Learning is Change

Cores 1+4:

1. Write-on:
2. Read chapter 2 of animal farm:
• Why is it so easy to overthrow Jones?
• What decisions do the animals make that go along with Old Major’s speech? Go against it?
• Is the rebellion just?
3. Extend the concept of commandments to your own Utopia.
• What commandments are essential?
• What types of commandments are specific enough?
4. Extensions:
• Write your commandments onto your utopia wiki page.

Core 2:

1. Write-on:
2. Rev-it-up
3. Read Chapter 5 of Animal Farm
• What decisions are being made that go against Old Major’s original vision?
• How do the animals become more human?
4. Extensions:
• What safeguards do you have in place that will ensure that your society will not become like the society that you rebelled against in the first place?

Core 3:

1. Exemplary comments:
• Snipinshoe
• pepperr
• wrpdbyondrcgnicion
• teidoublegaer and misterpirate7
2. Discuss Iron Mills questions:
• What is so meaningful about the sculpture?
• What is the “moral” of this story?
• Why should we heed this moral?
• What is lost if we head into another time of rapid growth without concern for human dignity?
3. Extensions:
• Comment on 2 Belief statement essays that have 1 or no comments on them. (If you can’t find any, look for one that has fewer comments)

Cores 1+4:

1. Write and Discuss-on:
2. Listen to the BritLit Podcast summary of Animal Farm.
• What can we find out about the story from this short summary?
3. Read Chapter 1 of Animal Farm:
• What are the seeds of rebellion?
• Who represents whom in the story?
4. Extensions:
• Finish your second section of your utopia.

Core 2:

1. Write-on:
2. Rev-it-up (paired shouting)
3. Read Chapter 4 of animal farm:
• How do the animals expand their empire?
• What are their long-range plans?
• Is their struggle with humanity justified?
4. Extensions:
• Finish one section of your utopia for Friday.

Core 3:

1. Write-on:
2. Essay writing Examples:
• Sponge-ism
• Perfectionism
• Misterpirate7’s Ism
• Hannahism
• What kinds of questions do you have?
• What kind of comments will allow these people to improve upon their ideas?
3. Discuss Iron Mills questions:
• What is the “moral” of this story?
• Why should we heed this moral?
4. Extensions:
• Comment on at least three Belief Statement essays using the wiki commenting feature.
• Start revising your essay according to your comments.

Cores 1, 2, and 4:

1. Write-on:
2. Great examples of creation:
• How can you add something you find to these exemplars?
3. Work on your inspirational exemplars?
4. Extensions: Continue to work on your Utopia (Cores 1+4 should be done with two sections by Friday and Core 2 should be finished with one section by Friday).

Core 3:

1. Discuss-on:
2. Learn the format for a MLA paper.
• Look at it in action.
• What is missing?
• What do you think about the addition of this paragraph?
• “My daughter at seventeen months is complex, beautifully complex. Her ability to look at my crudely drawn cat on her doodle deluxe is nothing short of a miracle. It is not a cat nor does it look like one. It is a series of circles and squiggles, lines and flicks of the wrist. Her understanding of “cat” is already sophisticated enough in order to understand the value of symbols, of representative value. Although her world is simple, not filled with much responsibility or trouble, she is beautiful in her complexity and it is my goal to never teach her otherwise.
3. Work on Belief Statement Essay
4. Extensions:
• Finish for tonight and put it on your wiki page.

Cores 1+4:

Core 2:

Core 3:

Cores 1+4:

1. Write-on: How are our/all utopias symbolic?
2. Leaving yourself areas to extend on the wiki:
   • South Island may be expanding to the west.
   • The uncreated Quiz
   • Flag Representation
   • Blog Updates
3. Introduction to animal farm:
   • What would a farm of animals represent?
   • What is an allegory?
   • How does the Russian Revolution and Communism fit into a utopian/dystopian novel.
4. Extensions:
   • Craft at least one section (complete with enhancements) by the end of tomorrow.

