Top Secret Final

Circle 

What did you learn this year: content, about someone else, about yourself

Final Presentation Challenge

You will be designing short introductory videos for the units we do next year.  Here are the requirements for the video and the activity:

     -You must fully engage in an icebreaker

     -Your group must follow the required process (see below)

     -The video must naturally mention the importance of working together and building a community

     -The video must clearly explain key concepts and learning targets for the unit

     -The video must explain why it is an important thing to learn

     -The video must explain what to expect in the unit/activity

     -Each person in the group must play a role in the video

     -The video must be no longer than 5 minutes

     -If your group completes your assigned video, begin another.

Videos must be completed and delivered by 20 minutes before the end of class

Required Process

1) Brainstorm ideas and possibilities for 15 minutes

2) Plan how you will shoot the video for 15 minutes

3) Shoot the video staying in the allowed locations — remember that students are taking finals

4) Deliver the video.

5) If you complete before others, sit at your table and chill

Units:

Matrix/Allegory of the Cave/Philosophy Unit

Fall or Rome/Fall of Norway/Ernie's Ark

Sophomore Careers Unit

Building a Community in the Classroom/Activities/Circles

Is this History or English?

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs/Castaway

Taking Notes by Hand/Notes Packets

Common Assessments: Drones/Public Art

Understanding War/Call of Duty/Things They Carried/ Restrepo/Should We Go To War With Isis?

Into The Woods/Sampling Techniques/Ecological Survey of Woods Trail

Economy/Beans of Egypt, Maine/Mock Economy/Roger and Me/Capitalism

Rumford or Cape?

The Renaissance/Art in School

Eugenics/Gattaca

Globalization

Enlightenment/Human Nature/Government/Philosophy/Design a School

Final Circle

Word up