Block, April 23-24

1. Block, April 23-24 • Research Paper presentations…speak like an expert on your topic. • Topic • Interest in the topic • Background information • Argument (your point…perhaps your “should” statement) • Main pointsthat support your argument • Opposing arguments? • Conclusion • Listen to others carefully. • Friday: last reading day. • Research Paper due to turnitin.com before Thursday at Midnight (one day later due to school server problems last night). English 12

2. Monday, April 28, 2014 • Graduation Speech Introduction & sign up. Tomorrow, we’ll brainstorm. • Extra Credit for giving your speech on these days: • May 1 or 2: 15 extra points • May 5: 10 extra points • May 6: 9 extra points • May 7-8: 8 extra points • May 9: 7 extra points • Continued from last week: Research Paper presentations…speak like an expert on your topic. • Topic • Interest in the topic • Background information • Argument (your point…perhaps your “should” statement) • Main points that support your argument • Opposing arguments? • Conclusion • Turn your IR paper to turnitin.com by this Wed at midnight. Last Day for Late Work: May 16 English 12

3. Tuesday, April 29 • Good Afternoon! • Research Presentations will continue & finish during BLOCK. • Graduation Speech Brainstorming. • Work with just a few people. • Write down ideas/notes. • REQUIRED TO TURN IN FOR POINTS (DUE MONDAY): • Explanation of your idea for theme of speech (more than one is fine) • 5 DIFFERENT OPENING LINES FOR YOUR SPEECH. • If you are giving your speech this week, you MUST show me your outline/working draft before or after school before your speech time. • Turn your IR paper to turnitin.com by this Wed at midnight Last Day for Late Work: May 16

4. Graduation Speech Brainstorming Speech Brainstorming: List specific items for each! What is the take-away from each? Must be school-appropriate. • What stories do you have to tell? Favorite things? Projects? Teachers? Lunches? Cars? Weekends? • What major events happened in your world, the community? • What family things have happened to you? • Have you had any struggles? Academic? Family? Personal? How did you deal with them? • What were the best songs, toys, games, styles, etc. from elementary school? Middle school? • What did your class do together—Deep Portage, Washington DC, Homecoming? Prom? • Favorite Teachers, Classes? • Do you have a favorite quote? A motto you live by? • What does your class value? What do you value? • What advice do you have to give to your graduating peers? To the younger classes? Why? • What do you want to say to your parents? Classmates? Teachers? Why? Which of those ideas could you use as the common thread…the theme…the message that you could share with your classmates? What is the topic or theme that you will address in your speech? • Example topics from past speeches…speeches about fishing, football, grades (I should have cared more), popular songs, superfans, making a difference, being kind, saying hi to students you don’t know. THE KEY TO MAKING THIS SPEECH INTERESTING IS BEING SPECIFIC WITH DETAILS FROM GROWING UP. • Avoid cliches-- “shoot for the stars” “live your dreams” “you can do anything you want” English 12

5. Examples of opening lines for Personal essays. • Academic…standardized test or history lesson:One of the greatest challenges I've had to overcome was moving to Minnesota when I was in 11th grade. • Creative…makes the reader wonder:I give a different name every time I place an order at Starbucks. • Personal, explanatory: When I was in the eighth grade I couldn't read. • Personal, quirky: I have old hands. Just look at them! • Personal, related to interest: I’ve always looked forward to the dissecting units in Biology class.. • Question: Who am I and where am I going? • Dialogue…who is saying this and why?“You can’t date her. She’s not a part of our religion.” • Intrigue…what???? I thought about quitting school in 10th grade. • Action…why is this important? I have playing football since I was 3 years old. • One powerful word: Cows.

