04.11.07

Core 1:

1. Write-On: What is your anthem, and how has it persuaded you to be who you to be who you are?
2. Read and Discuss chapter two.

Core 2:

1. What kind of wiki contributer are you, and why?
2. The ultimate spam fighting tool: You.
3. Work on Belief Statement Essays.

Core 3:

1. Debate Question:
   • Solved: You should have more respect for women than men.
2. Are all problems created equal?
3. Chapter 3

Core 4:

1. What kind of wiki contributer are you, and why?
2. Check out Spresent.
3. Work on your Utopia project.

04.10.07

Cores 1, 2, and 4:

1. What is your Digital Legacy?
2. Work on your wiki edit that you will use for your weekly authentic, or blog for your weekly authentic (Sem2_Week12).
3. Post to del.icio.us

Core 3:

Outsiders Blogging:

• What do you think the difference between innocent and “not dirty” is?
• How do you think your intelligence level actually affects your friends?
• What does, “Things are rough all over” mean?
• What was the best time you ever had at a drive-in movie?
• What was the story that caused everyone to be speechless?

04.09.07

Core 1:

1. Write-On: What would it take for you to start or go along with a revolution?
2. Enter Animal Farm
   

Core 2:

1. Extending the classroom:
   • What does it mean that aznchicken17, rbsmm743, dancingintherain, moose2, chaosdragonx, snowboardinghockeyplayer3, roadrunner19937, rubyredslippers, hellomynameisbill77 all worked on their -Isms over the weekend and even more of you went on Standpoint, all without me asking you to work on it? (denalirott53, helamanswarrior100, bazookabubblegum, SilverLining, and Nephiteforce2 have also worked after school. That’s nearly 50% of our class.)
2. How to create a Standpoint Grazr on your Wiki Page.
3. Expectations for this week:
   • Establish your core belief.
   • Write your belief statement essay according to the This I Believe model on a new Wiki Page.
   • Solicit at least three comments from our -Ism community on your Discussion page and make the revisions.
   • Record your Audio Essay on Gcast and embed it into your wiki page.

Core 3:

1. What is the one true story that you could tell that would leave other people speechless?
2. Read about Johnny.
3. Finish the gender issue handout.
4. Set-up for debate on gender stereotyping.

Core 4:

1. The Rubric Debate: Solved.
2. Extending the Classroom:
   • What does it mean that misterpirate7, bluesea, 3ways, runescape1, tigerqueen24, Moofacer, texasredneck18, thingydingy, munchy, dude9coolio, and Zevariaxthedragonlord worked on their utopias over the weekend without me asking them to? (whizkid4, boardingguitarist, frozenwaffles, lacrosseman, and kubafish3 have also worked after school. That is nearly than 2/3 of our class.)
3. Work on Utopias according to the Youbric.

04.06.07

Core 1:

1. What is leadership?
2. The History of Communism in 7 Parts
3. Working with wikimail and working on your Utopias

Core 2:

1. How can we use a social network such as standpoint to further discuss, enrich, and debate our beliefs?
2. Work on your -Ism templates and standpoint beliefs.

Core 3:

1. What happens at the movies?
2. The Nightly Double.

Core 4:

1. To Rubric or not to Rubric?
2. Working with wikimail and working on your Utopias.

04.05.07

Core 1:

1. Introduction to the ideas from animal farm.
   1. Get the BritLit Podcast to work.
2. Respond to personalized discussion questions and continue to work on Utopia.

Core 2:

1. Listen to a few audio essays from last year:
   1. Blake
   2. Jake
   3. Katelyn
   4. Carly
2. Answer Personalized Discussion Questions and work on your -Ism.

Core 3:

1. Why can’t we all just get along?
2. Summarize characters and fill in Cast sheet.
3. Continue Outsiders with paired reading.

Core 4:

1. Now that we have gotten far enough into this project to tell really what it is all about, we need to decide what the end goal is for each of us.
   • How is this “writing” assignment different than a traditional writing assignment, and how does that influence the way in which we should grade it?
   • What would you look for in a “good utopia?”
   • What should the requirements be?
2. Answer the Personalized Discussion Questions and work on your Utopia.

04.04.07

Core 1:

1. How can we discuss our worlds?
   
2. New examples of Utopian integration.
3. Introduction to the reaction novel.
4. Read about and discuss the many levels of Animal Farm.

Core 2:

1. What does formal and informal discussion look like on the wiki?
2. Making Belief Statements real
   • This I Believe
   • Standpoint
3. Listen to This I Believe Essays and start to narrow down which belief you want to write into your Audio Essay.

Core 3:

1. Write-on: What is the perfect group of friends? (What types of people do you have to have in the group so that it works?)
2. Learn about the Greasers from the rest of chapter 1.
3. Fill out the graphic organizer for the characters.

Core 4:

1. What new ways of revealing your utopia are you trying? (or do you want to try?)
2. Explore a few of the most recent additions.
   • Olien
   • Dnalsi
3. Discuss measurable goals, and one more day of creation without rubric.

04.03.07

Cores 1-4:

1. What is the Value of Amateurs?
2. Work on Sem2_Week11 either on your blog (using Writetomyblog.com or Learnerblogs.org if it is working) or on your wiki page.
3. If you choose to write on your wiki page, you will need to submit the “edit” that you did today as a delicious post. (Click on the history post and then control-click on the most recent edit and copy link location. This will be what you paste into the del.icio.us box when it asks for your url.)

Core 3:

1. Outsiders blogging questions:
   • Why do you think Ponyboy is in a gang?
   • Who are the greasers and socs of Cresthill (Highlands Ranch)?
   • What’s up with the names Soda Pop and Ponyboy?
   • What kinds of slang do you use that other people wouldn’t understand if they were reading a book about your life?

04.02.07

Core 1:

1. How will the las eight weeks of middle school be different from the rest of middle school?
2. Show off the Official Seal Generator
   
   • How will our own licenses affect our content?
3. Explore the Discovery Utopias Wiki.

Core 2:

1. How will the las eight weeks of middle school be different from the rest of middle school?
2. Show off the Official Seal Generator
   
   • How will our own licenses affect our content?
3. Explore the Discovery -Isms Wiki

Core 3:

1. Write-On (on the back of the handout): From a name like Ponyboy, what do you expect the narrator of this book to be like?
2. Explore the Five Methods of Characterization in the first 10 pages of the book.

Core 4:

1. Check-In with Independent Utopian novels.
2. How do you think the “Enhancements” will add to your Utopia proposal.
3. How do you want your Utopia proposal to be organized? How do you want it to look?