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AHS * HUMANITIES 11

Friday, February 28th

2/28/2014

Starter
1. Happiness and Meaning Project Feedback Survey
2. STAC prom survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NNQW7GQ

Agenda
1. Finish the personal philosophy project proposal and hang your inspiration wall contribution WITH YOUR NAME on it

2. Share your inspiration wall contribution in groups of 4:

Explain what you chose
What specific part of your personal credo does it relate to? How?

3. End class with appreciations and fears/excitements about LINK

Thursday, February 27th

2/27/2014

Starter:
1. Come up with 3-5 project ideas someone might consider for the personal philosophy project
2. Share your ideas with a partner and help each other select his/her best one
3. Enter your idea and a link to an example on the following document:

PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY PROJECT IDEAS

Agenda
1. Personal Philosophy Work Time!

Tomorrow: Be ready to share your inspiration wall contribution with the class. You should explain what it is and how it represents an element of your credo.

Stuck?

Check out the list of project ideas we came up with
Conference with two peers. Tell them your ideas, ask them for feedback!
Conference with me! I like helping you!

Honors:

Complete Gatsby seminar prep. Email to me tonight. (seminar will be tomorrow during 3rd period)
Ind. Study Honors: work on DP Update and/or Gatsby seminar prep

Wednesday, February 26th

2/26/2014

Starter: Read today's objectives and chat with a partner about the two bullet point questions:

What are today's objectives?
What does the Krishnamurti quote mean to you?

Today's Objectives
1. Finish your essay, print it out and staple it to your 2 peer critique forms
2. Begin to formulate your own response to our Happiness and Meaning project essential questions, because education is life and life is education as Krishnamurti explains in Think on these Things:

"...is it the function of education to prepare us while we are young to understand the whole process of life? Having a job and earning one's livelihood is necessary, but is that all? Are we being educated only for that? Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings. If we merely prepare ourselves to earn a livelihood, we shall miss the whole point of life; and to understand life is much more important than merely to prepare for examinations..." (Krishnamurti 2).

Agenda
1. Read and discuss "The Function of Education" by Krishnamurti

Mark 2 quotes that stand out to you as thought-provoking, interesting, inspiring or with which you strongly disagree.
What does Krishnamurti claim the purpose of education is?
Be prepared to share your selections and explain what the quotes mean to you and why you chose them.

2. Watch Watsky's "Tiny Glowing Screens Pt 2" video

3. Go over Personal Philosophy Project Proposal guidelines

4. Work time options

Complete the self-check list and finish refining your essay
SLC prep
Begin personal philosophy
Independent Study Honors DP Update

Self-Check

Is your claim clearly understood by the readers? How can you make your claim clearer?
Is your essay organized logically? Are your points connected with strong transitions to help the reader follow your argument?
Does every paragraph have a clear topic sentence?
Does every paragraph have evidence from the text?
Is every paragraph coherent? (That is, does everything in the paragraph belong together?)
Does every paragraph support the main claim (thesis)?
Do you use sufficient evidence to support your claim? Do you need more evidence?
Have you integrated your quoted material smoothly into the text?
Did you follow proper MLA format for parenthetical citations?
Read your essay aloud. Are there any sentences that seem difficult to get through or confusing? Refine them!

Tuesday, February 25th

2/25/2014

Objectives

Provide positive, specific, and helpful feedback to two classmates' essays
Refine your own essay after receiving feedback from two classmates

Starter
Review the peer critique handout. You'll need to have 2 peers complete this in class today.
What questions do you have about the process for peer critique?

Agenda
Peer Critique Groups
1. Peer Critique
2. Refinement

By tomorrow (beginning of class): print your essay and staple the two critique forms to it. Double-space your essay.

Monday, February 24th

2/24/2014

Pharrell Williams feels us....

Objectives:

Understand when to quote vs. italicize a title
Write a solid draft or your lit analysis essay that addresses the essay prompt

Starter: Read this handout on when to quote vs. italicize titles. Then, in your google doc of starters, answer these questions:

Did this handout help cement this grammar rule for you?
Would you quote or italicize The Durango Herald?
Would you quote or italicize The Catastrophe of Success?
Would you quote or italicize The Stranger?
When do you underline titles?

Agenda
1. Announcements

Honors Gatsby seminar this Friday during third period
Honors independent study meeting on Wednesday in Jessica's room
Assignments for the week
Double space your essay
Print your final draft and attach the TWO completed peer critique forms to it on Wednesday (-5 points on your essay grade if these)
check out the list of helpful resources at the bottom of this blog entry

2. Review the Essay Question:
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

Does happiness really just mean living a pleasant life where your primary goal is to enjoy yourself? Is the pleasant life really the ultimate goal and the true sign of a purposeful, well-lived life? What about good health, wisdom, meaning in life, spirituality, creativity, authenticity, individuality, giving back to community, ambition, success, leaving a legacy beyond your time in a place or in a lifetime, etc.?

Select one factor (not necessarily from the list above) that you see as a marker of a well-lived life. Use evidence from at least one piece of fiction that we’ve read and one piece of nonfiction to back up your claims. See the list of fiction and nonfiction sources we’ve covered in this project. If you would like to also pull from a resource beyond the sources we’ve studied as a class, please ask Ashley for approval.

