Do Monday 1. Sign up for office hours! If you can't make it, be sure to send an email update on how you are doing/ coping 2. Make a new folder in our shared Google Drive Folder - name it Distance Learning 3. Read through how the AP readers graded Sample Essays PP, J, and E. In the new folder, make 5 observations for what AP readers are looking for. Title this “AP Readers Checklist”
Do Tuesday Read Sample Essays F and A. Grade them on a 1-4-1 scale. Try to justify your answers and add these thoughts to the “AP Readers Checklist” document. Do Wednesday 1. Swing by office hours and say hi! 2. Read this piece from Vox on the risks for letting private individuals take the lead during our present crisis. 3. Blogpost: Respond to the following rhetorical questions laid out near the start of the article: That may be true, but it also gives him some indirect influence: Who elected Gates to be in charge of America’s vaccine production plan, even if he is savvily spending his money? The millions that Steve Ballmer has contributed to support communities in three particular cities close to his heart — Detroit, Los Angeles, and Seattle — will help, and so will the $100 million that Jeff Bezos is sending to food banks around the US, but who beyond them decided that these are the best uses of America’s resources? What role should private, wealthy individuals play during our current pandemic? Is it moral for these individuals to use their wealth as an expression of personal power, to act as resources to the communities and calls that feel close to them, at the exclusion of other needs? What fears or privileges might be realized once this pandemic is over? How would you respond to someone who claims that this current moment in which tech billionaires are our saviors simply point to our broken political and taxation systems? How should someone with unimaginable wealth currently support our efforts to fight this pandemic (or help our government do so)? Do Thursday Come through our class meet on Thursday morning. Be ready to share your thoughts on the role of billionaires in this pandemic. Do Friday Compare your notes on how you graded those sample essays to how the AP Readers actually did. Then, add two-three more items to your “AP Reader Checklist” document. You should have around 7-10 tips total.
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Do Monday 1. Sign up for office hours! 2. Review the comic terms we discussed in the beginning of the school year with this slide show 3. Watch the following videos: a. Visual Geometry b. How to read a painting c. The layout of a page 4. Pick a page or panel from The Killing Joke and post 3 observations on the art and graphic design on our discussion board on Schoology. Be sure to name the page/ panels before you dive into your response!
Do Tuesday 1. Read the introduction and the first chapter of Persepolis. Answer the following questions in your reading journal; copy and paste your answer into the Schoology prompt: What might the veil be a symbol of? How does our text use this symbol of the veil? In what ways can we understand dress as symbols in our current day? 2. In your reading journal, compare your list of identifiers with the restrictions that Marji faces. Then consider - is who you are right now, stripped of your ability to move about society freely - who you really are? Do Wednesday 1. Swing by our office hours, if you can! If you can’t please send me an email updating how you are doing 2. Read Chapter 2 of Persepolis. Answer the following question on the Schoology discussion: What two or three topics do you believe that this comic is going to explore or interrogate? What specific panels led you to those topics? 3. In your reading journal, make a list of things that a bicycle might symbolize. Do Thursday 1. Call in when our class meets. We’ll be discussing the topics that Persepolis touches on in the first two chapters, priming us for an exploration of a host of ideas. 2. Choose one panel from the reading that stands out to you. In a paragraph (about 150-200 words), answer the following questions about the panel you chose (due Friday night): 1. What’s happening in the panel? Explain. 2. What visual elements does Satrapi use to make this panel stand out? How do you know this panel is important? Use the visual vocabulary we learned in your response: -Panel (its size, shape, placement on the page, interaction with the panels around it) -Frame -Gutter (presence or absence of them) -Figure (faces, emotions, placement of figure in foreground or background, size of figure, symbolism) -Caption -Speech balloon 3. How does Satrapi use these elements to create meaning? What does this panel suggest about the story, characters, etc? (Analyze it!) Do Friday Turn in your panel analysis on Turn It In Do Tuesday 1. Sign up for office hours! 2. Read these two passages; Pick one and compose a thesis and an outline for a 4-5 paragraph essay: 1. Question 2 from this link (Ghandi’s letter; 2019 Exam) 2. Question 2 from this link (Louv’s essay; 2013 exam)
Do Wednesday 1. Swing by office hours and say hi! If you can’t, be sure to send me an email with an update on how you are doing. 2. Read this article from The Guardian about the change in air pollution since lock-downs were announced and this article from the New Yorker considering the origins of the pandemic as the result of man-made impact on the environment… also! if you want - this bit from Buzzfeed News on the Earth is Healing meme. Blogpost: What perspective or knowledge do you gain when you frame the origin, experience, or impact of the pandemic along an ecological/ environmental lense? What lessons should we glean from this experience in regards to globalization, industrialization, and the environment? Does it feel right or just to think through the positives, impacts, or lessons of this pandemic outside the lanes of public health policies, economic health, or political leadership? Do Thursday Come through our class meet on Thursday morning. Be ready to share your theses/outlines in small groups! Do Friday Compare your thesis and outline with the first sample essay from the materials offered by Collegeboard. Take some notes on what they liked and what they’re looking for as well as what you were planning on writing. 1. Ghandi https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/pdf/ap19-apc-english-language-q2.pdf?course=ap-english-language-and-composition 2. Louv https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/apcentral/ap13_english_lang_q2.pdf Do Monday It’s Patriot’s day! Go and be a Patriot somewhere.
