Cores 1-4: Decide new Guest Blogging Question: Is technology a good or bad influence on our lives? How much should parents “protect” their children? How have you (and your personality) changed over time? Don’t forget to post to Del.icio.us. Cores 1+3: Write-On: How do you actually add words to your …
Cores 1-4: Reminder to Del.icio.us post. Cores 1: Dive back into vocab with vocabulary improv: Write down the most interesting character you can think of on a small sheet of paper. Write down the most interesting setting you can think of on a small sheet of paper. Put them in …
Reveal the Future of Reading. Read/Comment, Work on 2nd Weekly Authentic for second semester, Work on Personal Curriculum, Nominate for Authenticity Award, or Post to Del.Icio.Us.
Our discussion of perfect learning environments has stayed with me. It keeps eating away at my free moments. I will be taking care of my child, holding her, or singing to her, and I will have a brainstorm about what learning should be like. The majority of these brainstorms this …
Cores 1-4: It is harder for some of us to think outside of what we know, to dream up something completely radical and filled with hope. I would like to thank you for destroying the boundaries of the classroom, if only for one day. Yesterday, I saw so many great …
Cores 1-4: Before we start our next major thematic unit based upon curriculum and knowledge that I think is important, I would like us to spend one more day thinking big about what and how we should be learning. I told you yesterday about a English Professor who was using …
Cores 1-4: Today is all about refocusing our efforts on our Weekly Authentics. I would like to recognize those of you who have been putting going above and beyond in creating our writing community. The following is a list of the most prolific authors of the past 30 days. The …
Cores 1-4: Go over expectations for the library. Show me your perfect book and AR+ contract. Discuss finding a perfect book. Find a perfect book. Read. If I have to encourage you more than once during the course of the period to read, I will ask you to move and …
Cores 1-4: Write-On: Imagine that there were a perfect book out there for you. It has just the right mixture of content (the stuff it is about) and form (the way it is written). What would it look like? Construct your perfect book on our handout. Fill out Quarter 3 …
Cores 1-4: Making your personal curriculum into a personal project: What is one personal project that you have done that no one else asked you to do? Which of these can we call personal projects and which of them are just something to do? What do you need in order …