SLC Prep: Areas For Improvement

Opening Discussion

• Look back on the list of academic skills and behaviors from yesterday.  Choose an academic skill that you most need to improve.
• Discuss as a group what you each picked, and why you think this academic skill is important to improve.

Starter 29

• Choose a goal you want to work on for the rest of the year in Humanities, and choose the Habit or Survival Skill that most supports that goal.  Describe how that habit or skill will help you reach that goal.

SMART Goals

S = Specific (what and how)

M = Measurable (how will you measure it)

A = Attainable  (attainable, what needs to change)

R = Relevant  (why is this important)

T = Timely  (needs a specific timeframe)

Notecard 1:  Humanities Area for Improvement

T = What is your area for improvement?

E = What piece of work can you show that documents your struggle with this?

A =

• Why is this difficult for you?
• How have you struggled with this in humanities?
• What have you done in the past to deal with this?

Notecard 2:  Humanities Plan and Goal

Habit: What is it?  Define it.

S = Specific Goal (what and how)

M = Measurable (how will you measure it)

A = Attainable  (attainable, what needs to change)

R = Relevant  (why is this important)

T = Timely  (needs a specific timeframe)

HOMEWORK

Bring completed notecards and evidence for ALL CLASSES to Humanities for practice.  DUE: Start of class, Wednesday.

SLC Prep: Strengths

Starter 28:

List all the academic activities you can be good at in Humanities.  (At least 3 specific examples under each)

• Reading
• Speaking
• Writing
• Thinking

List at least 5 other non-academic behaviors that help you succeed in Humanities. 

Circle your greatest strength in each category, come up with two pieces of evidence.

Strengths Notecard Format.

You will need two notecards:  One for an academic strength, and one for a non-academic strength.  Each notecard should have the following:

1. Title:  Humanities Strength #
2. Topic:  What specific strength are you talking about?
3. Evidence:  What piece of evidence (or anecdote) are you going to share?
4. Analysis:  Must include the following:
• What does your evidence show?  How does it show it?
• Why is this strength important in humanities (DON'T just talk about grades!)?
• Why is this strength helpful outside of the classroom?

HOMEWORK

Finish Humanities strengths notecards.  See format above.  DUE:  Start of class, Tuesday.

For WEDS and FRI: Final Essays and DP

IMPORTANT INFO ABOUT ESSAY DUE DATES!!!

All essays will be due at the end of class on Friday, unless your name is listed below.  Final drafts should be emailed to lori.teacher@gmail.com.  

If your name is on the following list, you have until 3:15 on Saturday to email your final draft essay to lori.teacher@gmail.com.

• Kaylee
• Brittney
• CJ
• Skyler
• Sam
• Joe
• Elijah
• Elliot
• Kaleb
• Jess K.
• Stephen
• Riley

Class Time

Work on your essays!  If you finish a draft, you could do the following:

• Conference with Cat or another student for feedback/suggestions
• Trade papers with another student for proofreading
• Use the writing memo and writing checklist that are linked on my website to help you revise
• Do your in text citations and works cited section.  (MLA style, use the Writers Inc. books as a guide)

When  you finish your essay

If you finish your essay with time to spare, work on your DP.  The handout with guidelines is linked here:  Seminar DP Updates.

HOMEWORK

Finalize your essay!  Email it to me!

Writing Conferences
Lori will conference with students about their writing in 10 minutes time slots all day today.

Work Time
Work on the essay!  You should definitely be done with a rough draft by the end of class today.

HOMEWORK
Work on your essay!

Essay and Writing Conferences

Writing Conferences
Everyone must sign up for a 10 minute writing conference on either Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.  Bring with you your draft or outline, and come with questions or areas of concern!

Writing Resources
Check the student resources page for two handouts that may be helpful to you as you revise!

HOMEWORK
Work on your essay!

Writing Day

Announcements
Make sure you have the essay final due date in your planner!  End of class, Wednesday, 2/22.  Email it to Lori.  NO HARD COPIES.

Recommended Due Dates
While I am not giving you hard and fast due dates for different drafts, the following is my recommendation if you don't want to have much work over the four day weekend.