6. Last Day for Late Work: May 16 Block—April 30 & May 1 • Independent Reading paper questions? • Speech questions? • Finish Research Presentations! • Contemporary Issues • List words that describe (label) your generation, good & bad. Are they true? • Ted Talk: Millennials—Who They Are and Why We Hate them. • Take notes. Be ready to discuss specific points from the video. Agree? Disagree? Is this an accurate depiction of your generation? • Are you a WE generation—supporting great causes? Or a ME generation—supporting just yourself? • ReadMillennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic? • Dialectical Journal as you read. • Write at least 3 discussion questions for the class. Open-ended, Clearly-stated, Relevant, Conversation-stimulators, Controversial?

7. Preparing for Discussion Dialectical Journals: • Draw a vertical line down your paper. • On the LEFT side, copy exact words from the text or video. • On the right side, write your thoughts—agree? Disagree? Conclusion? Questions? Write questions that are: • Open-ended • Cannot be answered with a yes/no answer • Clearly-stated • Relevant • Your audience should have an opinion • Conversation-stimulators • Devil’s Advocate? • Controversial?

8. Friday, May 2 Last Day for Late Work: May 16 • Happy Weekend! • Any make-up research presentations? • (3rd hour—all, 7th hour—discuss, 2nd hour—discuss, 6th hour--discuss) • Ted Talk: Millennials—Who They Are and Why We Hate them. • Take notes. Be ready to discuss specific points from the video. Agree? Disagree? Is this an accurate depiction of your generation? • Are you a WE generation—supporting great causes? Or a ME generation—supporting just yourself? • ReadMillennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic? • Dialectical Journal as you read. While you read, speech conferences? • Write at least 3 discussion questions for the class. Open-ended, Clearly-stated, Relevant, Conversation-stimulators, Controversial? • HOMEWORK: LATE WORK? GRADUATION SPEECH. Remember, I have to see your speech at least 2 days before your scheduled speech day.

9. Monday, May 5 • Good Morning! • Speeches? • Turn in your written speech at least 2 days before your scheduled speech time. • Read in-class (classroom copy only): Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic? • New notebook page for dialectical journal of this article. • Read carefully to 1) find the thesis 2) discover if the thesis is proven • Write 3 discussion questions based on the text and your experience with this topic (are you and your peers really service-oriented?) • Open-ended • Cannot be answered with a yes/no answer • Clearly-stated • Relevant • Your audience should have an opinion • Conversation-stimulators • Devil’s Advocate? • Controversial? Last Day for Late Work: May 16

10. Tuesday, May 6 • Speeches? • Please take out the dialectical journal and questions you wrote yesterday. • JOURNAL: should be about 2/3 page • 3 QUESTIONS: must be text-based. • 10 minutes to finish • Check with your neighbor: Are questions text-based? If not, suggest ways to make them so. • Group discussion. For A grade, PARTICIPATE. • Complete self-grade for journal and discussion on Contemporary Issues instruction sheet. • Extra time? Work on speech. Individual conferences for speech or missing assignments/grades.

11. Block: May 7-8 Been Absent? Write journals and questions for missed days. Then discuss it with someone else (parent?) and write a summary of your discussion. The Ted Talk: Millennials—Who They Are and Why We Hate them linkis on my website. Articles are on the front table: May 6: Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic? • Speeches? • Individual Conferences • While I meet with others: • Read “My Students Don’t Know How to Have a Conversation” by Paul Barnwell. • Dialectical Journal • 3 Text-Based Questions • Work on your Speech, Missing Work, or Homework. Get it done! • Video recommended by a senior student. You can send me a video for the article requirement. Complete the journal & questions in the same way that you would for a news article. • Discussion.

12. Friday, May 9 Been Absent? Write journals and questions for missed days. Then discuss it with someone else (parent?) and write a summary of your discussion. The Ted Talk: Millennials—Who They Are and Why We Hate them linkis on my website. Articles are on the front table: May 6: Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic? May 7-8: “My Students Don’t Know How to Have a Conversation” • Speeches? • Discussion • “My Students Don’t Know How to Have a Conversation” by Paul Barnwell. • Dialectical Journal • 3 Text-Based Questions • Video recommended by a senior student. You can send me a video for the article requirement. Complete the journal & questions in the same way that you would for a news article. • Discussion. • Homework: Speech, Late Work. I’ll look at as many revisions of your speech as you want, but you must show me at least one, at least two days before you give it.

