December 20th--Night Quiz 83-end

Wednesday, December 18th. Night Quiz 66-85

Wednesday, December 17th--Night Theme Presentation Assignment

December 16th--Today's Meet Discussion and Discussion Reflection

Below are the two links that we'll use for the lesson today:

Night Say Something Room

Say Something Self Assessment

Friday December 13th--Night Quiz 2

Friday December 6th, Night Quiz pg.1-22

November 26th: Make Cycle 2 Commenting Reflective Blog Post

November 26--Make Cycle 2 Self Assessment

Make Cycle #2 Overview: Noticing, Observing and Narrating (Make with Me: Mapping)

Make Cycle #2 Noticing, Observing and Narrating (Make with Me: Mapping)   

Last week we composed videos on our future career interests. We then observed, noticed, and narrated an object related to that interest and inquired into the science surrounding it. Our questions were starting places for our research, and today, our learning in all of these spaces will serve as starting places for our make…..   

What do you mean by maps?

A common definition of a map goes something like this:

a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.

or there are more broad definitions, like this one:

a diagram or collection of data showing the spatial arrangement or distribution of something over an area

For this project, we can take an even broader view:

• Maps give visual representation
• Maps provide perspective
• Maps orient the viewer to a big picture

           -Maps can show where you’ve been, as well as where you are going

           -Maps can illustrate places, events, time, and/or ideas

       

What are the requirements for this make?    

For Make cycle 2, we will be creating maps that focus on some aspect of our career interest. The maps we create will include all of the following:

• representation of how the subject connects with our past
• representation of how the subject fits in with a vision of our future
• representation of scientific knowledge about the subject
• AND.....it should be awesome

What could my make look like?

A map could be be 2D, 3D, interactive, and/or moving

For example, your map could be….

-an infographic

-learning/concept/mind maps

-Pop-up book

-3D Models

-Cardboard automata, Directions here.

What about materials?

The following materials will be on hand:

-markers/colored pencil -newspaper -cardboard -white paper/posterboard/construction paper -scissors

-tape (masking and duct) -string -popsicle sticks -pipe cleaners -glue (Elmers and hot glue gun)

AND, you are more than welcome to bring additional materials from home.  Common household and recycled objects are preferred.  You shouldn’t have to buy anything new!

November 13th--College and Career Video Making

November 7th--College and Career/Field Trip Reflective Blog post

Monday, November 4th--FFA Reading and Say Something

Click here to get to our Digital Say Something space.

Digital Say Something Self Assessment

Intelligence Tricider Forum and Article Reading

Click here to get to the Tricider Intelligence Conversation

Part 1 Directions

• Answer the following 5 questions by clicking Add Idea in the bottom left hand corner of each discussion box. 
• Type your answer and make sure to include your name. 
• To agree or disagree with someones answer click on Add Argument beneath the Pro/Con section.
• Click the plus sign for agree and the minus sign for disagree then begin typing your argument. 
• You can vote for the best idea by clicking on the vote button on the far right side of each "idea"
• Make sure to read the directions at the top of the Tricider forum.

Part 2
Once you have answered all the questions and responded to at least one idea for each question follow the directions below:

• Click here to read this article.
• While reading the article, use Diigo to highlight parts of the text that connect to any of the questions in the Tricider forum. 
• After reading the article, go back to the Tricider forum and continue answering questions and debating (if you have a new idea then add it). 
• Use the article to either support your answer or refute another. (must add at least 3 new posts based off the article)

Part 3

Complete this self assessment

October 10th-Nobody's Perfect Argumentative Blog Post

What does an argumentative blog post look like? This one provides a good example. 

October 3rd, Body Image and Advertizements

October 3rd, Body Image and Advertizements

10-2-13 Advertisement Analysis

Friday 9-27-13 Make Cycle 1 Reflection

9-26-13 Make Posting, Process Documenting Blog Post

Wednesday 9-25-13 Focus Response

Make Cycle #1 Introductions and Histories: Who are you as a writer? As a science learner?

Make Cycle #1 Introductions and Histories: Who are you as a writer? As a science learner?

For this first Make Cycle, you will further introduce yourself to our class and Intersections community by sharing some parts of your history as writer and science learner.

Your make is yours.  This cycle is held together by the common theme of our histories, but other than than you can create whatever you want to share about your history.

The make cycles are really about you and your interests and how you can find connections between these and your school work.  Below are some options for your first make:

Possible Activities for Make Cycle #1 (Introductions and Histories)

Your first make could be physical, digital, or a combination of both.   Even if you make something offline, you’ll still post an image of your make online, so that we can see your creation for ourselves. Sharing is part of the “make” cycle here.Think about how the tools you use to make your symbolic “make” represent a bit about where you come from in terms of science and literacy. You will later reflect in writing on the choices that you made.  

Below are possible options for your first make.  All can be done on paper, or with the apps that are suggested.

