January 2008
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1 Happy New Year! |
2 No School Staff Development |
4 Leadership essay, narratives, etc. |
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9 Work on End of Quarter rubrics
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11 Work on End of Quarter rubrics Coffee - Whiting |
| 14 Work on End of Quarter rubrics |
15 Exams 1&4 |
16 Exams 2&3 Rachel picked up the coffee challenge. |
17 Exams 6&7 |
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18 Exams 5&8 |
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21 No School MLK, Jr. Day |
22 Make-up Exam Day TRY "TEAM NOTES" - AT YOUR TABLE WITH YOUR NEW GROUP SET UP A GOOGLE DOC THAT EVERYONE CAN WRITE ON DURING A DISCUSSION. "REFLECTING PARTNERS" - YOU EACH DOCUMENT YOUR PROCESS EACH WEEK AND SHARE THEM AND GIVE EACH OTHER FEEDBACK... |
24 Define STRATEGY Plan, goals, hopes, dreams for your new group...obstacles you anticipate, strengths your can maximize. What have your experiences been in past groups? How does a group benefit you? Define your goals. THEN, what STRATEGIES can you employ to reach those goals? HW: Now do this same goal-setting and strategy development for yourself based on the feedback you received off of the rubric for 2nd quarter. |
26 Welcome Taylor, period 2
Distribute
Poisonwood Bible You will be able to use this note taking/sharing method again when we read What is the What. |
| 28 Relevant Portions of the U.S. Constitution Why did we fight the Civil War? Howard Zinn reading for Friday/Monday |
29 Why did we fight the Civil War? |
30 Why did we fight the Civil War? |
1 Howard Zinn: "Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom" This reading is broken into segments so you can read and process the material in more manageable chunks; you don't need to read Reconstruction (yet). |
2007
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1 Happy New Year! |
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Workshop KW prospectusessss Reconstruction |
3 Escaping a prescribed future. How the future maps out for you? Who writes the path? How much deviation can there be? How far can you go if/when someone else is financing this map? How many choices do you have?
Today in class: HW: Gender in Schools |
5 KW Essay DUE Please Don't Come Back from the Moon |
| 8 End of Quarter rubrics
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9 End of Quarter rubrics |
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12 Exams 2&3 Work on End of Quarter rubrics |
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11 Exams Begin: 1&4 |
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| 15 No School |
16 Exams 6&7 |
17 Exams 5&8 |
18 Make Up Exam Day |
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19 Last Day of First Semester Course Recommendations for Next Year |
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22 Define STRATEGY Plan, goals, hopes, dreams for your new group...obstacles you anticipate, strengths your can maximize. What have your experiences been in past groups? How does a group benefit you? Define your goals. THEN, what STRATEGIES can you employ to reach those goals? HW: Now do this same goal-setting and strategy development for yourself based on the feedback you received off of the rubric for 2nd quarter. Share organizer from KW and Moon Meet
the Senior Option TAs |
23 Cuborica - Web authoring '07 NationalAlliance.com ala HillaryClinton.com Goals, strategies, info sharing...how do you get someone to join your side? What is going on behind the scenes? How are you portraying your side of the conflict to the world? Why? How do you get people to believe what you do? Or what you want them to believe? |
24 Henry IV, Part I Henry V - text of the play |
26 Cuborica |
| 29 TUNA News Network State of the Union Address by President (McCambley) Reiza Selassie National Alliance Response delivered by Prime Minister (Jipper) Alexander Isayevich Khomeini |
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Last Year
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2 No School |
3 Snow Day
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Read PWB Book
III "Judges" for today
HW:
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PWB Book IV "Bel
and the Serpent" for Friday
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Creating an Enemy HW: Read Book V "Exodus" to page 424 for Tuesday.-History the final judge of our deeds |
10 Creating an Enemy |
11 Creating an Enemy
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13 Discuss "Bel and the Serpent" and "Exodus" COME TO CLASS WITH WRITTEN RESPONSES TO THE QUESTIONS BELOW: What are Nathan, Orelanna, Ruth May, Adah, Leah, Anatole, Rachel, Axelroot, Tata Ndu, tata Kuvudundu, Brother Fowles, Mama Tataba, Mama Mwanza's obligations? HDYK? Where do these obligations come from? What choices are made in using what they know? What are the ramifications for these choices? When do the obligations
to ourselves supersede our obligations to others? ALSO BRING YOUR WRITTEN UNDERSTANDING OF WHY YOUR COLD WAR (ENEMY) GROUP DID (OR DID NOT) WORK! |
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16 No School MLK Day |
17 The Congo: From the BBC, more on Lumumba... U.S. State Department on U.S. role in the Congo From Killing Hope by William Blum: The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba United Nations Operation in the Congo Patrice Lumumba from Young Socialist, 1965 Letter to his wife Poem Speech
What are his obligations? Where
do these obligations come from? What choices are made by Lumumba? What
choices are made about Lumumba? Why? What are the
ramifications for these choices? HW: finish reading PWB (Song of the Three Children and The Eyes in the Trees) |
18 In-class writing
How does a sense of obligation affect the use of
power?
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20 In-class writing day: PWB/Cold War first drafts or Wicked/Civil War rewrites |
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23 PWB/Cold War Writing Groups |
24 Exams Begin: 1&4 |
25 Exams 2&3 JDubs on coffee detail Work on End of Quarter rubrics
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26 Exams 6&7 |
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27 Exams 5&8 |
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| 30 All periods meet: Course Recommendations.
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31 PWB paper due CAPT |
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