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: What do grades mean to you?
- Take a look at your writing assessments:
- Grade according to the six-trait rubric in your planner.
- Compare your six-trait grades with mine.
- Writing Question: If there is a difference, why do you think that we assessed the same paper differently?
- Take one of the traits that we both think could be an area for improvement (Lower than your other scores or 3.5 and below). Writing Question: Why did you struggle (at least comparatively) with that particular aspect of writing for this piece?
- How do you believe you will approach your writing differently
Core 2:
- Write-On: Every tradition presents a dichotomous choice: to change or not to change. Which traditions are beneficial and should stay the same, and which are detrimental and should be changed.
- Read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
- Answer questions on theme and change (from handout).
- Discuss the nature of this tradition, change, and dichotomous choice.
- On the back of the handout, answer the following question:
- How can you change/question tradition when everyone else seems to buy into it?
Core 4:
- Write-On: What is the most difficult dichotomous choice (only two options) you have had to make in your life?
- Read The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
- Answer questions on theme and change (from handout).
- Discuss poetry analysis, dichotomous choice, and change.
- On the back of the handout, write a parallel poem about a major dichotomous change in your life.
