Learning is Change

Core 1:

1. Based on all of the things that you have seen, what are the truest statements that you can make about utopias?
2. What does a Utopia visually look like?
   • Can we visualize it better than we can do it?
3. Explore the Utopian art exhibit at the New York Public Library.

Core 2:

1. What do you think that Romanticism and Industrialism were a reaction to?
2. Watch excerpts from the day the world took off.
   
3. Read about the revolution first hand from our blue books.

Core 3:

1. Write-On: What does it take to become (or be called) an expert?
2. Become an expert on your digital storytelling subject
   • Take at least one page of notes in your own words.

• Ultimate Grammar and Writing Site #1
  
• Ultimate Grammar and Writing Site #2
• Ultimate Grammar and Writing Site #3
• Grammar Goofs
• Simple Grammar Stuff
• Many Many verb tenses
• Common Errors in English

Core 4:

1. Apology
2. Group 2 Present survival simulations.

Core 1:

• Take Vocab Quiz.
• Fill out AR mid-quarter reflection.

Core 2:

• Fill out the mid-quarter AR reflection.
• What part of your ideas do you own?

Core 3:

• Take Vocab quiz
• Fill out mid-quarter AR reflection
• Finish your Weekly Authentic for this week.

Core 4:

• Present Group 2 Survival Simulation.
• Fill out mid-quarter AR reflection.

Core 1:

1. Write-on: If you had a machine that could create anything, would you use it? Why or why not?
2. Read: How the World Was Saved.
3. What is the virtue of thinking through each of your actions?

Core 2:

1. Write-on: Finish this quotation any way that you think makes sense and explain your thinking:
   • A government is best when it governs…
2. Read “Civil Disobedience.” and discuss the role of government in a belief structure.

Core 3:

1. Discuss-On: What makes a story good?
2. Read about storyboarding.
3. Practice the concept of storyboarding.
4. Researching your topic so that you can develop your storyboard.

Core 4:

1. Groups 1 and 2 present their Survival Societies.

Cores 1-3:

1. Revisit how you are going to prove to your parents that you learned something.
   • One Idea
   • Another Idea
     
2. Field Reading for AR and Partner Passes.

Core 4:

1. Work on your Sem2_Week5 weekly authentic and finalize your Survival Simulations.

Cores 1-4:

1. Write your Sem2_Week5 weekly authentic.
2. Self-Assess with Mr. Wilkoff your best post of the quarter.
3. Nominate in the new del.icio.us process.

Core 1:

1. Do your Write-ons on the Discovery Message Board.
2. Flip back to the Vocabulary books with some Vocab Basketball?

Core 2:

1. Write-on: What is the most significant movement of our time (literary, social, political, etc.)? How was it defined/started?
2. Explore the definitions of Transcendentalism through author’s quotations.

Core 3:

1. What are the requirements for our digital stories that you should be graded upon?
   • Point of View
   • A Dramatic Question
   • Emotional Content
   • The Gift of your Voice
   • The Power of the Soundtrack
   • Economy
   • Pacing
2. Jump back into vocabulary with some Vocab Basketball.

Core 4:

1. Write-on: When survival is the most pressing part of your life, does life itself take on a rhythm, a music?
2. Talk about breaking one another’s societies with plausable What-If statements.
3. Work on your Survival Simulations.

Core 1:

1. Write-On: How equal should people be in a society?
2. Read Harrison Bergeron and look for who’s Utopia the story is?
3. What is Kurt Vonnegut critiquing by writing this piece?

Core 2:

1. Write-On: What are all of the ways that you can be a non-conformist?
2. How is Emerson a non-conformist?
3. Is there any way to maintain individuality while still being a part of a bigger movement?

Core 3:

1. Watch my second example video.
2. Work on your Weekly Authentics.
3. Experiment with Gcast and Jumpcut.

Core 4:

1. Work on Surivival Simulations.
2. Link your Bubblr strips to your Google Document.
3.  Work toward the assessment of your society.