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Seminar Grades (5-10 min)
Debrief Friday’s starter, decide on graded or ungraded for seminar. Starter 4- Seminar Habits (10 min)
Seminar Style: (5 min to set up)
Socratic Seminar Questions (50-60 min) Opening Questions
Core Questions
Personal Questions
Seminar Writing: Choose any of seminar questions listed below, and write a 500-750 word response to the question. This writing should include the following:
Choose ONE of the following to answer:
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Starter 2- Seminar Norms (15 min)
Reading Time- 10 min Finish reading and annotating both seminar texts. If you're done, add to your annotations, or work on Idea Fishing Part 2. Seminar Coaching Review of Coaching Goals
Step 1: Habits of Highly Cynical People
Step 2: Screw motivation, what you need is discipline
Step 3: Generate seminar questions
Seminar Prewrite (rest of class, due tomorrow) For this, you must answer two questions. One is required, and the other you may choose from the list provided. Each question should be answered in a full paragraph, and should reference something specific from the text. Required: What are the connections between these two essays? Choose ONE of the following in addition:
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2nd Period- Senior Project Exploration (30 min)- COMMONS ALL SENIORS
2nd/3rd- Zen and Motorcycle- Read, Discuss, Write Discussion Groups (45 minutes)
Final Reflection (15 min) Take 10 minutes to write in your Humanities Starter document. What are you thinking about senior project right now? What hopes do you have? Ideas? Questions? Emotions? How did this discussion spark your imagination, ideas, or intentions? Write the whole time! Now, underline the most interesting line of your reflection, and share it with a partner. 3rd/4th- Idea Fishing Part 2- Slideshow and Instructions Students sort into corners based on the following statements.
Idea Fishing Part 2- Where are you? Discussions (15-20 min) Group into groups of 4-5 based on who is in your corner. Go sit at tables together.
Idea Fishing Part 2- DUE next Wednesday at 9:25 AM. Split between Kyle and Lori’s rooms.
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Announcements:
Set Up Starters Every student creates a Google Doc labeled with “Full Name- Humanities Starters,” and shares it with me. Make sure to give me permission to comment!
Starter 1- Cynicism
4 Corners
Annotation Review Discuss quickly in your groups, then share out:
Annotation Station- Review 2 possible types (on text with a pen/pencil in the margins, or on a separate document) Seminar Readings
Read and annotate both of the articles—they will be the basis for a Socratic seminar that is connected to our critical thinking goals for the course this year. Make sure to mark:
You will have 20-30 minutes to finish reading tomorrow. My suggestion is to get through Highly Cynical People first, and save the other one for class tomorrow. DUE DATES- ON TIME
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Introductions
Erin C-R- 3rd/5th Here to talk to you about the path BEYOND this building! Idea Fishing
3rd/5th- Finish Yes/And Protocol, Idea Fishing
Finish Yes/And Protocol if necessary. Intro idea fishing, get them started on this. Tell them they will have more time to finish this on Friday. It will be due next Wednesday at 9:25 AM (the start of 2nd period). 3rd/5th- Zen and Motorcycle- Read, Discuss, Write Discussion Groups (45 minutes)
Final Reflection (15 min) Take 10 minutes to write. What are you thinking about senior project right now? What hopes do you have? Ideas? Questions? Emotions? How did this discussion spark your imagination, ideas, or intentions? Write the whole time! Now, underline the most interesting line of your reflection, and share it with a partner. 9:00-10:00- Yes/And Brainstorm (Commons → Classrooms)
8:30-8:40- Schedule Review for Tuesday/Wednesday
Meet with Seniors in commons to review schedule and locations for the day. 8:40-9:15- Class Logistics and Orientation- 8:40-8:55 and 9:00-9:15
Humanities:
Math
9:20-9:40- COMMONS- What is Senior Project? Slideshow overview, case study instructions 9:45-10:25- Split between Kyle, Lori, Jessica Case studies (20 min)
Skills Inventory/Brainstorm (20 min)
10:30-11:20- Butcher Paper Sr. Project Brainstorm (Commons → Classrooms→ Commons) Break into 12 groups of 5-6 students, split into three rooms. In each room there are butcher papers with:
Spend 6 minutes at each. The goal is to come up with as many ideas as possible for the various elements of senior project. Be sincere and serious, but also be open to crazy ideas! Bring everyone back together to review, answer the questions they come up with. 11:25-12:00- 3-2-1 Idea Brainstorm (split between classrooms) 3-2-1 Idea generation
12:00-12:45- LUNCH 12:45-2:00- Finish 3-2-1 Brainstorm (split between classrooms) 3-2-1 Idea generation
2:00-2:30- Osprey Block IceBreakers (Commons) Seniors get into Osprey Block Groups, plan a quick (5-10 minute) activity to:
2:30-3:25- Osprey Block Meetings TBD |
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