Learning is Change

Core 1:

1. Share-on: Reveal to at least two other people the progress of your persuasive weekend. Were you able to persuade your family/friend to do a piece of work for you without resorting to fallacious means?
2. What would it take to persuade this person to permanently take over your duties from you (persuade them forever)?
   1. How can a character or person really change?
   2. How do you know that they have changed?
3. Introduce the concept of multicultural novels, change and persuasion.
   • Dragonwings
   • Rising Voices
   • Taking Sides
   • The Secret of Gumbo Grove
   • Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
4. Extensions:
   • Start reading your multicultural novel and pick a character to monitor change and persuasion.

Core 2:

1. Write-on: What does a music review have to have in it?
2. Write a paragraph review of this music video.
3. What are the other angles that you can come at in order to write a good music review?
   • Background?
   • Personal?
   • Specific?
   • Instrumental?
   • Fanatic?
4. Bring in iPod to review 30 sec clips to see who can come up with the most creative review.
5. Extensions:
   • Write a review of an album (or song) that you truly love.

Core 3:

1. Write-on: How does a person’s environment affect their speech?
2. Listen to and watch the speeches by FDR and fill out the Speech Analysis Form.
   1. Address at Hyde Park, New York.
   2. Statement on Signing the Social Security Act.
3. Compare and contrast FDR’s speech after the Pearl Harbor attacks with George W. Bush’s Speech after the 9/11 attacks.
4. Discuss the speeches in terms of change, tradition, and sacrificing individual needs for the needs of many.
5. Extensions:
   • Finish the Speech Analysis Form.

Core 4:

1. Write-on: How can the specific words that we use affect how persuasive we are in our writing or speaking?
2. Read “Tom Sawyer Whitewashing the Fence.”
   1. Does Tom make fallacious arguments or real ones?
   2. How does he convince others to do his work for him?
3. Extensions:
   • Write out an answer to the following question: What is the one chore or experience that you would rather anyone else do but you?

Core 1:

1. Write-on: How can the specific words that we use affect how persuasive we are in our writing or speaking?
2. Continue working on “Tom Sawyer Whitewashing the Fence.”
   1. Does Tom make fallacious arguments or real ones?
   2. How does he convince others to do his work for him?
3. Extensions:
   • Plan out how you plan to convince your parents/brother/sister to do something that you don’t want to do without the use of fallacious arguments. Write out how you have accomplished your goal in your blog.

Core 2:

1. Write-on: Create three short sentences about something sitting on your desk or in your pockets.
2. Read The Pen Commandments and take a look at the Pacemaker Syndrome, Conjunctionitis, and the Case Studies.
3. Extensions:
   • For next Friday, brainstorm what your case study would be about.

Core 3:

1. Finish presenting the 1940’s Smart Notebook Files.
2. Listen to and watch the speeches by FDR and fill out the Speech Analysis Form.
   1. Address at Hyde Park, New York.
   2. Statement on Signing the Social Security Act.
3. Compare and contrast FDR’s speech after the Pearl Harbor attacks with George W. Bush’s Speech after the 9/11 attacks.
4. Discuss the speeches in terms of change, tradition, and sacrificing individual needs for the needs of many.
5. Extensions:
   • Finish the Speech Analysis Form.

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Core 4:

1. Write-on: What kind of arguments/persuasion are false? (Sometimes persuasive but always fallacious, deceitful, or just plain wrong)
2. Finish presenting the Metaphorical Persuasion pieces.
   • Chris and Katy
   • Erica and Hanna
   • Lex and Tommy
   • Becki and McKenna
   • Manas
   • Rachel and Allie
   • Joe, Jeremy, and Alex
3. Which are the most recognizable/often used of the Fallacious Arguments.
4. Find an example of one of the above Fallacious Arguments in modern political discourse.
5. Extensions:
   • Think of the one thing that you would like to persuade your parents to do for you (or give to you).

Core 1:

1.  Write-on: What is the one chore that you despise the most?
2. Read “Tom Sawyer Whitewashing the Fence.”
   • Does Tom make fallacious arguments or real ones?
   • How does he convince others to do his work for him?
3. If time allows, work on your Academy Authentic.
4. Extensions:
   • Plan out how you plan to convince your parents/brother/sister to do something that you don’t want to do without the use of fallacious arguments. Write out how you have accomplished your goal in your blog.

Core 2:

1. Act-on: Grab a laptop and pull up your Satire through your manage tab. Write at the top, what kind of feedback you would like on your piece (more, but, or shredded questions).
2. Musical Chair Commenting: Leave your own laptop up and running with your piece on the screen and go around to the other student’s laptops to comment. Please give feedback that they have asked for.
3. Read and analyze any pieces that need to be shown to the class.
4. Work on your Academy Authentic piece.
5. Extension:
   • Read your AR book.

