02.22.08

Cores 1+4:

1. Write-on:
2. Using the survey for discussion.
• How does learning about new types of Utopia teach us about the old?
• Is our society changing fundamentally because of our need for utopia on the internet?
3. (Core 1 only) How did your Utopian poems inform your conception of Utopia?
4. Extensions:
• Have a good weekend.
• Read out of your AR book.

Core 2:

1. Describe-on:
2. Rev-it-Up: A Story
3. What is your first day on the Island like?
• How would you describe it?
• What do you see? Smell? Taste? Touch? Hear?
• Where do you go?
• What do you suspect?
4. Write your first island journal entry.
• Discuss it with your group.
• Does it go along with other people’s conceptions of their first day?
• What do you need to revise.
5. Extensions:
• Work on your Survival Simulation Google Docs
• Finish your first journal entry.

Core 3:

1. Write-on:
2. Finish discussion of Poe:
• What makes the situation so sinister?
• Who are you in the situation, the victim or the aggressor?
3. Delve into Hospital Sketches.
• What do you think of when you describe a hospital to someone?
4. Extension:
• Finish reading Hospital Sketches.