8:30-11:30- TED Talk Critique Groups and Work Time
Critique Protocol is at the link.

1. Kyle's Room:  Groups 1, 2, 3
2. Dave's Room: Groups 4, 5, 6
3. Ashley's Room: Groups 7, 8, 9
4. Lori's Room: Groups 10, 11, 12
5. Sara's Room: Group 13

11:30-12:30- LUNCH

12:30-1:30- TED Talk Critique Groups and Work Time
Critique Protocol is at the link.

1. Kyle's Room:  Groups 1, 2, 3
2. Dave's Room: Groups 4, 5, 6
3. Ashley's Room: Groups 7, 8, 9
4. Lori's Room: Groups 10, 11, 12
5. Sara's Room: Group 13

1:30-2:00- Spring Break Send Off!
Meet in the Commons for final send off!

HOMEWORK:
Over Spring Break, take the first part completely off as a well deserved break!  Starting the Saturday before you come back, start practicing and revising your TED Talk.  Spend between 1-2 hours per day on it for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so that you're ready to do a polished rehearsal when you come in on Monday.  Have a great break!

8:30-9:30- Cohort Group Meeting
Meet with your Senior Project Cohort to talk through your Senior Project and troubleshoot.  

9:30-11:30
Work in a room with your Critique Group (see Lori for room assignments) to develop your TED Talk.

STUCK?  SIGN UP FOR A CONFERENCE WITH LORI IN HER ROOM!

12:30-2:10
Work in a room with your Critique Group to develop your TED talk and possibly critique if you scheduled a critique for today.

HOMEWORK
Finish an outline of your TED Talk, find visuals!  Be ready with a version for critique tomorrow.

TURN THOSE SUCKERS IN!
Get your hard copy to Lori, and a digital copy to your Humanities teacher!

9:30-12:30
Go work on brainstorming ideas for your TED Talk.  These can be loose lists, brainstorms, visuals.  Start thinking about your hook, and what you want to highlight.

12:30- If you're in Crystal's Spanish 3, meet in her room.

1:30- Meet back in the Commons.  

1. Review your Critique Groups
2. Review schedule for next two days
3. Break into Critique Groups

In your Critique Groups, talk through...

1. What are you thinking about for your presentation?  Where are you right now?  What are you concerned about?
2. After each student talks through their presentation/concern, the group will give informal, non-structured feedback.
3. The presenter should commit to an area of focus for upcoming work time.
4. This loose protocol should be repeated for each member of the group.  
5. Schedule Critiques for Thursday/Friday.  Each critique will take about 30 minutes, so you'll need a total of 2.5 hours of critique time for a group of 5 people.
   1. People gone on Friday must get critiqued on Thursday.
   2. Thursday 9:30-11:30, or 12:30-2:10
   3. Friday 8:30-11:30, or 12:30-1:30

HOMEWORK
Work on your TED Talk!  Get an outline of what you want to cover.

REMINDER:  Your final draft of your Senior Thesis is DUE on WEDNESDAY at 9:30am.  Please turn all papers in via email/sharing to your Humanities teacher, AND put a printed copy in the inbox on Lori's desk.  Check the rubric for all submission guidelines.

ASHLEY'S STUDENTS:  If you have an email from me, go to the document, and put your research question into it.  Do it NOW.

8:30-10:30- Meet in Commons
Starter
Debrief of homework (student example notes).

1. What did you see that you want to imitate?
2. What did you see that you could improve on?
3. What hooks were most effective?
4. How did they cultivate the audience?
5. Based on what you saw, develop a list of 3 recommendations.  Share it with two other people.

Bill Gates Crapometer and Awesomatron

1. Watch this video: Present Like Steve Jobs
2. Now, read and annotate the blog article here:  Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs.  Fill out the graphic organizer.
3. Now, read this and explore the links:  The Transformation of Bill Gates as a Presenter
4. Fill out the graphic organizer on your handout
5. Share your focus points with two other people

Making Presentations in the TED Style
Read the article linked above, and pick one of the talks described to watch.  Take notes on...

1. Why you chose that style?
2. What stood out to you about this talk?
3. What do you want to imitate from this talk?
4. 2-3 specific ideas that you got from this talk.

Have this ready to go after lunch.

Work Time and Senior Class Photo
If you need to conference with Lori, sign up on the board in her room.

