Friday, August 31, 2018

Friday, August 31

Dear students: Thanks for being your sweet, awesome selves for Maxim today!  You should work to complete the TO-DO list below during your work time today.

 TO-DO
1. Finish your culture collage.
2. Complete the handouts that Maxim gives you on the Sociology terms that we worked with yesterday.  If you need to review definitions, look at the chapter you read as well as the powerpoint slides on yesterday's DP post.  TURN THEM IN TO THE BOX!
3. Finish the reading if you have not done so already!


Thursday, August 30, 2018

Thursday, August 30

Starter 8.30:  What is a person’s identity made of? Where does it come from? How is it formed?  


Define “collage.” Some of you will use forms of collage on your masks.

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Wednesday, August 29

Starter 8.29:  What is the message about self that you hope to portray with your project? How do your selfie portrait and your haiku work together to establish meaning? If you were going to post this selfie to social media, how might you #hashtag it?

Project Curation and Reflection Time
  1. Mounting project on black construction paper: refined, beautiful, title and name
  2. Exhibition in the hallway!
  3. Reflection: First in comp books and then in circle
    1. What do you like about the project you created?
    2. What was difficult about it?
    3. What would you change or refine?
    4. How did having an audience for your work impact how you approached it?
    5. What did you learn from this mini-project?  

PROJECT CYCLE COMPLETE! Are you ready for masks?

Reading Time (if time): Sociology reading about Culture (due Friday)

Monday, August 27, 2018

Tuesday, August 28


Starter: Write the draft of your haiku on the mini-whiteboard. Place your selfie next to it.
Critique: Gallery Walk of selfies and haikus (Post-its)
  1. Specific, helpful, and kind
  2. Comments, Questions, Suggestions
Groups: Verbal Processing Session
Take turns talking about where you are in your project process.  Show your group your selfie and your poem.  Talk through the following:

  1. What are you trying to portray with your project?
  2. Of the questions on the back board, which do you believe most closely aligns with your project and why?
  3. Did you get any feedback on the post-it notes that makes you want to make changes to your project?
  4. What do you want to do to make this project an example of beautiful work? 

Groups then give verbal feedback on the project.

 Refinement time: Beautiful Work

Tomorrow we will be curating our project for exhibition, so bring a final “draft.” 

 HAIKU: Write it on an electronic document in a somewhat large font for exhibition.  Be intentional about your font!  (Color?)

 There will be a chance to print in Roxy's class! If you need me to print your haiku or re-print your photo for you, send me your stuff by 8am!


Sunday, August 26, 2018

Monday, August 27

COMP BOOKS!!!!

 Starter 8.27:  
Reflect and free-write on the concept of the “selfie” in our society. What is the function of the selfie? How do people use the selfie? What might we learn about people from their selfies?

 Discuss starter.
  • Is the selfie an authentic expression of self?
  • Who is the selfie for?  The subject? The audience?
  • What do self-portraits have in common with selfies?  What types of selfies might be considered self-portraits?
  • What might we infer about a person from his or her selfie?  What might they be projecting about their identities?
PLAN your selfie!
  1. What do you want to portray about self? Your identity?
  2. How might you achieve the portrayal you want to project?
  3. Think about setting, objects, connections.
  4. Filters? Try different ones?
  5. HOW CAN YOU THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX ON THIS ASSIGNMENT? You have freedom to play here.  Expand on the idea of the selfie portrait.
  6. You can use selfies that are already on your phone if you find them to be authentic expressions of self.
Check out super cool project: http://selfiecity.net/



IF TIME: HAIKU mini-lesson: Words and Images working together

TAKE the selfies!
  • Take lots of pictures!  Play with different filters! Printing will happen in Roxy’s class this afternoon.
HOMEWORK: photography? haiku?

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Friday, August 24

Seating Chart Challenge:
Line up in alphabetical order by the name you like to be called. Use last names and then middle names as tie-breakers. Then divide yourselves in half, each half sitting on opposite sides of the table arrangement (still in alphabetical order). When all are seated, the last student raises his or her hand and reports that the class is ready.
Get out your annotated reading and review some of the passages you annotated.
"The Function of Education":  Spirit Read
1.  Everyone participates at least once.  You can speak more than once.
2.  Read a word, phrase, or sentence.
3.  No commentary or opinions.
4.  When possible, try to connect with what was just read.
5.  Give all voices a chance.
6.  Pauses can be powerful.
7. Repeating words and phrases is fine.


What is Socratic Seminar?
Seminar Questions from “The Function of Education” by Krishnamurti

  1. What does Krishnamurti argue the function of education is? What is the THESIS of his essay?
  2. What ideas/beliefs/values that seem core to our lives as Americans does he call into question or challenge? Why? 
  3. Do you agree that these things should be questioned/challenged/changed? What alternatives does he propose? What alternatives do you propose?
  4. What push backs/challenges do you have for the author? With which ideas do you disagree or find problematic?
  5. What does it look like in a school environment where Krishnamurti’s ideas are possible? 
  6. Is Krishnamurti’s vision of education even desirable? What should we be aspiring to in the #21C?What do YOU believe is the function of education?


Seminar Self-Assessment
On the rubric, circle the participation moves you believe you made.  What grade would you deserve for this seminar? Briefly explain why you would give yourself that grade. What do you want to improve on for next time? Write your name on the rubric and turn it in!
Seminar Reflection
Write 1-2 paragraphs synthesizing your own personal takeaways from our seminar. It may help you to answer one or more of the following questions:
  • What did you learn from this seminar? What new ideas do you have now that you didn’t have before?
  • What do you believe the function of education is?
  • What do you want out of your own education?
  • What do you want this year to be like for you and our class?
If time: Roses and Thorns from Week 1 of high school:)

Homework (by Monday):


Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Thursday, August 23

Welcome to 9th Grade Humanities!!!!
Seating Chart Challenge:
Sit in birthday order so that the person with the birthday closest to January 1 sits in Seat 1. The year you were born doesn't matter. Don't skip seats. When everyone is seated, the student in Seat 5 will raise his or her hand and report that the class is ready to begin.

Intros and Attendance

IN PAIRS: What are the Humanities?  
Pair share with table mate: 1) What do we mean by the term “Humanities”? 2) List as many disciplines as you can think of that fall under the blanket of Humanities.  Whole Group Share.


“The Function of Education” Reading and Socratic Seminar Prep

Freewrite on the Question: What is the function of education?
Read and annotate "The Function of Education" by Krishnamurti

  • Read as much of the reading as you can. Mark quotes that stand out to you as thought-provoking, interesting, inspiring or with which you strongly disagree.
  • Try to identify the author's thesis: What does Krishnamurti claim the purpose of education is?
  • Be prepared to share your selections and make meaning together tomorrow in our first Socratic Seminar of the year!



Homework (by Monday):




Monday, August 13, 2018

Walt Says....

Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?
Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self. 

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