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DP Update and Reflection Day!!
Goal: Reflect on your learning experience so that you better understand yourself as a learner, demonstrate critical thinking not just on WHAT you're studying but WHY you're studying it, and so that you can help Ashley refine the process for future students. Starter: Take the end of project/exhibition reflection survey posted above Agenda Don't Forget to Email me your Final Op-Ed Draft! *I'll grade your visuals/projects and artist statements once you have posted them on your DP 1. Debrief exhibition as a class 2. Example of an A+ DP Reflection + Go over DP Update/Reflection guidelines 3. DP Update/Reflection Work Time + Movie Homework
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Goal: Understand the requirements for exhibition and prepare your spiel
Agenda 1. Starter 2. Announcements
3. Conflict Resolution Role Play: Two volunteers! 4. Speed Dating with your exhibition spiel and Boy Band hits 5. If you are DONE with all of the exhibition checklist: Watch and discuss this Ted Talk, entitled "The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives"
Work Time
Work time Resources Artist Statement Guidelines check-list for exhibition prep By 3:15: Email me the jpeg of your poster with 300 resolution and your chosen dimensions
Goals:
Starter: Our article in The Herald: Read the comments at the end
Agenda: 1. Discuss starter 2. Announcements:
3. Passive Voice Minilesson Read the handout on "Passive voice":
4. If Time: Watch and discuss this Ted Talk, entitled "The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives"
Work time Resources - Artist Statement Guidelines - check-list for exhibition prep - Email me the jpeg of your poster with 300 resolution and your chosen dimensions Starter:
Using ten words or less, write this sentence more concisely (aka: Streamline it!) Many have made the wise observation that when a stone is in motion rolling down a hill or incline that that moving stone is not as likely to be covered all over with the kind of thick green moss that grows on stationary unmoving things and becomes a nuisance and suggests that those things haven’t moved in a long time and probably won’t move any time soon. Agenda 1. Brief class discussion:
Quote of the day: French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal once wrote something to the effect of: "If I had more time, I would have made this letter shorter"(1657)
Goal:
Starter: 1. Complete the check-list for exhibition prep and the work time planning guide on page 2. 2. Open your op-ed article feedback from me and carefully read my feedback and your first draft grade as indicated on the attached rubric. Answer these questions in your starter notebook:
A note on my feedback: Don't be alarmed! I had to get straight to the point and thus there is more critique than positive feedback. I still think you are all wonderful, smart and beautiful human beings, I just care more about you becoming outstanding writers than making sure you feel all warm and fuzzy after reading my critique. After all, these are drafts. There should be room for improvement. Announcements
Agenda
U.S. Constitution. Amend. XII, Sec. 3. Parenthetical Citation (In-Text) The Seventh Amendment states, "QUOTE" (US Const. amend. XII, sec. 3). Work Time: Execute your work time goals for today artist statement instructions Starter
Watch John Stewart's interview of Bill O'Reilly Questions to reflect upon:
Work Time Political Campaign Project Work Time! Starter:
Note: If you did not see Sister Helen's talk, defend your own perspective on the death penalty 1. What were your impressions from Sister Helen's talk yesterday? What inspired you, challenged you, surprised you, frustrated you, etc...? 2. What did you learn about the death penalty? 3. Did your perspective change at all? Announcements
Ethan Lotfinia Joren Joyce Brittan Collins Trevor Jordan Al Thompson Alicia Martinez Anish Wells Agenda A. In your starter notebook--> Evaluate this example works cited page Part 1: Basic Observations:
Part 2: Evaluate the credibility of the sources:
B. Artist Statement Guidelines C. Work Time:
Goal:
Starter 1. Do you know any of the Amendments or Propositions that we get to vote on for this November's Colorado voting ballot? Which one(s) do you know? Announcements
Agenda 1. In small groups, examine the gobbledygook of the language used to describe the two Amendments and two Propositions on this year's ballot Sample Colorado Ballot (page 2) A. Read your assigned bill (Amendment 67, 68 or Prop. 104 or 105) B. Summarize the bill in your own words C. What words or phrasing confuses you or seems unclear? 2. Spokesperson present your bill to the class 3. Read the Durango Herald article about ballot wording debate: Discuss:
3. Work on your visual piece! Goals
1. Decide which book you would want to read this year's third project ("Happiness and Meaning") 2. Continue to create a provocative and rhetorical political campaign project piece 3. Understand the work of Sister Helen Prejean Starter Read THESE BOOK DESCRIPTIONS and then take the above survey. Agenda 1. Visual Project work time 2. Tomorrow, Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking is coming to Animas during 3rd period. f you can't make the Animas talk, she is speaking at Fort Lewis College, tonight from 7-9 p.m. in Whalen Gymnasium. Watch: 1. Trailer to Dead Man Walking 2. "A Life Against Death: The Work of Sister Helen Prejean" |
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