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Advisory Agenda

2/11/2015

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Grade Checks 
  1. Check back in on resolutions (If you can’t get to this today, please do this next week!)
  2. Grade Checks (send email home, talk to Ashley if you are failing any classes or close to failing)



Accountability Buddy Protocol:

  • Share your resolutions/goals
  • Discuss whether or not these are still relevant and important goals. If not, help revise.
  • Discuss to what extent the goal is being met. If so, what can they share with the group that might help others in achieving their goals?  
    • If not, what can they do to improve strategy to achieve goal? What help do they need and from whom?
    • Make an action plan.

  • Come back as a whole group and share out lessons learned and help needed.
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Wednesday, February 11th

2/11/2015

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Learning Goal
  • Understand various types of environmental ethics
  • Consider what type of environmental ethic most resonates with your own views

Announcement
  • Reminder to PRINT final draft by Friday, beginning of class-- DOUBLE SPACE IT too!


Agenda

1. Ashley’s ppt lecture “Environmental Ethics” 

2. Work time: Refine your essay
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Tuesday, February 10th

2/10/2015

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Announcements:
  • Book Club seminar today, X-Block: Email me your seminar prep!
  • *By FRIDAY: print your essay and staple the two critique forms to it. Double-space your essay.
  • Recording of our class discussion on "The Land Ethic" 


Starter
Review the Peer Critique Guidelines and Rubric (PAGES 9-10). Questions about the process for critique or the rubric?

Agenda
Part 1: Happiness and Meaning Lit Analysis Work Time
Peer Critique Groups
Peer Critique Guidelines (PAGE 9)
  • You must have TWO peers write comments on the peer-critique form answering those critique questions (write in different ink from the other peer critiquer)
  • Turn those notes in with your draft to me on Wednesday

Part 2: Intro to Env't Ethics
  1. Energy and Place:  Read the first page of the ppt note-taking form and follow the directions to complete page 1 (You'll need to DOWNLOAD this form if you're taking notes electronically)
  2. Ashley’s ppt lecture “Introduction to Environmental Ethics” 
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Monday, February 9th

2/8/2015

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Objectives
  • Understand the purpose and major elements of Aldo Leopold's "Land Ethic"
  • Finish  your draft of your essay

Announcements

  • Book Club Honors seminar tomorrow during X-Block (no seminar reflection required!)-- seminar prep due as ticket into seminar. 
  • Don't miss this week's PEAK meeting-- super cool guest speaker (The guy who quit money)
  • Essay draft for peer critique due tomorrow!
  • Today's class discussion on "The Land Ethic" (recorded)

Starter
Watch EPISODE 1 of the "Everything is Connected" Podcast

  • What does "rewilding" mean?
  • What pieces of evidence did this podcast provide to defend the claim that "everything is connected"?
  • How would this concept change the way we interact with the land?

AGENDA
Part 1: Energy and Place work time
  • Helpful resources on explaining the Land Ethic: Click Here
A. Discuss "The Land Ethic" as a whole class

  • Share responses to question #1  from The Land Ethic Discussion Questions 
  • Whole class discussion and clarification of various excerpts from the reading
  • Share responses to questions #3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 from The Land Ethic Discussion Questions 


Part 2: Lit Analysis Essay work time
  • Review the checklist for your essay on PAGE 9 of the packet.  Write down what you think you need to focus on ON your draft. 
  • Finish or refine your draft to get it prepared for tomorrow's peer critique (PRINT IT IF YOU'D PREFER FEEDBACK ON A HARD COPY)
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Friday, February 6th

2/6/2015

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

Starter:  

Survey for Keagan's Stats class (check your email)

Announcements:
  • Shout out to Ind. Study Honors students on their exhibition last night!
  • Hmwk/Cal page is updated with deadlines for the essay and book club honors documents

Agenda
1.  Read this handout on when to quote vs. italicize titles.  Then, be ready to answer the following questions:
  • Would you quote or italicize The Durango Herald?
  • Would you quote or italicize The Catastrophe of Success?
  • Would you quote or italicize The Stranger?
  • Would you quote or italicize the lesson of the moth?
  • When do you underline titles?

2. Time to draft your essay/Read "The Land Ethic"

3. Last 15 minutes of class: Listen to "Everything is Connected" Podcast, episode 1 
  • What does "rewilding" mean?
  • What pieces of evidence did this podcast provide to defend the claim that "everything is connected"?
  • How would this concept change the way we interact with the land?


Resources for the lit analysis essay
  • 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)
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Thursday, February 5th

2/4/2015

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



Announcements
  • Honors expo tonight!  5:30-7:30 student union at FLC
  • Book club honors: See homework page for Fahrenheit Seminar Prep guidelines!
  • Check in on workload and deadlines...
  • Lit Circle binders have some feedback on your notes. Feel free to pull that stuff out of the binder now that grades are done.  A NOTE ON THE WEIGHT OF THIS GRADE


AGENDA
Energy and Place work time
A. Finish Stations from yesterday
B. Introduction to assigned reading (DUE next Monday, 2/9)
  • Link to the reading: "The Land Ethic" by Aldo Leopold
  • vocab overview + discussion questions (to help guide your reading/comprehension of the essay)
  • You don't HAVE to annotate it BUT we will have a quiz where you have to apply the ideas in this reading to another speech by another environmental activist and you'll need to not only understand the ideas in "The Land Ethic" but you'll also need to cite evidence from it to defend your claims on the quiz.  