• Thesis and Outline Done:  Tuesday (end of class)
• Rough Draft Done:  Thursday (start of class)
• Citations Done:  Friday (start of class)
• Self-Critique Done:  Friday (start of class)
• Proofread by someone else:  Wednesday 2/21 (start of class)
• Final Draft:  Wednesday, 2/22 (end of class)

Writing Time
Today is a free writing day for your essay.  I will be available for conferences and feedback.  Formal conferences will start tomorrow.  Here are some things you could do with your time today:

1. Outline
2. Research (if you need to do further research)
3. Draft
4. Revise
5. Conference with Lori
6. Discuss ideas with your classmates

HOMEWORK

Work on the rough draft of your essay for 30-60 minutes.

What's the best way to change an unjust situation?

Planners and Announcements
Final essay will be DUE at the end of class, Wednesday, February 22nd.
You should plan on working on it for 30-60 minutes every night this week, and possibly over the 4 day weekend.

Seminar Structure

• Fishbowl structure
• Everyone must speak at least once
• Inside Circle:  Use the time to test ideas, challenge ideas, use evidence
• Outside Circle:  Silent, listening, taking notes on points to address and ideas for your essay
• We will switch inside and outside circles every 15 minutes.  We will do 6 switches, for a total of 90 minutes.
• For the last 10 minutes, everyone will have a chance to share final words/conclusions

HOMEWORK

Work on your essay outline or draft for 30-60 minutes.  The essay should answer the question, "What's the best way to change an unjust situation?", and should draw from the articles we have been reading.

Final Essay DUE:  End of class, Wednesday, February 22.

Writing Brainstorms

Starter 27

1. When you are in the initial steps of a new piece of writing, what process do you go through?  What kinds of things help you to develop your ideas?
2. List the writing step and activities you plan to do today.  After each one, write what you hope to gain from it.

Writing Time

Get started on your writing to answer the question: "What's the best way to change an unfair situation?"

Possible things to do include:

• Develop a thesis statement
• Write a crappy first draft, then go through and underline or highlight the best parts of it
• Do an essay outline to help you organize your thoughts
• Gather a list of quotes from seminar articles we've read that you might be able to use in your essay
• Use a graphic organizer to start outlining your body paragraphs
• Get a thesis, and start writing!
• Talk through ideas with your group or with Lori
• Other?

By the end of class, you should have:

• A thesis statement
• A list of possible paragraph topics
• The start of either an outline or a rough draft

HOMEWORK:

None!  Enjoy your weekend.  Next week, the writing whirlwind begins!

Coaching and Prewrite

Starter 26

1. What details stand out to you about this image?

2. What message does this send?  Explain.

3. List 3 questions inspired by this image.

Social Darwinism and the Hamitic Curse

Take notes on these two concepts.  If you are absent, get these from a classmate.

Reading Time

Finish reading and annotating Mandela's speech.

Coaching

1. Paragraph by Paragraph:  Summarize, and talk through difficulties.
2. Big Picture:  Where's the thesis?  What's the most convincing point he makes?
3. Discussion Questions: 3 on an index card.

Prewrite

Start coming up with a thesis statement and some of your main arguments to answer the question:  "What's the best way to change an unjust situation?"  Brainstorm in whatever way best helps you!

HOMEWORK

None

Pillars of Apartheid

Starter 25

1. What are three things that stand out to you about this chart?

2. What inferences can you make about apartheid based on this chart?

3. List 3 questions that are inspired by this chart.

Pillars of Apartheid

Combination of lecture, group discussion, map analysis, etc.  IF YOU ARE ABSENT...look at the handout linked above, and get notes from a classmate.  You will need this information for the quiz in a few weeks!

You will also need these:  Bantustan Maps

Urban Segregation

Get the handout linked here: Urban Segregation Handout.  Follow the directions on the first page, and use the images you see in google maps and google image search to to fill out the questions in pages 2 and 3.

HOMEWORK:

Finish Urban Segregation activity.  You will need internet to complete this!  Details and link to handout are above.

Nelson Mandela Introduction

Starter 24
Is there any social or political cause for which you would be willing to a) go to prison for 5 years for, or b) die for?  Answer both questions, and be as specific as possible!

Mandela Video
Watch an hour of the Mandela video to get a sense of who Nelson Mandela is.

Mandela Speech
Start to read and annotate speech linked above.  I will be checking annotations, so make sure that there are at least two annotations per page, and that they say something substantive!

