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AHS * HUMANITIES 11

Thursday, May 26th

5/26/2016

STARTER

Write down appreciations for 2 different people in this class. At least one of them should be about someone you don't work with often.
What is one takeaway from this class this year that most stands out to you? It can be a lesson, a skill, an idea, a reading, a philosophy, etc...This helps me reflect on the memorable (and not so memorable) aspects of my curriculum.

HONORS BIZ
1. Turn in your book(s)
2. If you have yet to complete a project on one of the 3 books we've read thus far, you'll need to do so for Half the Sky.

Deadlines/resources for that include:
___Thursday, May 26th (END OF THE DAY): Email Ashley your project proposal for Half the Sky____Tuesday, May 31st (by 3:15 pm): Half the Sky project
AGENDA

1. Ashley to go over two resources

Peer Critique guidelines
Check out this Resume Cheat Sheet!

2. 30 minutes to add to your letter of rec

3. Peer Critique for Letter of Rec. in partners!

Show Ashley proof of letter of rec draft for peer critique completion grade.

4. Mock Interview Critique

5. End with Appreciations and class takeaways outside in amphitheater!

Wednesday, May 25th

5/25/2016

NOTE: REQUIRED PEER CRITIQUE FOR TPOL LETTERS OF REC and MOCK INTERVIEWS WILL BE ON THURSDAY.

ALSO-- who is resubmitting their Sense of Place essay? Please be sure to RE-SHARE it with me by Friday E.O.D. Thanks!

Starter: If you could choose just one thing to change about the world, what would it be and why?

AGENDA
1. Real quick Resume formatting mini-lesson/review

Tell me what you learned from Janae/Jess Adams yesterday
Active Verbs
Consistent Formatting
See examples below!

2. Work Time

TPOL Prep (peer critique THURSDAY!)
HONORS seminar 2nd period!

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

Tuesday, May 24th

5/24/2016

STARTER
If you could take a year off from school, how would you spend it? What would you hope to learn/gain from that year off?

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

Agenda
1. How to write a letter of recommendation mini-lesson
2. Work time:

Conference with Ashley: 2 minute time slot to tell me your strengths.
Brainstorm responses to the interview questions listed in your TPOL guidelines packet. This may help you brainstorm for your letter of rec.
Draft your letter of rec
Update/refine your resume
Sense of Place essay refinements
Honors: Half the Sky seminar prep

TPOL Prep: Monday, May 23rd

5/23/2016

Starter
Share your Osprey Week and a highlight with a neighbor!

Class Biz

DP UPDATE (Due Monday, 5/23 E.O.C-- note the change in deadline!)
This week's schedule: Normal classes Monday-Thursday, Advisory is 7th period on Monday and Wednesday this week, NEST Meeting Wed from 1:45-2:15, Advisory Olympics is on Friday.
Honors Half the Sky seminar will be WEDNESDAY, 2nd period. Review my email I sent before Osprey Week.

Agenda
1. Please take this survey (also embedded above) to give me feedback on Energy and Place and this class in general!
2. Debrief circle on Hum. 11 feedback (volunteer note-taker?)
3. Ashley to go over the TPOL guidelines and field questions
4. Sense of Place essay feedback

If you submitted a late essay, you will not be able to refine. You will also not have your feedback from me until later this week.
If you submitted your essay on time, please open the google doc I shared with you and read my feedback and look t the rubric at the end of the essay for your grade. If you don't like your grade, you may review the resubmission guidelines listed BELOW the rubric and resubmit by end of day on Friday. Please familiarize yourself with the various resources I included on that same document to help you refine your essay.

5. Work time

Sense of Place refinements (optional)
DP Update
TPOL prep
Honors Half the Sky seminar prep

Friday the 13th

5/13/2016

Starter #42
How did the exhibition go? What went well? What didn't? What would you like to have changed for your own preparation for exhibition?

Agenda
1. Exhibition debrief!
2. Choose your own adventure writing minilesson!

