Friday, May 17th

YAY!!!!  I heart y'all!

ESSAY SUBMISSION (TODAY)
DP Update and Project Reflection (Link due Tuesday)

TPOL PREP:  MY ROOM!  

Thursday, May 16th: ASE!!!!

Here we are, my dears!  All's Well that Ends Well!!!!

Today during class:  Refinement and Practice!
Do you have further revisions that you can make to your essay?
Do you want to practice reading it aloud again? (If you didn't yesterday, I must insist....)
Have you gotten your selfie to Amaya?
Have you given your essay a title?
If you have extra time and some basic photoshop skills, do you want to make some signage?

Submission Instructions
1.  Email me your essay by 2:30 this afternoon.  It should have an interesting title that alludes to its message. Title should be centered, bold, 14 point font.  Underneath the title, please put your name, centered, not bold, 12 point font.  Like so...

Whichever Road Taken

by Jessica McCallum

Final essays due by 2:30 pm today!
I WILL NOT PRINT FOR YOU unless your essay comes in by this time.  Period.  Don't even ask.  If you need your essay printed after this hour, you will need to be resourceful and figure it out.  My junior exhibition starts at the very first moment of exhibition.


NEW SCHEDULE: 20 minute intervals
Everyone panel for each other all night!  If the 5 people don't fill the 20 minutes, wait until the next interval to start. (Ie.  If Mady ends at 6:17, give people a second to arrive for the next chunk; Adrian starts at 6:20.)

6:00-6:20
Christine
Sophia
Ben
Jaylin
Mady

6:20-6:40
Adrian
Flynn
Jazzy
Shaw
Max

6:40-7:00
Jack
Marina
Sophie
Husai
Kenzie

Monday/Tuesday May 13th/4th

TO-DO LIST TODAY!!!
1. Selfie!  Please send me your final selfie portrait by the end of Tuesday!

2. Refine Essays/Writing Conferences with Jessica and Amaya

• Get ready for All-School by practicing reading your essay out loud?
• Send me your final essay by email by Tuesday at midnight!

3.  Finish up Shakespeare work!  As of now, I have received 3 DP links.  

4.  Who wants to flip this room with me?  We can hang some sheets starting now:)

Friday, May 10th

PEER CRITIQUE of THIS I BELIEVE ESSAYS

SHARE YOUR ESSAY WITH Jessica AND Amaya! a.holliday19@animashighschool.com

Finish DP UPDATE!!

1. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: A brief description of the project and the ways you participated in it.
2. Your reflection
3. Photo(s) and visual relics

SELFIE PORTRAITS! 

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How can the “selfie” be used as an expression of identity?

Selfie-Portrait: Like the concept of a self-portrait, but a photo you have taken of yourself with the goal of capturing a piece of your identity.  Be creative and original and personal and interesting! Think about the message about self that you are trying to create with your selfie. The goal is to transcend the shallowness of the mirror selfie in order to create ART.

Let's try this again!  Revisit your selfie portrait.

• How will you approach it differently now that you are a projecteer?
• What do you want to try to get across about self?

Thursday, May 9th

Show, Don't Tell!

• Showing V. Telling Activity

REVISE YOUR OWN DRAFTS.  Show, Don't Tell! 

• Draft due for Critique tomorrow:  Print out 2 copies

DP UPDATE for Shakepeare Puppet Show:

1. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: A brief description of the project and the ways you participated in it.
2. Your reflection
3. Photo(s) and visual relics

Google folder with a few photos
(Does anyone have others?)

Who wants to set up the room for exhibition?

Tuesday, May 7th

Group starter: Choose a belief that you all agree on

Each group member should share an anecdote or a personal experience that relates to why they hold that belief.

Group Critique of Published Essays

For each essay, discuss the author’s approach to the assignment.  Answer the following in your groups:

1. What is the author’s core belief?               
2. How did the author use story to illuminate their belief?  What elements of good storytelling did they incorporate?  Does the whole piece work together in one unified voice? (narrative coherence)
3. How does the author establish his/her unique personality through the assignment?  Which sections of the essay strike readers as truthful, either intellectually or emotionally? (authentic voice)
4. “So what?”  How does the author connect to the human community?   (communal relevance)

TOGETHER: Amaya's essay

IN GROUPS: Do the group critique of your assigned essay!

Monday, May 6th

Continuing on with "This I Believe".....

Thursday, May 2

This I Believe Project Intro

1. Starter:  Next to each prompt, create a shorthand list of your responses to the belief statements (A, SA, D, SD).  Answer quickly, and set it aside for later use.

2. FOUR CORNERS!

3. Freewrite:  Pick one of the belief statements from 4 corners and free-write for 10 minutes.

• Why do you agree or disagree with the statement?
• What personal experience has shaped this belief?

4. Belief Statement Group Acticity

5. Project Description

6. Reflection Critique Read-Around

Add comments and questions about how your peers could improve their essays. Questions can be really helpful to indicate where they could possibly clarify or add content.

7. WORK TIME TO REFINE!

I am still getting pics around for your DP updates. I will share a folder with you guys. Everyone has an extension on getting me your DP link until next week.

If you are completely finished with your reflection essay, spend some time browsing the This I Believe archive. Read the essays or listen to the podcast versions. You can browse by themes here.

Wednesday, May 1st

Shakespeare Project Self-Assessment and Reflection
1. Sophia reads her reflection example
2. Work Time to Finish?


***When you finish your reflection, do the following self-critique, annotating your essay as indicated.  REFINE your essay according to your own critique!

1. Highlight in YELLOW each TOPIC SENTENCE.

Ask yourself for each....

• Is this topic sentence clearly stated?
• Does everything in the paragraph relate to it?
• Does it answer the prompt in an authentic way?

2. Highlight in BLUE where you are using specific anecdotal EVIDENCE.

Ask yourself....

• Have I chosen the best examples for the claim I am making?
• Are there other anecdotes that I am missing that could help me develop my point further?
• Is my evidence ample and specific?

3. Highlight in GREEN your personal commentary or reflective ANALYSIS.

Ask yourself....

• Have I explained my examples thoroughly?
• Have I used my analysis (with evidence) to "prove" the claim made in my topic sentence?
• Have I included sufficient reflection in a way that really develops my claim?

4.  Review the RUBRIC.  To what degree are you meeting the standards for this reflection?  REFINE accordingly!


If you are done with all of this AND your DP update, you could preview our next project and peruse the NPR This I Believe essay archive.

Thursday, April 25th

Shakespeare Project Self-Assessment and Reflection

Tuesday, April 2

Project Reset!
Let's make a plan!

If you haven't done the Process Reflection, please do so now.
PROCESS REFLECTION
Project Rubric

Let's make a puppet show!  Let's do so with joy!