12.05.06
Cores 1-4: Read my Weekly Authentic and discuss Critical Mass. Write your Weekly Authentic, Nominate for an Authenticity Award, and Celebrity Comment.
Author: Ben Wilkoff
The Critical Mass of Ideas, Engagement, and Writing.
Although this post isn’t in direct response to Hockey90’s Thinking About Thought, I believe it accents my post quite well, so I suggest you read it too. The concept of critical mass has always been intriguing to me, but until recently I never saw the application to thought, teaching, or …
12.04.06
Cores 1-4: Spelling Bee information and initial entrance test. Core 1: Chapter 4 Comprehension Question: What is the real reason that Mrs. Logan didn’t want her kids to go to the Wallace store? How do you find out about a character that is silent, or nearly silent? What forms of …
12.01.06
Cores 1-4: Look at and discuss first guest blogs. Congratulate the Authenticity Award Recipients for the past two weeks. Core 1: Write-On: When is revenge the sweetest? Discuss Chapter 3: Explain the trail of headlights that haunts Cassie at the end of the chapter. Chapter 4 in partners. Core 2: …
11.30.06
Core 1: Making the N-word History. What is Cresthill’s hierarchy of names? Read Chapter 3 and discuss the dignity of getting even. Core 2: Look at Maus analysis on PotatoPotatoPugPug’s Blog. What else do these elements (flies, dead bodies, getting smaller, mouse masks, etc.) represent. Draw a flow chart of …
11.29.06
Core 1: The context of Racial Slurs: Why are they so powerful? Destructive? What does it mean today? What did it mean in the 1930’s? Who can say them? How does it change the way we look at the characters in the book? Read Chapter 2. What is the significance …
11.28.06
Cores 1-4: Vote on Guest Blogging Question: How have you changed since you were in middle school? What piece of advice do you wish you had when you were in middle school? What is the most important decision you have ever made? What is the one thing that you wish …
11.27.06
Core 1: Write-On: Why is the novel genre so powerful? Introduction to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Go over my expectations for reading and engaging in the Novel. Core 2: How big is the generation gap between you and your grandparents? How do you think your experience differs from …
11.21.06
Cores 1-4: Discuss rules for guest blogging (something simple enough that even a parent could understand them). What is transliteracy? What does it challenge us to do? Develop proper usage for video in your blogs. What about web junk? The concept of building. The concept of school appropriate. Nominate, Comment, …
The Reality of Beauty
This video calls into question what we are willing to accept as reality. If we are willing to accept unreal beauty as something that we should strive for, what else will we accept? Do we have unreal expectations about money, politics, and love? It is my position that entertainment is …