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Literature, English Language Arts & Social Studies
Upper School - South Whidbey Academy
Wednesday March 19th, 2014
Approximately ≈43 full class periods until the end of the school year
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Periods 1 and 2 HS English 7:45 - 9:20
Response #24 - New York Times online - pick an article to report on; give the basic specifics - title, author, date, location - and a summary plus personal reaction/connection. See shared google doc form
Task = 300 thoughtful words on the connection shared document. Recreate shared document in your online journal doc and respond to the 3 connection prompts
Value ≈ 100 points total for semester
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Previous topics for daily responses -
Response 1 = Anant Agarwal: Why massive open online courses (still) matter - TED
Response 2 = Cabaret part 1 - classic American musical
Response 3 = Nicolas Perony “Puppies”
Response 4 = Cabaret final written response - pick a detail, or general reaction with reasons - 300 words
Response 5 = Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20 - TED
Response 6 = Enrique Peñalosa: Why buses represent democracy in action - TED
Daily Journal Written Response #7
Leyla Acaroglu - Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore - TED
Response #8 - Phil Hansen - Embrace the Shake - TED
or Arthur Ganson - Moving Sculpture
Response #9 - Chris McKnett: The investment logic for sustainability - TED
Response #10 - Erik Brynjolfsson: The key to growth? Race with the machines - TED
Response #11 - Rubber Room - This American Life archive
Response #12 - Students choose an article from the front page of the New York Times online U.S. Edition Written Responses - In online journal
Response #13 - Students choose an article from the front page of the New York Times online U.S. Edition
Response #14 - Students choose an article from the front page of the New York Times online U.S. Edition
Response #15 - NYT article response - Rose George Sea blindness as bkgrd on lead article about 2 dead anti-piracy guards and Capt. Phillips trailer
Response #16 - Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture
and/or Christopher Ryan: Are we designed to be sexual omnivores?
Response #17 - TED - March 5th
Mary Lou Jepsen: Could future devices read images from our brains? March 2014
Siddharthan Chandran: Can the damaged brain repair itself? July 2013
Response #18 - TED presentations in windows just behind this one
Christopher Soghoian
“Government surveillance — this is just the beginning”
and/or
Michael Metcalfe
“We need money for aid. So let’s print it.”
Response #19 - Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
Response #20 - Chrystia Freeland: The rise of the new global super-rich
plutocrat - A person whose power derives from their wealth.
often derogatory
meritocracy - Government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability.
or
Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
Response # 21 - Susan Cain: The power of introverts - 19:04 minutes
7,731,288 views
and/or
Carl Honore: In praise of slowness - 19:50 minutes - 1,048,984 views
Response #22 - Anne-Marie Slaughter: Can we all "have it all"? 17:11 minutes - 137,163 views
and/or
Jamie Oliver: Teach every child about food - 21:53 minutes - 5,161,596 views
Response #23 -
David Eagleman - Incognito - Consciousness and Everything Else - 22:22 minutes - 97,570 views
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Regular work for this class - hybrid online/in class course
(3 Paths to June and Credit)
1. Apex - English 10 Common Core Sem 2 - 5 units (students should be finishing Unit 1)
75% overall grade to receive credit
Quizzes set to 2 attempts
Apex Writing Assignments - in School Google document “last name Apex”
Apex students
Dominick Norberg
Zach Robey
Hunter Olsen
2. Novel Study - novels and workbooks on table near my desk
5 independent novel units - assigned titles - Quality and Effort
Novel study students - all students have a workbook and most have met with me to select the parts of the workbook that they are responsible for.
Krista Drechsel - Monster
Sativah Gilbertson - Ender’s Game
Michael Corradini - Lord of the Flies
Alex French - Watership Down
Daryck Porter - Cannery Row
3. Independent project - with permission on instructor and submission of a 1 page proposal
Maddie Cvar - Criminal psychology - Serial Killers
Kierstin Hicks - Criminal psychology - Serial Killers
All students -
Daily read/listen and response to various news articles/presentations
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Period 3-4 Middle School ELA/SS 9:25 - 11:00
Review - Big Book work flow, Daily journal layout, AR and independent reading
DOL 66
Nothing else happened except that the pink-hued flower in her coiffure fell onto William’s desk as she nodded her head at him, handed back William’s paper, and continued her spiel on the Impressionists.
William Waggish corrected the spelling of the Dutch painter’s name and paid rapt attention for the rest of the period.
DOL 67
“Hey,” mused William Waggish to himself, “maybe the limerick has to be said out loud for it to affect the teachers. I must tell Sam as he would want to make a note.”
Analogy
VEINS : CIRCULATE
A) calculators : think
B) boots : sprint
C) laws : enforce
D) ornaments : decorate
Memory/Big Book - open to all written subjects - as long as it is your own voice - do not forget to add images - photos, drawings with big captions
What will your verse be?
