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Due Tuesday: 1. Define all the terms in your poetry packet. Bring in a comic about nature. Due Thursday: Bring in 10 examples of iambs; try to include different parts of speech Due Monday: Complete write-up of one of the poems we've looked at so far; bring in a copy for peer editing. D Block Due Tuesday: 1. Define all the terms in your poetry packet. Bring in a comic about nature. Due Wednesday: Bring in 10 examples of iambs; try to include different parts of speech Due Monday: Complete write-up of one of the poems we've looked at so far; bring in a copy for peer editing.
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Due for Friday: 1. Prepare for our debate! Make sure to bring in questions for our groups. 2. After completing your own research, answer this question in our blog: What is the mission of secondary school, and what is the best structure to reach it? Make sure to link to alternative school models if you think that the one we are all familiar with is not the best answer.
Some readings/watchings to help you along: Relative importance of grades at Harvard An Alumnus' Understanding of Grades at Harvard A Teacher's Defense of Giving Fs: A Biased View on the Impact of Not Having Grades A Chapter out of A Ed Textbook on the Purpose of Grades (we will be looking at some of this during class, and the last section of this chapter is very interesting!) Growth Mindset Brief Intro Dan Pink on Motivation Due for Monday: Complete the grading editorial Work on your paper!
Hard deadline - submit via TurnItIn.com by Tuesday Noon. Both Blocks
Prepare for your debates! Here are the readings that you should look at in order to gain some insight into the matter: 1. "If Values are Right: What's Left?" - Handout 2. "Brands are our Peers" - PBS 3. "There's nothing wrong with Advertising Towards Kids" - United Liberty 4. "The Case for the Private Sector in Education" - The Atlantic 5. Your own research! This is a lot of reading, I know, but much of this has the potential to be effective in your editorials. Have fun! Editorials are due the Monday we come back! C Block
Due for Friday: Read Book 23 Due over the weekend: Work on paper D Block Due over the weekend: Read Book 23; work on paper All of these snowdays... it's like a teenager's dream. So, we're switching the style up like Will Smith in 2005. As a result of ANOTHER DOUBLE snowday (sneekend didn't quite catch on), this is what our homework looks like moving forward:
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