First day of class! Monday, August 29th

I know you were as excited as this kid when your mom or smartphone woke you up this morning. Please try to contain your enthusiasm.

Today's Objectives:

• Evaluate Krishnamurti's philosophy on the purpose of education
• Create a class charter that reflects the purpose of education and the ideal classroom environment as you all see it.

Starter #1
Step 1: Instructions for creating a starter doc:

1. Create a Humanities 11 folder in  your google drive
2. Create a new document and title it "LastName_Starters"
3. SHARE the document with me and allow me "editing" privileges
4. Title the starter "Starter #1".  Start each day's starter on the TOP of the document so that the most recent starter is ALWAYS at the top of the document. 

Step 2: Now, respond to these prompts:

1. What kind of student do you want to be this year?
2. ​How do you want to engage with your education?  
3. What do you want junior year to be like for you and for our class?

Homework and CLASS BIZ

• This Week's Homework (See Homework tab on  my DP!): Syllabus signature and "I'm More Than Just a Pretty Face" (I'll pass these documents out)
• PLEASE make this important change on page 4 of the syllabus under "What happens if my work is late?" --> Late assignments will be docked immediately 20% and will be accepted up to 1 week late.
• Honors lunch meeting on Thursday: If you're interested in joining honors, be there!

​Today's Agenda
1. Share whatever part of your starter response, with which you feel comfortable, with a partner. 

2. Review  "The Function of Education" by Krishnamurti: (15 minutes)

• Skim back through our reading from orientation.  Review your annotations and if you didn't already, mark quotes that stand out to you as thought-provoking, interesting, inspiring or with which you strongly disagree.
• Jot down any questions/confusions you have about the reading.
• Identify the author's thesis: What does Krishnamurti claim the purpose of education is?
• Be prepared to share your selections and explain what the quotes mean to you and why you chose them.

3. Class discussion: 30 min.

• What ground rules do we want to establish for class discussions (both informal and seminar-styles?)
• Do you want seminars to be graded? Why or why not?
• Clarify any confusions you have about the reading
• What is the thesis of this essay? 
• What ideas resonated with folks? What ideas made you leap for joy? Why? 
• What push backs/challenges do you have for the author? With which ideas do you disagree or find problematic?
• Does Animas create an environment where this is possible? Should we be aspiring to?
• Let's create our class charter! What are the norms we want to uphold in order to create an ideal classroom environment where everyone can learn?

Norms v. Values Distinction
Norms: Socially-accepted codes of conduct set by a community/group/society 
Values:  Beliefs an individual has to guide his/her behavior 

*Typically a value underlies a norm. For instance, if we implement the norm that everyone must raise their hand, we might value equal participation, calmness, structure.  If we set a norm that we  do appreciations at the end of each week, we must value appreciation and the expression of gratitude, etc....

4. Class Values (40 min)
This will ultimately end in a class constitution of sorts.  What do we value in this class?

• Count off by 4.
• Split into groups, go into different corners of the classroom
• 5 min- brainstorm on sticky notes things that we value in this class (one item per sticky)
• 10 min- group, combine, winnow.  Get to 5 that your group agrees on.
• Merge with another group.
• 10 min- Share your qualities, group, combine, winnow.  Get to 5.
• Merge two big groups.
• 10 min- Both groups share their qualities.  Combine where appropriate/easy.