---
title: "09.07.06"
date: 2006-09-07
url: https://learningischange.com/2006/09/07/090706/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 09.07.06

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](//discovery0607.wikispaces.com/Discovery+Blogging+Rules) 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”](//www.thinkfree.com/filelink.tfo?filemasterno=407602&filekey=03rq3ot6uz)

- Discuss which dichotomies are the hardest to deal with.
- Find strategies for living with our own dichotomies of grades and parental pressure.

- Student presentations of more [“Good Parts.”](//discovery0607.wikispaces.com/The+Good+Parts) 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.](//discovery0607.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/The1940s.JPG)
- 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?

- Student presentations of more [“Good Parts.”](//discovery0607.wikispaces.com/The+Good+Parts) 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?

- Student presentations of more [“Good Parts.”](//discovery0607.wikispaces.com/The+Good+Parts)