• Create an avatar of yourself with Buddy Poke— Make thoughtful choices about the features of your avatar and how those elements reflect who you are as a science learner and writer.  

• Create a self-portrait of yourself with an apps such as Doodle Buddy or Sketchbook.  

• Create 3D Poetry, making an object out of materials like construction paper and cardboard, and compose poetry on it with words that you write and/or cut out.

• Make a Comic using the ComicBook app.  Flatten your world down to a few frames and try to capture and important part of your history as a science learner and/or writer.  

You are not limited just to any of the above options.  I encourage you to be creative.  Make a symbolic representation of an aspect of your history and reflect.  Do that in whatever way interests you.  

9-20-13 Published Narrative Self Assessment

9-19-13 Narrative Requirements and Image Guidelines

9-13-13 Caged Bird Reread and Noticing Chart

September 10th--Published Poetry Self Assessment

September 9th, 2013 Blog set up, Published poetry requirements, Digital image making

September 5th-Setting up your blog

June 5th--End Of Course Evaluation

May 28th--Published Poetry Self Assessment

May 17th--Literature Circle Novel Discussion Reflection

Week 10 Blog Out Comment Reflection

May 9th--Piclit Poetry Figurative Language Scavenger Hunt

May 3rd--Literature Circle Discussion Reflection

April 30th--Inquiry Documentary Project Response Sheet (for projects not on blogs)

April 19th--Reading and Plog (paper blog!) Out!

Directions for class

1. Read 5 pages in your novel. Write down the page you stopped at in your daybook. 

2. Plog (paper blog!) Out of the Week

  On your paper, write:

 One paragraph summarizing what happened this week in your book. 

 One paragraph discussing three different ways what happened in the book this week connects to you, the world, and/or other texts. 

Be sure to refer to the notes you took in your daybook this week when writing your plog. 

April 11th--College Readiness Learning Documentary-Overview and Storyboarding

April 10th--Alphaboxes and Novel Conflict Analysis

April 9th--Daybook Mining, Inquiry Mapping/Blog Post

March 25th--Annotated Bibliography Creation

Part 1: Create your bibliography




1. Go to Bibme and create an account.

2. Enter the url for each of your sources, include any additional information that gets left out.
   *For interviews/surveys that you created, click "other," then select "interview."

3. Copy and paste your bibliography into a new blog post, titled something like "Inquiry Project Annotated  Bibliography"



Part 2: Annotate your bibliography

Beneath each bibliography entry write an annotation (1-2 paragraphs) that:

• Summarizes the information from the source
• Assesses, or evaluates the quality of the information the source
• Explains how the source fits into your research. 

*For interview/survey annotations: Summarize what the survey was asking for and the responses that were received.  Were there common answers to questions? What were they? Were responses all different? How

Click here to see an example of an annotated bibliography. It was written by Alan, a UNCC student. 

March 22nd--Week 4 Novel Blog-Out

March 21st--Responding to College Readiness/Schooling Inquiry Surveys

Below are surveys made by KMS students and UNCC students in order to gain information connected to our College Readiness/Schooling Inquiry project:

Surveys from UNCC students for KMS students

Surveys from KMS students for KMS students

After our responding session, write in your daybook in response to the following question:

In what ways did the topics of inquiry surveys that you took today intersect/overlap with your own inquiry? What new information did you find AND what new thinking/wondering are you doing about your topic?

March 20th--Website Evaluation

Directions: Below are a list of websites.  Visit them and determine if they are credible or not.
On a sheet of paper, write if the website is credible and list why you came to that decision. Remember to consider: Authority, Bias, Currency, Documentation

1. Should We Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO)?
2. Video Games to Enhance Learning
3. H1N1 Swine Flu Insert Admits it Causes Paralasis, Analyphaticic Shock, and Death 
4. Should We Allow Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports?
5. California's Velcro Crop under Challenge
6. How to Handle Unwanted Friend Requests
7. What Makes a Good Boyfriend?
8. Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
9. New Hartford, Minnesota's Official Website
10. how do i choose a good college?

March 15th,--Literature Circle Discussion Reflection

March 11th--Blog Out Commenting Reflection

March 8th--Week 2 Blog Out

March 6th Inquiry Project Brainstorm

March 4th--Reading and responding to college students' inquiry proposals

Below are the links to the blogs of students from the UNCC class we are working with:

Colin--Being a teacher, teachers doing a good job with a lot of students,
Devin--Financial education
Alyson--standardized testing and its effects on kids
Cheryl--Taking risks
Tyler --Teachers as producers, Students as consumers
David--extracurricular activities --helping or hurting
Abby--teaching students. Autism
Megan-the true definition of success
Taylor-how school affects creativity
Kendall-how commuting affects college performance
Justin. College issues, money
Michaela--The education system is not allowing people to follow their dreams
Brandon--How sports affect students
Jon--Standardized testing and education
AJ
Olivia--The drop out rate
Karl--Financial issues, expenses and going to college
Allen--The attack on the idea of hard work
Kevin--Is college necessary?
Stacy
Chez--Either college readiness or standardized testing

March 1st--Week 1 Novel Blog-Out

Feb. 27th--Reading college student's responses to our questions on college readiness

Click here to view what the college students had to say in response to our questions.