Sarah Kay - spoken poetry
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Independent Reading
30 minutes
Read
AR quiz
Select next book
Goal ≈ 5-25 quiz points per week - 4 or more books per month
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Memory or Class Yearbook with more writing and other types of expression - how do share
adah, livia and shona co-editors - vote on what goes in - best 2 of 3
comic life 3 for mac os
a chapter for everyone? What will your verse be - apple ad
each student must include various media -
conversation - realistic or made-up
comic
poem
slideshow with garageband music or ipad music app
map labelled with tuesday trips pics, home, favorite spots
bio
reflection
boardgame set on south island
novel first chapter
drawing with notes
photos
video poem, story, skit, stop-motion
interview with stills or video - other student, dog, parent, sibling, staff
Elaborate on your notes - add items such as those below
Describe the whole thing or a part
Use 5 senses or as many as make sense
Describe plants and animals and the landscape
Describe actions of yourself or others
Use quotations
Use pictures
Make maps
Draw from photos
See below for how to get the photos from the trip
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Arrange 3 editing/iBook computers on big table
Memory/Scrap/Literary/Year/Big Book
Editors - Adah, Livia, Shona
Editors - Put your own written work into iBooks Author - add pictures, captions and drawings - subject and genre is up to you - non-fiction, fiction, creative non-fiction (look up definition), your novel start, etc.
Only rule is - setting (time and place) must be South Whidbey now.
Receive other students writings via email, read and make suggestions - confer with authors and have them revise and edit and re-submit
Organization Notes -
Each editor starts an iBook in… wait for it… iBooks Author app on desktop computer. 3 editors = 3 iBooks - will merge books later
1 chapter for each student in your editing group
Copy paste staff writers’ work into a page in that student’s chapter in iBooks Author
Staff Writers - Sabrina, Gavie, Aden, Darien, Josie, Holley, Bronte, Emma, Lucia, Nolan, Sylvan, Nevada, Erric, Jovani, Alex, Hudson, Amelia, Sarah, Shaylynn
Reading/Writing Group - Fayth, Dylan, Cole, Vinnie, Jadi, Stephanie (Write source persuasive essay, Spilling Ink, sustained silent reading)
Editor/staff assignments -
Adah - darien, shaylynn, sarah, holley, josie, gavie, nolan, vinnie, nevada
Shona - erric, fayth, sabrina, kareena, bronte, emma, stephanie, cole
Livia - alex, sylvan, aden, lucia, jadi, amelia, dylan, jovani
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Independent Reading with AR, Schoolgy, Google Docs
Choose a book - check out in your own name
Conference with me or Clea to check-out book, AR quiz available, goals, etc.
AR - quizzes - points for new reading only
Establish goals for month and celebrate/reward for reaching goals
Schoology - assignments for certain titles
Google Docs - create a reading journal titled “your last name Reading Journal” shared with instructor csnelling@sw.wednet.edu
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Wednesday
Rerun of History and Function of comma - how to improve
1. Think about actually interesting and informing your audience - peers or younger students
2. Use your group’s ideas and encourage inclusion
3. Audience - improve listening with respect and attention
4. Fix tech issues - use big screen effectively with ipad software presentation tool of your choice
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Can Keynote docs be imported into iBooks Author easily or at all?
Export as PDF from Keynote?
Import PDF into iBooks Author?
Write up Tuesday Experiences - start with the Deer Lagoon (February 4th) and/or South Whidbey State Park (February 10th) trip(s)
First type any and all words from your notebook into the google doc called expeditionary journal so it is easily copy and paste-able and editable and reviseable and etc-able.
Then copy and paste sections or all of your words into Keynote app and find pictures as described below. Place pics and add caption to jog your memory of the trip and your time out there.
Tuesday Treks - Always write up your trip reflection using your field notes.
Use Keynote app to make a rough draft of your field note write-ups
Do most recent trip first - South Whidbey State Park - February 10, 2014
Add a photo from the Dropbox site below to help you remember details
Look for a shared google doc called -
dropbox link to all pics of Tuesday trips
open folders with Tuesday trip photos and find the one’s you need for your keynote doc and paste those into a slide and write a caption
and use to remind yourself of the experience
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Period 5 Social Studies 4-5
Read Aloud/Read Along
Discuss fiction and non-fiction - what parts of JT are real and what parts are made-up
Johnny Tremain Chapter 6 - section 4
Short reading - The Emperor’s Contest - American history - comprehension check
Neighborhood google presentation activity continued
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Period 7 Publications
Memory/Yearbook Book
Assign pages - Kendall Jones - Chief Editor
Cover ideas - decision and execution
