Do Now | See, Think, Wonder, Connect
Studio Time | Goal Setting Razing Liberty Square + Hip Hop Orchestra
Do Now
Do Next | Critical Thinking Paragraph Open your IndieLens Critical Review page. Change the name of the page Film Reviews (sorry, I changed my mind, but alas that is life!)
Critical Review Components
Publication
NOTE | Students participating in the Global Scholars Program may use this IndieLens for your first Critical Review. However, the critical review needs to include these components: Analysis: Analyze the elements of the piece. Be sure to reference specific aspects of the piece, using direct and indirect evidence, to support your analysis. Elements to consider include:
Interpretation: This portion of the critical review answers so what?. It identifies the theme of the piece; it is what the audience is meant to understand about the human experience.
Personal Response: Finally, this is your opportunity to reflect on your experience with the piece and what you learned from it.
Do Now | Headlines Routine
Create a headline that captures your ideas about the house in the short story from Friday. Writing Workshop | Cyberjournal Today you will write your first cyberjournal for Dystopian Literature. Open your Writing Portfolio in Google Sites. Create a new blog post that incorporates responses to the following prompts:
Outline
Professional Publication
éPortfolio | Update Individuality
Exit Slip | Cyberjournal Submission After you Post the blog post, open the internet version of your Writing Portfolio. Click on Cyberjournal/Blog then on your newly published post. Send that URL link to Addie using the éPortfolio Submission Form.
Gathering (Thursday) | Two Truths and a Lie
Two Truths and a Lie: Record two truths you would be willing to share with the world via social media. Create one lie that might enhance your image on social media in a way you would like it enhanced.
Parking Lot | Generate, Sort, Connect, Elaborate
Do Now (Friday) | Do human influence technology or does technology influence humans? Thinking Routine | August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury We understand stories, characters, ideas more deeply when we consider them from multiple perspectives; so, we are going to listen to the story, doodle the story, discuss the story. For this activity, respond to the prompts in both text and images; create rough sketches, symbols, visual texts.
(re)Quick Jot
Do Now | Opening
Critical Thinking Paragraph
Publication
NOTE | Students participating in the Global Scholars Program may use this IndieLens for your first Critical Review. However, the critical review needs to include these components:
Analysis: Analyze the elements of the piece. Be sure to reference specific aspects of the piece, using direct and indirect evidence, to support your analysis. Elements to consider include:
Interpretation: This portion of the critical review answers so what?. It identifies the theme of the piece; it is what the audience is meant to understand about the human experience.
Personal Response: Finally, this is your opportunity to reflect on your experience with the piece and what you learned from it.
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éPortfolio Submission FormCourse DescriptionThis course investigates stories of Totalitarian and post-apocalyptic societies in order to better understand topics relevant in our current society. We will read one dystopian novel as a group and then each student will select a second dystopian novel to analyze individually. We will break down the five characteristics of dystopian literature and research how those characteristics might already be happening in the world around us—government control, environmental destruction, technological control, survival, and loss of individualism.
Assignment NotebookDEADLINE ALERT: Read
1 | Elements of Dystopian Literature
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