12/9

Follow-up:  All students--finish your Seminar Reflection and email the googledoc link to Matt by Saturday at 10pm.  See the link below:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_C9fVngmGpvWUxzVnktWEV3c1k/view?usp=sharing

Students who chose to take the alternate rubric must finish it and email it to Matt on google docs by Saturday at 10pm.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_C9fVngmGpva1lJT0FUN3hCNHc/view?usp=sharing

Agenda:
--Checked for annotations for chapters 17-18
--Split into two groups
--Began seminar or seminar journaling/self-assessment, 45 mins each
--Seminar
--Artist/author book preferences

12/8

Follow-up:  Have annotations for chapters 17-18 to show by tomorrow
                    Complete seminar pre-write: 1 page, single spaced, hard copy to show at start of class tomorrow.
Choose 1-4 of the following questions for your seminar pre-write:

a.  Page 236  "There isn't any need for a civilized man to bear anything unpleasant."  Do you agree or disagree?  Why?

b.  Page 227, "Happiness is a hard master" What does this mean?  Do you agree?  Why?

c.  BNW creates inequality between people in order to achieve stability.  Do you think this is necessary?  Does our society do the same thing?  Why?

d.  What are you taking personally from this book?  Why do you think we read it, and why is it considered a "masterpiece"?

Today's agenda:
SMART goal check-ins, check for Tuesday's notes
Victor Frankl video and notes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EIxGrIc_6g
Meaning and happiness group read and annotate: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_C9fVngmGpvQlBOdGhfdTd3S1U/view?usp=sharing
Question generation
Seminar pre-write

12/7

Agenda:
HW check:  Do you have the complete notes from yesterday's T-chart?

Journal:  "You have a choice; to become a world controller and an Alpha in BNW society, like Mustapha Monde, OR, to be like John and to choose "a life of misery and suffering, with sporadic instances of happiness."  Which do you choose, and why?  1 page, single-spaced."

Get in your Dooley notes circles.  Read and annotate Chapter 17 and 18 as a group.

Group share of annotations

Read and annotate Victor Frankl's article:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_C9fVngmGpvQlBOdGhfdTd3S1U/view?usp=sharing

Question generation:  Come up with three questions from the Victor Frankl OR BNW last few chapters for us to use in our seminar on Friday.

12/6

Follow up:
*Finish reading and annotating Brave New World (annotations for chapters 16-18 are due by Friday)
*Update your DP with your SMART goal that we completed in class on Monday.  See directions below from Ms Roxy:

9th graders should already have a page titled "9th Grade" or "9th Grade Reflections".  On there currently, I recommended uploading the Self-Portrait Project as it a visual reflection piece.  This way, any of us in any grade can quickly check and see this reflection at anytime from anywhere. 

9th Grade Example: CLICK ON THIS LINK AND USE IT TO POST YOUR SMART GOAL ONLINE   Link to this Page

12/5

Happy new year! Here is our agenda.

Game
Headspace
Matt's POL into reading goal setting article:  http://www.stevepavlina.com/articles/power-of-clarity.htm

Make your own SMART goal (a paper copy)
Party time--share your goals with other students, give and receive feedback on how to make it more specific and measurable and attainable
Get your goal approved by Matt, post paper copy above your wall-folder and digital copy on your DP. Here are Roxy's Directions on how to do that (see below)

Let's have our students post these to their current "grade's refection" page.  For example, 9th graders should already have a page titled "9th Grade" or "9th Grade Reflections".  On there currently, I recommended uploading the Self-Portrait Project as it a visual reflection piece.  This way, any of us in any grade can quickly check and see this reflection at anytime from anywhere. 

9th Grade Example: CLICK ON THIS LINK AND USE IT TO POST YOUR SMART GOAL ONLINE   Link to this Page

Read and annotate BNW on your own or in small groups (see calendar for schedule)