Core 3:

1. Act-on: Grab a laptop and pull up the 1940s notes on your Academy of Discovery documents.
2. Present the remaining Smart Notebook files and switch off taking notes.
3. Work on your Academy Authentic writing pieces.
4. Extensions:
   • Read your AR book.

Core 4:

1. Write-on: How has using Google presentations helped you to formulate and format your thoughts on persuasion and change (in people’s minds)?
2. Pull up your presentation on your Academy of Discovery Docs account and share it with me.
3. Present and ask questions in the discussion window.
   • How does this metaphor help to expand our understanding of persuasion and change?
   • What is a good example of this metaphor?
   • Is this type of argument a good one?
4. If there is time, work on your Academy Authentic pieces.
5. Extentions:
   • Read your AR book.

Cores 1-4:

1.  Write-on: Finish this sentence and write two more to follow it up, “Language Arts with Mr. Wilkoff is…”
2. Complete the student-led conferences handout and prepare your folders for the inevitable: la-talking-points.pdf.
3. What should be in your folder (or easily accessible on the computer):
   1. Your LA Talking Points handout.
   2. Your AR contract.
   3. Your graded writing piece (Identity Document or Ocean Question).
   4. Your first authentic writing piece (at least started).
   5. Your writing notebook with at least one thing highlighted or marked to show your parents.
   6. Your Reading Analysis scantron.Continue reading“09.19.07”

Core 1:

1. Write-on: What kind of arguments/persuasion are false? (Sometimes persuasive but always fallacious, deceitful, or just plain wrong)
2. Which are the most recognizable/often used of the Fallacious Arguments.
3. Find an example of one of the above Fallacious Arguments in modern political discourse.
4. Extensions:
   • Think of the one thing that you would like to persuade your parents to do for you (or give to you).

Core 2:

1. Write-on: Which social topic do you think deserves to be made fun of? How are you going to exaggerate it in order to change it?
2. Read over the Like Syndrome and My satire and start to write your own.
3. Extensions:
   • Finish your satires.

Core 3:

1. Work-on: Grab a laptop and continue your work on becoming an expert on the 1940s.
   • Format your Smart Notebook file so that the words are not too small and your ideas/images are clear.
2. Present files.
   • Take notes on the important events and ideas of the 1940s.
3. Extensions
   • Think about how the 1940s mimics current situations.

Core 4:

1. Share-on: Discuss your connection between change and persuasion with at least two people and try to find a consensus.
2. How do you change someone’s mind?
   • With a partner, create a Google Presentation file that reveals your thinking.
   • Include images that represent your ideas from Morguefile.com
   • When you are finished, share it with me.
3. Extensions:
   • Read your AR book.

Core 1:

1. Write-on: How would you persuade someone visually?
2. Present persuasion Smart Notebook files.
   • What do you notice about these ideas?
   • Reflect on the process of creating these presentations.
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4. Extensions:
   • Answer the following question either on your blog or in your notebook: How do your persuasion tactics change when you are trying to change the minds of many people rather than just one.

Class Notes:

Core 2:

1. Discuss-On: Why do we make fun of things?
2. Read Onion Articles and establish definition of Satire and its characteristics in your notebook:
   • ADHDTV Satire
   • Halloween Satire
     
   • Tag Body Spray Satire
3. Discussion Questions:
   • What are these articles making fun of/criticizing? How are they doing it?
   • Why are they targeting these particular aspects of society?
   • What can you do with satire (such as these) that you cannot do with other genres of writing?
4. Extensions:
   • Which social topic do you think deserves to be made fun of? How are you going to exaggerate it in order to change it?

Core 3:

1. Share-On: Prove to at least 3 other people that the tradition you believe is a “lottery” truly is sacrificing individual needs for group needs.
2. Answer the areas of the anticipatory 1940s Information Web with one other person (or on your own) by participating in a 30-minute expert presentation.
   • Search for important information about the 1940s in the areas outlined in the Information web.
   • Write about and use images from what you find in Smart Notebook.
   • Save the file to the Students server folder (in the 30 Minute Experts folder.)

Class Notes:

Core 4:

1. Highlight-on: Read through your discussions with your partner and highlight/circle the most important points. Write out or rephrase anything that is a good idea but needs to be reworked somehow.
2. Discuss the generalizations about change:
   1. The Five Generalizations/Truths of change.
      • Change is linked to time.
        • How is change linked to time?
        • Are all changes linked to time in the same way?
        • How do some of the changes you listed relate to time?
          
      • Change may be positive or negative.
        • What is progress?
        • Does change always represent progress?
        • How might a change be thought of as both positive and negative?
          
