Jan 29Note: We will be taking time Jan 28 - Feb 7 to explore our readings & share our products in depth
Heads UpReading Hamlet in Class starting again MUGS quizzes & opt-in mini-lessons on the way
From there, we are going to try a little experiment connected to our "Poetry as Design" work.
We will transfer our literary 3x3s to index cards, one word per card. Thus, every student will end up with a deck of nine cards. We will start by rearranging our down decks. What other configurations can we make of those nine words? It's okay to mentally adjust tense and such to make it work.
From there, we will continue the experiment by passing decks. See if you can create a 3x3 with another deck.
And from there, things great really crazy. We will take the decks. Combine. Shuffle. Deal nine.
And then . . . design poems. Design a companion poem to Joyce's "Araby" using the nine words (and others) and what you understand about design.
And then, we return to Hamlet. Or maybe we start with Hamlet. Yes. Let's do that.
Blog: 3+ postsReq'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 #2Due: Friday, Jan 17 (if you want a 2nd revision)
Design & Create: Poetry as Design piecesDue: Monday, Jan 13Installation: Monday, Jan 20 (voluntary)
Read & Create: Indie Book Project #3Due: Wednesday, Jan 29Note: We will be taking time Jan 28 - Feb 7 to explore our readings & share our products in depth
Heads UpReading Hamlet in Class starting again MUGS quizzes & opt-in mini-lessons on the way
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
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.
Four months ago, I borrowed your copy of Miley Cyrus' latest album and never gave it back. Sorry.
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
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
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.
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
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
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.
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.
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.
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| From the AP Lit Writing Guide |
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.
We used that thinking as we did a think aloud activity around Lucille Clifton's "miss rosie"
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
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"
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| 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
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