Learning Targets:
1. Story Corps Gallery Walk
Today we're combining work on our project with work on our writing with a study of the values underlying our government and constitution. Today, we're working on a triple play.
We'll start by adding notes from your Story Corps interview to our big story of the past, present, and future of pollution in the Animas River. You'll do a gallery walk and write any additions down on notecards to hand to me. I'll types these up, print and post them to the wall.
2. Individual Vision Statements and Forecasting Statements
Then we'll work with your vision statements. You did a freewrite. To turn a freewrite into an essay, you need to pull out the main idea. What is the main idea, the overarching statement, in your vision freewrite. If it's in the freewrite, circle or underline it. If it isn't, read your freewrite and try to summarize the thrust of what you're trying to say. This doesn't need to be complicated. Write that statement on a separate sheet of paper.
Now, pick three things that are part of that vision. Once you have your three things you'll write a forecasting statement, that explains or forecasts what the main parts of your essay will be. I'll show these examples in class. This is an essential piece of most college essays and will be important for your senior project. You'll turn this page with your vision thesis and forecasting statement in at the end of the day for points.
3. Group Vision Statements
Before break you'll get into groups of four and see if you can combine your individual vision statements into one sentence. You will add the statement "We believe in this vision because..." and give the rationale for this vision statement. Someone in your group will type up this statement in this Google Doc.
4. Constitutional Values
After break, I'll pass out this writing packet. This packet is to help you explore the most common political values, sort out what you believe, and let you practice college writing skills so you write a better term paper and senior project. This packet will be due next Monday.
In your vision groups, you'll read the introduction to the five constitutional values we'll be talking about: equity, efficiency, security, liberty, and community. We'll then look at our five vision statements to see if we can recognize these values as embodied in any of these statements. Tomorrow, we'll be looking for these same values in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This kind of analysis is what we'll be doing for the next two days, so I want you to get good at it.
5. Mission Gallery Walk
You'll close with another gallery walk looking at our past, present, and future posters. By this time, I will have added your Story Corps notes from the start of class. You'll review all this information and write down on a sheet of paper three statements:
You will turn this in at the end of class with your individual mission statement and your Story Corps notes (if you didn't turn this in already)
Homework due Wednesday, October 7th
No specific homework, but get started on your Constitutional Values Writing Packet
- We can recognize constitutional values guiding our rhetoric
- We can pull a main point out of a freewriting statement
- We can draft a forecasting statement
1. Story Corps Gallery Walk
Today we're combining work on our project with work on our writing with a study of the values underlying our government and constitution. Today, we're working on a triple play.
We'll start by adding notes from your Story Corps interview to our big story of the past, present, and future of pollution in the Animas River. You'll do a gallery walk and write any additions down on notecards to hand to me. I'll types these up, print and post them to the wall.
2. Individual Vision Statements and Forecasting Statements
Then we'll work with your vision statements. You did a freewrite. To turn a freewrite into an essay, you need to pull out the main idea. What is the main idea, the overarching statement, in your vision freewrite. If it's in the freewrite, circle or underline it. If it isn't, read your freewrite and try to summarize the thrust of what you're trying to say. This doesn't need to be complicated. Write that statement on a separate sheet of paper.
Now, pick three things that are part of that vision. Once you have your three things you'll write a forecasting statement, that explains or forecasts what the main parts of your essay will be. I'll show these examples in class. This is an essential piece of most college essays and will be important for your senior project. You'll turn this page with your vision thesis and forecasting statement in at the end of the day for points.
3. Group Vision Statements
Before break you'll get into groups of four and see if you can combine your individual vision statements into one sentence. You will add the statement "We believe in this vision because..." and give the rationale for this vision statement. Someone in your group will type up this statement in this Google Doc.
4. Constitutional Values
After break, I'll pass out this writing packet. This packet is to help you explore the most common political values, sort out what you believe, and let you practice college writing skills so you write a better term paper and senior project. This packet will be due next Monday.
In your vision groups, you'll read the introduction to the five constitutional values we'll be talking about: equity, efficiency, security, liberty, and community. We'll then look at our five vision statements to see if we can recognize these values as embodied in any of these statements. Tomorrow, we'll be looking for these same values in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This kind of analysis is what we'll be doing for the next two days, so I want you to get good at it.
5. Mission Gallery Walk
You'll close with another gallery walk looking at our past, present, and future posters. By this time, I will have added your Story Corps notes from the start of class. You'll review all this information and write down on a sheet of paper three statements:
- The real issue with pollution in the river is…
- And so the mission for our project should be….
- Before I can be confident in my answer I want more information about ….
You will turn this in at the end of class with your individual mission statement and your Story Corps notes (if you didn't turn this in already)
Homework due Wednesday, October 7th
No specific homework, but get started on your Constitutional Values Writing Packet