Showing posts with label Period 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Period 2. Show all posts
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Vocab List for Sophomores - Period 2
Sophomores
Only!
Vocabulary
Test: Friday, May 25th
1) Circumspect:
Thinking carefully about something before doing it. (Careful or cautious)
2) Entrenched:
Not likely to change.
3) Simultaneous:
At the same time.
4) Dilapidated:
Old, broken, and in very bad condition.
5) Distinction:
A clear difference between things.
6) Exacerbate:
To make a bad situation worse.
7) Vulnerable:
Easy to harm or attack.
8)
Tangible: Real, Can be touched.
9)
Plausible: Believable
10)
Tedious: Something that is boring.
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9.5.12
Wednesday, May 9th - Period 2
Inquiry into Peace and Conflict: Day 1
Do Now: Write down the issues that you think are very important to you and that you would be interested in talking about.
Homework: No homework.
Inquiry: What is peace? What is conflict? What examples of peace and conflict occur in our everyday lives? How can we resolve conflict in peaceful ways?
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: Write down the issues that you think are very important to you and that you would be interested in talking about.
Homework: No homework.
Inquiry: What is peace? What is conflict? What examples of peace and conflict occur in our everyday lives? How can we resolve conflict in peaceful ways?
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. Hand in slips of paper.
- Part A: What is peace? Write down words that you associate with peace.
- In groups of two, make a “Peace Statue” and a “Conflict Statue” related to the topic I give you: teacher/student, parent/child, grandparent/grandchild, family, friends, strangers, siblings, teammates.
- Reflect as class how each statue expresses peace. As they hold the statue position for 15 seconds, student shout out words that they associate with their statue. (Add to Part A)
- Part B: What are examples a peace and conflict that we have in this classroom? Pass your paper to a partner and the partner should write one way to resolve an example of conflict in a peaceful way. (We will think about how to resolve conflict in favor of peace later.)
- Read Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary: “A New Message”
- Part C 1: What were examples of peace that were present in his new message? How was peace extended in this new message?
- Part C 2: Choose one vocabulary word that relates to peace or conflict. Explain what you think it means and how it relates to peace or conflict.
1.5.12
Tuesday, May 1st - Period 2
What is School? Day 13
Do Now: If you had to choose one sense to live without (touch, smell, sight, taste, hearing), which one would you choose? Explain.
Homework: Study vocabulary!
Inquiry: How do I turn art into writing? How do I write about art?
Objective: SWBAT Turn their pieces of art into creative writing poems, stories, or essays.
Agenda:
Do Now: If you had to choose one sense to live without (touch, smell, sight, taste, hearing), which one would you choose? Explain.
Homework: Study vocabulary!
Inquiry: How do I turn art into writing? How do I write about art?
Objective: SWBAT Turn their pieces of art into creative writing poems, stories, or essays.
Agenda:
- Do now discussion.
- View collage video and choose one image to write about.
- Part A: Describe what you can feel in this piece of art.
- Part B: Describe what you can hear in this piece of art.
- Part C: In great detail, write about what you can feel, hear, smell, see, and taste in this image. Tell a story that explain where all of these sensations come from.
30.4.12
Monday, April 30th - Period 2
What is School? Day 12
Do Now: Does school develop or inhibit your creativity? Explain your response.
Homework: Write a short story that uses at least 3 vocabulary words.
Inquiry: How do we express ourselves?
Objective: SWBAT create their own creative expression of themselves.
Agenda:
Do Now: Does school develop or inhibit your creativity? Explain your response.
Homework: Write a short story that uses at least 3 vocabulary words.
Inquiry: How do we express ourselves?
Objective: SWBAT create their own creative expression of themselves.
Agenda:
- Do now discussion.
- Vocabulary review: Test on Friday.
- Creative Self Expression: Art + Writing.
- Read Chapter 2 from By Any Means Necessary.
26.4.12
Thursday, April 26th - Period 2
What is School? Day 11
Do Now: What does it for someone who transforms the world? Who are examples?
Homework: Describe how you are similar or different from Malcolm X.
Inquiry: How are creative and transformational people educated.
Objective: SWBAT develop their own understandings of Malcolm X.
Agenda:
Do Now: What does it for someone who transforms the world? Who are examples?
Homework: Describe how you are similar or different from Malcolm X.
Inquiry: How are creative and transformational people educated.
Objective: SWBAT develop their own understandings of Malcolm X.
Agenda:
- Do now discussion.
- Listen to Malcolm X.
- Part A: What kind of education do you think Malcolm X had?
- Read Introduction.
- Part B: In the introduction, they describe Malcolm X as one of the most important members of the Civil Rights Movement. According to this introduction, why was he so important?
- Read Chapter 1.
- Part C: Choose one detail from chapter 1 that shows how Malcolm X was a unique figure. Explain how he is unique.
- School - Speech, Poem, Story.
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