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Thursday, May 21st*2015

5/21/2015

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Starter: 
  • Email Ashley your Take Action Project, Steps 2-4 ALL IN ONE DOCUMENT
  • Complete the  Humanities 11 End of Year Survey (see the embedded form below or CLICK HERE)

Agenda:
  • Class discussion about feedback (note taker capture class notes about which projects to keep, which to streamline or scrap and which elements of the course you loved the most, etc...)
  • Work Time (DP UPDATES-- PLEASE EMAIL ME THE LINK BY THE END OF TODAY WHEN YOU ARE DONE!)
  • Senior Project TED Talks ONLY if you're done with ALL deadlines!
  • APPRECIATIONS (for someone in this class, one for the person next to you and one for someone else)

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Wednesday, May 20th * 2015

5/20/2015

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STARTER
  • Review the Peer Critique Instructions
  • Check out this Resume Cheat Sheet!

AGENDA
1. Time to add to your letter of rec

2. Peer Critique for Letter of Rec.

3. Mock Interview Critique

TPOL guidelines

4. Work Time

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Tuesday, May 19th

5/19/2015

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Agenda:
 seniors' Ted Talks

1. Real quick Resume formatting mini-lesson
  • Active Verbs
  • Consistent Formatting
  • See examples below!

2. Work Time
  • TPOL Prep (peer critique Wednesday!)
  • Finish Take Action Project Steps 2-4 and email Ashley ONE completed document with all three steps when done.  (Example Annotated Photo Journal for Step 3 for community outreach projects)
  • Happiness and Meaning/Energy and Place DP Updates
  • Book Club Honors DP Update
  • Senior Project TED Talks

Creating the College Resume Resources
Videos
  • Creating the College Resume Part II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEEahaE1lYs
  • Creating the College Resume Part III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZbw6z21ItM
  • Good vs Bad Resume https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mZdxiHLx6Q

Sample Resumes & Templates
  • Download Sample Student Resume to get a visual on what a solid resume might include and look like
  • Download Creating Your Activity List 
  • College Resume Tips
  • Resume Checklist & Action Verbs  
  • Sample College Resume
  • Sample College Resume 2
  • Sample College Resume #3
  • College Resume Template 

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Monday, May 18th

5/16/2015

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Today's Goal: 
Understand the requirements for TPOLs and develop a list of the many ways one can be talented to help you identify your own strengths

STARTER
Share which Osprey Week trip you went on and one highlight from the trip with a partner or small group

ANNOUNCEMENTS
  • Check out the seniors' Ted Talks this week!
  • Deadlines for the week (Let's look at the Homework/Calendar page, shan't we?)
  • 7th period this Monday, Tuesday and Thursday is optional office hours with either Steve, me, Jessica or Zoe.  You DON'T have Exploratory or X-block. Please let me know earlier in the day if you plan on coming to my office hours. 
  • Advisory Olympics is Friday:
  1. Do NOT come to school on Friday, May 22nd.  Go directly to Santa Rita Park.  Be there by 8:15 and no earlier than 7:45.
  2. The hub bus from DHS will take students to Santa Rita-- leaving at usual time.
  3. Be sure to have all your costume and other supplies with you (i.e. don't leave anything at school Thursday and hope to get into the school building Friday morning)
  4. Bring appropriate clothing for variable spring weather (rain jacket, sunscreen, hat, etc... and appropriate shoes for physical activities)
  5. You'll get your yearbooks at the end of Olympics to sign.  Bring a sharpie for that.
  6. There will be NO bus picking up at the end of the day so students need to arrange their own transportation home
  7. Bring your own bag lunch
  8. Dismissal at 12:15

Agenda
1. Watch and respond to Sir Ken Robinson's Ted Talk

2. TPOL guidelines

3. Work Time Options:
  • Finish Take Action Project Steps 2-4 and email Ashley ONE completed document with all three steps when done.  (Example Annotated Photo Journal for Step 3 for community outreach projects)
  • Do your Happiness and Meaning/Energy and Place DP Updates
  • Begin TPOL Prep
  • Honors Book Club DP Update (Due Thur. @ midnight)

NOTE: REQUIRED PEER CRITIQUE FOR TPOL LETTERS OF REC and MOCK INTERVIEWS WILL BE ON THURSDAY.  15 point process grade!

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Exhibition Day

5/7/2015

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STARTER: Write down your exhibition elevator pitch:
  1. Name
  2. What projects you're exhibiting
  3. Context on what we learned during each project
  4. What your perspective is and WHY (i.e. your abstract for Sense of Place)

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Agenda
A.  Rehearse your elevator pitch


B. Work time! See the exhibition checklist on the board or HERE
  • Put final drafts of Sense of Place in our class tray on my desk
  • Art pieces against the side wall by filing cabinents

C.  HONORS:  add your seminar questions to this document

D.  Go check out senior project TED Talks








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Friday, May 8th

5/7/2015

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STARTER
  • Complete the survey for Marcus Renner: "Greetings, I'll be teaching a humanities elective for juniors and seniors next year, and I want to gauge interest in different topics as I plan the class. I have in mind two possible classes: one based on literature, theater, and film (Class A) and another on environmental history and public lands (Class B). There will be electives in Spanish, science, art, and humanities next year. As a school we want to give you exciting classes to choose from. Your quick feedback will ensure my class meets your interests and needs" I've invited you to fill out the form Humanities Elective Survey. To fill it out, visit:  https://docs.google.com/a/animashighschool.com/forms/d/1EGWfu9KNXZNPzHPpaJnet2SBNGgvCfWQ91_yA1_RJMs/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

  • HONORS:  add your seminar questions to this document



Agenda
1. Turn in Sense of Place essay/poem/story WITH my feedback (if I gave it to you)  AND a self-assessed rubric!


