Category: Lesson Plans

Cores 1-2: Show off Talkr podcasts. Show off the How-To of Talkr podcasts. Go to the computer lab and nominate, post, build, or podcast.

Core 1: Share-On: Share your Satires with at least 2-3 other people and ask them what they believe is being criticized. If they give you a different answer than what you had planned, discuss why your reader’s impression was different than your writing intention. Share and critique satires as a …

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.

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 …