13. Monday, May 12 Been Absent? Write journals and questions for missed days. Then discuss it with someone else (parent?) and write a summary of your discussion. The Ted Talk: Millennials—Who They Are and Why We Hate them linkis on my website. Articles are on the front table: May 6: Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic? May 7-8: “My Students Don’t Know How to Have a Conversation” May 13: The Overprotected Kid • Speeches? • Today’s topic (in preparation for our next reading) • DESIGNING PARKS & PLAYGROUNDS FOR CHILDREN • With a partner or two, discuss the following questions. Prepare a 3 minute presentation that addresses the questions as a whole. You may draw your ideas and present as well. • Did you play in parks/playgrounds when you were little? If so…GREAT! If not, why not? • What were they like? What did you enjoy about them? What did playing in them do for you? • What did the designer/architects of the parks consider when building a playground? • Would you design a park any differently? • What would really be fun for a child? What activities would they enjoy doing? • Consider these words: independence, risk-taking, discovery and creativity. How do today’s parks encourage those characteristics? What would YOUR park do to promote them? • Homework: Speech, Late Work. I’ll look at as many revisions of your speech as you want, but you must show me at least one, at least two days before you give it.

14. Tuesday, May 13 Been Absent? Write journals and questions for missed days. Then discuss it with someone else (parent?) and write a summary of your discussion. The Ted Talk: Millennials—Who They Are and Why We Hate them linkis on my website. Articles are on the front table: May 6: Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic? May 7-8: “My Students Don’t Know How to Have a Conversation” May 13: The Overprotected Kid • Speeches? • Today’s Reading: “The Overprotected Kid” • 3-minute video into • Reading Strategy for longer text: • Skim entire article first • Read title, title blurb, author, date & publication. Take note: recent? • Read first paragraph slowly…figure out the reading/writing style. Difficult? Slow? • Cover up all paragraphs below the one you’re currently reading. • Take notes! Dialectical Journal & Questions. At least 2 complete pages for this length. • Homework: Speech, Late Work. I’ll look at as many revisions of your speech as you want, but you must show me at least one, at least two days before you give it. • YEARBOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: You can still buy one! $80. jostensyearbook.com Remember your senior year!

15. Wed, May 14 Been Absent? Write journals and questions for missed days. Then discuss it with someone else (parent?) and write a summary of your discussion. The Ted Talk: Millennials—Who They Are and Why We Hate them linkis on my website. Articles are on the front table: May 6: Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic? May 7-8: “My Students Don’t Know How to Have a Conversation” May 13: The Overprotected Kid • Speeches? • Today’s Reading: “The Overprotected Kid” • 3-minute video into • Reading Strategy for longer text: • Skim entire article first • Read title, title blurb, author, date & publication. Take note: recent? • Read first paragraph slowly…figure out the reading/writing style. Difficult? Slow? • Cover up all paragraphs below the one you’re currently reading. • Take notes! Dialectical Journal & Questions DUE TOMORROW. At least 2 complete pages for this length, and 4 questions. • Homework: Speech, Late Work. I’ll look at as many revisions of your speech as you want, but you must show me at least one, at least two days before you give it. • YEARBOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: You can still buy one! $80. jostensyearbook.com Remember your senior year!

16. Thurs, May 15 Been Absent? Write journals and questions for missed days. Then discuss it with someone else (parent?) and write a summary of your discussion. The Ted Talk: Millennials—Who They Are and Why We Hate them linkis on my website. Articles are on the front table: May 6: Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic? May 7-8: “My Students Don’t Know How to Have a Conversation” May 13: The Overprotected Kid • Speeches? • Today’s Discussion Topic: “The Overprotected Kid”. Please take out your journal & questions. • Video—interview with author. • Groups of 4. • Spend 2 minutes discussion group norms: • Everyone will participate? • Take turns writing? • Phones out during discussion—acceptable or not? • Everyone shares with every question? • Anything else? • Discussion process on next slide. • Homework: Speech, Late Work. I’ll look at as many revisions of your speech as you want, but you must show me at least one, at least two days before you give it. • YEARBOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: You can still buy one! $80. jostensyearbook.com Remember your senior year!