3. Work time: Write your essay draft. Must be ready for critique tomorrow!

Resource for the lit analysis

Examples of Introducing Quotes and Block Indentation with prose and poems
Literary Analysis Essay prompt/student example/tips/rubric
Parenthetical Documentation and Works Cited Page
Setting up quotes (refresher!)
Owl at Purdue's Writing Lab on Block Quotes (for quotes that are 4 lines or longer)
Titles: Quotes or Italics?
Passive Voice
How to write concisely (AKA: Streamlining)

Friday, February 21st

2/21/2014

Objective
1. Understand how to properly set up quotes and use parenthetical documentation (in-text citation)
2. Outline your essay

ANNOUNCEMENT:

SLC Prep must be emailed to me by Wednesday afternoon for a 15 point Humanities process grade. You must also cc your advisor to the email. Please see your Animas email account for the email with the attached SLC prep guidelines or go to Wednesday's blog post below.

Agenda

1. STARTER: What is a SMART Goal? What's an example?

2. Review SLC guidelines and "SMART" goals.

3. Check-in:

Fist to Five: How confident are you on how to properly introduce quotes?
Fist to Five: How confident are you on how to use in-text citations?
Who knows how to "block-indent" quotes?

4. Mini-lesson on works cited and in-text citations

Parenthetical documentation and works cited page
Block Quotes
Practice! On google doc of starters:

Find a quote from your fiction source for your essay.
Properly introduce (set up) the quote and include correct parenthetical documentation
Now do the same thing but make the quote at least 4 lines long and properly block the quote.

5. Time to work on your essay outline, finding quotes or work on independent study honors

Resources

Parenthetical Documentation and Works Cited Page
Setting up quotes (refresher!)
Block Quotes (for quotes that are 4 lines or longer!)

Thursday, February 20th

2/20/2014

Objective
Understand how to write a literary analysis essay

Announcements:

If you missed seminar, seminar make-up is due Monday. Instructions are on yesterday's DP.
You can boost your grade on seminar by 1/2 a letter grade if you complete the seminar make-up by Monday.
Check your AHS emails for LINK updates and your seminar grade
Power lunch today! (see flyer on my whiteboard)

Agenda
1. Complete the checklist for the journal and turn your journal in

2. Go over the essay prompt (page 1 of packet) and go on a safari of the resources in this packet!

What questions do you have about the essay prompt?
What questions do you have about the resources in the packet?

3. Silently read and annotate the student example on page 2 and 3, then discuss these questions with a partner:

What do you notice about the organization of the introduction?
What is the thesis statement?
How are the body paragraphs organized?
What type of information is in the conclusion?
What do you notice about the in-text citations?

4. As a class, Read aloud pages 4 and 5 + Practice writing a thesis statement.

5. Begin to brainstorm and outline your essay

Keep your thesis statements out while you work so I can come around and check them.

Resources

Project Google Doc Folder (on the Happiness and Meaning project page of my dp)
Literary Analysis Essay prompt and packet of resources

Wednesday, February 19th

2/19/2014

SEMINAR MAKE-UP INSTRUCTIONS (If you missed today's seminar)

Today's Objectives:

Help each other develop deeper understandings of the content from our Happiness and Meaning project in preparation for the literary analysis essay
Demonstrate your personal understanding of and connection to the content of this project

Agenda
1. SLC guidelines (Sign-up will be available on whiteboard tomorrow at 8:00 am)

2. Seminar (Groups)

3. While not in seminar:

Finish Journal #13 (reflection) and any other missing journals: Here is the link to the list of journals and the Journal Rubric (for your reference)
SLC prep
Honors- Book club or ind. study work

Instructions for Journal #13 reflection:

Write a paragraph reflection on the exercise. Some questions to guide your response include: What did you think of this exercise? Did it feel contrived (forced and/or inauthentic to your personality)? Did it help you gain some perspective? Did it help you boost your mood and bring you or others a bit of happiness? Would you continue using this strategy in the future?

Advisory Agenda

2/19/2014

1. Get into your primary social style group
2. Ashley to review main characteristics of each social style
3. Make social style posters and present!
4. Individual reflection and DP update

For your DP Update- cut and paste the following onto your 10th grade reflections DP page:
(like this page of Cathy's DP)

Advisory Social Styles Reflection
With awareness of your own individual social style, as well as others, comes the ability to have more effective communications and relationships. The[social styles] profile is based upon [my] strengths and gives [me] a chance to see the strengths of [my classmates]. With an awareness of the spectrum of social styles, [I] develop greater tolerance and understanding of other styles, and gain greater versatility in communicating (On the Edge Productions).

1. What is your primary and secondary social style?

2.   Given your social style – how do you like to be treated/interacted with? How don’t you like to be treated/interacted with?

3. Given your social style – Where do you sometimes feel misunderstood?

4.   What could others do to relate with you more effectively?

5.   What could you do to relate with other styles more effectively?

            Drivers:

            Analytical:

            Amiables:

Expressives:

6.   When you are stressed – what behaviors will people see? What causes you to go into “stress behavior”? When you are stressed what can people do to best support you?

Valentine's Day * Friday, 2/14

2/14/2014

Agenda
1. Check-in about Journal #13

In pairs: Which option did you choose? Share one of your gratitude items or random acts of kindness
Whole class: What was the experience like? Worthwhile for you? Did you notice a slight boost in happiness?

2. Finish Group Seminar Prep and email to Ashley

3. Individual Seminar Prep work time

REMINDERS:

Please check in with Libby asap if you missed Thursday's LINK workshop
Seminar Prep due via email by 11:59 Tuesday night. Print a copy and bring to class BEFORE class begins!
Journals are due on Thursday, 2/20
Links for homework resources are on my homework/calendar page
Links to some of the readings if you lost your original copy:

·         “The Ambitious Guest”

·         “August, 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains”

·     “the lesson of the moth”