LUNCH 11:30-12:30

12:30-1:30- Back in Commons
TED Style Debrief
Get in groups of 4.  Discuss the answers to the TED Style questions.

MLA Formatting Check
Walk through the MLA Formatting Checklist with Lori (guess where you can find this...).

1:30-2:30- Work Time and Calculus
If you need to conference with Lori, sign up on the board in her room.

HOMEWORK:
Finish that paper!  Get it proofread, done, finished.  Make sure that when you print, you print double-sided!

See you at 9:30 tomorrow morning in the Commons.

REMINDER:  Your final draft of your Senior Thesis is DUE on WEDNESDAY at 9:30am.  Please turn all papers in via email/sharing to your Humanities teacher, AND put a printed copy in the inbox on Lori's desk.  Check the rubric for all submission guidelines.

Reminder:  All documents are linked on the SENIOR PROJECT page of my DP, in the TED Talk section!

8:30-10:30- ALL SENIORS MEET IN THE COMMONS!

Overview of week and TED schedule/expectations

1. Opener:  What NOT to do.  Take a guess at which Friends character is which Senior teacher.
2. Review of schedule
3. Review of TED Talk and Paneling schedule
4. TED Overview- How does this work?  What's expected of me?  Read through the overview and rubric.

Starter:  If I Should Have a Daughter (Sarah Kay)

1. ​Fill out graphic organizer
2. Debrief in small groups
3. Share out in large group

TED Commandments

1. Read them, mark:  Most difficult for you, most important, most surprising
2. Quick debrief in groups

TED Talk Analysis
Watch a TED Talk that speaks to you.  Take 15 minutes or so to choose one.  Then watch it, and write down the following:

1. Why do you like this talk?
2. Why do you find the message interesting?
3. What verbal and non-verbal talents does the presenter show us? (use the rubric!)
4. How does the presenter interact with their audience? (use the rubric!)
5. What's one cool thing that may make this person's style different from the rest?
6. What is your style as a presenter?  Are you funny or serious?  Highly structured, or free-flowing?  Data and evidence driven, or story driven?  Moving, or podium bound?

10:30-11:30- Work Time and Spanish 3

1. Crystal's Spanish 3 class meet in her room
2. Everyone else work on TED Analysis and/or paper revisions in Commons, Lori's room, Ashley's room
3. If you want to meet with Lori about your paper, now is a good time!  

11:30-12:30- LUNCH  (PLEASE BE BACK FROM LUNCH ON TIME!)

12:30-1:30- Commons

1. TED Analysis Sharing:  In your small groups, share out TED Talk Analysis findings.  Debrief as large group.
2. Another Example from Ken Robinson:  Fill out graphic organizer for Ken Robinson, Debrief
3. Homework directions.  Questions?  Confusions?

1:30-2:30- Work Time and Calculus

1. Kyle's Calculus class meet in his room
2. Everyone else, complete your homework (below), work on refining your paper

HOMEWORK:
Watch at least TWO student examples (they are linked on the Senior Project page of my DP.  With each of the two that you watch, jot down the following notes:

1. Name and Research Question
2. What was their hook?  Was it effective?  Why/why not?
3. How did this person use positive elements of their own personality to cultivate relationships with the audience and make their talk more interesting?
   

DUE:  Start of class, TUESDAY 

Starter:  Put your research question into this document!
We'll use this advertise TED talks, and let other teachers/students know which talks are happening when.

Looking Ahead...

1. TED Talk Schedule- See schedule posted on my DP
2. Next Week's schedule (also linked on the Senior Project page of my DP)
   
3. Paneling sign ups
   

Writing Workshop:  Revision Checklist and MLA In-Text Citations
See the links on my Senior Project page for these documents and more resources.

Peer Critiques
Finish up your peer critiques!

Writing Conferences
Panicking?  Have questions?  Sign up for a writing conference with Lori!

HOMEWORK
Revise, revise, revise.  Start working your way through the revision checklist.  I suggest you take one section a night.

Hi Everyone,
So, the diagnosis is in, and my kiddo has the flu.  Unfortunately for me and for you, that means I'll likely be out for the next few days, possibly through the end of the week, as my husband is jetting out to LA tomorrow for a conference (lucky jerk).  I will try to handle as much business over email as possible.  If that's not working for you, you have a couple of options:

1. Talk to Ashley.  She's awesome, and can give you guidance.
2. Meet with me in the Hot Zone (aka, my house).  I'm stuck at home all day, but I'm happy to meet with you here if you really need to talk through stuff with me.  We'll run you through a decontamination chamber when you leave, or you could wear one of those crazy paper suits.

