Do Now: Read over rubric for Senior Project PowerPoint presentation. Now is the time to ask questions.
Homework: Prepare for your presentation. Practice in front of friends or family members.
Inquiry: Do we learn in school? Why is it so inefficient?
Objective: SWBAT read, write and think critically, develop their own questions about themes that matter to them, and reflect on their own identity within a complex world.
Agenda:
- Do Now - Ask questions about presentation rubric and expectations.
- Pass out 4th quarter assignment list.
- Create schedule for senior project presentations.
- Part A: Name one thing you believe you really learned in school this year.
- Was this knowledge meaningful to you, will you use this knowledge in your life?
- Why does this happen? Why don’t we remember what we learn in school?
- Do you care about any of the topics that you have learned in school?
- I am hoping to make our learning process in this class more meaningful. What we learn and what we do in this class needs to be meaningful.
- Part B: What are the most important things for high school students? What do you think about? What are you trying to figure out? What is confusing to you? What are you passionate about? What are you curious about?
- Introduction to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. Intellectual curiosity and a passion for learning is a natural thing. How did he lose his passion for learning?
- Part C: How does this relate to the way our intellectual curiosities are crushed? What do you think “mental slavery” is? How does this relate to “mental slavery”?