Pick one of these stations that you think you need the most work on in your own essay, read the example(s) in that station and answer the question(s) in yellow at the end of that station in your google doc of starters.
Share your thoughts with a friend.
Don't forget about the list of resources I have at the end of today's blog for lat minute sense of place refinement needs!

3. Work time, music time, chill time:

Finish Sense of Place essay, email FINAL draft and draft w/ evidence of peer critique. MAKE SURE IT HAS AN ABSTRACT!!!!
DP Update (Due Monday, 5/23 E.O.C-- note the change in deadline!)

Sense of Place Writing Resources

**Minilessons Stations (good examples of excerpts from student writing focused on specific skills)
Sense of Place Essay Task Statement, Rubric + Examples and Sources for Inspiration
Quick link to writing mini-lessons folder
Elements of Nature Writing handout + Metaphors/Similes/Analogies/Alliteration/Assonance
List of poetic devices
Categories of Sense of Place: Relationships to Place and Community Attachments
Past Years' Student Examples linked on Ashley’s DP
Peer Critique Protocol

Thursday, May 12th ALL SCHOOL EXHIBITION!

5/12/2016

Starter #41
Amidst this time of stress and busyness, it is easy to lose track of the positive aspects of our life, but as we studied in our Happiness and Meaning project, expressing gratitude can increase your own well-being and helps you keep it all in perspective.

Therefore, for this starter, pause. Take a few deep breaths. Close your eyes and think about someone or something you are really grateful for. Now write about it.

Agenda
1. Review exhibition schedule and rehearse transitions and where to stand on the stage!

2. Get back into your peer critique groups and rehearse your spiel and reading for exhibition. Give each other feedback! ADD WHAT INSPIRED YOUR PIECE! WHAT TEXT or ideas, esp for Happiness and Meaning/

3. Work on Sense of Place essay refinements

4. If you are ahead of the game, feel free to get started on the DP Update for our Energy and Place project (Due Monday, 5/23 E.O.C-- note the change in deadline!).

Wednesday, May 11th

5/11/2016

Starter #40
Classroom assignment for Humanities Exhibition
Write your introduction for your reading at exhibition.

Example: Hi, my name is Ashley Carruth and I am going to be reading an excerpt from my sense of place personal essay. In this piece, I talk about the red rock desert around Moab, Utah and attempt to describe my spiritual connection to this place. I also explore my environmental ethic of sustainability as you will soon discover!

Agenda
1. Exhibition Set-up

Design team-- lead us in set up!

2. Work time!

Write your abstract
Rehearse your spiel and reading for exhibition
Refine your sense of place writing
Peer critique as needed

Tuesday, May 10th

5/10/2016

Starter #39
1. VISUAL PIECE for exhibition: If you haven't already, open the assignment I emailed you in GOOGLE CLASSROOM to send me a copy of your visual piece. Attach the file and send it to me VIA that GOOGLE CLASSROOM assignment. If you are reading your Happiness and Meaning philosophy, you need to send me your visual piece for that. If you are reading your Sense of Place essay, send me an image that best captures your sense of place or the main idea of your writing piece.

2. WRITING SKILLZ: Review the folder of writing issue mini-lessons: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2QC-culCKvHQjF6cjk4cktwUzA&usp=sharing&tid=0B2QC-culCKvHZ0psLXdPZ1ZkZkk
Directions:

Take this time to peruse the folder that contains handouts on various writing issues that were common in the first drafts of your essay. Skim the titles and read over a couple handouts on the skills you most need to develop in your writing.
Write down which writing issues you need to focus the most on and pledge to use these as a resource when editing your sense of place writing piece this week

3. Have you written your abstract for your sense of place piece yet? It's pretty simple and should be a paragraph at the top of your paper....

Directions for the Abstract:
Your essay must include an abstract that explains how you are defining sense of place according to the categories of sense of place (what type of relationship and/or community attachment do you show in the essay) and what your environmental ethic is. Your abstract should include a quote from your essay that best shows both of these components.

