---
title: "02.22.08"
date: 2008-02-22
url: https://learningischange.com/2008/02/22/022208/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 02.22.08

Cores 1+4:

- Write-on: ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080222-ry4dkykndxnyb17dg8hxrkwqc9.jpg?w=1225)
- Using [the survey](http://utopia.nypl.org/I_meta_1a.shtml) for discussion.

- How does learning about new types of Utopia teach us about the old?
- Is our society changing fundamentally because of our need for utopia on the internet?

- (Core 1 only) How did your Utopian poems inform your conception of Utopia?
- Extensions:
- Have a good weekend.
- Read out of your AR book.

Core 2:

- Describe-on: ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080222-8rwegc54k36kr2txtcumfgb2m6.jpg?w=1225)
- Rev-it-Up: A Story
- What is your first day on the Island like?

- How would you describe it?
- What do you see? Smell? Taste? Touch? Hear?
- Where do you go?
- What do you suspect?

- Write your first island journal entry.
- Discuss it with your group.
- Does it go along with other people’s conceptions of their first day?
- What do you need to revise.

- Extensions:
- Work on your Survival Simulation Google Docs
- Finish your first journal entry.

Core 3:

- Write-on: ![](https://i0.wp.com/img.skitch.com/20080222-rcqpajtfyxpp7gnp9hdf6chp3d.jpg?w=1225)
- Finish discussion of Poe:

- What makes the situation so sinister?
- Who are you in the situation, the victim or the aggressor?

- Delve into Hospital Sketches.
- What do you think of when you describe a hospital to someone?

- Extension:
- Finish reading Hospital Sketches.