Happy last day of February!!
Today we will continue the guided research and planning portion of your project. Before moving on from research on to project work, you need to conference with Cameron. A checklist for class today can be found on these slides. Homework: Discussion #4 for The Marrow Thieves is Friday 3/3, finish the book! You will be analyzing the themes in the book and discussing the title as well. The Guided Research assignment due Thursday 3/2 start of class Using your freewrite from last week and the application portion of your Civil Disobedience project from earlier in the semester, we will begin formulating a plan for your final product for this project. The goal is to answer the project essential question through words, art, or another medium of your choice. See the link below for the complete project description.
Essential Question: How can the past guide us in creating a strong and just future? Final Project Description Homework: Final Extra Credit Discussion on Friday! This will be the whole rest of the book. Today is a critique of your practice zines! The goal is to refine and submit work you are proud of. To brainstorm for the final project, please also complete the Free-write on Classroom.
Homework: Turn in a refined zine on Monday Complete free-write on Classroom today Extra credit discussion #3 will happen today in 4th hour! Today's goal is to finish your zines! Again, these are practice and are on any topic you are interested in. We will do a critique in class tomorrow to help us understand what we might want in a class zine focused on answering our project essential questions based on what we see in yours that are liked or not. After looking at the slides on Classroom, look at the examples in class or online to see more about this protest style.
Homework: Finish zine before class tomorrow Discussion #3 The Marrow Thieves pg. 130-192 is tomorrow! Bring at least one discussion question for the group as preparation. To culminate our learning on civil disobedience, protest an injustice, we will be looking at other forms of protest starting with the zine. The slides for today and a make your own zine assignment are posted to Classroom.
Homework: Make your own zine due Thursday Discussion #3 Friday for The Marrow Thieves Today we will continue looking closely at a few acts of resistance or civil disobedience related to the context of the southwest and Bears Ears National Monument. Firstly is a dive into Uranium Mining and The Long Walk. Studying these will help us have another example of a cause people believe strongly about and what they did to advocate for their perspective or the change they wanted to see. Analyzing methods of resistance and how to communicate our beliefs around justice is the goal of this project and this will provide another framework for your thinking.
Here are the slides for this section which are accompanied by a Classroom assignment. Homework: Uranium Mining and The Long Walk assignment due Today at midnight (Classroom) The Marrow Thieves pg. 100-130 discussion Thursday during 4th hour. Come prepared with annotations. Today we will begin looking closely at a few acts of resistance or civil disobedience related to the context of the southwest and Bears Ears National Monument. Firstly is a dive into Uranium Mining and The Long Walk. Studying these will help us have another example of a cause people believe strongly about and what they did to advocate for their perspective or the change they wanted to see. Analyzing methods of resistance and how to communicate our beliefs around justice is the goal of this project and this will provide another framework for your thinking.
Here are the slides for this section which are accompanied by a Classroom assignment. Homework: Uranium Mining and The Long Walk assignment due Wednesday at midnight (Classroom) The Marrow Thieves pg. 100-130 discussion Thursday during 4th hour. Come prepared with annotations. This week we are focusing our time on the Stakeholder Summit research to prepare for a debate on Friday! Use the prep assignment on Classroom to know your stakeholder perspective and to have a list of resources to begin your research. These slides walk you through our daily starters for the week.
Homework: The Marrow Thieves extra credit discussion Thursday February 9 pg 1-100 Stakeholder Summit research due Friday February 10 Today we are wrapping up the documentary from yesterday and finishing TEA Paragraphs in response to the film. We will also begin talking about the formation of Bears Ears National Monument through reading the original Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Proposal.
Homework: Submit TEA paragraph responding to the questions from the documentary on Classroom Due Today 2/3 Finish reading and annotating Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Proposal Due Monday 2/6 If participating in the extra credit, a discussion of The Marrow Thieves pages 1-100 is moved to Thursday 2/9 during 4th hour Today you are watching the documentary Battle Over Bears Ears. You will take notes as you watch in order to be prepared to respond to a Question TEA paragraph on Google Classroom during 4th hour.
Class today uses these slides. Reminders: Turn in Timeline Posters today The first Extra Credit Discussion on The Marrow Thieves will be next Thursday on pg. 1-100 TEA Paragraph Question response is due tomorrow- please use your class time wisely so you don't have to do it for homework |