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Friday 3/4

3/4/2016

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Starter #26
1. What are you taking with you from the H and M project that will help you weather challenges of LINK or perhaps exhibit a critical eye to your work environment or perhaps help you evaluate your LINK experience and how it fits w/ your career/life goals, etc?

2. Write 2 appreciations for someone in this class with whom you don't normally work. Please make them specific and thoughtful!

Class Biz
Did anyone accidentally take a mac charger the other day?
Is anyone signed up for the ACT on Saturday, 4/23?
  • The Animas ACT test day is April 19th (Tuesday)

​Agenda
1. The Bold and Daring: Whole class presenters??

2. Move tables into Lit Circle pods

3. Project presentations (in your Lit Circle Groups)
  • Choose an excerpt of between 350-500 words of your written piece
  • Read your written piece and explain your philosophy as needed
  • Share your visual piece-- provide any explanation of it if needed
  • Warm feedback (What does the group like about your project?)
  • Constructive feedback for parts that can be refined between now and exhibition: Give the presenter some food for thought to mull over during LINK and to perhaps implement in refinements

​4. DP Update work time + watch Hector and the Search for Happiness

5. End class with sharing our starters
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Thursday, 3/3

3/3/2016

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Starter #25: CHOICE!  Free write OR React to the following quote  (Do you agree? What does it mean to have "an experience of being alive"? etc...)
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life.  I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking.  I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive….”  Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) – The Power of Myth

Class Biz
  • Shane sitter needed this weekend!
  • Don't forget to PRINT your written piece for me tomorrow! Bring to start of class with visual piece
  • Put your name on the board if you want to present your written or visual piece in front of entire class tomorrow-- good practice for exhibition!
  • Do you guys want to organize a class breakfast tomorrow and watch Hector and the Search for Happiness in class AFTER presenting projects in small groups and while working on DP Updates?

Agenda
1. Project final feedback survey and junior year check-in  (see below)
2. Debrief feedback 

3. Final peer critique of written piece + Refinement

Draft Critique guidelines:
Step 1: Share your philosophy statement in 2-3 sentences
Step 2: Present your written piece to your partner
Step 3: Partner will spend time reading your draft draft and discuss the following prompts:
  • How does this piece capture the author's philosophy statement?
  • What do you LIKE about this piece? 
  • How does it align with EACH category of the rubric (page 2 of this document): Seriously, go through each category and discuss to what extent the author has excelled at each category or at least shows promise in each category....
  • How can the author refine this piece to make it shine?!​
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Wednesday, 3/2

3/2/2016

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Starter #24:
Look at this list of possible elective offerings for next year and then take this
2016 Elective Survey to weigh in on which ones you'd be most interested in taking to help teachers decide which to offer.

When done, Freewrite! (Maybe write about fears/excitements for LINK!)

Class Biz: 
  • Be sure to PRINT your written piece for Friday to turn into me.  
  • Mark your calendars for 4/21-4/23 for our Abbey Desert Vision Quest Camping Trip!!
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Agenda
1. Current Event Update: The Caucus
  • Youtube video: What is a caucus? How does it work?
  • Short article explaining delegates and final vote for party candidate
  • Last night's Iowa Caucus results: Discuss y'all's reactions. Who attended a caucus last night? Tell us about it.  

2. Work time

NEST Meeting today, so we have a shortened class


  • Peer critique
  • DP Update/Reflection
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Tuesday, 3/1

3/1/2016

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Starter #23: 
What do you know about climate change? What causes it? To what extent do you think is it caused by humans? To what extent do you agree that climate change is real and is harmful for our environment and human life?

Agenda
1.  Discuss the graphs above:  Interpret the two images above.  What does the data reveal at the surface level? What global implications does this data have for future energy policy decisions OR what explanations can you come up with for the data?

2. Learn about the 2015 United Nations Paris Convention Agreement and then discuss the following three bullet points with a partner:
  • Summarize what you read to a partner.
  • What questions do you have about the Paris Convention? Help each other answer them.
  • How does this support or challenge what you wrote about in your starter?

3. Work Time
  • Don't forget peer critique
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