17. Discussion Questions: Spend no more than 5 minutes per question. You should be able to discuss at least 5 questions. Write down questions & conclusion. Yes Pros/Ideas No Cons/Ideas Ask a Question Reasons Reasons Conclusion

18. Friday, May 16 Been Absent? Write journals and questions for missed days. Then discuss it with someone else (parent?) and write a summary of your discussion. The Ted Talk: Millennials—Who They Are and Why We Hate them linkis on my website. Articles are on the front table: May 6: Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic? May 7-8: “My Students Don’t Know How to Have a Conversation” May 13: The Overprotected Kid Today is the last day for late work. If you need to speak to me about your work, I am available during 4th hour and after school. • Speeches? • Ted Video: 5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids DO • Group Assignment: Your task: Propose a children’s playground/park/plan/after-school activity that encourages creativity, independence, risk-taking and discovery. Give it a name (The Land). Things to consider • The text and videos seen in class • Questions raised • Discussion • Safety issues (in the USA) • The attached Creative Thinking Value Rubric • You can have a theme…but you don’t have to • You choose a specific age group or all ages • Supervision? • Components? • You have unlimited funding, but should be realistic • Your plan should include: Thorough description of your idea; explanation of creativity, independence, risk-taking and discovery; explanation of dangerous/risky things and concerns raised; benefits to children (what will they experience?) Homework: Speech, Late Work. I’ll look at as many revisions of your speech as you want, but you must show me at least one, at least two days before you give it.

19. Monday, May 19 Been Absent? Write journals and questions for missed days. Then discuss it with someone else (parent?) and write a summary of your discussion. Articles are on the front table: May 6: Ted Talk: Millennials—Who They Are and Why We Hate them May 6: Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic? May 7-8: “My Students Don’t Know How to Have a Conversation” May 13: The Overprotected Kid May 19-20: Happiness & Happy If you still have work to turn in, please see me after school today to discuss it. • An updated Books Still Out list has been printed. Please see the front board. • Please turn in your playground/park work from last Friday. No presentations. • Speeches? • This week’s Contemporary Issues topic: Happiness! • Oxford Happiness Questionnaire • Discussion & Journal. (1/2 page on happiness) Homework: Speech, Late Work. I’ll look at as many revisions of your speech as you want, but you must show me at least one, at least two days before you give it.

20. Happiness discussion & Journal • List 5 things that make you really happy. • Consider a time in your life when you experienced true happiness. What made it so good? • Do you think happiness is something you are born with or something you can develop? Think of people who are happy and those who aren’t? Is that simply their disposition? • What does it take to be happy? Money? Friends? Love? Activities? Alone-time? A clean room? Lots of text-messages? • What makes you happier—getting or giving a gift? Doing something for yourself or doing something for someone else? • Are there things that prevent happiness—one thing that ruins the possibility of happiness? • Is it possible to be happy even when something bad happens? How?

21. Tuesday, May 20 Been Absent? Write journals and questions for missed days. Then discuss it with someone else (parent?) and write a summary of your discussion. Articles are on the front table: May 6: Ted Talk: Millennials—Who They Are and Why We Hate them May 6: Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic? May 7-8: “My Students Don’t Know How to Have a Conversation” May 13: The Overprotected Kid May 19-20: Happiness & Happy If you still have work to turn in, please see me after school today to discuss it. • An updated Books Still Out list has been printed. Please see the front board. • Speeches? • This week’s Contemporary Issues topic: Happiness! • Happy Documentary • Journal: Aim for 2 pages. Mark each entry as one of the following: Resilience, Happiness, Compassion, AND Gratitude. Homework: Speech, Late Work. I’ll look at as many revisions of your speech as you want, but you must show me at least one, at least two days before you give it.

