Learning is Change

Cores 1, 2+4:

1. Discuss-on: How do you create a consistent writing voice when you are working on your utopia?
2. Reactions:
• Allie’s Reactions
• Vera’s Reactions
3. Work on your utopia for our three purposes:
• Creating Community
• Telling the story of Utopia
• Enhancing our ideas
4. Extensions:
• Finish your 5th section by tonight (or 3rd if you are in core 2).

Core 3:

1. What Are Our Metaphors for belief?
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4. Work on your ism, creative voice for your beliefs.
5. Extensions:
• Have at least 2 sections and two pieces of media or 4 sections and no media done for tonight.

Cores 1, 2, and 4:

1. Plan-on:
2. Work on your utopia for our three purposes:
• Creating Community
• Telling the story of Utopia
• Enhancing our ideas
3. Finish your 2 (for cores 1+4) or 1 (for core 2) sections of your utopia for Tomorrow night.

Core 3:

1. Plan-on:
2. Gcasting demo and inserting audio into wiki.
3. Work on your belief structure template on the wiki.
• Using Bubbl.us to show how beliefs are connected
• Finding a great image metaphor on Morguefile
4. Extensions:
• Finish 1 additional section and one visual aide for Friday.

Cores 1+4:

1. Act-on:
2. Share out the most likely and least likely predictions.
3. Read Chapter 6 of Animal Farm:
• What does the windmill represent?
• How do the pigs attempt to change the commandments and expectations of equality?
• How are the pigs able to rationalize the changes to themselves and to others?
4. Extensions:
• Finish 2 Sections of your Utopia for Friday.

Core 2:

1. Write-on:
2. What is the definition of success in a battle?
3. Read Chapter 8 of Animal Farm
• Why are the pigs new rules so far reaching?
• Why are they not satisfied with equality?
• Did the animal truly succeed in the second battle? What did they win?
4. Discuss writing the scripts for the two battle scenes.
5. Extensions:
• Finish one more section of your Utopia for Friday.

Core 3:

1. Discuss-on:
2. Watch Born to Trouble.
• Take notes for both sides of the censorship debate to prepare us for persuading others.
3. Extensions:
• Work on your Wiki.

Cores 1+4:

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2. Chris’ world famous depiction of the battle of cowshed
3. Read Chapter 5 of Animal farm:
• How is Napoleon able to switch his position on the windmill without any major issues?
• What small details were planted early in the story are now paying off/back.
4. What are your theories on the direction of things to come. What evidence do you have to support your theory?
5. Does Animal Farm represent the typical arch for a society? Why or why not?
6. Extensions:
• Finish 2 Sections of your Utopia for Friday (for a total of 5)

Core 2:

1. Quiz-it-Up
2. Write-on:
3. Read Animal Farm Chapter 7.
• Why do the dogs go after Boxer?
• Why is beasts of England really banned?
4. How is animal farm like the time of Jones and How is it different?
5. Extensions:
• Finish one full section of your Utopia for Friday (a total of 3 done).

Core 3:

1. Write-on:
2. Continue Reading “Huck Finn Better Get Out of Town…”
• Where does the author’s argument take us?
• Why does the author believe that his viewpoint is right?
• What does the author believe is the role of libraries and school boards?
3. Extensions:
• Finish 1 additional section and one visual aide for Friday.

Cores 1+4:

1. Act+Write-on:
2. Is rivalry and heated debate a good thing for a society?
3. Read Chapter 5 of Animal farm:
• What does the windmill represent?
• What small details were planted early in the story are now paying off/back.
• What would you have to do in order for the dogs to behave like they do in the end of Chapter 5.
4. Extensions:
• Finish 2 Sections of your Utopia for Friday (for a total of 5)

Core 2:

1. Write-on:
2. Rev-it-Up
3. Read Animal Farm Chapter 7.
• Why does everyone see/hear/smell Snowball?
• Why is it necessary to change everyone’s viewpoint of snowball by altering the past?
• Why do the dogs go after Boxer?
• Why is beasts of England really banned?
• Do the punishments at the end of Chapter 7 fit the crimes?
4. Extensions:
• Finish one full section of your Utopia for Friday.

Core 3:

1. Write-on:
2. Exemplars of Answers:
• Matt’s Metaphor
• Hannah’s Relationships
• Alex’s Concrete Connections
3. Continue Reading “Huck Finn Better Get Out of Town…”
• Where does the author’s argument take us?
• Why does the author believe that his viewpoint is right?
• What does the author believe is the role of libraries and school boards?
4. Extensions:
• Finish 1 additional section and one visual aide for Friday.

