The 2-year Reflection

Cores 2+3:

1. Discuss-on:
2. Begin Discovery Digital Portfolios
• Don’t forget about the little things that we have done (Write-on questions, ELT projects, Science and Social Studies blogging, etc.)
• Make it visual.
• Organize it.
• Reflect, Reflect, Reflect. (Why was this piece important or interesting?)
3. Extensions:
• Finish your Digital Portfolio before you forget the great things we have done on Discovery.

05.19.08

Cores 1+4:

1. Discuss-on:
2. Watch Animal Farm and look for your own reasoning.
3. Extensions:
• Mentally prepare yourself for summer.

Core 2:

1. Quiz-it-Up
2. Discuss-on:
3. Watch Animal Farm and look for your own reasoning.
4. Extensions:
• Mentally prepare yourself for summer.

Core 3:

1. Write-on:
2. Talk about writing arguments, support, and two-sided debate.
3. Collect support for both sides of this debate: “Resolved: Alcohol should be a banned substance in our society.
• Temperance Site #1
• Temperance Site #2
• Prohibition Definition and Resources
4. Extensions:
• Prepare for Debate tomorrow.

05.15.08

Core 4:

1. Write-on:
2. Read Chapter 9 and 10 of Animal Farm
   • What does the new generation of pigs mean for the farm?
   • Do you think that anyone will get to retire?
   • How does Boxer’s health lead to the final straw of inequality?
   • What is going to happen to Animal Farm with Boxer’s leadership in question?
   • Look at all of the amazing images from Core 1’s reading.
   • Look at all of the amazing images from Core 4’s reading (chapter 8 too).

3. Work on Digital Portfolios
   • Don’t forget about the little things that we have done (Write-on questions, ELT projects, etc.)
   • Make it visual.
   • Organize it.
   • Reflect, Reflect, Reflect. (Why was this piece important or interesting?)

4. Extensions:
   • Finish your Portfolio by the end of the week.

05.14.08

Core 1:

1. Write-on:
2. Read Chapter 9 and 10 of Animal Farm
   • What does the new generation of pigs mean for the farm?
   • Do you think that anyone will get to retire?
   • How does Boxer’s health lead to the final straw of inequality?
   • What is going to happen to Animal Farm with Boxer’s leadership in question?
   • Look at all of the amazing images from Core 1’s reading.
3. Work on Digital Portfolios
   • Don’t forget about the little things that we have done (Write-on questions, ELT projects, etc.)
   • Make it visual.
   • Organize it.
   • Reflect, Reflect, Reflect. (Why was this piece important or interesting?)
4. Extensions:
   • Finish your Portfolio by the end of the week.

Core 2:

1. Write-on:
2. Finish Animal Farm.
   • What is resolved?
   • What is left unresolved?
   • Why did George Orwell write the book?
3. Practice and prepare for acting out the two battle scenes.
4. Act out battle scenes on the field.
   • Record with two cameras.
   • Create a chorus of extras.
   • Block out actions and words (no scripts).
5. Extensions:
   • Finish your Utopia this weekend.

Animal Farm Images from Chapter 8

http://arungoodboy.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/animal_farm_2.jpg
http://www.weeklyreader.com/readandwriting/content/binary/animal%20farm.jpg
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-stories-animal-farm-330×220
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/images/animalfarm2.jpg
http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/wda0443l.jpg

http://www.thewindmillfarm.com/images/WindmillFarmColor.jpg
http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/explosion.png
http://storage1.morguefile.com/images/storage/x/xpistwv/lowrez/Rubble2.jpg

http://www.edu.pe.ca/threeoaks/grassroots/animal/graphics%5Cwindmill.jpg

http://www.annexed.net/freedom/AnimalFarmCommandments.jpg

http://www.abc.edu.sv/seniors/English/IB%20Texts/IB%20Prose%20Fiction/Book%20Cover%20Images/Animal%20Farm.jpg

http://www.jamestownri.com/library/hist-photos/12-1%20Windmill.jpg

http://69.90.174.252/photos/display_pic_with_logo/81195/81195,1175989354,3.jpg

05.13.08

Cores 1+4:

1. Write-on:
2. Read Chapter 8 of Animal Farm
• Why are the pigs new rules so far reaching?
• Why are they not satisfied with equality?
• Did the animal truly succeed in the second battle? What did they win?
3. Write from the viewpoint of a pig and of another animal in describing the battle of the Windmill.
• What is different about the way that they view the battle, and the world.

Core 2:

1. Write-on:
2. Rev-It-Up
3. Finish Chapter 9 and Start Chapter 10
• What is going to happen to Animal Farm with Boxer’s leadership?
4. Discuss the script, bringing in supplies, etc.
• Practice scenes
5. Extensions:
• Finish your Utopia for this weekend.

Core 3:

1. Write-on:
2. Read the Temperance Reform Introduction
• Why was it that people drank so much in the 19th century?
• How did the temperance movement garner so much support from different groups of people?
3. Answer the two questions at the end of the article according to your own -Ism:
• How should individual human beings
  behave?
• How does that behavior influence others?
4. Extensions:
• Finish your -Ism this weekend.

