Learning is Change

Cores 1-4:

• Guess how much of our Academy of Discovery budget was set aside for us at the meeting last night?

Core 1:

1. Should leaders have more privileges than followers? Why or why not?
2. Read chapter 4 in Animal Farm.
   • How does the farm change over time?
   • Can any society keep the passion and ideal of the first few days/years?
3. Work on your Utopias with a specific goal for your 15 minutes.

Core 2:

1. How do you promote the societal good of justice in your everyday life?
2. Work on your -Isms with a specific goal in mind.

Core 3:

1. If you could, would you change the way life works so that you would:
   • Remain a child forever
   • Be Born into adulthood
   • Slow down or speed up the transition from childhood to adulthood
2. Read the rest of the chapter:
   • What is gold?

Core 4:

1. Check out the front page!
   
2. What is the safeguard on corruption in your utopia? Can anyone get around it?
3. Work on your Utopia with specific goals in mind.

Cores 1, 2, 4:

1. Watch Inquiring Minds Need to Know and introduce the Academy of Discovery:
   • What should we change before we go to the parent committee and ask for money?
   • What questions would you have after our presentation?
2. Work on your Blog or Wiki and submit a del.icio.us post for Sem2_Week13.

Core 3:

1. Why is your physical identity so valuable to you?
2. Do you think that one decision should affect you for the rest of your life?
3. Do you have an anti-hero that you look up to, like Johnny does to Dally?
4. What would you have picked up from the grocery store if you knew that you might have to hide out for a long time and you didn’t bring anything with you?
5. What would being a fugitive from the law be like?

Core 1:

1. What is the easiest way to hide corruption within a society?
2. Read Chapter 4 in Animal Farm.
3. Work on utopias.
   • Who in your utopia is corruptible?
   • Figure out your 7+ Commandments.

Core 2:

1. If this were your metaphor for life, how would you describe it?
2. Check-In with -Ism. How many projects do you have done (including audio essay)?
3. Work on -Ism with specific goals.

Core 3:

1.  What is the one thing that you have hidden from people, hoping that they would never find out about?
2. Read about Ponyboy and Johnny’s transformation.
   • Can you still be a greaser without the grease?
   • What are the essential parts of your identity?

Core 4:

1. How do you balance luxury vs. utility in your utopia?
2. Work on a part of your utopia that hasn’t gotten a lot of love yet:

   1. I. Origins

      II. Population and Demographics

      III. Culture, Social Customs, and Family Structure

      C. Arts and Entertainment:

      IV. Industry, Agriculture, and Geography

      V. Government

      VI. Infrastructure

      VII: Reaction to Society and Other Utopias (You may want to wait until you have finished your reaction novel in order to complete this section)

      IX. Unique Features of this Utopia

Core 1:

1. Creating interactivity on your wiki using sPresent.
2. Wiki work and troubleshooting.

Core 2:

1.  How was your -Ism shaped by the following events:
   • 9/11
   • The first time you got the wind knocked out of you.
   • Your first break-up (with a friend or boy/girlfriend).
   • Your first fight with your parents.
   • A time when you got mad at God or the universe.
   • A time when you thought things were unfair.
   • The first time you got made fun of.
   • [Insert a specific event that you think changed your outlook on the world].
2. Work on belief statement essays and sPresent interactive answers.

Core 3:

1. How do you resolve the dilemma of a fight without resorting to violence?
2. Read “The Good Part.”
   • When is self-defense not really self-defense?

Core 4:

1. What will you do with your Utopia once it is created?
2. Work on your Utopia with specific goals like:
   • Finishing a sPresent
   • Finishing the Origins (or another category)
   • Take a screenshot of your planet, flag, etc.

Core 1:

1. What kind of wiki contributer are you, and why?
2. Distilling your Utopian ideals into a set of 7 (or more) commandments:
   • What kinds of commandments did the Pigs paint on the barn?
   • What rules do you want everyone to follow in your utopia so that everyone can coexist.
3. Setting up a utopia e-vent!
4. Work on your Utopia with specific goals in mind.

Core 2:

1. Enhancing your -Ism:
   • sPresent
2. Take a look at some Belief Statement Essays.
3. Work on your -Ism, with the specific goals in mind.

Core 3:

1. What is the difference between a problem and dilemma?
2. What are some problems in the story so far and what are some dilemmas?
3.  Look for them in finishing Chapter 3.

Core 4:

1. Setting up a Utopia e-vent!
2. Work on your Utopia with specific goals in mind.

Core 1:

1. Write-On: What is your anthem, and how has it persuaded you to be who you to be who you are?
2. Read and Discuss chapter two.

Core 2:

1. What kind of wiki contributer are you, and why?
2. The ultimate spam fighting tool: You.
3. Work on Belief Statement Essays.

Core 3:

1. Debate Question:
   • Solved: You should have more respect for women than men.
2. Are all problems created equal?
3. Chapter 3

Core 4:

1. What kind of wiki contributer are you, and why?
2. Check out Spresent.
3. Work on your Utopia project.

Cores 1, 2, and 4:

1. What is your Digital Legacy?
2. Work on your wiki edit that you will use for your weekly authentic, or blog for your weekly authentic (Sem2_Week12).
3. Post to del.icio.us

Core 3:

Outsiders Blogging:

• What do you think the difference between innocent and “not dirty” is?
• How do you think your intelligence level actually affects your friends?
• What does, “Things are rough all over” mean?
• What was the best time you ever had at a drive-in movie?
• What was the story that caused everyone to be speechless?

Core 1:

1. Write-On: What would it take for you to start or go along with a revolution?
2. Enter Animal Farm
   

Core 2:

1. Extending the classroom:
   • What does it mean that aznchicken17, rbsmm743, dancingintherain, moose2, chaosdragonx, snowboardinghockeyplayer3, roadrunner19937, rubyredslippers, hellomynameisbill77 all worked on their -Isms over the weekend and even more of you went on Standpoint, all without me asking you to work on it? (denalirott53, helamanswarrior100, bazookabubblegum, SilverLining, and Nephiteforce2 have also worked after school. That’s nearly 50% of our class.)
2. How to create a Standpoint Grazr on your Wiki Page.
3. Expectations for this week:
   • Establish your core belief.
   • Write your belief statement essay according to the This I Believe model on a new Wiki Page.
   • Solicit at least three comments from our -Ism community on your Discussion page and make the revisions.
   • Record your Audio Essay on Gcast and embed it into your wiki page.

Core 3:

1. What is the one true story that you could tell that would leave other people speechless?
2. Read about Johnny.
3. Finish the gender issue handout.
4. Set-up for debate on gender stereotyping.

Core 4:

1. The Rubric Debate: Solved.
2. Extending the Classroom:
   • What does it mean that misterpirate7, bluesea, 3ways, runescape1, tigerqueen24, Moofacer, texasredneck18, thingydingy, munchy, dude9coolio, and Zevariaxthedragonlord worked on their utopias over the weekend without me asking them to? (whizkid4, boardingguitarist, frozenwaffles, lacrosseman, and kubafish3 have also worked after school. That is nearly than 2/3 of our class.)
3. Work on Utopias according to the Youbric.