HOMEWORK
Finish and PRINT Nonviolence Seminar Prewrite before class starts.  DUE: Wednesday, start of class.

Nonviolence Coaching

Starter 23
Is there any situation in which you could see yourself engaging in non-violent actions like the Indians?  Explain your response, using specific examples whenever possible.


Nonviolence Coaching
Paragraph by Paragraph

• Summarize message of each paragraph
• Talk through difficulties

Big Picture

• What's the thesis?
• Why does this author support non-violent strategies?
• What's the most interesting point he makes?

Questions

• Come up with 3 discussion questions as a group, write on index cards

Seminar Prewrite

Choose TWO of the following to write about.  Must be typed and printed.  DUE: Wednesday, start of class.

1. On the first page, there is a quote that says, "If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself...We have always control over the means and never of the ends."  Explain what this quote means, then talk about your reaction to it.  Do you agree or disagree?  What are the larger implications?
2. Also on page one, the author says, "Gandhi and King taught us to look in a fresh way at the nature of power."  What does this mean?  What new insights do Gandhi and MLK give us into the idea of power?
3. Of the different approaches listed in the 2nd and 3rd pages, which do you think would be most effective?  Why?  Which would be least effective?  Why?

HOMEWORK:

Finish and print seminar prewrite.  DUE: Start of class, Wednesday.

Gandhi- Part 2, and Coaching

Starter 22

• What's the most interesting thing you've seen in the movie so far?  Explain.
• Agree or Disagree:  Nonviolence is generally a more effective way of changing an unjust system than violence.  Explain your answer.

Gandhi: Part 2

• Finish movie
• Take notes on major events
• Answer:  What is Gandhi's ultimate message?

Nonviolence: Coaching

Paragraph by paragraph

• Summarize main message
• Discuss difficulties and vocabulary

Big Picture

• What's the thesis?
• Why does this author support non-violent actions?
• What's the most interesting thing from this article?

Questions

• Write 3 discussion questions as a group.  Should not be factual!

HOMEWORK

• Finish Being Peace Seminar Reflection.  DUE: Monday, start of class.  Email to Lori, or print it and turn it into the mailbox.

Gandhi- Part 1

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
Being Peace Seminar Reflection is now due on MONDAY.  Proofread them carefully!

Starter 21
Complete movie vocab and prediction activity linked here:  Gandhi Vocabulary

Review British Imperialism Notes
Quick class review of textbook notes from yesterday.  Fill in anything you missed or didn't finish!

Gandhi- Part One
Watch first part of Gandhi.  While you watch, write down at least 10 important events from the movie.

HOMEWORK

1. Finish Being Peace Seminar Reflection.  DUE:  MONDAY, start of class.  Printed, or in my email.
2. Nonviolence:  Read, annotate (at least 2 per page), write 3 questions at the end.  DUE: Friday, start of class.

Imperialism Introduction

Starter 20

1. Describe what you see here- focus on details that may help you to make sense of the cartoon!
2. What is the message of this cartoon?
3. What attitudes does this show?  What can we tell about the society that created this cartoon?


Imperialism Motives
Take notes on 5 main motives of Imperialism, using the mnemonic, "EMPIRE."  If absent, get notes from a classmate.


Imperialism Motives and Matching

• Use the Imperialism Examples linked here:  Imperialism Examples
• Complete the following activites:  Imperialism Analysis and Matching

Colonialism in South Africa Notes

Take notes on 5 major dates in South African history.  In absent, get notes from a classmate.

British Imperialism: Textbook Background Notes

Using a textbook section, take the notes as instructed below.

1.      British Expand Control Over India

a.       What was the role of the East India Company in India?

b.      Why was India considered the “Jewel in the Crown?”  Give 2 reasons. 

c.       What restrictions did Britain place on the economy?

d.      What are the positive and negative impacts of colonialism (T-Chart)

2.      Indians Rebel

a.       What sparked the Sepoy Rebellion?  Who won?

b.      Why is the Sepoy Rebellion considered a turning point in Indian history?

c.       What were the long term effects of the Sepoy Rebellion?  List at least 3.

3.      Indian National Movements Begin

a.       What did Indian Nationalists want?  List at least 3 things.

HOMEWORK

1. Finish typed Seminar Reflection (see Tuesday's post for details).  DUE:  Friday, start of class.
2. Finish reading and annotating Nonviolence.