Feb 22st--Literature Circle Book Selection

For literature circles, you will have the option of reading one of the following books. Click on each link to visit the Amazon site for that book. Take time to read the book descriptions and reviews. Take notes in your daybook so you can make an informed decision about which book you would like to read.

Bronx Mascarade

 Divergent 

 I am the Messenger 

 Lost 

 Rash 

Rx

 The Rules of Survival 

 Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry 

Tangerine

 Unwind

Feb 22nd--Reflective Portfolio Creation/ELA Showcase Prep

Feb 21st--Thinking about College Readiness

Click here to see the school experiences collected by your classmates.

 On your own paper, answer the following questions:

1. What does it mean for someone to be "college ready"

2. Name two of the schooling experiences from peoples' narratives are important for college readiness? Explain why. 

3. Name two of the schooling experiences from peoples' narratives are not important for college readiness? Explain why. 

4. What questions could you ask college freshman to better help you understand what it means to be college ready (list at least 3)?

February 19th--Writing Conclusions

February 20th--Collecting Significant School Experiences

Feb 12--Mapping your Dream Assignment

February 13th Schooling Narrative Quickwrite and Assignment Overview

Feb 8th--Published Writing Self Assessment

February 7th--Analyzing the Inaugural Speech

Block 1: Click here to access the full text of the president's 2013 inaugural speech.


Considering what you had learned from your research yesterday and class activities last week, highlight elements of the president's speech that connect to what you had learned.

In a stickynote, include related comments, questions, or additional thinking.


On your half-sheet, explain how your response to the president connected to the thinking and learning that you were doing in class about the American Dream.

Feb 6th, Inquiring into the American Dream

Click here to see what we are wondering about the Government and the American Dream:  

1. Search the web for sites containing information you are wondering about, connected to our topic of The role of Government and the American Dream

2. Use Diigo to highlight relevant information on the sites.

3. Include your own response/questions on stickynotes

4. Share to fultonsela Diigo group


----reflecting on point of view in informational text

For one of the sources you read, complete the following on your half-sheet of paper:

1. Source Title:
2. Author's point of view/purpose:
3. Specific information from the text that supports that point of view/purpose:

January 31st--American Dream by Decade MindMap

A mind map is a way to visually represent your thinking about a complex topic. Below is an example of a mind map on mind maps:

from  http://litemind.com/what-is-mind-mapping/

American Dream by Decade Mind Map assignment

Using the work we did for the last two days, create a mind map showing the American Dream in the decade of your article.  Your mind map should:

• Show how the American Dream was interpreted during your time period

• Have interesting visuals that support content.

• Should connect understandings of the American dream with those common today

Jan 29th--History of the American Dream

Read one of the following articles from the New York Times:

1. 1959 Essence of America
2. 1969, Youth in Revolt
3. 1974 There’s no time for dreams
4. 1996 Testing the resonance of the American Dream
5. 2001: Our towns, her chance to live, then describe, her American Dream
6. 2005 You really can’t be too rich.
7. 2012: American Dream Faces Harsh Reality


From your article, answer the following questions


1. What events, people, movements, ideas, norms and/or perceptions does this article mention that were important during the time period in which the article was written?

2. How is the American Dream defined and/or described in this article? How does this definition reflect the historical context in which the article was written?

3. What quotes from the article best illustrate the article's "take" on the concept of the American Dream? Do you agree with the image of America that these quotes present? Why or why not?

4. Compare and contrast the article's presentation of the American Dream with contemporary conceptions of concept. What about the representation of the American Dream has stayed the same through time and what, if anything, has changed?

Jan 28th--The American Dream in a Recession

I. Read the article, What Happens to the American Dream in a Recession

II. Answer the following questions on your own paper:
 

• 1. According to this article, what is the classic definition of the American dream? Do you think that this dream (as it is classically defined) often comes true? Why or why not?
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• 2. Why do you think more people believe in the American dream today than they did four years before the article was written, when our economic outlook was much brighter?
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• 3. Describe the shift in the definition of the American dream over the past four years? What do you think accounts for this change?
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• 4. Which definitions of the American dream resonate most with you? Why?
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• 5. Why do you think Barry Glassner believes that it would be difficult to find a different country where so many people believe in possibilities even in dire circumstances? Do you agree with him? Why or why not?

January 24th: "I Have a Dream" reading and found poetry

 :

Click here to access the full text of the speech.

Assignment
 Create a found poem using words, phrases from Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream Speech."

Your poem should either:

1.  convey your idea of America today OR 
2. restate what you believe to be MLKs main message. 

 Found poetry creation options: Write it, Type it, or  WordMover it

Jan 16th--Published Writing Self Assessment

Jan. 3rd Writing Quote poster assignment