Cores 1+4:

1. Brainstorm-on: How can you answer the Culture, Social Customs, and Family Structure Questions differently (better)?
2. Discussion of Personal Curriculum
3. Wow:
• Peace
• MonoComm
• Falcon
• Unique
4. Work on your utopia for our three purposes:
• Creating Community
• Telling the story of Utopia
• Enhancing our ideas
5. Extensions:
• Finish a third section for Friday.

Core 2:

1. Read-on: Read a Utopian Narrative of the past and look for:
• Details that help you to understand their utopia.
• Characterization that help you to understand their utopia.
• Ideas that you could use or adapt into your utopia.
2. Work on your utopia for our three purposes:
• Creating Community
• Telling the story of Utopia
• Enhancing our ideas
3. Extensions:
• Finish a second section for Friday.

Core 3

1. Discuss-on: How does the music you listen to influence or exemplify your beliefs?
2. Taking a look at Katie Dawkin’s Analysis of Music as a part of her -Ism:
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3. Work on your belief structure template on the wiki.
4. Extensions:
• Continue to work on your -Ism, finishing at least one media project or
  two answered sections by Friday (podcast, presentation, image metaphor,
  mind map, etc.)

Cores 1+4:

1. Write-on:
2. Read Chapter 4 of Animal Farm
• Why do the other farmers want Animal Farm to fail?
• What about the Animal’s ideas are a threat?
3. What interest do people have in keeping things the way that they are rather than heading towards a utopia in our society?
4. Draw a map/schematic of the battle with:
• The Farmers’ war path
• The casualties
  
• The waves of attack
5. Extensions:
• Work toward 3 completed sections of your Utopia.

Core 2:

1. Write-on:
2. Rev-It-Up
3. Finish Chapter 6 of Animal Farm:
• What does the Windmill represent to the animals?
• How is Snowball used as a scapegoat for the windmill?
4. Extensions:
• Finish 2 Sections of your Utopia for Friday.

Core 3:

1. Write-on:
2. Read ” Huck Finn Better Get Out of Town By Sundown”
• How has abolitionism continued to be a major influence on our lives?
• What biases do we bring to any idea, book, or movie?
• Why does one person believe that they know better than another?
3. Extension:
• Continue to work on your -Ism, finishing at least one media project or two answered sections by Friday (podcast, presentation, image metaphor, mind map, etc.)

Cores 1, 2, and 4:

1. Brainstorm-on: How can you answer the Culture, Social Customs, and Family Structure Questions differently (better)?
2. Wow:
• Peace
• Falcon
• Unique
3. Work on your utopia for our three purposes:
• Creating Community
• Telling the story of Utopia
• Enhancing our ideas
4. Extensions:
• Cores 1+4, finish a third section for Friday.
• Core 2, finish a second section for Friday.

Core 3:

1. Demo-on (do not get out a laptop, but rather prepare yourself for some demo goodness from our belief structure web-apps)
2. Using Gcast for your belief statement essay.
• Sign up for an account
• Record your essay using a cell phone
• Copy and paste the embed code into the html part of the page you want it on
3. Using Bubbl.us to show how beliefs are connected
4. Finding a great image metaphor on Morguefile
5. Work on your belief structure template on the wiki.

Cores 1+4:

1. Discuss-on:
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2. Read Chapter 3 of Animal Farm:
• What kinds of group dynamics are forming in Animal Farm?
• How will these relationships affect the future of the society?
• What are the Animals forgetting in their rush to create utopia?
• What do you see as the slippery slope of the society?
3. Is there a slippery slope within your own (or our current society) utopia that could be taken advantage of?
4. Extensions:
• Finish your third section of your utopia for Friday.

Core 2:

1. Write-on:
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2. Rev-it-Up
3. Read Chapter 6 of Animal Farm
• How are the animals’ lives different under Napoleon?
• What do you think the windmill represents?
• What is worth sacrificing so that your future generations have it better than you do?
4. What do you sacrifice?
5. Extensions:
• Finish a second section of your Utopia for Friday.

Core 3:

1. Collect Belief Statement Essays
2. Discuss-On: Do moral imperatives exist? (Are there things that must
   be stopped because they are morally wrong? Or, does each individual’s
   morality dictate that there is nothing other than murder that should be
   stopped?)
3. How can abolitionism not be seen as a moral imperative?
4. Read ” Huck Finn Better Get Out of Town By Sundown”
• How has abolitionism continued to be a major influence on our lives?
5. Extensions:
• Finish Reading “Huck Finn Better…” and answer the question in a paragraph: How has abolitionism (or the reactions to it) continued to be a major influence on our lives?