April 2008

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday
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RUBRICS (3 of 4) - no joke!
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End of 3rd quarter!
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What is the What:
Consider this year as an event that challenged what you believed: what did you believe? What processes have you used to navigate this year? How did those processes evolve? How were your beliefs challenged? How have they changed?

Valentino: His community witnessed a series of events and as a young child he began a process of both survival and coming to terms with violent unraveling of his country. What was his process? What has been your process coming to terms with his story? What were his beliefs? Your beliefs? How were they challenged? How have they changed?

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New Groups

What is the What

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Achak's box: each group will develop the concept for a box and write the explanation in a google doc to be shared with the class. Consider: what does he need (and HDYK?), how could you represent that need (or the fulfillment of that need) visually? Describe what you box would look like: shape, dimension, color, material, construction, decoration, etc.

 

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Finish doc on Achack's box and share?
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April Vacation

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April Vacation

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April Vacation

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April Vacation

 

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Approach 1:

Spend time writing about your boxes. Please consider the following questions/prompts:

1. What do people see when they look at you? Does what they see depend on who they are or the context in which they know you? Explain. 

2. Ask someone who knows you (in or outside of this class) to write about what they see on the outside and what they think might be on the inside. 

3. What is on your inside? HDYK? What parts of your insides do others know about? HDYK? Is there stuff no one knows? Why/not? 

4. Why is this stuff on the inside? Are there risks associated with making the private public? HDYK?

5. What do you need to survive? to feel satisfied? to be happy? to be fulfilled? What happens in the absence of these things?

Review what you wrote: do you see any themes or threads that run through it? Are there words that repeat? Highlight them and explain the threads.

Approach 2:

Dump out the bag you bring to school, sort through the items, why are they there? Pick one item that surprises you that it is there... draw it and then write about it... what do you already know about this object (or think you know); what don't you know about this object? Why can't you bring yourself to throw this thing away?

You can do the same thing with items in your room...  

What is so important to you that you carry it with you?

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This I believe about...

Valentino
the Sudan
refugees

persistence
survival

What is your understanding of these things? What is your understanding of the text? How has your understanding of these things been challenged? Has it changed? How/why?

Demonstrate an interaction with the text - not just a concept from the text (i.e. "justice"). Consider elements about how the story is told, truth, characters, history... how does the construction of What is the What affect your reading and understanding of the text and the events the text is considering?

We did not require you to read the CNN website, to watch television news broadcasts, to read the NYT; we did not provide you a textbook on African history. How, then, did the manner in which you read and learned about the topics and issues listed above affect your understanding and beliefs?
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No, we haven't stopped working on your boxes... multi-task!

Remember, you started with Valentino's box... how did your beliefs about him, the text, the Sudan, Africa, refugees, persistence, survival, human needs influence the choices you made about him and his box?

How do these beliefs influence the decisions you are making about your own box?
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Writing Groups
Draft DUE to us by Friday (5/2)
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Romeo and Juliet
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Kathy and personal box assembly
BRING EVERYTHING YOU HAVE BEEN COLLECTING AT HOME
DRAFT DUE!

 

 

 

April 2007

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday
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End of Quarter Rubrics

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End of Quarter Rubrics

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End of Quarter Rubrics

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No School - Good Friday

 

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New Groups

The Talent Myth - exploratory essay

The full essay

 

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Possible Topics for Exploring Henry IV
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The Exploratory Essay: Definitions, Suggestions, etc...

Rubric - Exploratory Essay

Discussion notes defining the "exploratory essay"

 

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April Vacation

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April Vacation

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April Vacation

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April Vacation

 

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Consider this year as an event that challenged what did you believe: what did you believe? What processes have you used to navigate this year? How did those processes evolve? How were your beliefs challenged? How have they changed?

Tyson: His community (Oxford, NC) witnessed an event and as a young adult began a process to come to terms with both the event and the evolution of our national conscience regarding race relations. What was his process? What has been the nation's process? What were his beliefs? Our beliefs? How were they challenged? How have they changed?

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finding and evaluating evidence (period 2)

another example of an exploratory essay

BDSMN Chapter 1 discussion (period 3)

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finding and evaluating evidence (period 3)

BDSMN Chapters 2&3 discussion (period 2)

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writing groups
Letter from Birmingham Jail
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DRAFT DUE

You know the expectations of this class. You know the standard to which you are being held. MAKE A CHOICE. Live up or get out of the way. This is about YOU and only YOU so stop looking around the room for the culprits that have caused "Intervention II, The Return of Bad Cop" If you aren't going to read, write, research, etc. when and to the extent that is expected, get out of the way of the rest of your group members and accept the consequences for your decisions.

So...take a moment to consider what you are doing and write a contract for yourself.

Then, WE HAVE WORK TO DO! (chapters 2&3)

 

   

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APRIL 2006

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday
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Assessment:
Narrative
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Raising Cain (excerpt)
Failing at Fairness: Hidden Lessons, Missing in Action, Test Drive
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Kevin, Jeff and Alex
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End of Quarter Rubrics

REWRITES DUE

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Brave New Groups
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No School
Good Friday
Happy April Vacation
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final fear questions: prepping for the essay

HW: Curious Incident pp 1-32
While you are reading think about: What is knowledge? and What is learning?
Also - remember "
HOW TO READ"

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Discussion of Curious

Paper discussion/freewriting

HW: (for Friday) Curious Incident pp 32-90
While you are reading think about: What is/are the difference(s) between knowledge and belief(s)?

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Writing Groups

 

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Discussion of Curious

HW: Curious Incident 90-126

 

 

 

 

April 2000

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday
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Comstock Law and Birth Control
Mary Ware Dennett
Sanger Editorial
Sanger on Famine
Sanger on Mrs. Sacks

Othello Act II.i
motivation and objectives

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If These Walls Could Talk
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Roe v. Wade
25th Anniversary (NPR)

Othello Act II.1-2

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Practice CAPT
(abortion related)

For HW view this PowerPoint on Friedan, Steinem, NOW
(Feminism in the 60s and 70s)

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Phyllis Schlaffly
Feminine Mystique
Redstockings Manifesto
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ERA:
yes or no?
Jerry Falwell
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Faludi: Backlash
"Stiffed"
JUSTICE paper due
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No School
Good Friday
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April Vacation!
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No School
Staff Development
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Feminism in contemporary music (finish for HW)
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plan to finish Othello
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Wrap up presentation prep; reform groups; begin rotation
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Finish feminist music rotations