04.30.07

Core 1:

1. Write-On: What is the line between leadership and dictatorship.
2. Read the next chapter of Animal Farm and figure out where/if the line has been crossed.
3. Utopia update, Icom update, and War update.

Core 2:

1. What are the favorable Pre-Conditions for a movement to start? (What conditions would make a movement more ripe than others?)
2. Icom, -Ism, where do we go from here?
3. Work on your -Ism with specific purpose.

Core 3:

1. Podcast Discussion Question:  What does the rumble solve?
2. Group A to keep reading until the end of the rumble, Group B to start work on their first My Meaning Question.

Core 4:

1.  Utopia update, Icom update, and War update.
2. Discuss hero question from Friday.
3. Work on Utopias with specific purposes.

04.27.07

Core 1:

1. Review the revised Discovery Online Code.
   
2. Write-On: How would you know if you were being controlled?
3. Read the next chapter in Animal Farm looking for controlling situations.
4. Work on Utopias.

Core 2:

1.  Review the revised Discovery Online Code.
2. Explore the Promethean Movement and write down the answers to the following questions on a sheet of paper:
   • What is the Promethean Movement?
   • How does it try to grow and convince people?
   • What is the Promethean Movement doing that you can do with your -Ism?
3. Work on you -Ism wikis with a specific purpose.

Core 3:

1. Split into A and B.
   • Group A will be either reading to 104 or working on the Family Affects.
   • Group B will be creating their Meaning Statements and helping the new people to set up accounts.
2. Podcast Discussion Question:
   • Does Ponyboy and Johnny’s one act of heroism cancel out the murder?

Core 4:

1.   Review the revised Discovery Online Code.
2. Write-On: Who are the heroes of your utopia? (Have you provided an opportunity for people to stand out as humans, not as successful businessmen, writers, or political leaders?)
3. Work on your Utopia for a specific purpose.

04.26.07

Core 1:

1. How do we need to update The Discovery Blogging Rules so that they include wiki-specific ideas.
2. What can we do with our new found collaborators from Wallingford, Ct?
3. Work on your Utopia with specific goals.

Core 2:

1.  How do we need to update The Discovery Blogging Rules so that they include wiki-specific ideas.
2. How are your own spaces different or the same as our -Ism space?
3. Work on your -Ism with specific goals.

Core 3:

1. Group A:
   

   Patrick M. (until he finishes)	Adam G.	Majid M.	Colby S.	Aric V.	Rhiannon R.	Sean C.	Michael D.	Haley O. (until she finishes)
   Brook B. (until she finishes)

2. Group B:
   

   Matt G.

   Trey F.

   Eric P.

   Mark B. (Engagement team)

   Garret O.

   Stephanie S. (Engagement team)

   Zach H.

   Breanne N.

   Radha K.

   Daniela B.

   Bryce

   Erin L.

   Nick R-S.

   Taylor (Engagement team)

3. How will groups differ, and how will we come together?
4. Work at your pace.
5. Our Meanings Podcast Discussion Question: Why does Johnny care more for the lives of the kids he saved than for his own? Is this right?

Core 4:

1. How do we need to update The Discovery Blogging Rules so that they include wiki-specific ideas.
2. What can we do with our new found collaborators from Wallingford, Ct?
3. Work on your Utopia with specific goals.

04.23.07

Core 1:

1. Check out the Clustr Map.
   • How does this change the nature of our writing/project?
2. Discuss-On: What kind of leader usually wins a fight/debate?
3. Read the Snowball and Napoleon showdown.
   • How does this fundamentally change the society?
   • Is it better or worse than having your two leaders argue all of the time?
4. Work on your Utopias with specific goals in mind.

Core 2:

1. Social Movement Theory #1: All movements have an initiating event.
   • What is, or will be, the initiating event of your -Ism that will allow people to rally around it?
2. Work on your -Isms and work toward a movement.

Core 3:

1. Introduce My Meaning.
   • Why a wiki?
   • Why My Meaning?
2. Why would Cherry spy for the greasers after a greaser had just killed her boyfriend?
3. Take a look at what happens next.

Core 4:

1. Check out the Clustr Map.
   • How does this change the nature of our writing/project?
2. Write-On: How does your society commemorate birth and death?
3. Work on your Utopias with specific goals in mind.

04.19.07

Core 1:

1. Who do you think the animals represent in a society?
   • Boxer
   • Clover
   • Benjamin
   • Muriel
   • Squealer
2. Read Chapter 5:
   • What does a societal shift look like?

Core 2:

1. How do you start a movement?
   1. Steps
      
   2. “You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick and they won’t take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they’re both [idiots] and they won’t take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. They may think it’s an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day, walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it’s a movement.” -Arlo Guthrie
2. Work on your -Ism with a purpose.

