---
title: "02.04.08"
date: 2008-02-04
url: https://learningischange.com/2008/02/04/020408/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 02.04.08

Cores 1+4:

- Pair Write-on: ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080204-g6626qb3a2hyi942mkrwfnjqsb.jpg?w=1225)
- Utopian Poetry [(Happiness](http://www.angelfire.com/ga/Nuala/happiness.html), [Before I Could Call Myself Angel Gonzalez](http://www.bigbridge.org/eurosf/angelg.htm), The Future, analysis:

- How can poetry describe utopia better than prose?
- How does the imagery of the poems influence your concept of utopia.

- Extension:
- Continue to work on your Survival Simulation and finish TipsLastt poem analysis.

Core 2:

- Rev-it-on
- ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080204-x6tsaprd41j95hepdm7cer36gn.jpg?w=1225)
- Read about real-life utopian societies.
- Extensions:

- Read your AR book.

Core 3:

- Write-on: ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080204-dpnc28nwx6b2knnh1ukjd4ym13.jpg?w=1225)
- Read “Civil Disobedience”

- What does Thoreau believe about government?
- Are Thoreau’s ideas unpatriotic?
- What is more important, the individual or the collective (the society)?

- Extension:
- Compare/Contrast the Transcendentalist ideas of politics with your modern beliefs of politics.