      • Change may be perceived as orderly or random.
        • Can we predict change?
        • Select specific changes from your list, and describe which aspects of them can be predicted and which are unpredictable.
        • Even when we know a change will take place, can we always predict exactly how things will turn out?
      • Change is everywhere.
        • Does change apply to all areas of our world?
        • What are some specific changes which are universal, or happen everywhere, and some specific changes that may apply to only a small area at a given time?
          
      • Change may happen naturally or be caused by people.
        • What causes change?
        • What influence do people have over changes in nature?
        • What influence does nature have over the changes people intended?

1. (Really Number 3) Extensions:
   • After all of our work with change today, answer the following question in your writer’s notebook or on your blog: How are change and persuasion related?

Class Notes:

Core 1:

1. Explore-on: How are these poems the same as Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, and how are they different?
   • Devil Dog
   • Way to Choose
2. The Connection between change and persuasion.
3. How do you change someone’s mind?
   • With a partner, create a Smart Notebook file that reveals your thinking.
   • Include images that represent your ideas.
4. Extensions:
   • Read your AR book.

Core 2:

1. Write-on: How can working on sports writing help to improve other kinds of writing?
2. Share out a few sports writing pieces.
3. Read and take notes on the next section of “Thou Shalt Not Kill Thy Sentences.”
   • How are we going to use this stuff.
4. Extensions:
   1. Read your AR book.

Core 3:

1. Write-on: How do plays explore words better than any other writing medium?
2. Prepare to perform plays for video camera. (If you require copies of your play, we can make them with the document camera.)
   • Which plays could you understand even if the sesquipedalian words were bogging down your understanding?
   • What helped you to understand these plays.
3. If we have time, what “lotteries” exist in our society? (Which things to we sacrifice for the sake of order and tradition.)
4. Extensions:
   • Read your AR book.

Core 4:

1. Explore-on: How are these poems the same as Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, and how are they different?
   • Devil Dog
   • Way to Choose
2. Introduce concept of thought exploration and Mind Mining: We are going to use a lot of paper and markers and ideas today. Today is going to be about producing the most ideas. We will worry about the best ideas later. You see, volume has its advantages sometimes. When you produce ideas voluminously, there is this thing that happens in your mind. You stop seeing boundaries and you start making connections. When you are constantly worried about getting a right answer, it is hard to see what isn’t obvious. We need to be able to say things that are divergent, that are connected but not not the same. Get into groups of four or five. Make sure that you are with people who you can work well with and not those who will distract you.

• Brainstorm ideas about change and white down ALL responses.
  • What ideas come to mind when you think about change?
  • What kinds of things change? What is it about them that changes?
  • How do you know when something has changed? What evidence do you look for to determine whether a change has occurred?
• Categorize the ideas that were written down, putting them into groups and giving each group a title.
  • How could you categorize these ideas into groups?
  • What could you call each group? Why?
  • Do all of your changes fall into groups? Might some of them belong in more than one group?
  • Is there a different way you might categorize your ideas? What other categories might you use?
  • What are some of the characteristics of change, based on the ideas you have written?
• Brainstorm a list of things that do not change.
  • What are some things that do not change? What are some things that always seem the same or always happen the same way?
  • What evidence or proof do you have that these things do not change?
  • How might you group the things that do not change? What can you call each of these groups?
  • How are the groups of things that do not change similar to or different from the groups of things that do change?
  • Think about the following ideas whether they show change: routines or habits, rules and regulations, table manners, laws, customs of cultures. Explain your answers. If they show change, where would they fit into your categories of changes? If they do not, where would they fit into your categories of things that do not change?
• Make generalizations about change.
  • A generalization is something that is always or almost always true. What generalizations can you make about change? Use your examples and categories to guide your thinking, and write several statements that are generalizations about change.

• The Five Generalizations/Truths of change.
  • Change is linked to time.
    • How is change linked to time?
    • Are all changes linked to time in the same way?
    • How do some of the changes you listed relate to time?
      
  • Change may be positive or negative.
    • What is progress?
    • Does change always represent progress?
    • How might a change be thought of as both positive and negative?
      
  • Change may be perceived as orderly or random.
    • Can we predict change?
    • Select specific changes from your list, and describe which aspects of them can be predicted and which are unpredictable.
    • Even when we know a change will take place, can we always predict exactly how things will turn out?
  • Change is everywhere.
    • Does change apply to all areas of our world?
    • What are some specific changes which are universal, or happen everywhere, and some specific changes that may apply to only a small area at a given time?
      
  • Change may happen naturally or be caused by people.
    • What causes change?
    • What influence do people have over changes in nature?
    • What influence does nature have over the changes people intended?

1. (Really Number 3) Extensions:
   • After all of our work with change today, answer the following question in your writer’s notebook or on your blog: How are change and persuasion related?

I will not be at school today, as I am still at the Digital Educator Mentor training. Here are my sub plans: 091307.doc