2. De-brief Exhibition:  Roses and Thorns? Most interesting conversation?


3. Here are TPOL Guidelines for you planners out there!


4. MOVIE OR Senior Ted Talk 




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Wednesday, 5/6

5/6/2015

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AGENDA
1. Ted Talk by Magic Nick's cousin (related to Happiness and Meaning project)
2.  Announcements
  • TED Talks by seniors starting tomorrow-- see schedule on back of my door
  • Bikesis event Friday 4-7 pm (Dylan and Shane's Take Action project)
  • Send video footage of T.A. project to Brandon Navratil
  • Lori's expo rehearsal, check in with her and get me to grade your  performance


3. Exhibition prep work time (see the checklist from Monday's DP blog)


EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY

I would love to have us all do this and end this year with us coming full-circle to Ferguson, MO and the social and political justice issues we examined in the fall.  However, I realize that some of you are in last minute exhibition prep panic mode.

To that end, I'm offering extra credit to those who want to learn about and respond to what's currently happening in Baltimore.

To receive the 10 points of E.C., you need to 
1. Read and watch the various sourced linked on this webpage (there are a lot to choose from. Get yourself educated)
2. Read a few other students' comments at the bottom of the page.
3. Your turn: In the comment section, respond to all  the questions posted just above the comment section. (I've reposted them below for your reference)
4. Send Ashley an email saying that you have done this. I'll check the comment field.

— Have you been following the events in this city? Why or why not? How have you felt as you watched or read?

— What do you think of what Mr. Obama says in his speech?

— How do you feel about the argument in the Op-Ed that peaceful protest may sometimes be “pointless”? How should people protest events like the deaths of Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner or Michael Brown? Can violence ever be justified? Why or why not, in your opinion?

— Do you agree with Mr. Obama that we need a period of “national soul-searching” to resolve the violence that has rocked Baltimore, Ferguson, Mo., and other cities over the past year? If so, what questions should we be asking ourselves?

— What do you think our schools should do? Our churches? Parents? Teenagers? The government? What could you do?

— Do you agree with the president that the news media focuses on “dramatic images of brutality and chaos rather than on what have been mostly peaceful protests in Baltimore and other cities”?

— Thousands of comments have been posted to this regularly updated account of what is happening in Baltimore. Scroll through some of them, perhaps looking at the Readers’ Picks or New York Times Picks to sort them. Are there any with which you strongly agree? Disagree? Why?

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Current Events Study: Nepal Earthquake

5/5/2015

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Today, we're going to spend some time learning about and discussing the recent Earthquake in Nepal.  
Why? It's important to be informed about world events
Why? Because #Interconnectedness, #GetYoselfEducated #BeingCulturedIsCool #GetOutOfYoBubble

1. Let's watch some videos to understand the effect of the earthquake:
“Katmandu: Before the Quake” (What was the capitol like before the event?)
“Fear and Limbo in Katmandu” (How are survivors coping after the event?)

2. As we watch and read about the news of devastation thousands of miles away from the United States, it can be easy to get sucked into a sensational media event that distorts the actual events, emotions and needs of the people on the ground. To combat that human tendency and to exhibit the critical eye Animas students pride themselves on, let's take a look at Jonathan M. Katz’s essay “How Not to Report on an Earthquake,” about his experiences during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and then consider how as media consumers (and perhaps as producers someday), we should be asking thoughtful questions about what stories are being told in the news media, and what stories are frequently not being told during a natural disaster like the one affecting Nepal right now.

3. Optional Extension Ideas: If you are ahead of the game with exhibition prep, I'd encourage you to do some additional research on a topic that interests you: ThisNew York Times "Learning Network" Website has a variety of articles about sub-topics regarding the earthquake.  You can read/watch/hear more about recovery efforts, the Mt. Everest avalanche, destruction of national treasures, seismology, history and politics, etc..

4. Exhibition Prep!  See Monday's DP
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Monday, May 4th

5/4/2015

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Today's Goals:
  • Review Ashley's feedback to your sense of place writing assignment (if you submitted it on time for feedback) and understand her feedback
  • Reflect on what you need to do to be ready for Thursday's exhibition
  • Get your ducks in a row!

Starter:
Review this checklist for exhibition prep and complete page 2's to-do list

AGENDA
1. Announcements
  • This week's schedule + end of year schedule
  • Volunteers for signage for exhibition (let's conference today)
  • Volunteers 6th period on Thursday to set up my room for exhibition
  • Food and movie sign-up for Friday's class party
  • Questions about schedule?
  • Honors Half the Sky seminar reminder (check the most recent email!)
  • Who needs to print on the plotter for exhibition? Sign-up on the whiteboard!
  • PARCC schedule
  • Take your old projects from 1st semester or they will be recycled 

2. Sense of Place refinement reminders: Avoid these common essay mistakes and be sure to have:
  • At least one category of sense of place (see the categories on the white board)
  • An abstract
  • A specific reference to one or more of the environmental ethics we studied
  • Clear imagery/metaphor/simile, etc...
  • Title
  • Name underneath title
  • Photograph/image to capture your sense of place

3. Work time
  • Take Action! 
  • Sense of Place refinements or conference with Ashley 
  • Look at student example excerpts for help on your sense of place essay (stations)
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