Core 3:

1. Read about “gold.”
2. Why do we want to hold on to our “gold” for longer than we can?

Core 4:

1. Work on your Utopia with specific goals in mind.
2. How does the concept of beauty function in your utopia? (What is beautiful according to your citizens?)

04.18.07

Cores 1-4:

• Guess how much of our Academy of Discovery budget was set aside for us at the meeting last night?

Core 1:

1. Should leaders have more privileges than followers? Why or why not?
2. Read chapter 4 in Animal Farm.
   • How does the farm change over time?
   • Can any society keep the passion and ideal of the first few days/years?
3. Work on your Utopias with a specific goal for your 15 minutes.

Core 2:

1. How do you promote the societal good of justice in your everyday life?
2. Work on your -Isms with a specific goal in mind.

Core 3:

1. If you could, would you change the way life works so that you would:
   • Remain a child forever
   • Be Born into adulthood
   • Slow down or speed up the transition from childhood to adulthood
2. Read the rest of the chapter:
   • What is gold?

Core 4:

1. Check out the front page!
   
2. What is the safeguard on corruption in your utopia? Can anyone get around it?
3. Work on your Utopia with specific goals in mind.

04.17.07

Cores 1, 2, 4:

1. Watch Inquiring Minds Need to Know and introduce the Academy of Discovery:
   • What should we change before we go to the parent committee and ask for money?
   • What questions would you have after our presentation?
2. Work on your Blog or Wiki and submit a del.icio.us post for Sem2_Week13.

Core 3:

1. Why is your physical identity so valuable to you?
2. Do you think that one decision should affect you for the rest of your life?
3. Do you have an anti-hero that you look up to, like Johnny does to Dally?
4. What would you have picked up from the grocery store if you knew that you might have to hide out for a long time and you didn’t bring anything with you?
5. What would being a fugitive from the law be like?

04.16.07

Core 1:

1. What is the easiest way to hide corruption within a society?
2. Read Chapter 4 in Animal Farm.
3. Work on utopias.
   • Who in your utopia is corruptible?
   • Figure out your 7+ Commandments.

Core 2:

1. If this were your metaphor for life, how would you describe it?
2. Check-In with -Ism. How many projects do you have done (including audio essay)?
3. Work on -Ism with specific goals.

Core 3:

1.  What is the one thing that you have hidden from people, hoping that they would never find out about?
2. Read about Ponyboy and Johnny’s transformation.
   • Can you still be a greaser without the grease?
   • What are the essential parts of your identity?

Core 4:

1. How do you balance luxury vs. utility in your utopia?
2. Work on a part of your utopia that hasn’t gotten a lot of love yet:

   1. I. Origins

      II. Population and Demographics

      III. Culture, Social Customs, and Family Structure

      C. Arts and Entertainment:

      IV. Industry, Agriculture, and Geography

      V. Government

      VI. Infrastructure

      VII: Reaction to Society and Other Utopias (You may want to wait until you have finished your reaction novel in order to complete this section)

      IX. Unique Features of this Utopia

04.13.07

Core 1:

1. Creating interactivity on your wiki using sPresent.
2. Wiki work and troubleshooting.

Core 2:

1.  How was your -Ism shaped by the following events:
   • 9/11
   • The first time you got the wind knocked out of you.
   • Your first break-up (with a friend or boy/girlfriend).
   • Your first fight with your parents.
   • A time when you got mad at God or the universe.
   • A time when you thought things were unfair.
   • The first time you got made fun of.
   • [Insert a specific event that you think changed your outlook on the world].
2. Work on belief statement essays and sPresent interactive answers.

Core 3:

1. How do you resolve the dilemma of a fight without resorting to violence?
2. Read “The Good Part.”
   • When is self-defense not really self-defense?

Core 4:

1. What will you do with your Utopia once it is created?
2. Work on your Utopia with specific goals like:
   • Finishing a sPresent
   • Finishing the Origins (or another category)
   • Take a screenshot of your planet, flag, etc.

04.12.07

Core 1:

1. What kind of wiki contributer are you, and why?
2. Distilling your Utopian ideals into a set of 7 (or more) commandments:
   • What kinds of commandments did the Pigs paint on the barn?
   • What rules do you want everyone to follow in your utopia so that everyone can coexist.
3. Setting up a utopia e-vent!
4. Work on your Utopia with specific goals in mind.

Core 2:

1. Enhancing your -Ism:
   • sPresent
2. Take a look at some Belief Statement Essays.
3. Work on your -Ism, with the specific goals in mind.

Core 3:

1. What is the difference between a problem and dilemma?
2. What are some problems in the story so far and what are some dilemmas?
3.  Look for them in finishing Chapter 3.

Core 4:

1. Setting up a Utopia e-vent!
2. Work on your Utopia with specific goals in mind.