Do Tuesday 1. Set up a journal on Google Docs and share it with me; title it “Last Name Persepolis Reading Journal" 2. Journal prompt: List the first three thoughts that come to mind when the country of Iran is mentioned. Then, watch this crash course video about the multiple revolutions that Iran underwent. List three things you learned that you didn’t know before and one question that remains after watching the video. 3. Copy and paste your journal entry into the Schoology prompt 4. Sign up for office hours; we'll be discussing the 8 best smells. Do Wednesday 1. Swing by our office hours, if you can! If you can't, be sure to email an update with how you are doing. 2. Read through Britannica online’s breakdown of the White Revolution, focusing on the “protest and failure” and “growth of social discontent” sections 3. Pretend twitter existed in the days of the discontent in the days before the 1979 Iranian revolution. Put yourself in the shoes of someone who wanted the removal of the shah: What are 3-5 tweets or memes that you would have posted/shared in order to articulate your frustrations with the Shah? Submit this onto Schoology. Do Thursday Swing by our Zoom Call! Do Friday Note in your journal 5 words that you feel constitute who you are/ your identity. Next to each, try to list one institution or building that “houses” members/ activities of this element of your identity. We'll use these notes next week! Do on Monday 1. Look through this slideshow 2. Fill out this questionnaire. 3. Sign up for a slot to swing by and let me know how you are doing! My goal is to meet in these small groups (although you can stay as long as you want!) and spend time talking about your enneagram type. If you can’t make it, please send me an email telling me how you are doing (and what type you are!)
Do on Tuesday Read this article on the controversy surrounding a "public library" Blogpost: Should the Internet Archive continue sponsoring/ running this “National Emergency Library”? Should teachers rely on a service with murky legal and moral justifications to teach their students? Can I, as a public school teacher, in good faith link my students to a PDF of a book that has been hosted online illegally? What if the school already owns dozens of copies of that book but simply can’t get it to them due to the pandemic? What are the ethics or running or using this library? Do on Wednesday 1. Swing by office hours 2. Read Question 2 (1905 speech about Child Labor); come up with a thesis to share on Thursday! Do on Thursday Come discuss your thesis and the National Emergency Library with us during our block's zoom meet up! Do on Monday 1. Sign up for a slot to swing by and let me know how you are doing! My goal is to meet in these small groups (although you can stay as long as you want!) and spend time talking about what fruit you are. If you can’t make it, please send me an email telling me how you are doing (and what fruit you are!) 2. Listen to podcast, write down three things that you already knew, two things or ideas that were new, and one big take-away.
Do on Tuesday: 1. Type up your response to Schoology post 2. Watch the short film; jot down two immediate reactions and two instances of “creative liberty” - places that deviated from the known, original story. Do on Wednesday 1. Swing by office hours at your slot 2. Type up your response to the Schoology post. Do on Thursday Join our block for our class discussion This song slaps.
It's been a minute! If you haven't had a chance to look on Schoology for the full update, please make sure you do so before you read any further. If you're here even though you read what's on the update, then maybe you shouldn't read any further because it's all the same? -Shrug- Live your life! Monday Listen to the podcast, taking notes on what you believe is the human truth behind this story. Write your haiku. Tuesday Write out what you hoped to convey through you haiku and post both on the Schoology discussion. Listen to the other podcast. Wednesday Write your response to the other podcast and post it on the Schoology discussion. Attend office hours on Wednesday morning if you have any questions. Thursday Attend class meeting on Thursday afternoon to discuss podcast. Friday Dance around the room in a baggy t-shirt. Wash your hands after. It's been a minute, but we back!
If you haven't checked the full update on Schoology, make sure to read that through before looking at this. If you already did, and you're here just to check it out, then you truly are a friend - red heart emoji-. Here's the breakdown of the week: Monday Read: This article on how class is playing a role in our pandemic. Blog Post on my website (250 words): Whose responsibility should it be to help “level the playing field” for those who are disproportionately affected by the pandemic? Should there be an overt effort to lessen the blow or provide more opportunity for those who are without the resources, income, or utilities to access “life in the quarantine”? Would you argue against the distribution of Chromebooks - bought by your tax-payer dollars - to families that don’t have laptops or computers at home in NPS? What about Boston Public School students? What about students in Alabama? Tuesday/Wednesday Read: This article on the state of marriage. Blog Post on my website (250 words):Do the societal dynamics of the Mosuo appeal to you? Why or why not? What might it mean for our society that domestic partnerships and cohabitation are on the rise but marriage is on the decline? Is this a sign of progress or of regress? Do you hope to get married one day? What changes to the stereotypical agreement of marriage would you propose to someone you choose to marry? Attend: Office Hours via Zoom on Wednesday morning (10-11 am) if you have a question or need to check in! Thursday Attend: Class discussion at your block's slot via Zoom. Friday Wash your hands! |
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