Do Monday 1. Sign up for office hours 2. Email me if you plan on taking the AP Language exam on May 20th, 2020 as well as any AP test that will interfere with this week’s Wednesday and Thursday meetings 3. Read through this prompt 4. 300-500 words:
Write back to your freshmen self. Looking back on the items and issues that concerned you four years ago, craft a response that addresses the topics you felt compelled to remark upon during your freshmen year. Reflect upon how much you’ve grown, how your priorities have shifted, how you have met or failed expectations, how your relationships have blossomed and withered. Give examples, answer questions, and comment on how your perspective as a senior differs from yours as a freshmen. OR Write a letter to someone who holds significant value to you at this current moment. In this letter, comment upon how you’ve grown through your relationship and how the events and experiences that you’ve shared or received has developed your sense of self and worth. What lessons have this person taught you? What moments stand out in your mind as being symbolic for the space this individual occupies in your life? What commitments, values, or understandings would be vacant if it weren’t for this person? Put this into your Google Drive folder, titled “Letter” Do Tuesday Make a list of 20 things you never want to forget about the past four years. The items that comprise this list can be moments, lessons, individuals, songs, promises, relationships, experiences, etc. Try to be as specific as possible. Then, compose a brief reflection initiated by the prompt, “I wouldn’t have written my story this way, but I’m happy that…” (300 words) Put this in your Google Drive folder, titled “List” Do Wednesday 1. Swing by office hours and say hi! 2. Imagine there were some sort of intimate, exclusive candle-lit ceremony in which you and forty other seniors of your choice (and everyone’s parents) were in attendance to recognize and honor all that you’ve gone through over the past four years. The penultimate portion of this ceremony was an “open mic” session in which any senior is allowed to address the congregation of peers and parents say whatever is on his/her/their heart. You walk up there, grab the mic, and start, “Hello, I just wanted to say…” (500 words) Put this in your Google Drive folder, titled “Listen” Do Thursday 1. Come to our class meet - we’ll be discussing the “high school record” you made last week and trying to process how much we’ve learned / lost 2. What are two life lessons that you’ve learned / received / imagined / ignored over the past four years? Write 150 words for each lesson explaining what it means to you, why you believe it (even if you don’t actively live by it), how you learned it, and what it might look like to live life according to this lesson / rule moving forward. OR Write a 300-500 word vignette that details how you learned the most poignant lesson (life, academic, social, emotional, relational, romantic, personal, financial, etc.) you’ve learned in the past 4 years. Help me be there with you, learning it in real time, as we experience the pain, pleasure, success, failure, disappointment, jubilation, relief together. Put this in your Google Drive folder, titled “Lessons” Do Friday 1. Finalize one of these previous entries to submit 200 words or so for collection and publication in the Senior Voices effort! Submission details will be shared once I get them. 2. Make a “20 songs for the class of 2020” playlist! What songs will always bring you back to high school? This is just a fun activity; no pressure to reflect or submit this one. But be sure to share it with your friends once you’re done!
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Do Monday 1. Sign for Office Hours; send an email with an update if you can't make it! 2.Read: The Party
Do Tuesday Read:The Heroes Do Wednesday 1. Swing by Office Hours, if possible. If not, please email me an update! 2. Read: Moscow 3. Pick one panel from the past three chapters that you think do a good job of capturing a moment in which Marji’s understanding of the world is still coated in nativity. Then analyze it a still painting - would it work as effectively if it were removed from the context of the narrative? How does it try to offer information, make a statement, evoke a response? What does the viewer know that Marji doesn’t, and what impact does that have on the viewer? Try to write around 150-200 words. If you need help, try to follow these three steps:
Do Thursday 1. Read:The Sheep 2. Come by our “class meet” in the afternoon Do Friday 1. Read: The Trip 2. Schoology Discussion Board: At what age is it appropriate for an individual to join a protest? 3? 13? 30? Was Marji too young for the first protest or were the circumstances just different? Do Monday 1. Sign up for office hours (link and topic above) 2. Read Question 2 (about Luce and the state of American journalism) and craft an outline and a thesis. Time yourself and put this outline and thesis onto a document titled “ Practice outline and thesis” in our shared folder
Do Tuesday Set a timer for 8 minutes. Read Question 2 (about Banneker and slavery) and try to craft a thesis and as much of an outline as possible before the timer runs out. Add this onto the document from yesterday. Then, finish your outline, if you haven’t. Do Wednesday 1. Swing by office hours and say hi! 2. Read this article from Vox walking through the timeline regarding the Tara Reade case and pick one of the following two pieces: 1. Intelligencer’s piece discussing how public feminists might be failing the moment and 2. 538’s piece on how the electorate might shift in regards to Biden, Trump, and #MeToo Blogpost: Is it factual or facile to consider an individual who opposed Brett Kavanugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court due to Dr. Ford’s allegations of sexual assault but still supports Joe Biden as a presidential candidate in light of Tara Reade’s allegations as a hypocrite? What does “believe her” mean in this instance and how might it differ from the case against Kavanaugh, Trump, Weinstein, or others? What rules should Joe Biden have to “play by” in order to be in the camp of #MeToo while still defending his claims of innocence and his position as a major political candidate for president? What would you say to someone who says “I’m willing to disregard this accusation and vote for Joe Biden because he fits my political agenda better than Trump?” Do Thursday 1. Come to our class meet in the morning. 2. In our shared folder, make a document titled “high school record”. In it, list: 1. Every class you’ve ever taken at South and its teacher 2. Another student who shared that class with you 3. A memory (a topic discussed, a moment that was funny, a particular lesson, a time the teacher farted) from the class Do Friday Listen to some popular music from an artist that doesn’t feature English. Kpop, French rap, reggaeton, brass band… lots of music out there that we might truly enjoy! Do Monday 1. Sign up for office hours! Link is above. 2. Watch the following videos that explain the concept of a social contracts: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxC161GvMPc 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Co6pNvd9mc 3. Answer schoology prompt in 150 words: what is a “contract” in relation to how you treat others that you observe even though you never quite explicitly agreed to it? What would make you stop observing this “contract”?
Do Tuesday Read Chapters 3 and 4 in our graphic novel; answer the following question in your reading journal: What are some of the ideas that you know associated with the intellectuals that Marji reads about? How might they tie into the questions of revolution, religion, and legitimacy in governance? 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 5 of Persepolis. 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. In an evidence and research based paragraph, address the following prompt on Schoology: What does it reveal of Marji’s parents that they feel compelled to disclose the truth of the Mehri’s role in her family? 1. Answer to prompt2. Introduction to evidence 3. Present evidence 4. Walk the reader through the evidence 5. Make a connection to one of the themes of our book Do Friday Make a list of qualifications that would make a governmental or societal change legitimate to you in your reading journal. Think: if someone wanted to make all schools single gender, what would have to be true for you to buy into the idea? |
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