ELT:
- Write-Ons:
- Why do you think that people act differently online then they do in real life?
- How can we create a safe environment for everyone on our blogs?
- What are the inherent risks of posting to a blog once a week?
- Explore the Discovery Blogging Rules websites looking for the following:
- Creating a blogging environment without fear (of insult, of reprisal, of dishonesty).
- Creating a scholastic blogging environment.
- Creating a blogging environment based upon protection (of personal information, of identity, of unique thoughts).
- Creating a creative, non-restrictive, tolerant, and sensitive blogging environment.
- Write down aprox. 5 Blogging rules in your category that you think should be a part of the Discovery Blogging Rules.
Core 1+3:
- Write-On: If you were to split your personality into two equal sides, what aspects of yourself would be on each side.
- Read “The Dichotomous Middle Schooler Part I”
- Discuss which dichotomies are the hardest to deal with.
- Find strategies for living with our own dichotomies of grades and parental pressure.
Core 2:
- Discuss-On: With 2-3 other people, discuss your answers to “How can you change/question tradition when everyone else seems to buy into it?”
- Go over front side of “The Lottery” Handout.
- Discussion Questions:
- What are the reasons for continuing such a heinous tradition?
- Why are people reluctant to change? (Why was Old Man Warner so reluctant?)
- What insight can this story give us into our own societal traditions?
Core 4:
- Reflect-On: How did writing within Robert Frost’s style inform your understanding of his original poem (the theme, the idea of dichotomous change, the rhythm, etc.)?
- Share with at least 2 other students your rendition of a dichotomous change poem.
- Share with the class the most imitative piece you heard and/or the most unique.
- Discussion Questions:
- How does reading and understanding this poem affect the way that we should think and act in this class?
