---
title: "02.12.08"
date: 2008-02-12
url: https://learningischange.com/2008/02/12/021208/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 02.12.08

Cores 1+4:

- ![](/2008/02/12/021208/In%20short,%20DCSD%20does%20not%20need%20to%20cobble%20together%20this%20work%20from%20existing%20administrative%20structures%20and%20positions,%20but%20rather,%20it%20needs%20a%20new%20position%20to%20ensure%20effective%20articulation%20and%20systemic%20change.%20The%20following%20job%20description%20is%20meant%20as%20a%20proposal%20for%20such%20a%20position.%20It%20is%20my%20sincerest%20hope%20that%20the%20visionary%20work%20of%20so%20many%20in%20Douglas%20County%20will%20be%20realized%20through%20such%20careful%20planning%20and%20critical%20thinking.)Listen and Present-on: ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080212-pthink1t16bis4rw9e822nq946.jpg?w=1225)

- Listen to the survival simulation presentations and start to ask what-if questions that are more based upon the feasibility of the society rather than terrifying events that may befall the inhabitants of the islands.

- [Group 1 Voicethread for questions.](http://academyofdiscovery.ed.voicethread.com/share/54007/)
- [Group 2 Voicethread for questions.](http://academyofdiscovery.ed.voicethread.com/share/53962/)
- [Group 3 Voicethread for questions.](http://academyofdiscovery.ed.voicethread.com/share/53951/)
- [Core 4 Group 1](http://academyofdiscovery.ed.voicethread.com/share/49517/)
- [Core 4 Group 2](http://academyofdiscovery.ed.voicethread.com/share/54185/)
- [Core 4 Group 3](http://academyofdiscovery.ed.voicethread.com/share/54189/)
- Extensions:
- Make sure that you have your poetry analysis done for tomorrow.

Core 2:

- Write-on: ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080128-xrcg9de78xupi1nprqkqeecbg2.jpg?w=1225)
- Rev-it-Up:

- Survey

- Read about the Shakers’ Utopian society:
- How have they peeled back life to the survival level?
- What is better: Simplicity and survival, or complexity and chaos?

- Extensions:
- Write a paragraph about a day in your life as a Shaker. How would you feel? What would it be like?

Core 3:

- Write-on: ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080212-xx42ecxhfiynq86h99ii4iysys.jpg?w=1225)
- Prepare for debate on transcendental revival.

- What reasons do you think would support your side?
- How are you going to argue your points without bullying your idea across?

- Debate/Discussion
- How does Romanticism compare to Transcendentalism.
- Extensions:
- Ask someone if they could be a transcendentalist. If they don’t know what you are talking about, explain it to them and then ask them again.

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