Students:
1) Pass in your Ernie's Ark essay. Title it "ErniesArkEssay."
2) Click the link "Assignments with Problems." Check it out.
3) Take the poll
4) Check the "Careers Scoreboard": Look at your status -- if you are listed incomplete, here are the consequences: A) you are failing English; B) you will be assigned to a learning lab; C) you must stay after school next Monday the 19th to work on the project; D) You will not be going on the walking field trip to downtown Norway next Tuesday.
5) DRESS WARMLY next Tuesday -- we'll be walking downtown. It will be VERY COLD.
6) STAR Testing on Friday: Bring a Charged Laptop
Vocab Words
We'll be cold calling for examples and visuals.
parallels
compare and contrast
philosophy
conscripted
credibility gap
alliance
levies
political
Lesson on Organization: Calendars & Alarms
Set calendar events and alarms for upcoming events and assignments.
Stranger Quiz
Colbert or Daily Show Video
REMINDER: Remaining Homework Assignment
For Honors and anyone wishing for supplemental credit
Using the "Thesis Formula" (downloaded above), spend exactly two hours writing a paper on your choice reading book for October. Stop writing after the hour is up. When you submit the essay, write at the top exactly when and where you spent these two hours. The title of the assignment is "choiceReadingEssay." It is due by the beginning of class Tuesday, 11/26. It will not be accepted any time after this point.
Twin Circles
What did you notice in the Stranger?
Keynote & Survey on Fall of Rome (with optional Essay Assignment)
Challenge Narrative: Mr. Springer, a former history teacher, believes that teaching the fall of Rome is a waste of time. Your challenge is to prove him incorrect, unless the evidence proves otherwise.
Challenge: Why did Rome fall, and does it's demise help us understand anything about our school, our community or our nation? To answer this question you will be assigned to be in a group of 4. You will divide up the 12-13 reasons for Rome's fall (see the downloaded document called "The Division and Fall of The Roman Empire") equally among the group members. Each of you will spend time to understand your assigned reasons and convert the reason into a simple, understandable statement. If you have completed your 3, help others in your group to finish. When your all your group members are completed, find another group that is also completed and pair off by statements (for example, 1-3, 4-6, etc.). Go back to your group, share these statements with your group through AirDrop and each person create a numbers list of the 12-13 reasons Rome fell. In your group, decide on the 5 most important reasons for Rome's fall. Two group members create a gridded chart to use to record the responses from staff members who you will ask whether they see the 5 reasons for Rome's fall in the school, community or nation (your chart will have 4 columns and 5 rows). The other two members of the group will make a Keynote presentation which will include all the listed reasons with a slide and suitable visual for each statement (divide the statements equally among the remaining two group members). Before you begin ANYTHING, copy and paste this test into a Pages document and turn it into a to-do list.
Philosophy Challenge
Purpose: Philosophy and religion exist for the sole purpose of giving purpose and explaining how life works. They can be very useful when things aren't going so well and can make one's life significantly better. Personal philosophies can be by-products of where you live, "inherited" from your family or chosen by you.
Challenge Narrative: Pretend you are have just been zapped by the Men In Black stun device. The device has been set to remove all philosophical beliefs from your normally driven, purposeful brain. You no have no idea what the purpose of life is and are shopping around for a philosophy that make sense.
Challenge: You're going to be given one quotation at at time. All the quotes come from different philosophies. For each quote, you must 1) Find out who said the quote; 2) name the philosophy it came from; 3) explain exactly what the quote means, as simply as possible, and; 4) explain a time in your life the quote and it's underlying belief would have been useful. If your group finishes with a quotation, you will get another. You will be quizzed next class on the quotes' meanings.
The Quotes:
- You cannot step in the same river twice.
- God is dead.
- Death need not concern us because when we exist death does not, and when death exists we do not.
- An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- The struggle itself...is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy
- The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, we did it ourselves.
- Man is the measure of all things.
- Nothing in the world—indeed nothing even beyond the world—can possibly be conceived which could be called good without qualification except a good will.
- Man is born free and is everywhere in chains.
- The unexamined life is not worth living.
- I think therefore I am.
- Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.
- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
- To lead the people, walk behind them.
In the Future:
Maslow Self-Assessment
Philosophy Challenge--Why study philosophy? "You can't step in the same river twice."
Making spreadsheets and charts -- survey downtown Norway. Challenge: find ways to quantify the strengths and weaknesses and display the data in a chart.
Ernie's Ark closing activity
Lesson on Organization
Challenge: Create a one minute presentation that explains how you use your computer to organize your work. If you do not currently have a method, you will learn one from a classmate.
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