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Do Now | Quick Jot The Scenario: "You were recently accused of skipping school to pig out on homemade cupcakes and binge watch Young Sheldon on Netflix. Luckily, you lawyered up and are now being prepped to undergo a lie detector test orchestrated by Big Brother. Big Brother is notorious for conducting these interviews in overheated dark cells beneath heat lamps with the unnerving drip of water surrounding you. In order to avoid the rapid heartbeats, temple sweats, and unnecessary fidgets, your lawyer would like you to prepare your answers before meeting within the pressure cooker of Big Brother." Describe this class in three sentences using one verb per sentence. Be prepared to share out one of your sentences.
Do Next | Share Out What are some of the assignments that you are most proud of completing so far within this class?
Writing Workshop | Complete your Peel the Fruit for English! Exit Slip | Put your Peel the Fruit on the appropriate pile:
FRIDAY Do Now | Cyberjournal Friday! Mix n' Mingle: What does it mean to be ordinary? Share: What was one new idea about ordinary that you heard from someone else Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal Part I
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Do Now | Are you more like....
Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal Reflection Today, you will construct your first reflective blog post for this class. Writers develop and clarify ideas by interacting with other writers. Writers develop, connect, and reflect on ideas presented by other writers. In doing so, they determine their personal opinion on a topic. This opinion is then developed into an argument using information gathered from other writers. This information and insight adds to their own writing via direct and indirect evidence. Construct a paragraph about your personal thoughts on tourism by responding to the questions below. Be sure to write in complete sentences, paragraph form.
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Cyberjournal | Turn your thinking routines from chapter one and two into a formal cyberjournal in which you consider the act of rebellion on the farm in the novel and the role the pigs currently play in this rebellion.
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Do Now | Animal Farm, Chapter 1
After reading chapter one of Animal Farm, create a new paragraph in yesterday's cyberjournal.
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Extra Time: read chapter two individually Do Now | See, Think, Wonder, Connect
Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal Reflection
Today, you will construct your first reflective blog post for this unit. Writers develop and clarify ideas by interacting with other writers. Writers develop, connect, and reflect on ideas presented by other writers. In doing so, they determine their personal opinion on a topic. This opinion is then developed into an argument using information gathered from other writers. This information and insight adds to their own writing via direct and indirect evidence. Today, before we begin reading and interacting with the book, consider your initial ideas about human rights in a cyberjournal. Tomorrow, we will read the first chapter of the novel together, then add to your cyberjournal based on the information and ideas presented in chapter one.
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Do Now | Who writes history?
Writing Workshop | Final Cyberjournal!!! Paragraph 1:
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Do Now | Four Corners
There is a direct quote from Part II in A Small Place in each corner of the room. As you enter the room, you will be designated a specific corner of the room. Consider the meaning of the quote on the paper, by responding directly on the paper.
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Discussion | Symbolism After discussing our Four Corners response, let's reconsider the the quotes through a symbolic lens. Remember that a symbol is an object, person, or idea that is supposed to represent something else, something more, something meaningful to help us better understand the argument that is being presented through the text.
Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal *You will have tomorrow to continue working on this cyberjournal, so do not rush through it today. In Part I, Kincaid discusses the idea of "ordinary" and how it propels people to leave their world behind to visit new, more exotic lands on holiday. What does it mean to be ordinary? To live an ordinary life? Why are some people compelled to leave the ordinary? In Part II, Kincaid outlines how the British taught Antiguans to be ordinary.
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Exit Slip | How might the Mills Reef Club relate or connect to what you have learned with Molly in movement? Do Now | Maps of Antigua
Analysis | Part I, A Small Place Pull out your rhetorical strategies quick guide. Today we will be introduced to the novel by reading the first couple of pages together. While reading consider the following questions for discussion:
Exit Slip | Cyberjournal I Used to Think....Now I Think Add one last paragraph to your cyberjournal from yesterday. Consider the start of the novel compared to your original thoughts on tourism.
Do Now | Are you more like....
Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal Reflection Today, you will construct your first reflective blog post for this class. Writers develop and clarify ideas by interacting with other writers. Writers develop, connect, and reflect on ideas presented by other writers. In doing so, they determine their personal opinion on a topic. This opinion is then developed into an argument using information gathered from other writers. This information and insight adds to their own writing via direct and indirect evidence. Construct a paragraph about your personal thoughts on tourism by responding to the questions below. Be sure to write in complete sentences, paragraph form.
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éPortfolio Submission FormCourse DescriptionA Small Place is an interdisciplinary course inspired by the controversial nonfiction novel, A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid, about Antigua—the lasting effects of British colonialism, criticism of the tourist industry and corruption of Antiguan government. Throughout this course, Étudians will research and analyze a wide variety of multimedia texts about Antigua, Sheboygan, and Native American history in Wisconsin; focused on the themes of tourist and native, colonialism and gentrification, and the cultural importance of movement.
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