Core 2:

1. Write-on:
2. Rev-it-up:
   • Read about junk.
   • Draw Junk.
   • Write about junk.
3. Continue Animal Far, Chapter IV
   • Like Aric said, how are the Pigs becoming more human?
4. Extensions:
   • Put your Commandments on your Utopia.

Core 3:

1. What is the mood that is created with the following passage?
   • “[The smoke] rolls sullenly in slow folds from the great chimneys of the iron-foundries, and settles down in black, slimy pools on the dingy boats, on the yellow river,—clinging in a coating of greasy soot to the house-front, the two faded poplars, the faces of the passers-by.”
2. What are the Belief statements that you have created?
   • What kinds of stories/anecdotes/examples are the best to back them up?
3. Read exerpts from “Life in the Iron Mills or The Korl Woman” and answer the questions on the handout.
4. Extensions:
   • Finish the story and the questions for Monday.

Cores 1+4:

1. Write-on:
2. Examples of Digital Storytelling in our Wiki:
   • The Bunker and the Aftermath
   • “As we all know”
3.  Work through your utopia for some aspect of digital storytelling.
4. Extensions:
   • Finish a section of your utopia for Friday.

Core 2:

1. Rev-it-On
2. Finish Chapter 3 of Animal Farm
   • How are the animals more aware of their society now that they have Animalism as their organizing force.
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4. Work on your Utopia, starting from your commandments and Origins. 

Extensions:

• Finish your Commandments (at least 7) on your utopia and work on your origins for Friday.

Core 3:

1. Write-on: 
2. Listen and Read 5 Belief Statement Essays from This I believe.
   • Discuss the common elements of these stories with a partner.
3. Discuss with your group possible belief statements that you would want to construct an essay about.
4. View the essay writing tips and start to write your belief statement essay rough draft.
5. Extensions:

• • Finalize your belief statement for your belief statement essay and brainstorm a list of anecdotes, stories, or examples that would help to support your belief.

Cores 1+4:

1. Discuss-on:
2. What is building our community?
• Risker’s Origins
• Questions from ChickwithBrains
3. Work on your Utopia to build community, complete at least one section by the end of the week, and find new ways to enhance our understanding of utopia.
4. Extensions:
• Finish one section of your utopia by Friday.

Core 2:

1. Brainstorm-on:
2. Introduce the Wiki:
• Creating a Page
• Copying the template
• Answering the questions
• Enhancing your utopia
3. Practice working with the wiki by creating your utopia space.
4. Extensions:
• Make sure your entire utopia page looks the way you want it to by Thursday.

Core 3:

1. Listen and View-on:
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2. The Purpose for Creating an -Ism.
3. Create your own Belief Structure using Google Sites
• Create your own page.
• Copy over the template.
• Start work on writing down your strongest held beliefs.
• Set up an Idopia account.
4. Extensions:
• Before Friday:
• Set up an Idopia account.
• Create your own -Ism page.
• Copy over the template.

Core 1+4:

