Learning targets:
· We can identify strengths that each person brings to our class?
· We can name what we need to do to succeed with our digital story?
Diverse day today, touching on all the different strands of the course…I changed the sequence of these activities several times trying to create a good flow.
1. Write about a role model - We started with a companion freewrite to yesterday. Who is someone who has made America a more perfect union? What public figure do you look up to? Why? Take ten minutes to freewrite on this topic. The same rules apply as yesterday. Just write…you won’t share what you write, just the idea behind it.
2. Share out philosophy or role model - You now have two freewrites: one on your political philosophy and one on a role model in public life. These ideas will feed both your paper and your digital story. Pick one of these freewrites to share with the group. Give a rationale for your choices. No need to justify your choice. It will be most helpful to hear each other’s reasoning.
3. Syllabus Quiz – We had a brief quiz to underscore some of the details in the document that was made with love.
4. Collaborative Classroom - I’ll show you a summary of the class norms that we established yesterday and give you some more things to think about in terms of the collaborative classroom
5. Market and the Polis – I gave you the first chapter of Deborah Stone’s book Policy Paradox to read over the weekend. I took a few minutes to describe the reading, what’s in it, why we’re reading it, and some tips for how to work through this dense but well-written text. I've summarized those points here.
This moved us into a discussion about how you want us to go through the reading on Monday. We’ll have roughly 45 minutes on Monday to review the reading. We decided as a class to use the Four Corners activity on Monday. I will email out some statements to guide your annotations. On Monday, we'll do Four Corners and have that roll into a group discussion about the ideas in Stone's chapter.
Some basic tips for this reading include the following: pace yourself, use the summary tables at the end to get the main point, and try to write a one sentence summary for each subsection.
6. The Leadership Compass – After break we divided the class according to leadership styles and then in a small group talk about that styles strengths and weaknesses. A summary of this information is here. Each group did a short skit to provide a portrait of their preferred leadership style.
7. Digital Story Intro – We ended the class watching a digital story called "American Dreams" and talking about how you can capture your experience over the next two months so you have enough material for a stellar piece of work. I passed out the digital story assignment. And students created a reflection journal that you’ll share on me. If there’s time you’ll make a first entry.
Have a great weekend!
Homework
DP update - Create a Humanities 12 page on your digital portfolio. Clean up the freewrites on your political philosophy and your role model and post this information on your Humanities 12 page. You will make several posts over the course of the project that will help you trace your thinking. This will help with your term paper and your digital story.
Read Market and the Polis and annotate to address the statements I email out for the Four Corners activity.
· We can identify strengths that each person brings to our class?
· We can name what we need to do to succeed with our digital story?
Diverse day today, touching on all the different strands of the course…I changed the sequence of these activities several times trying to create a good flow.
1. Write about a role model - We started with a companion freewrite to yesterday. Who is someone who has made America a more perfect union? What public figure do you look up to? Why? Take ten minutes to freewrite on this topic. The same rules apply as yesterday. Just write…you won’t share what you write, just the idea behind it.
2. Share out philosophy or role model - You now have two freewrites: one on your political philosophy and one on a role model in public life. These ideas will feed both your paper and your digital story. Pick one of these freewrites to share with the group. Give a rationale for your choices. No need to justify your choice. It will be most helpful to hear each other’s reasoning.
3. Syllabus Quiz – We had a brief quiz to underscore some of the details in the document that was made with love.
4. Collaborative Classroom - I’ll show you a summary of the class norms that we established yesterday and give you some more things to think about in terms of the collaborative classroom
5. Market and the Polis – I gave you the first chapter of Deborah Stone’s book Policy Paradox to read over the weekend. I took a few minutes to describe the reading, what’s in it, why we’re reading it, and some tips for how to work through this dense but well-written text. I've summarized those points here.
This moved us into a discussion about how you want us to go through the reading on Monday. We’ll have roughly 45 minutes on Monday to review the reading. We decided as a class to use the Four Corners activity on Monday. I will email out some statements to guide your annotations. On Monday, we'll do Four Corners and have that roll into a group discussion about the ideas in Stone's chapter.
Some basic tips for this reading include the following: pace yourself, use the summary tables at the end to get the main point, and try to write a one sentence summary for each subsection.
6. The Leadership Compass – After break we divided the class according to leadership styles and then in a small group talk about that styles strengths and weaknesses. A summary of this information is here. Each group did a short skit to provide a portrait of their preferred leadership style.
7. Digital Story Intro – We ended the class watching a digital story called "American Dreams" and talking about how you can capture your experience over the next two months so you have enough material for a stellar piece of work. I passed out the digital story assignment. And students created a reflection journal that you’ll share on me. If there’s time you’ll make a first entry.
Have a great weekend!
Homework
DP update - Create a Humanities 12 page on your digital portfolio. Clean up the freewrites on your political philosophy and your role model and post this information on your Humanities 12 page. You will make several posts over the course of the project that will help you trace your thinking. This will help with your term paper and your digital story.
Read Market and the Polis and annotate to address the statements I email out for the Four Corners activity.