Core 1: Discuss-On: Share your answers to the homework questions with at least two people and come to a consensus on the answers: What are these articles making fun of/criticizing? How are they doing it? Why are they targeting these particular aspects of society? With a partner: Brainstorm all of …
Cores 1-4: Honor the new Authenticity Award Recipients. Continue to refine The Discovery Blogging Rules. Is this post appropriate for our blogs? Core 1: Discuss-On: Why do we make fun of things? Read Onion Articles and establish definition of Satire and its characteristics on your Genre Master List: ADHDTV Satire …
Cores 1-4: Explore My 4th Weekly Authentic: A Stream-Of-Consciousness Poem? Discuss the Building Comment Hall of Fame. Write your fourth Weekly Authentic or second Building Comment.
Is language encoded in DNA? How much is built in? Acquiring Language is different than learning. Are verbal errors really errors? (We are trying to make the irregular, regular.) Children don’t know how to truly speak incorrectly. When there are errors that no child would make, it is assumed that …
Disclaimer: The following Weekly Authentic is senseless. It has purpose only to me, and I’m still trying to figure out what that is. I share it with you only to see if you can find meaning before I get to it. I just felt like I had to say these …
Discussion Questions for this episode of The West Wing: What did Josh mean when he said that “they” want to kill all of us the same amount? Why does Josh’s analogy make sense: Islamic Extremists is to Islamic as KKK is to Christianity? What are the specific grievances that terrorists …
Core 1: Discuss-On: What do we learn about your brain (way of thinking) by reading your Stream-Of-Consciousness Read your Stream-Of-Consciousness piece to at least two other people and ask them: Is this a true Stream-Of-Consciousness piece according to our definitions? What do you think I am able to do with …
Cores 1-4: My musical Weekly Authentic. Core 1: Write-On: Do a mind wandering exercise. Start with one image (A squirrel enjoying a particularly tasty nut, a baloon floating in the air, a huge crap that your dog took on the stairs that you tried to clean up last night but …
Cores 1-4: Go over the Language Arts instructions for your SLC. Show off the new Authenticity Awards. Explore some good Building Comments: Building Comment #1 Comment Building…9/11 Core 1: Discuss-On: Do we have the power to create new genres of writing? How? Distribute the Genre Master List and discuss the …
Cores 1-4: Re-Introduce the concept of a Building Comment and show example. Take a look at a controversial post. Is it inappropriate or not? Afix your signature to the Discovery Blogging Rules for 2006-2007. Go down to the library to work on Nominating, Commenting (Building or regular), or writing your …