22. Block, May 21-22 Been Absent? Write journals and questions for missed days. Then discuss it with someone else (parent?) and write a summary of your discussion. Articles are on the front table: May 6: Ted Talk: Millennials—Who They Are and Why We Hate them May 6: Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic? May 7-8: “My Students Don’t Know How to Have a Conversation” May 13: The Overprotected Kid May 19-20: Happiness & Happy If you still have work to turn in, please see me after school today to discuss it. • An updated Books Still Out list has been printed. Please see the front board. • Speeches • You may email me speeches this weekend. augustines@district112.org • Finish documentary • Journal: 2 pages, plus 3 questions • Discussion or writing assignment. Homework: Speech, Late Work. I’ll look at as many revisions of your speech as you want, but you must show me at least one, at least two days before you give it.

23. Happiness Questions • What if you’re just not a happy person? Is that okay in our society? • If you won the lottery tomorrow, how much happier do you think you would be a year from now? Do you think good and bad events affect our long-term happiness? • Are students with bigger houses & more stuff happier than others? • What is the difference between happiness for high school seniors and your parents? Does responsibility change things? • Do you think you will be happier a year from now—May of 2014—than you are now? Why or why not? • Resilience is defined as “the ability to overcome obstacles, to bounce back from a failure or a setback. It’s the ability to steer through the everyday stressors that we always face, so that no matter what life puts in our path, we’re still able to persist and go after our goals.” What prevents or encourages resiliency? • What are the things that actually make you happiest? Are they the same things mentioned in the video? • Have you ever gotten something you wanted, only to find out that it didn’t make you as happy as you thought it would? • What do you think enabled Melissa Moody to overcome her devastating accident? • Do you think the happiest people have strong connections to others and their communities? Why? Isn’t it possible to be happy and alone?

24. DiscussionFebruary 22 Socratic Seminar Guidelines Speak clearly. Speak the right amount—not too much, more than not at all. Speak to each other. This is YOUR discussion. Pay attention to what others are saying. Ask others what they think. If you’re on the outside & want to contribute, STAND and speak when appropriate. • Discussion-Partner Instructions • For your partner: Write down their name at the top of a page. Write your name at the bottom of the page. • Keep track of how many times they make meaningful comments. • Write comments regarding these four things: • Analysis of the text • Relating the text to our world • Discussion skills • Respectful Behavior English 12

25. Week of May 27-30 Been Absent? Write journals and questions for missed days. Then discuss it with someone else (parent?) and write a summary of your discussion. Articles are on the front table: May 6: Ted Talk: Millennials—Who They Are and Why We Hate them May 6: Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic? May 7-8: “My Students Don’t Know How to Have a Conversation” May 13: The Overprotected Kid May 19-20: Happiness Documentary & Happy Journal May 27-30: Coca-Cola’s Happiness Machines • Welcome Back! • An updated Books Still Out list has been printed. Please see the front board. • Speeches all week! • You MUST submit your printed speech to turnitin.com. • Email or give me printed a copy of speeches before presenting. • BEFORE YOU GIVE YOUR SPEECH: You may email me speeches at augustines@district112.org or give me a printed copy. • Final Contemporary Issues article: Coca-Cola’s Happiness Machines: one page, 3 questions. All journals are due before Friday at 3:00. • Remember to choose a news article on contemporary issues on your own. Turn in on or before your last day of English class. • Work time for Final socratic seminar. Homework: Speech, Late Work. I’ll look at as many revisions of your speech as you want, but you must show me at least one, at least two days before you give it.

26. High School Graduation speech video.Keep in mind—this is an adult speaking at an actual grad ceremony. You will be speaking to your classmates before the ceremony. What to watch for: connections to the audience, specific details that cause a reaction, advice he gives.