Class Biz

For exhibition, you need to be an audience member in the room you are scheduled in for the block of time you are scheduled! Exhibition Schedule. There may be some changes as to which room you are in between Jmac's and mine, so check the schedule before exhibition night!
Remember to save evidence of peer critique and submit that WITH your final draft on Friday, end of class.
If you missed peer critique yesterday, you need to make it up using the protocol with two critiquers!

Agenda
1. Ashley gives an overview of the plan for exhibition set-up and seeks volunteers for the following roles (5 minutes)

Design team
Hunters and Gatherers
Elves

2. Design team meet to create your vision for exhibition (10-? minutes)

Sketch it out.
Assign items to gather to hunter and gatherer team.
Decide how much time we need to set-up. Begin setting up today or tomorrow?

3. Rehearse your reading for Exhibition (30 minutes)

Plan your introduction: EXAMPLE: Hello, my name is_________________. This is my happiness and meaning philosophy statement, expressed in the form of a poem. In it, I express the belief that one's happiness is comprised of....."
Time yourself reading it aloud (you should not take more than 5 minutes total for your intro and reading)
Practice in front of a group of friends. Get feedback.

4. Sense of Place Writing Work Time (rest of class time)

If you missed peer critique yesterday, it is your responsibility to make it up with two editors using yesterday's protocol in order for me to accept it on Friday.

Monday, 5/9

5/9/2016

STARTER:

File--> Make a copy of this helpful document of all remaining deadlines!
Read page 1
Fill out the second page with your plan for work time this week based on the deadlines!
Share it with Ashley upon completion

Class Biz

Go over any questions y'all have about assignments/
Ashley to explain vision for Exhibition and clarify the Google classroom assignment: If you haven't already, open the assignment I emailed you in GOOGLE CLASSROOM to send me a copy of your visual piece. Attach the file and send it to me VIA that GOOGLE CLASSROOM assignment. If you are reading your Happiness and Meaning philosophy, you need to send me your visual piece for that. If you are reading your Sense of Place essay, send me an image that best captures your sense of place or the main idea of your writing piece.
Establishing peer critique groups: Who has a draft ready for peer critique? You MUST have your draft critiqued before you submit it to me on Friday, so today is ideally when you'd do that otherwise you're on your own for finding a group and completing today's protocol.
Have you written your abstract for your sense of place piece yet? It's pretty simple and should be a paragraph at the top of your paper....

Directions for the Abstract:
Your essay must include an abstract that explains how you are defining sense of place according to the categories of sense of place (what type of relationship and/or community attachment do you show in the essay) and what your environmental ethic is. Your abstract should include a quote from your essay that best shows both of these components.

AGENDA
1. Peer Critique Protocol

Ashley will read over it first!
****If you aren't ready for critique today, download the protocol document and copy and paste it to the bottom of your current sense of place draft for later use.
Highlight the 2 categories on the rubric you think you need the most help with and write a "focusing question" that you'd like your group to help you answer (i.e. "Is my sense of place clear? How can I integrate my environmental ethic more smoothly? I hate the way I describe this setting-- how can I improve it?")
Get into groups and select time keeper
Begin protocol

2. Refine your sense of place writing once done with peer critique

Sense of Place Writing Resources

**Minilessons Stations (good examples of excerpts from student writing focused on specific skills)
Sense of Place Essay Task Statement, Rubric + Examples and Sources for Inspiration
Quick link to writing mini-lessons folder
Elements of Nature Writing handout + Metaphors/Similes/Analogies/Alliteration/Assonance
List of poetic devices
Categories of Sense of Place: Relationships to Place and Community Attachments
Past Years' Student Examples linked on Ashley’s DP
Peer Critique Protocol

Friday, May 6th

5/6/2016

1st Period: Guest Speaker- Professional writer, Luke Mehall

2nd period:

Class Biz (review yesterday's biz)
Exhibition Schedule (Kaleigh!!!)
Work time! Write those drafts. If anyone wants to go over more examples of the elements of personal essay writing, let me know!