Cores 1+4: Listen and Present-on: 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. Group 2 Voicethread for questions. Group …
Cores 1+4: Discuss-on: Survival Simulation Presentations: Write down two questions for the groups as they present and be ready to ask them at the end of their presentations. Extension: Continue to work on your personal curriculum. Core 2: Write-on: Rev-it-up! Continue our discussion of Separatist Utopias in early America. Extensions: …
Cores 1+4: Paper-only Write-on: Take a look at your Language Arts folder. Keep what you would like to show your parents during conferences and take the rest home. Finalize your Survival Simulations including Cast, Goals, and What-if’s. Create a voicethread as the presentation for your society (you can work collaboratively …
Cores 1+4: Pair Write-on: Utopian Poetry (Happiness, Before I Could Call Myself Angel Gonzalez, The Future, analysis: How can poetry describe utopia better than prose? How does the imagery of the poems influence your concept of utopia. Extension: Continue to work on your Survival Simulation and finish TipsLastt poem analysis. …
Cores 1+4: Write-on: Take another look at Trurl. Why does Lem write this story? What does the robot represent? Why is it so important that Trurl be right? Extensions: Continue to work on your Survival Simulations. Core 2: Rev-it-on: Do and say crazy things about our Level 2 words in …
Cores 1+4: Discuss-on: Continue to work in your groups on your Survival Simulations. Extensions: Finalize goals and what-if’s. Core 2: Discuss-on: Continue to work on your Utopian Art handouts. Extension: Finish your Utopian Art handout. Core 3: Share-on: Who won the Image Grammar workout? What do the terms mean? Why …
Cores 1+4: The Documents for The Survival Simulation. Copy them over to your own google docs and share them with your group. (Only one person from the group should do this so that you don’t end up with duplicate copies.) The Cast The Goals What-If’s I am out teaching teachers …
Core 1: Talk about survival simulations. (Print off a new copy of the PDF if you need one.) What is required? Who is in your group? What are the first steps? Extensions: Start to brainstorm (and write down) who your character is in the survival simulation. Core 2: Level-Two words, …
Cores 1+4: Write-on: How did The Shakers peel back the veneer of life? What are life’s essentials? Is there beauty in simplicity, in organization or is there beauty in complexity and chaos? Extension: Write a paragraph about a day in the life as an individual with only the survival layer …
Cores 1+4: Personal Curriculum case studies: Putsal How is this authentic? What do you think they learned through their experience? Training a horse How should she have shown that she learned something? The Five Senses Is this too small to be personal curriculum? Check-in on Personal Curriculum. Extensions: Continue to …