Alright, that said, here's what's happening on Wednesday...

Jesse Hutt and Sorrel Sky Questionnaire
Jesse organizes an amazing senior event every year, and she needs your help and information.  Please fill out the form linked above.  If you have a resume that addresses some of these things, you can email it to her.

Class Reminders:

1. SPAM 3 is DUE at 3:15 today
2. Don't forget to send SPAM 4 email!
3. Next week, be here every day from 8:30-2:30 for our TED Talk intensive.  If this is a problem for you, please contact me via email.

TED Talks and Paneling

1. TED Schedule is posted in my room and outside the door, and is linked on the Senior Project page of my website.
2. Please sign up for TWO paneling blocks on the poster on the wall between my room and Ashley's room.  Yes, this is required.

Next Week's TED Intensive Schedule
See linked document.  Please note, this is SUBJECT TO CHANGE based on our needs and how it's going.

Peer Critiques
Stick to your group's critique schedule- take the protocol seriously.  It will help you!
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REVISE!  REVISE!  REVISE!
Stuck on what to revise for?  See the Common Writing Errors and Revision Checklist posted on the Senior Project page of my DP!

HOMEWORK

• Revise, revise, revise

Week Overview:

1. SPAM 3 due on Wednesday by 3:15!
2. TED Schedule will be posted by end of day to the Senior Project page of my DP
3. Classroom Optional Days:  Tuesday 3/15 and Friday 3/18
4. Reminder about NEXT week:  Plan on being here EVERY DAY from 8:30-2:30.  You'll have an hour break for lunch

Starter: Review SPAM 4 form and email.

Writing Workshop:  Sentence Focus
Handout linked on the Senior Project page of my DP

Peer Critiques
Do the critiques you have scheduled for today in your peer critique group.
 
Need Help?  Conference with Lori about paper and/or Take Action project as needed.
If you want to conference about your paper, come equipped with your most recent draft, and a specific question or area for feedback.

HOMEWORK:
Revise!  Revise!  Revise!

Hey all- I'm home with a teething fevered kid today- please continue to revise.  Start with the big stuff (structure, organization, logical flow, further research, etc.), then move on to revising for small elements like transitions, topic sentences, sentence structure, etc.  I'll be on email when she goes down for her nap, so email me with any questions.

EMAIL DRAFT of PAPER TO SPA and LORI!!!
If you haven't done this, you are jeopardizing your ability to get feedback from your SPA on your paper- a crucial component to your success!

ELEMENTS UPDATE!!!
See the handout linked above for an explanation of changes we're making to the structure of your paper.  Read it carefully, and let me know if you have any questions.  This is also, as always, linked on the Senior Project Page of my DP.

Peer Critique Groups
See the handout linked above for your peer critique groups and instructions.  ABSENT?  Email one of the members of your group to find out your group's schedule and meeting times/places.

HOMEWORK:
Revise, revise, revise!  If your draft was NOT complete on Thursday, it should be absolutely completely done by Monday!  Make sure you've emailed a draft to your SPA!

REMINDER:  If you have any days where you CAN'T be scheduled for your TED talk, please let Ashley know ASAP.  This is for needs, not wants.  :)

Starter:  Take Lacey's Survey!

Writer's Workshop:  Setting Up Quotes

1. Read through the handout linked above on how to set up and follow up on quotes.
2. Then, do the exercise at the bottom of the page where you revise a partner's paper, then your own.

Write Write Write!
Get that draft done, and ready to print/email tomorrow!

PANICKED?  Read this!
With 25-30 minutes left before you need to print:

1. 1. Stop writing and assess: what holes do I still have left in my paper, argument, etc? 
   2. Plug each hole with piece of your outline.  This will mean that every element should still be complete.  If you have not finished writing all of Section 4, for example, take the rest of your outline for Section 4 and paste it into your paper where the text should be.  That will allow me to still give quality feedback on writing that you have not technically finished.

HOMEWORK
Finish rough draft of Senior Thesis.  PRINT for class tomorrow, and email a copy to Lori and your SPA before class starts tomorrow.