Happiness and Meaning work time
**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?

1. Mini-lesson on works cited and in-text citations + Time to draft essay
  • Parenthetical documentation and works cited page
  • Block Quotes 



2. Show Ashley your thesis statement by the end of class today!!

Resources
  • Parenthetical Documentation and Works Cited Page
  • Setting up quotes (refresher!)
  • Block Quotes (for quotes that are 4 lines or longer!)
 
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Wednesday, February 4th

2/3/2015

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Picture
"This is the most beautiful place on earth.  There are many such places.  Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.  A house-boat in Kashmir, a view down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a gray gothic farmhouse two stories high at the end of a red dog road in the Allegheny Mountains, a cabin on the shore of a blue lake in spruce and fir country, a greasy alley near Hoboken waterfront, or even possibly for those of less demanding sensibility, the world to be seen from a comfortable apartment high in the tender, velvety smog of Manhattan, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, Rio or Rome- there's no limit to the human capacity for homing sentiment" -- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire, pages 1-2.

Starter:  Talk to your neighbor about what our Energy and Place project Essential Questions might mean and what you think we will study in this project:

1. How does energy production impact place? 

2. How do your sense of place, your environmental ethic, and your understanding of our energy needs influence, your perception of man’s use of Earth’s resources and your own lifestyle decisions?

Learning Goal: Begin to understand the basic elements of the "Energy and Place" project.

***Honors: Meeting today for logistics and troubleshooting
1.  Research questions on table tents
2.  Documentation binders
3.  Artist Statements (What is the purpose and relevance/authenticity of artist statements?)
4.  What else do you need for your project?
5. Table tents with research questions and name

AGENDA
Part 1: Energy and Place Project Intro
1. Introduction to Energy and Place project
  • Begin Group Activity:  Stations to introduce various concepts related to our project.

Part 2: Happiness and Meaning Lit Analysis Work Time
Begin to brainstorm and outline your essay

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)



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Tuesday, February 3rd

2/3/2015

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OBJECTIVE
Understand how to write a literary analysis essay

ANNOUNCEMENT

  • Missed seminar? Schedule a time with me!

STARTER
  • Read 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?

AGENDA
1. Go over your questions about the literary analysis essay and resources therein.

2.  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?

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


4. Begin to brainstorm and outline your essay 
  • Keep your thesis statements out while you work so I can come around and check them

5. 
 2nd period: Guest Speaker
Dr. Sarah Roberts-Cady, Professor of Philosophy at Fort Lewis College
B.A. Linfield College (1994), Ph.D. Purdue University (2000)
Interests: Social & Political Philosophy, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, History of Philosophy



5.  6th Period:  Make up work you missed during  your 2nd period class today!

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Monday, February 2nd

2/2/2015

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Today's Goal:
  • Synthesize the various content we've covered in this project and formulate articulate reactions and emerging personal philosophies.  
  • Hear other students' perspectives and insights regarding Happiness and Meaning
  • Become better prepared to write your literary analysis essay

Announcements
  • I need a few volunteers to help me set up the Commons on Tuesday morning at 8am for our Guest Speaker tomorrow during 2nd period in the Commons: Dr. Sarah Roberts-Cady, Professor of Philosophy  B.A. Linfield College (1994), Ph.D. Purdue University (2000)
    Interests: Social & Political Philosophy, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, History of Philosophy


  • Ashley and  Jessica's 11th Grade Honors Humanities Exhibition takes place in the Student Union at Fort Lewis College from 5:30 to 7:30 THIS Thursday evening.  Honors students worked individually over the course of several months, deconstructing a historical event or time period that was relevant to them personally through extensive research and critical analysis.  Stop by, and prepare to bring a critical lens as we dissect the history of the United States and beyond in a way never seen before!!
  • Second Semester Honors Book Club project proposals on Fahrenheit 451 are due FRIDAY-- by midnight, via email.
  • Second semester Honors Seminar Prep for Fahrenheit is due on Tuesday, 2/10 before our seminar (to take place 7th period).  GUIDELINES FOR SEMINAR PREP
  • Please turn in your journal by the end of class. List of required journals

Agenda
1. Time to review seminar prep notes while Ashley checks seminar prep completion
2. Seminar!
3. When not seminaring, you may refine or complete journals, or begin re-reading the novel you think you want to focus on for your literary analysis essay (The Stranger or your lit circle book).  

The lit analysis essay question is the following:
"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 primarily from either The Stranger or your lit circle book as well as evidence from at least one other secondary source, to back up your claims.

Essentially, you are making an interpretation that is PRIMARILY based on the novel you choose about how the character(s) define happiness OR meaning and then either supporting or challenging that claim with evidence from a secondary source from the list below.

**IF there is another theme that stood out in your novel that you really want to explore in your essay that is not as directly tied to "happiness and meaning", feel free to run it by me!


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