05.12.08

Cores 1+4:

1. Write-on/Blog-on:
2. Honor the work you did on Utopias.
3. Talk about Digital Portfolios
4. Extensions:
• Finish that last book that you have been working on before summer.

Core 2:

1. Rev-It-Up
2. Talk about Script and Planning.
3. Work on your utopia for our three purposes:
• Creating Community
• Telling the story of Utopia
• Enhancing our ideas
4. Extensions:
• Be finished with your Utopia by Sunday Night.

Core 3:

1. Discuss-on:
2. Take a look at some great -Ism creation:
• Ania and Carrie’s Discussion
• Inside the head of an -Ism: It’s pretty quiet in here, with everyone outside working on their
  isms. I look around the room. There’s the green monkey and the octopus
  from the magazine sale. There on the walls are the different quotes. My
  personal favorite…”The universe is made of stories, not of
  atoms.”-Muriel Rukeyser. Call me weird, but I like it. I can hear some
  of the other girls talking and socializing. Talking about next week
  what is going to happen at school. The smart board is still on,
  although it isn’t doing anything right now. It’s nice in here when it’s
  quiet. I can think and wonder and not feel…isolated. Maybe I’m weird,
  but I always feel so alone, even when I’m surrounded by people. I’ve
  always been a loner, and I like to be alone, or with just a few people,
  at one time. I’m reading a different kind of book now, called “The Kayla Chronicles”
  which is different from what I normally read. Normally I like fantasy
  and dragons and spaceships (yeah, a strange combonation I know) but I
  thought I’d try something new here. I daydream abut summer. Swimming
  and hanging out with friends and spending time with family. We went on
  a field trip today, we played frisbee golf, and it was so much fun to
  run around and be outside and feel the sunshine.
3. Work on your ism, creative voice for your beliefs.
4. Extensions:
• Be finished with your -Ism by Sunday night.

05.09.08

Cores 1, 2, 4:

1. Write-on or Blog-on:
2. Check out the final workings of our Utopias:
• Peace Culture
• Firebirdmusic’s Tour
• Beastly Tour
3. Work on your utopia for our three purposes:
• Creating Community
• Telling the story of Utopia
• Enhancing our ideas
4. Finish your Utopia for Sunday (Cores 1+4), or Finish Five Sections for Sunday (Core 2)

Core 3:

1. Write-on or Blog-on:
2. Check out great -Ism work:
• Breanna’s organization and use of images.
• Kyle’s Goods and Ills
• Evan’s Mind Map
3. Work on your ism, creative voice for your beliefs.
4. Extensions:
• Be finished with four sections and four multimedia elements by the end of the weekend.

05.08.08

Cores 1+4:

1. Write-on:
2. Comparison of Jones and Napoleon’s leadership.
• How is Animal Farm in some ways worse than it was before?
3. What is the definition of success in a battle?
4. Read Chapter 8 of Animal Farm
• Why are the pigs new rules so far reaching?
• Why are they not satisfied with equality?
• Did the animal truly succeed in the second battle? What did they win?
5. Extensions:
• Finish your final draft of your Utopia for Sunday night.

Core 2:

1. Write-on:
2. Rev-it-up
3. Read Chapter 9 of Animal Farm
• What does the new generation of pigs mean for the farm?
• Do you think that anyone will get to retire?
• How does Boxer’s health lead to the final straw of inequality?
4. Discuss the script, bringing in supplies, etc.
5. Extensions:
• Be finished with 5 sections of your Utopia for Friday.

Core 3:

1. Write-on:
2. Read the Striped Pig of DedHam
• How do the specific words (especially the unfamiliar words) affect the tone of the story?
• What are the specific metaphors/symbols described in the story?
3. Why did the temperance movement take root in the 19th Century?
4. Extensions: Finish 4 Sections and 4 Multi-media elements of your -Ism for Friday.

05.07.08

Cores 1+4:

1. Write-on:
2. AR Update
3. Read Animal Farm Chapter 7.
• Why do the dogs go after Boxer?
• Why is beasts of England really banned?
4. How is animal farm like the time of Jones and How is it different?
5. Extensions:
• Finish your final draft of your Utopia for Friday.

Core 2:

1. Rev-It-On.
2. Auditions for Pigeon #4, Pigeon #5, Peter Pong, Boxer x 2, Snowball
3. Discuss needs for each scene and assign scene captains.
4. Practice scenes and prepare for tomorrow.
5. Extensions:
• Practice your lines so that you won’t need the paper and finish 5 sections for Friday.

Core 3:

1. Write-on:
2. Going deeper into 19th century debates:
• What does temperance mean to you?
• What is the Striped Pig of Dedham?
3. What are the many metaphors found in this image?
• 
4. Read the Striped Pig of Dedham.
• What are the metaphors in the story?
5. Extensions:
• Finish 4 Sections and 4 Multimedia elements for Friday.