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AHS * HUMANITIES 11

Thursday, 10/17

10/16/2013

Goal:
Draft your political campaign visual piece
Get peer feedback on your idea so that your project meets the rubric requirements

Agenda
1. TIB Readings
2. Starter: Edmodo self-assessment (see survey below)
3. Announcements + Review Homework and Exhibition Prep Calendar
4. Sign up for exhibition roles
5. Review the rubric for the poster (page 4) and the elements to improve rhetorical impact (slides 40-47)

6. Work Time:

If your poster idea is dialed and you have a sketch, get peer critique and do as much of the artist statement as you can usingTHIS DOCUMENT
If your idea is NOT dialed and you do not have a sketch, get that done.
By the end of class on Friday everyone needs to have their project idea/sketch critiqued by at least two peers!
Create your visual piece!

Wednesday 10/16

10/15/2013

Goal: Refine your SLC presentation so that it is authentic, meaningful and professional. Back up your ideas with evidence!

1. SLC prep (30 minutes)

2. SLC Critique (in groups of 3)

3. SLC refinement

*By the end of 6th period, you should email your notes (or show proof of them) to me!

Other work time options:

Submit the political campaign visual piece proposal on this survey
Draft your visual piece
Get feedback from Ashley on your visual piece idea
Peer Critique on visual piece draft

Friday, October 11th

10/11/2013

STARTER: Op-Ed Self Critique

Review the rubric (page 3)
Make a note on your typed draft (electronic version) of which category/ies you need to refine the most
In bold at the top of your electronic draft, type one focusing question for ME based on the category on which you need the most refinement. Keep this at the top of your draft when you email it to me.

AGENDA
1. Op-Ed Peer Critique (Have TWO classmates critique your drafts. Be sure to save them to turn in next week so I can see your refinements from your peer critiqued draft and the one you submit to me on Sunday at 11:59pm)
Peer Critique Instructions

Today's Work Time Options
1. Complete the political campaign visual proposal survey (due Wednesday, 10/16 at the beginning of class) and draft ideas/get feedback from classmates
2. Continue researching for your op-ed article
3. Refine your op-ed draft and email that to Ashley by Sunday at 11:59

Reminders/Suggestions
- Review the Homework/Calendar Page
- Begin working on a draft of your political campaign visual piece
- Bring supplies next week that you would need to work on the visual piece in class

Thursday, October 10th

10/10/2013

Starter: Look at the student example political campaign posters and answer these questions for each one:

What is their issue?
What is the artist's perspective on the issue?
Which 2 of the 3 Aristotelian appeals did they integrate in their poster? (ethos, pathos, logos)

AGENDA
1. Political Campaign Visual Piece Requirements Overview

Review visual rhetoric ppt (Slides 30-47)
Read through the rubric (page 4)
Reminder of how to find the proposal survey

Today's Work Time Options
1. Complete the political campaign visual proposal survey (due Wednesday, 10/16 at the beginning of class) and draft ideas/get feedback from classmates
2. Continue researching for your op-ed article
3. Refine your op-ed draft and bring two printed copies tomorrow

Reminders/Suggestions
- Review the Homework/Calendar Page
- Begin working on a draft of your political campaign visual piece
- Bring supplies next week that you would need to work on the visual piece in class

Wednesday, October 9th

10/9/2013

Goals:

Demonstrate your understanding of how to set up and explain a quote in your article
Understand the requirements for SLC Prep

Starter
Silently read the SLC requirements and jot down 2-3 questions you have about the requirements on your google doc of starters. Then summarize what SLCs are and why we do them as if you were explaining them to one of our new students.

Agenda
1. Go over SLC requirement questions
2. Sign-up for SLCs during class today!

3. Mini Lesson: Setting up and explaining quotations

Go to "Student Resources" on my DP tabs
Take note of the Owl at Purdue resource (When you don't know what to do, Click on Owl at Purdue! Hoo Hoo Hoo!)
Click on "Setting up Quotations"
Read through this document
On one side of your note card

Summarize in as few of words as possible the three ways to set up your quote
Explain what a dropped quote is

On the other side of your note card, practice setting up AND explaining a quote that you would use in your op-ed article.
Show me your note card when you're done

4. Work Time

Draft op-ed
Remember- bring TWO printed copies of your draft for FRIDAY's critique

Advisory Agenda

10/9/2013

Circle check-in: Q and A catch up with Cori
Sign up for SIG/X-blocks
Check-in on your school gmail accounts
Grade Checks and SLC Prep time

Tuesday, October 8th

10/8/2013

Goal: Dial your thesis statement and select evidence to fit with specific paragraphs within your op-ed article to support your thesis.

Starter:
1.      Based on the research you’ve done, what new opinions or perspectives do you have about your topic? List at least 3
2.      What do you think is the most important thing you can communicate to other people about your topic? - OR - Why should other people care about this?

Agenda
1. Thesis Statement Mini Lesson
2.  Thesis Statement Drafting
Write 3 possible thesis statements for your Op-Ed piece. These could be variations on a theme (i.e., similar ideas, but worded differently, or three different ideas).

3. Thesis Critiques

Ashley to explain the Thesis Critique handout.

Trade with someone at table. Complete the front AND back of the handout ("Interest", "Thesis Criteria", "Paragraph Prediction" and "Types of Evidence")

Get statement back, revise
Show Ashley when you feel like you have a pretty solid version.

4. Work Time: Draft op-ed article, continue gathering evidence

Monday, October 7th

10/7/2013

Goals:

Decide how the Constitution relates to your topic
Understand how to outline and draft your op-ed article

Starter

Watch "Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration"
Instructions for sharing a google doc of your starters with me
What, if any, constitutional connection have you made so far to your op-ed topic?
If you have not made one yet, put your name on the board to conference with me today.
Get out your analysis of opposing viewpoint form for me to check today. Email it to me if you did it electronically.

AGENDA
1. Class Biz':

Preview the homework for the week
Go over announcements
Q and A about our project (check your emails for my response to your proposal questions/concerns)

2. Mini Lesson: How to write your op-ed article

3. Work Time:

Continue your research as needed
Begin drafting your op-ed: Don't worry about a thesis yet, we'll work on that tomorrow
Conference with Ashley if you're stuck on the Constitution connection

Homework:
Draft of op-ed article for peer critique is due Thursday at the beginning of class

Intelligence Squared Debates: Great resource!

10/5/2013

Check out THIS LINK for an archive of awesome debates on a wide range of political and social issues. You can search for your specific issue.

You don't have to listen to the entire debate, as there are usually options to read through the transcripts or select certain segments of the debate to watch.

http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/past-debates

Friday, October 4th

10/3/2013

TIB Reading

Starter:
1. Complete the checklist and email me your starters or turn them in. Turn in the checklist too.
2. In your animashighschool.com gmail account, open the "DRIVE"
3. Open a new google document
4. Title it: YourFullName_Starters (ex: AshleyCarruth_Starters)
5. Share it with me: ashley.carruth@animashighschool.com

Agenda
1. Ashley's mini-lesson: Three Branches of the U.S. government and Supreme Court Case precedent: Power point

2. Work Time:

Opposing Viewpoint analysis form
Research your issue; releveant constitutional connections and/or Supreme Court cases
Conference with Ashley if you're stuck on the Constitution connection or need help finding/analyzing opposing viewpoint sources

Homework:
Analysis of opposing viewpoint is due for a completion grade on Monday.