Learning target:
We’re starting today with something called a World Café to allow you to have a free-flowing and fun conversation about the different project ideas. This is an established format for generating ideas and promoting creativity. You will gather around a table with other people who are interested in your topic. You’ll have ten minutes to share what’s exciting about this idea and where might want to take it. You can use the markers and papers to draw pictures that represent your thinking, makes lists, connect ideas with arrows, etc. I will pass out the proposal worksheet. As a group, you'll answer these questions and from these answer assemble your presentation to the class. This is what you will turn in alongside your presentation.
You’ll create a Google Document and share it with Marcus and rest of your group members. This is where you’ll record the ideas that come out of the café.
You will take turns being the “anchor” for your table, the person who welcomes people from other groups and explains to them the idea and explains what is on the piece of butcher paper. The rest of you will circulate to the other tables to hear ideas, offer suggestions, and draw on their sheets of paper. Obviously, as you tag team each other and someone else becomes the “anchor,” they’ll have to be a quick exchange of what the last group said. The anchor will take notes in the Google doc as the conversation goes on. Make sure these notes are organized into succinct bullet points. I want to read and comment on the ideas.
We have 35 minutes for this portion of the café. I’ll call “rotate” after a certain interval for people to get to other tables. If the conversations seem like they’re slowing down, I’ll call for the original groups to get back together. Once we start class on Wednesday, you can switch groups if one of the other ideas you heard catches your attention. Keep an eye out for ways to combine project options and cross-fertilize each others projects. By Friday, different groups might choose to join forces. That’s great.
After break, we’ll watch Episode 1 of the Abolitionists. You can watch that here, with commercials. The first episode is just over 50 minutes long. Homework is to answer the two questions below, each with a good solid paragraph with a topic sentence. Post this in your Conference Prep Google doc.
Homework due Wednesday, October 14th
Answer the two questions about the documentary “The Abolitionists – Part I” below, each with a good solid paragraph with a topic sentence. You can watch this episode, with commercials, here. Post this in your Conference Prep Google doc. You are compiling paragraphs this week that you’ll study and improve in advance of your term paper. Next week we’re going to work on the “close level” of sentences, grammar, and punctuation, which is why I’m asking you to give your best attention to grammar and punctuation.
1. Christianity was a driving force behind the Abolitionists movement and one could argue that every social movement must have a spiritual aspect to be successful. At the same time, many churches of the time argued against the abolitionist cause. What sense of duty do your own spiritual beliefs imply, if any? How is this related to making America a more perfect union?
2. Angelina Grimke writes to William Lloyd Garrison to express her support for his work. This leads to a lifelong friendship and her direct involvement in the abolitionist movement, her speaking tour, meeting her husband, and the eventual publication of An Appeal to Christian Women of the South and American Slavery as It Is. Who is alive today that would you write a letter to? Whose public work do you respect that you would like to meet? This person and their work do not have to be political. What does this suggest about your own work to make America a more perfect union?
- We can name main characters in the Abolitionists movement
- We can name three strong ways to improve my chosen project idea
We’re starting today with something called a World Café to allow you to have a free-flowing and fun conversation about the different project ideas. This is an established format for generating ideas and promoting creativity. You will gather around a table with other people who are interested in your topic. You’ll have ten minutes to share what’s exciting about this idea and where might want to take it. You can use the markers and papers to draw pictures that represent your thinking, makes lists, connect ideas with arrows, etc. I will pass out the proposal worksheet. As a group, you'll answer these questions and from these answer assemble your presentation to the class. This is what you will turn in alongside your presentation.
You’ll create a Google Document and share it with Marcus and rest of your group members. This is where you’ll record the ideas that come out of the café.
You will take turns being the “anchor” for your table, the person who welcomes people from other groups and explains to them the idea and explains what is on the piece of butcher paper. The rest of you will circulate to the other tables to hear ideas, offer suggestions, and draw on their sheets of paper. Obviously, as you tag team each other and someone else becomes the “anchor,” they’ll have to be a quick exchange of what the last group said. The anchor will take notes in the Google doc as the conversation goes on. Make sure these notes are organized into succinct bullet points. I want to read and comment on the ideas.
We have 35 minutes for this portion of the café. I’ll call “rotate” after a certain interval for people to get to other tables. If the conversations seem like they’re slowing down, I’ll call for the original groups to get back together. Once we start class on Wednesday, you can switch groups if one of the other ideas you heard catches your attention. Keep an eye out for ways to combine project options and cross-fertilize each others projects. By Friday, different groups might choose to join forces. That’s great.
After break, we’ll watch Episode 1 of the Abolitionists. You can watch that here, with commercials. The first episode is just over 50 minutes long. Homework is to answer the two questions below, each with a good solid paragraph with a topic sentence. Post this in your Conference Prep Google doc.
Homework due Wednesday, October 14th
Answer the two questions about the documentary “The Abolitionists – Part I” below, each with a good solid paragraph with a topic sentence. You can watch this episode, with commercials, here. Post this in your Conference Prep Google doc. You are compiling paragraphs this week that you’ll study and improve in advance of your term paper. Next week we’re going to work on the “close level” of sentences, grammar, and punctuation, which is why I’m asking you to give your best attention to grammar and punctuation.
1. Christianity was a driving force behind the Abolitionists movement and one could argue that every social movement must have a spiritual aspect to be successful. At the same time, many churches of the time argued against the abolitionist cause. What sense of duty do your own spiritual beliefs imply, if any? How is this related to making America a more perfect union?
2. Angelina Grimke writes to William Lloyd Garrison to express her support for his work. This leads to a lifelong friendship and her direct involvement in the abolitionist movement, her speaking tour, meeting her husband, and the eventual publication of An Appeal to Christian Women of the South and American Slavery as It Is. Who is alive today that would you write a letter to? Whose public work do you respect that you would like to meet? This person and their work do not have to be political. What does this suggest about your own work to make America a more perfect union?