1. Write-on:
2. How does having a rational or irrational population influence your utopia?
3. Response to discussion:
• The concept that Edward Bellamy (the author of Looking Backwards) was
  trying to get through to the reader was that in their society it didn’t
  have a reason for anyone to rebel. In other words, it was really rare
  for someone to go against something since their society created
  equality amongst the people. I think that the utopia that Bellamy
  created was “perfect” where people had nothing to disagree with. If
  someone were to do something wrong rather than a jail, the person was
  sent to the hospital.
• I disagree with frostbittentomato because once a utopia is corrupted
  people will know how to corrupt it once more. In the Giver people are
  like robot people. They did their job and slept. They had no feelings
  and past memories. If some one corrupted people would not know how to
  rebuild it. They have to start from scratch and a new generation.
• Since in the book We it was corrupted and was in a 200 year war i do
  not think that they could come back as a utopia. The society of We is
  built up upon the idea that every person is categorized by numbers and
  letters so it allows for people to live in harmony and trade in
  harmony. The integral is just like the internet when a place gets a bad
  wrap not very many people will go there and the people who stay will
  internally corrupt the society. When a site on the internet doesnt have
  any reason to stay and it still costs money for the people to keep it
  alive the site will be shut down.
• I don’t think that the society in Looking Backward could ever happen
  because it’s too perfect. It does not seem possible to have a world
  that will agree to have the exact same amount of money. The people who
  are richer than others will most likely not agree to suddenly change
  into a world where there are no richer or poorer people. The usually
  richer people will have to live the same lives as the ones that once
  were really poor. The richer people will surely resist, and this will
  start a big argument. Bellamy’s imagined utopia also has a flexible
  society with a wider range of personal freedom. That much freedom, I
  think would not be possible.
• In Fahrenheit 451 not everyone was happy they just put on an act of
  happiness in order to fit in with everyone. For example Mildred (Guy’s
  wife) didn’t seem all that happy but she still said she was.
4. Utopias-in-Progress Analysis
• What my Utopia is based on and why it will work.
• My Beastly Government
• Glimmer City Flag
• Others?
5. Extensions:
• Continue to work on Utopias. (You should be fully completed with at least one section by the end of the week.)

Core 2:

1. Write-on:
2. Rev-It-Up
3. Utopia Reviews (How will past utopias affect ours?):
• Falena’s Utopia Review
• Ed’s Utopia Review
• Austin’s Utopia Review
• Dylan’s Utopia Review
• Eden’s Utopia Review
• Kyle’s Utopia Review
• Taylor’s Utopia Review
4. Read Chapter 3 of Animal Farm
5. Extensions:
• Finish Chapter 3 of Animal Farm

Core 3:

1. Write-on:
2. Watch excerpts from the day the world took off.
3. Do you believe that the industrial revolution created progress or merely more hardships for people?
4. Extensions:
• Write the answer to the following question in a paragraph: Do you believe that we are in the midst of a revolution like the industrial revolution? Why or why not?

Cores 1+4:

1. Write-on:
2. Examples of Outstanding Wiki Contributions so far:
• Arcatia’s use of Newspaper Articles and Seals
• Shouyou’s use of a National Anthem
• Oscar’s use of Ninja Text
3. Book Discussion Using Utopia Wiki
4. Extensions:
• Work on your Utopia.
• Comment on another Utopia.

Core 2:

1. Write-on:
2. Finish Presentations.
3. Check out Last Year’s Utopias from the reviews.
4. Read Chapter 2 of Animal Farm.
5. Extension:
• Finish Chapter 2 of Animal Farm

Core 3:

1. Write-on:
2. Take a further look at the larger debate before competition.
3. The Elite 8 Frames.
4. Extensions:
• Read AR Books.

Core 1:

1. Discuss-on:
2. Start work on your Utopia and fleshing out your presence on the wiki.
• Once we have content, we can make use of the commenting feature.
3. Extensions:
• Continue to work on your utopia/wiki.
• Make sure your Reaction Novel is complete for Friday.

Core 2:

1. Write-on:
2. 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.
3. Extensions:
• Finish your review of a Discovery Utopia from last year on your blog.

Core 3:

1. 
2. Gallery Walk for Yellow Wallpapers
• Write down on a sheet of paper the “problems that have no name” for each wallpaper.
3. What do all of these things have in common.
4. How are they examples of -archys instead of -isms?
5. Extensions:
• Make sure your framing words and paragraph are completed for tomorrow’s Elite 8 competition.

Core 4:

1. 
2. Define your own role on the wiki in writing.
• Create your own wiki pattern name or use one that we talked about, but describe what you are willing to commit to in our wiki.
3. Extensions:
• Continue to work on your utopia/wiki.
• Make sure your Reaction Novel is complete for Friday.