PACE: Macbeth & Quack & Work & Due Dates & Working Smarter Not Harder

I'll be spending class saving the world from itself at a meeting in the The Chef's Table.

While I'm gone, you folks will be doing all sorts of awesome.

For one, we start vocabulary this week, using the QUACK words that are part of the sophomore year.  There will be a quiz every Thursday as well as a QUACK product due.  (The first will be on the Thursday following break, Feb 27.) That QUACK product could be the word map (found in the PACE OUT folder on Google Drive) OR may be any product you wish to make that demonstrates your understanding of the QUACK words.

• Poems
• Songs
• Comics
• Stories

Unit 1 Part 1 can be found here.

You might want to take a few minutes to complete the Commonly Confused Words #2 assignment on www.NoRedInk.com.  It's optional AND there's a quiz on Friday.

By 8 a.m., I recommend watching a large chunk of the Macbeth documentary in your Google Drive - perhaps 30 minutes? If someone would like to hook up to the dongle and audio plug at the front of the room, that's totally fine with me.

Here are some time coded notes to help you out.  These are in your Google Drive.


If you pay attention, you will see that this documentary tells the entire story of Macbeth, shows it performed in different ways, and let's you know about the major ideas and themes in the play.

It's pretty darn well done.

As you watch, you may want to take notes using your first graphic organizer.  Of course, you need to base MOST of this graphic organizer on one of the ten scenes I identified last class.   I recommend using one of the scenes from Act I or II, because we've been talking a great deal about the action early on in the play.
Link to All of the Scenes and Summary is here

1.3 

1.5 

1.7 

2.1 

3.4 

4.1 

4.3 

5.1 (out damn spot)

5.5 (out out brief candle)

5.8 (death and new king)

Finally,  open up the Due Dates form.  If you don't believe you can keep up with Teacher PACE, establish your own PACE.  

Next class will be all about the project.  It's a short class because of early release and we will focus entirely on story bibles and pitches and brainstorming ideas.  

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

Humanities: Continuing to RAFT Merryweather High

We'll start the day with Roots 9 because that didn't happen yesterday.

From there, we'll split into work areas, both Ryder's and Dunbar's rooms, to work on the Merryweather High Orientation RAFT.    Remember, this is an orientation design for Melinda's high school; not Mt. Blue.  We are doing this as a prototype in our design process for designing the Mt. Blue Transition.

At 1:25, we will get back to Speak.  One room will be for independent reading and the other will be a read-aloud-get-questions-answered with Mr. Ryder

HOMEWORK
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Posts:
2 Req'd Post for the Week
1) Give yourself grades for the first semester, similar to how Melinda grades herself.  Notice that she grades herself in things that aren't just academic classes. After grading yourself, include the reasons behind your grades.  Be specific and clear.

2) Brainstorm the video/transition experience for the incoming ninth graders in April.  List every idea of what that video could be, what the activities could look like, or what else could happen next fall.

Need ideas for more blog posts?  Check out the tag "Blogger Fodder" and the videos/links that have been posted.

Read: Complete the "First Ranking Period" (pg 46)

Due: Thursday, Feb 6

Roots: Roots 9 Product & Quiz

Roots Quiz 9 (6, 7, 8, 9) & Product Due: Thursday, Feb 6

AP Lit: Literary 3x3s: James Joyce & Dubliners

Here's the work we've been doing with Literary 3x3s & Joyce's Dubliners.

We only read four of the stories:

• "Araby"
• "Eveline"
• "The Boarding House"
• "The Dead"

The selection was chosen because of common threads running across those particular texts, relative ease of reading and lack of background knowledge required to understand even the nuances, and because they represent something of a life arc, beginning with childhood in "Araby," late adolescence in "Eveline," early adulthood in "The Boarding House," and mature adulthood and old age in "The Dead."

After creating literary 3x3s for each of the stories, we put them on index cards to build Joyce decks.  (We used letters in the corners of each to indicate which cards belong to which story.)

We did a variety of activities with them including:

• Finding common threads across the four stories by "tapping" (a la Magic: The Gathering) related cards.
• Shuffling the deck, laying out nine cards, and trying to determine which story emerges from the deal.
• Swapping decks and trying to determine the original creators' intended 3x3s layouts.
• Partners dealing out nine cards each and finding common threads across two different decks.

We will be keeping these decks and coming back to them using other author's works as we try to identify common threads across the other literature we read this year.

Here are some pics of the work we've done.

AP Lit 2B/3B: Joycean 3x3s & Frankliners

We start with MUGS Apostrophes 3 Quiz.

And from there . . .

We pull out our 3x3 decks from Joyce's Dubliners stories.  (If you weren't here the other day, you need to finish building yours.)

We will experiment a bit with those decks as we try to uncover common threads and big thinking across the four stories.

Then we deep dive in Joyce's actual language, uncovering evidence of his style in across these four stories.

• Fusion of Fiction w Reality
• Real places, real buildings, even real people appear amongst the fiction
• Epiphany
• awakening/understanding
• appeals to all 5 senses
• Free Indirect Discourse 
• a particular style of stream of consciousness
• fluid movement between narrator and character
• Manipulation of Language and Aesthetics
• experiments with word play, structure, linguistics, genre

All of this in the service of writing brilliant "Frankliners" short stories and narrative poetry.

What am I talking about?  THIS!  

Frankliners Project!

