SLC Prep and Peace Poetry

Starter 8

1. List all the academic skills you can be good at in Humanities.  You need to have at least 3 per category, and be as specific as possible.  Categories: Reading, Writing, Speaking, Thinking.
2. List at least 5 other behaviors (NOT skills) that can help you succeed in Humanities.
3. Circle your greatest strength in each, and list at least one piece of evidence that shows that strength.

SLC Strengths

1. Each person sits out for 2 minutes
2. Table come up with their greatest strength in this class, and evidence for that strength
3. Share with the person
4. Repeat

SLC Notecard #1

1. Choose a strength in each category (skills and behaviors)
2. Make a Humanities Strengths notecard in TEA outline format (skills on front, strengths on back)
• T = The academic skill/behavior I am best at is...
• E = Specific assignment, project, or experience that shows that skill
• A - This evidence shows...
• Bullet point 1
• Bullet point 2
• Bullet point 3

Peace Organizations

1. Describe your organization, share the 3 most important/interesting facts about it
2. After everyone has shared, decide as a group:
1. Which organization is most inspiring, and why?
2. Which organization is most effective, and why?
3. Which organization do you have the most questions about, and what are 3 of those questions?
3. Show Lori

Peace Poem

1. Write a poem inspired by one of the organizations you learned about today
2. Poem should include a noticeable turn (at least one)
3. Goal = to make the turn as dramatic as possible

HWK: 

1. Finish, type, and print Peace Poem.  DUE: Tuesday, 3/29, start of class
2. SEMINAR MAKE UP: Do ONLY if you were absent for Friday's seminar, or if you want to raise your seminar grade.  DUE: Friday, 4/1
• Answer two of the following questions, in a typed, 2 page essay.  Make sure to use evidence from the text of the poem, and if you were in the seminar, refer to points made during the seminar:
  1. Is it ever sweet and right to die for your country?
  1. Does the answer to that question change depending on circumstances (drafted vs. enlisted, long and painful death vs. quick death, cause of war, etc.)?  Explain.
  2. What is the tone of this poem and how does the author create it?
  3. How does this poem change your perspective on the propaganda posters you designed?
  4. Is poetry important in our social dialogue about war?  Why/why not?  What does it add to the discussion that other forms of communication do not?