Learning is Change

Cores 1+4:

1. Extended Write-on:
2. Continue reflection on Survival Simulation through discussion.
• Any final words before we bid the project, adieu?
• Anything we should do differently next time?
3. Highlight some really great works of writing done on Monday.
4. Return to Utopian poetry.
• How does the Tipslastt format help you to understand and appreciate the poems you read?
5. Extension:
• Read your AR book.

Core 2:

1. Rev-it-On
• How does what we know now about Steve Irwin change the way we read the story?
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3. Is utopia about more than just survival?
• What happens if you have to build up from the survival level of life?
• What is the progression of building a society?
4. Extensions:
1. Continue your writing from Monday and put it onto Google Docs and share with friends for Academy Authentic.

Core 3:

1. Write-on:
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• What kind of answers do we expect to get?
2. Does how we look at math, school, and life affect the answers we seek?
3. Describe your quest for answers.
4. How does Romanticism and Transcendentalism differ?
5. Extension:
• What does it mean to be a dark romantic?

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Cores 1+4:

1. 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.
2. Group 1 Voicethread for questions.
3. Group 2 Voicethread for questions.
4. Group 3 Voicethread for questions.
5. Core 4 Group 1
6. Core 4 Group 2
7. Core 4 Group 3
8. Extensions:
• Make sure that you have your poetry analysis done for tomorrow.

Core 2:

1. Write-on:
2. Rev-it-Up:
• Survey
3. Read about the Shakers’ Utopian society:
• How have they peeled back life to the survival level?
• What is better: Simplicity and survival, or complexity and chaos?
4. Extensions:
• Write a paragraph about a day in your life as a Shaker. How would you feel? What would it be like?

Core 3:

1. Write-on:
2. Prepare for debate on transcendental revival.
• What reasons do you think would support your side?
• How are you going to argue your points without bullying your idea across?
3. Debate/Discussion
4. How does Romanticism compare to Transcendentalism.
5. Extensions:
• Ask someone if they could be a transcendentalist. If they don’t know what you are talking about, explain it to them and then ask them again.

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Cores 1+4:

1. Discuss-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. Extension:
• Continue to work on your personal curriculum.

Core 2:

1. Write-on:
2. Rev-it-up!
3. Continue our discussion of Separatist Utopias in early America.
4. Extensions:
• Would you separate yourself from society if you knew it meant a happier and more fulfilled life?

Core 3:

1. Categorize/Act-On:
• Use the words on the bottom of the Smart Board to categorize them into Transcendentalist ideas or not.
2. Read the definitions and quotations from Transcendentalists.
• How do the transcendentalists use language to continue their cause?
3. Extension:
• Do you believe that the transcendentalists wanted to change the world or merely themselves? Why or why not?

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Cores 1+4:

1. Paper-only Write-on:
2. Take a look at your Language Arts folder.
• Keep what you would like to show your parents during conferences and take the rest home.
3. Finalize your Survival Simulations including Cast, Goals, and What-if’s.
• Create a voicethread as the presentation for your society (you can work collaboratively on this or you can have one person do it while others work on the documents).
4. Extensions:
• Finish your Voicethread and documents for your Survival Simulation.
• Mentally prepare yourself for conferences and two days without me.

Core 2:

1. 
• Create a voicethread presenting to your parents about what you have learned in Language Arts this year?
• Embed the voicethread into your blog.
2. Decide what to keep in your LA folder and what to take home.
3. Continue our discussion of Separatist Utopias in early America.
4. Extensions:
• Would you separate yourself from society if you knew it meant a happier and more fulfilled life?
• Mentally prepare yourself for two days without me.

Core 3:

1. 
• Create a voicethread presenting to your parents about what you have learned in Language Arts this year?
• Embed the voicethread into your blog.
2. Decide what to keep in your LA folder and what to take home.
3. Continue our discussion of Transcendental politics.
4. Extension:
• Mentally prepare yourself for Conferences and two days without me.

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Cores 1+4:

1. Pair Write-on:
2. 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.
3. Extension:
• Continue to work on your Survival Simulation and finish TipsLastt poem analysis.

Core 2:

1. Rev-it-on
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3. Read about real-life utopian societies.
4. Extensions:
• Read your AR book.

Core 3:

1. Write-on:
2. Read “Civil Disobedience”
• What does Thoreau believe about government?
• Are Thoreau’s ideas unpatriotic?
• What is more important, the individual or the collective (the society)?
3. Extension:
• Compare/Contrast the Transcendentalist ideas of politics with your modern beliefs of politics.

Cores 1+4:

1. Write-on:
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2. 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?
3. Extensions:
• Continue to work on your Survival Simulations.

Core 2:

1. Rev-it-on: Do and say crazy things about our Level 2 words in order to introduce them.
2. Go over Metaverses Survey
3. 
• Take a look at some of the comments on Learning Memories.
4. Extensions:
• Read your AR book.

Core 4:

1. 
2. Get ready to podcast one idea of how knowing a grammatical element will help your writing.
3. Take a look at transcendental nature.
• Why is nature so important.
• How do we see a return to a more transcendental way of thinking?
4. Extensions:
• Read your AR book.

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Cores 1+4:

1. Discuss-on:
   
2. Continue to work in your groups on your Survival Simulations.
3. Extensions:
• Finalize goals and what-if’s.

Core 2:

1. Discuss-on:
2. Continue to work on your Utopian Art handouts.
3. Extension:
• Finish your Utopian Art handout.

Core 3:

1. Share-on:
2. Who won the Image Grammar workout?
• What do the terms mean?
• Why should you care?
3. Extensions:
• Choose three of the grammar terms and explain why knowing what they are and how to use them will make you a better writer.

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