January 2008

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday
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Happy New Year!
 
2
No School
Staff Development
4
Leadership essay, narratives, etc.
7
No Whiting

 

8
 
9
Work on End of Quarter rubrics

 

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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
18
Exams 5&8
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...

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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.

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Welcome Taylor, period 2

 

Distribute Poisonwood Bible
Collaborate on the creation of a Google Map to chart events of the novel. You can include text, images and/or video. Generate kml files to open in Google Earth.

You will be able to use this note taking/sharing method again when we read What is the What.

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Relevant Portions of the U.S. Constitution

Why did we fight the Civil War?

Howard Zinn reading for Friday/Monday

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Why did we fight the Civil War?
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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

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday
1
Happy New Year!
2

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:
Emma Willard on marriage for Antebellum white women
Pictures from Indian Schools

HW:
Kozol - DC
Jamaica Kincaid - Girl

Gender in Schools

5
KW Essay DUE

Please Don't Come Back from the Moon

Organizer

8

End of Quarter rubrics

 

9

End of Quarter rubrics

10
 
12
Exams 2&3
Work on End of Quarter rubrics
11
Exams Begin: 1&4
15
No School
16
Exams 6&7
17
Exams 5&8
18
Make Up Exam Day
19
Last Day of First Semester
Course Recommendations for Next Year
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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
period 2: Conor, Katharine
period 3: Mia, Darius

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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?

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Henry IV, Part I

(Text of the play)

Henry V - text of the play

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Cuborica
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TUNA News Network

State of the Union Address by President (McCambley) Reiza Selassie

National Alliance Response delivered by Prime Minister (Jipper) Alexander Isayevich Khomeini

30 31 2
 

 

Last Year

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday
2

No School

3

Snow Day


 

4

Read PWB Book III "Judges" for today
good conscience

HW: Read PWB Book IV "Bel and the Serpent" for Friday
high standards of strength and sacrifice


 

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9

Creating an Enemy
Europe
Cuba
Vietnam
Nicaragua/El Salvador

HW: Read Book V "Exodus" to page 424 for Tuesday.-History the final judge of our deeds

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Creating an Enemy
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Creating an Enemy

 

Vietnam

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?
LINK TO NOTES

ALSO BRING YOUR WRITTEN UNDERSTANDING OF WHY YOUR COLD WAR (ENEMY) GROUP DID (OR DID NOT) WORK!

16
No School
MLK Day
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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?
Discussion Notes

HW: finish reading PWB (Song of the Three Children and The Eyes in the Trees)

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In-class writing

How does a sense of obligation affect the use of power?
write a paper about PWB


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In-class writing day: PWB/Cold War first drafts or Wicked/Civil War rewrites
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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Exams 6&7
27
Exams 5&8
30
All periods meet
: Course Recommendations.

Period

Time

Minutes

1

7:30-8:10

40

2

8:15-8:55

40

3

9:00-9:40

40

4

9:45-10:25

40

6

10:30-11:10

40

5

11:15-12:45

90

7

12:50-1:30

40

8

1:35-2:15

40

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PWB paper due

CAPT

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