Quick Preposition Section for the Midterm

Take the last 10 minutes of your midterm to answer these questions about prepositions and prepositional phrases.

"Into the Wild" vocabulary that will be on the midterm

Many of these "Into the Wild" words will be on your midterm exam. Click on the link, sign into Quizlet, and take the time to quiz yourself, make tests and test each other. I look forward to seeing and giving you credit for your scatter and learning scores.

Unit Reflection--Due Thursday Dec. 10, 2015

Midterm Essay Component

For 20 percent of your midterm grade, write an essay of three 11-sentence paragraphs explaining the solutions to the crises of leadership and loss of concentration the authors of Solitude and Leadership and Stop Googling worry about. Are they likely to work? Why or why not?

Use at least two examples from each essay to support your points. Be sure to say what Deresiewicz's and Turkle's views on education and our relationships with each other and what they think will help us.

You have time in class to write drafts Thursday and Friday. Use this time to receive feedback from teachers and fellow students.

Telling the Turkle and Deresiewicz story

In groups of three or four you will write a script--about two to four characters who overcome the real world challenges Turkel and Deresiewicz describe. You may have a narrator and actors or all be actors. Think of what we lose, according to the authors, and how we might get them back.

Your final scene will be scored Wednesday according to the following system:

Realistic-- even if exaggerated--characters Superhero, Villain, Citizens: 15 pts

Clear conflict--i.e. the main characters struggle believably: 15 pts.

Realistic, clear crisis and solution: 30 pts

Modified script format: 30 pts

CHARACTER NAME(s)--description


SETTING: present, past, future, geography, rooms place(s) etc.


ACTION: describe things that happen, or have happened that dialogue won't cover


For dialogue--here's a real script which we are just approximating.

example:

SUZY the EMPATHY EMPRESS:  How do you feel, CITIZEN GEORGE?

CITIZEN GEORGE: (looking at his phone) Who are you? Why do you want to know? Go away. I have to go back to work at DroneLand.

MR. DRONE:(coming into the room) GEORGE, where are you? Get back to work. Those phones won't answer themselves.

Computer survey

Please click here to take the survey Ms. Garney and Ms. Cox sent.

Please take this one too from the Electronic Freedom Foundation.

Toward Understanding Solitude and Leadership and Stop Googling

Image credit: clickart

• Have both texts available, whether on your tablet or in your hand. 
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• Links here and here. 
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• If you're using the digital versions, remember the handy "find" feature available on your browser.
  
  
• At your four-seater group, choose a recorder and a speaker.
• Use paper to list the group's discoveries
• These include:
• Main ideas for each article
• SHARED main ideas
• the IMPLIED and IDENTIFIED heroes and villains from each author's point of view
• Write down the sentence or sentences that support your observations, those that speak to you--or at least their location, so you can quote accurately
• Prepare to say whether you agree, disagree or want to qualify the parts you agree with, while supporting your position with text you find convincing

      We'll decide together on an appropriate time for the small group activity, as well as good timing for a follow-up discussion of your findings and your views in a large group.

Lastly, you'll prepare a Tweet (140 characters) for @williamderesiewicz and @STurkle describing your position, this may be homework...

Links for Table Comparison Assignment

Click here for Stop Googling...

Click here for On Leadership and Solitude

Vocabulary challenge...

The following words from the "Stop Googling..." article by Sherry Turkle made up the word bank for two tasks, so far:

Stop Googling                                          Stop Googling II

algorithmic                                               essential

empathic                                                   antidote 

virtue                                                        psychology

resilient                                                    solitude

intimacy                                                   authentic 

intuition                                                   crucial

punitive                                                    virtue

domain                                                     spontaneous   

implicated                                                algorithmic  

periphery                                                 contingency

asserting                                                  vulnerable

sufficiently                                              virtuous

sacred

flourish

empathy

posture

capacity

partisanship

1. the two crossword puzzles

2. those you found on the document and underlined or highlighted

Watch this space for your next task with these words.

Combining Sentence exercises

Click here for the combining sentence exercise.

How empathetic are you?

Click here and take a quiz?

Can you recognize facial expressions?

PSAT practice

Click here to get to your Khan Academy practice pages

28.September.15

In class, write for 10 minutes straight responding to any or all of the following questions:

• Why did Alex/Chris give away all his money?
• Why did Alex/Chris choose to go to Alaska?
• Wild Card--write about anything you like.

Watch the film and ask at least three questions while you watch.

Make Your Own Jeopardy Game

Click here to go to FlipQuiz so you can make your own Jeopardy Game.

You'll have to sign up and make your own account.

Then use your questions/notes/book/vocabulary to make a quiz.

Post the link for the finished game in comments here at the end of class.

Into the Wild Audiobook

Into the Wild Vocabulary

Look here for words you are responsible for as part of reading "Into the Wild," by Jon Krakauer.

So far this is our list:

1. Typhoon
2. Capitalism
3. Peregrinations

For additional vocabulary credit:

Any words in the book that you don't know, look up in the dictionary, and list them and their definitions in the comment section.

By Friday, September 4, you are responsible for contributing one vocabulary word, for a total of 19 by the end of next week.

A Few Wild Men

America history and culture celebrates independent men who battle the wilderness.

Daniel Boone comes to mind, as well as renowned author Jack London, author of Call of the Wild and other American classics.

Your in-class assignment is:

1. Read a short biography about London 

2. Read it again and take notes.

3. Take a quiz at the end of class. 

You may work in groups of two or three to gather notes.

All three must write their own, by hand.

Notes may be taken in a double entry style, or as an informal outline.

Into the Wild Brainstorm

Independence:

America
Grown Up
Independent
Fireworks
Johnny Cash
July
Celebrating
American Flag
Government
John Adams
Declaration
Abraham Lincoln

Rich Kids' Families:

Money
Spoiled
Expensive
Fast cars
Annoying
Harvard
Yachts
Whiny
Big Houses
Mansions
Diamonds
Drugs
Celebrities

Alaska:

Cold
Snow
Polar Bears
Forest
Northern Lights
Jackets
Ice Road Truckers
Snowmobiles
Dog sleds
Mushing
Alaskan Oil
Cabins
Fishing
Lumberjacks
Close to Russia
Pine Trees
Long hair

College Graduation:

Relief
Graduated
Freedom
Jobs
Kids
Construction
Broke
Food

First Post for Third Hour

Welcome to your blog.

While here you can respond to writing, check assignments and share ideas for studying.

Today we:

Checked and finished W.O.C. 2

Took quick quiz

Signed into the class blog. Many of us will need to download Chrome and make a Google profile to have full access.

Your first blog response is to post a comment with a concrete recommendation about topics we should study that will help us produce work and fun.