September 11

Humanities 8

Today we signed out the novel The Outsiders.  We also completed a survey individually on issues brought up in the book.  Later we shared our opinions by standing on a continuum of strongly agree to strongly disagree in the classroom.  Visually everyone could see what other people's opinions were.  Finally, we selected a number of the controversial statements and students were asked to expand and explain their points of view in a respectful manner.  

English 10

Today we reviewed the factors influencing identity and students were asked to record this brainstorm so that they could refer to it next week when they will be asked to create a representation of their own identity.  For the majority of the rest of the class, I modeled a power point representation of my self.  I believe it is only fair if I share some information about myself before asking students to do the same.  At the end of class students were asked to brainstorm and try and decide on what type of representation they would like to do.  Some suggestions were: power point, bumper sticker, story, comic strip, timeline, mask etc.  On Monday we will discuss criteria and students will begin brainstorming and deciding on what factors they would like to represent.