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post: Create a visual 3x3 of the town (or county) where you live.  What does that place mean to you?  How can you capture your relationship with your town through pictures?  Consider taking or drawing/painting your own.  Give considerable thought to how you arrange them.

MUGS: Apostrophes 3 on NoRedInk.com
Quiz: Thursday/Friday Feb 6 & 7


Read & Annotate: How to Read Lit Like a Professor "Geography Matters . . ."
Post: Annotations on the blog

Heads Up: Frankenstein is next!  Will need to be read by Thursday AFTER Feb break.  Let me know if you need a hard copy.  Many, many, many places to get it free online including here.

Humanities: RAFT: Redesigning Orientation at Merryweather High

You teach at Melinda Sordino's Merryweather High.  

The administration has said, "We need to do a better job with orientation and creating a welcoming culture for our students" and has asked you to be part of that task force. 

Design an orientation experience that would help all students, including introverts and "outsiders," feel safe and welcome at Merryweather High and be prepared to explain to the administration the reasoning behind your design.

These resources are here to help. Make sure you credit your sources of inspiration.  

School Climate

http://www.edutopia.org/stw-sel-classroom-management-research

Supportive School Environment

http://www.devstu.org/research-articles-and-papers-the-role-of-supportive-school-environments-in-promoting-academic-success

Creating an Inclusive School

http://www.tolerance.org/lgbt-best-practices

Transition Ideas and Programs

http://www.boomerangproject.com/high-school-transition

Orientation Activities

http://sao.nd.edu/studentgroups/groupresources/halls/fyo/LargeGroupExercises1.pdf

Positive School Environment

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yD1DoVNq7pI&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DyD1DoVNq7pI

Tips for Incoming Freshmen

http://www.aps4kids.org/MountainView.cfm?subpage=782880

Freshmen Orientation Video Sample

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xgoHrPb5ct8

HOMEWORK
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Posts:
2 Req'd Post for the Week
1) Give yourself grades for the first semester, similar to how Melinda grades herself.  Notice that she grades herself in things that aren't just academic classes. After grading yourself, include the reasons behind your grades.  Be specific and clear.

2) Brainstorm the video/transition experience for the incoming ninth graders in April.  List every idea of what that video could be, what the activities could look like, or what else could happen next fall.

Need ideas for more blog posts?  Check out the tag "Blogger Fodder" and the videos/links that have been posted.

Read: Complete the "First Ranking Period" (pg 46)

Due: Thursday, Feb 6

Roots: Roots 9 Product & Quiz

Roots Quiz 9 (6, 7, 8, 9) & Product Due: Thursday, Feb 6

PACE: Macbeth & Conflict

Today we'll be looking at internal and external conflict, as well as digging deeper into the resources you have for understanding Macbeth.

We will also continue to unpack our standards, focusing on listening & speaking, writing and reading.

We finished unpacking the listening standard today.  This should help us move through the others more quickly next week.

As you work on your three graphic organizers for Macbeth, choose from these ten scenes.

1. 1.3 (3 lines) KEY
2. 1.5 (important - Lady mcbeth)
3. 1.7 (important)
4. 2.1 (important)
5. 3.4 (important)
6. 4.1 (important)
7. 4.3 (2) (important)
8. 5.1 (out damn spot) Imporatn)
9. 5.5 (out out brief candle)
10. 5.8 (death and new king)

You may want to use the Shakespeare Navigators site to help you understand.

We'll get some help from Ms. Campbell today to help us better understand internal & external conflict.

Conflict

Conflict

Internal- Conflict going on inside of a character; a character versus him or herself.

1. Man vs. Self

• "The" internal conflict
• Character versus him/herself
• A choice between two paths
• Classic: Requiem For A Dream

• Example: HIMYM: Robin comes to Ted, Lilly leaves Marshall

External- Conflict between a character and an outside entity.

1. Man vs. Man (to be PC, "Person vs. Person")

• Conflict between two people
• Classic: Dorothy vs. Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz, Any Hero vs Any Villain (ever)

• Example: HIMYM Slap Montage

2. Man vs. God/Supernatural/Fate

• Fighting fate/destiny/one's path
• Classic: The Shining, Macbeth (the witches!), Dracula

• Example: HIMYM: Dopplegangers Dictate Baby

3. Man vs. Nature

• Character versus the elements
• Classic: Old Man and the Sea, Robinson Crusoe... Castaway...

• Example: HIMYM: Ted Makes It Rain

4. Man vs. Society

• Character is "against the world" (or at least a group of people)
• Classic: Charlotte's Web

• Example: HIMYM: Canada vs. Shrimp Fried Rice

HOMEWORK
Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post: You work for a major multimedia corporation that has just decided to make a series of films, TV shows, video games and books based on Shakespeare's plays because they are royalty-free.  The board of directors hired you to generate some ideas around Macbeth.  Unfortunately, you've never read the whole play or even seen the whole film. Using any line or phrase from Macbeth as your inspiration and the title, and what little you know about the play, pitch one idea to the board of directors for a film, TV series, video game, or book.
Due: Friday, Feb 8

Macbeth Graphic Organizers: Must Complete 3

Teacher Pace Due Dates:

Wed: Feb 12

Tue: Feb 25

Wed: Mar 5

Want different dates? Go to the Due Dates Form. 

MUGS: Commonly Confused Words #2
Quiz: Friday, Feb 14

Start Thinking & Planning: Movie/Video Game/TV Show Pitches & Bibles
Due: Early March

PACE: Macbeth Graphic Organizer Tutorial