Monthly Archives: January 2011

***IMPORTANT: You should be in communication with your SJ group and be contacting organizations daily for a first, second or third SJ visit.  You must have all 5 visits due by April 1.  You must have one visit and one blog post due by Friday.  If you are not calling multiple organizations in a day than you are not doing enough.  Interviews count as a visit.

Due Wed:

1. 4th draft of your fiction story.  Ready and PRINTED by class time for a peer editing session.

Due Thurs:

1. Read and complete QTIPS for Fast Food Nation excerpts.  Be prepared to discuss in class.

Notes:

Due Monday:

Please read and complete QTIPS for the following excerpt from The Jungle by Upton Sinclaire.

Here is the excerpt you need:

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On Monday, Ivo’s father with visit with us.  Please look at his website at the following link.  http://www.mirkoilic.com and get a sense of the work that he does.  Think about what questions you can ask him about designing visual messages for large audiences.

**Ongoing:

Due Wednesday: 4th draft of your Fiction Story, printed in hand, ready for peer editing.

***Continue to call organizations and set up Social Justice visits.  Your due date has been extended till 2/4 for your first visit and BLOG POST.  See blog post guidelines here:Blog-PostSJ2011

Due Wed:

“Lady L” Socratic Seminar Packet: Read and annotate the Hakim article (Chapter 7).  In will check this.

Due Thursday:

The rest of the “Lady L” Socratic Seminar Packet.  This is your ticket into our Socratic Seminar on Thursday afternoon.  Answer, in 2 paragraphs, the Controlling Questions as  well.

Due Friday:

Complete Chapter 19, second half, margin questions.

*Extra Credit: Tonight at 9PM watch the State of the Union address.  Write a 1/2 to 1 page response to the speech, summarizing main points Obama made, in addition to your opinion of the speech.  You may turn this in by Friday.

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Due Thursday:

Entire packet for the Lady “L” Socratic Seminar Preparation.

• You can NOT do this all in one evening, and I will speak more about it in Core All on Tuesday (specifically the Socratic Seminar part).  So bring the packet to class with you.
• Start by reading the “Lady L” chapter that is included in the BACK of the packet.  This chapter also includes vocabulary (listed on the assignment packet’s first page).  Do this as well.
• I will check your “Lady L” Hakim chapter (annotations and vocab) on WEDNESDAY for hw check.
• The rest should be completed for Thursday.

We will have a Socratic Seminar on all the “Lady L” readings on Thursday from 830-915.

Tomorrow, Tuesday Core All, we will have time to wrap up Chapter 19 and work on the Socratic Seminar packet.

1) America Is, pages 430-439. Answer all MARGIN questions
2) Analyze the cartoon from “Harpers Weekly” using the cartoon analysis sheet. The, analyze a second cartoon of your choice. Find a political cartoon from the later 1800s -1900s OR from today (topics can vary) and analyze that.
3) Have an electronic copy of one poem or excerpt for the Literary Magazine.

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Due Friday:

1) Read chapter 18 in America Is – “A Changing Nation” – and answer all the “section review” questions.  There are approx. 16 questions along the way.  We are using this text as a way to provide some historical overview as we move into the Progressive Era and our more “progressive” work with that.

We will not have a Socratic Seminar on MLK Jr. as time has not allowed for it.  We will discuss the last speech he gave and will have a socratic seminar in the upcoming future on a different topic.

Due Tuesday:

1) Read King’s last speech carefully.  A. Answer all questions posed in the margins of the speech.  B. Make any other annotations that you feel compelled to make. C. Respond in the box at the end of the speech. MLK’s Last Speech in TN

2) 3rd draft of your stories (with peer edits made).  BTW, your story should be done at this point (beginning, middle, end)

Due Tomorrow:

1. Read and annotate the following for tomorrow.  I will check that you have at LEAST 5 annotations, underlines, notes, or questions per page.  IHaveaDreamSpeech and the assignment is pasted below:

Consider how the nation was left after the Reconstruction era; the goals in trying to help the freed slaves integrate back into society were abandoned.  The conditions that Melba Patillo Beals describes during the 1950’s in Warriors Don’t Cry came out of a concerted effort to continue what was not finished after the Civil War ended. The Civil Right’s Movement in the 1950’s and 1960’s came directly out of what was not addressed or completed after Reconstruction ended.  As you know Martin Luther King, Jr. was a leader of the movement, a Baptist preacher and visionary who was able to inspire not only those oppressed in America, but the downtrodden throughout the world with his non-violent resistance (an idea from Gandhi’s work in India) and his commitment to true democracy for all.  One of his most famous speeches in American history is one that he gave on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. addressing hundreds of thousands of people who had gathered there to march in support of Civil Rights for everyone.  His speech will be referred to throughout your life and will be a touchstone for other activities we do.

In order to study the speech, we first have to understand its words.

1. Read the speech to yourself and mark it up (annotate) as you go- underline important sections, pose questions, make connections, and look up the words you don’t know and write their definitions in the margin of the paper.

1. Research The March on Washington and on the back of this sheet of paper write down the purpose of the march, its outcome and reaction, and other interesting information related to it.  In other words, answer the who, what where, when, why and how.

1. We will have a Socratic Seminar next week on a section of the speech, which will be a chance for you to debate your thoughts on it.

Due Thursday:

1. Reconstruction Era Remix – copy for me and copy of the script for the group – ready to present.  Please sign up your group on the schedule in our class.  First few groups to present will receive extra credit.
2. Bios for the SJ Project  uploaded to the cloud by Thursday morning (put into your folder, the one with your name on it). SJ bio example
3. Karamu collage complete by Advisory Class.

Thursday we will begin our Recon Remix presentations at 8:30 in Core All.

*If you are not prepared for presentation, this will effect your final grade.