11-30-11
Handed out Creatve Assignment #2--Human vs Machine/Alien Interaction. Saw short clips of ideas for project.
Journal: Loop writing. !. Do all siblings fight; yes/no, give examples and explain. 2. Do you, or would you, fight with your siblings and why. 3. Explain in writing, drawing, diagram Ender’s relationship with his siblings.
HW:
Read pgs. 37-53 and get vocab words.11-29-11
Went over the calender. Discussion: What’s the difference ?
Android-racism-no difference. What’s a problem w/ them on earth? Suspension of disbelief. Ender’s Game:
Monitor in base of neck--distant future--dystopic--only two children-third by permission only--buggers. Read from book starting on pg. 16.
HW:
Read pgs. 16-3611-28-11
In class essay on DADoES. Picked up next book to read; “Ender’sGame”
HW:
Read pgs 1-15 “Ender’s Game” and post to question #8. 11-22-11
Chalk talk: Why is the toad at the end of book?Is this book helpful for humanity? Why or why not?
Played jeopardy. Questions from
HW:
Finish book if haven’t done so yet.11-21-11
Journal writing:
1. If you were to create a religion what would the central tenet be?
Some of the ideas: loyalty and acceptance of others, equality, guns?, Red Bull as a sacrament?, follow your own heart,achieve enlightment. Mercerism: empathy, community, all living things are sacred.
Cast of Characters:
Deckard: Indiana Jones/Harrison Ford
Tom Cruise, Vin Diesel, Densel Washington, Jason Bourne
Mercer: Morgan Freeman, Harold Camping, Picard,
Winston: Jason Bourne, Shia Lebouf
Buster Friendly: Krusty the Clown, Glen Beck, Scarey Gary( Ch. 3) 11-18-11
Did two presentations.
HW:
Finish reading DADoES. Will post to question #7.11-17-11
Tomorrow: 1) creative project 2) read to 235 3) discuss journal 4) cast of characters list11-16-11
Mr. Bourne out; Ms. Gundermann sub.Handed out RWR on DADofES for homework tonight.
In journal 1) Explain how the RSA Animate film “Empathy Civilization” relates to the book?
2) Movie to book. Do a Venn diagram of similarities between the book and Blade Runner.
List major characters in: 1) DADoES. 2) Another book from this class. 3) Then pick a famous person, athlete, political person, that most connects/is similar to those characters(physical resemblence and plus other similiarities and why. This will be presented to class on Friday.
HW:
Read pages 216-235 0n DADoES and complete the RWR Journal. Three responses to two passages. 11-15-11
Journal (dialectic) Three columns. Two questions. answer question in first column then pass to left so next person can read your answer and respond in second colum, third person in third column.
1. What defines a person?
2. How would you define yourself?
Appreciation of core values, art, values. Choices you make. wants, needs, personality. How you’re remembered( 1984). Not all people are human(DADoES) Empathy. With whom you associate.
Short video on empathy
HW:
Get caught up on the reading.11-14-11
Went over requirements for in-class essay on DADoES. Can bring in an outline or 1 page of notes. Can choose one of questions on the instruction sheet or choose one with approval by Mr. Bourne before the class when essay is being written; Mon. Nov.28
Did a question and answer session on the book DADoES. Watched a short video on empathy
HW:
Read pages 203-215 in DADoES11-10-11
Utopia/distopia presentations.
Some students left because had work caught up; others stayed and took quiz.
HW:
read pages 184-202 in DADoES
Student will post to question #611-09-11
Journal entry. Showed image; write about what you see and how it fits into book. First image painting “The Scream” by Munch.
Presentation of Utopia/Distopia society.
HW:
Read pages 166-183 in DADoES11-08-11
Quiz Thursday if didn’t do well on questions answered yesterday.
Journal entry: Showing images on screen and have to write what you see. How does the image relate to the book.
Movie “Bladerunner”: Holden and Deckart switch roles, droids seem less human and Pris
HW:
read 145-165 in DADoES.11-07-11
1) Answer 3 out of 4 questions(15 min. = 5 min/question)
2) Blade Runner movie
3) Small group Venn diagrams contrast / compare book and movie.
HW:
Read 129-144
Get vocab11-04-11
Handed back work. Talk about book then more presentations.
Characterization: Mercer/Jesus, Isidore/chickenhead, electric, anima repairment,stutters, . Stoat, Isidore’s boss. Rachel Rosen/Pris Stratton, Nexus 6, Rick Deckard/bounty hunter for androids. Eldon Rosen, Buster Friendly, Iran (Rick’s wife)
Presentations of Utopias/Dystopias.
HW:
Read pages 112-128 i DADoES11-03-11
Quiz. Ones answer odd questions, 2s answer even questions. Answer 5 out of 6.11-02-11
Students did quarter evaluation in class. Done by chalk talk.
1. How is the course going so far? What changes would you like to see? Students wrote comments on board and then Mr. Bourne went over and commented on them.
Journal entry: How does the book DADoES fit into this course? Dystopia, scifi, tech’s impact on society, society at war, people live on Mars, Main characters have a distaste for society, satire theme, technology/alien. fears of the unknown, reaction to unknown is to act violently or react to it with fear.
HW:
Read pages 97-111 in DADoES.
Quiz tomorrow on reading and vocab. 11-01-11
Presentations of Utopian/distopian society start today. some students signed up yesterday to go first today.
HW:
Read pages 84-96 in DADoES. Post vocab. Work on Creative Project
Thurs. quiz on vocab and reading.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
9/29-11/1
11-01-11
Presentations of Utopian/distopian society start today. some students signed up yesterday to go first today.
HW:
Read pages 84-96 in DADoES. Post vocab. Work on Creative Project
Thurs. quiz on vocab and reading.
10-31-11
Journal question: Who is Buster Friendly like in our society? And Mercer?
Buster Friendly is a dystopic Oprah (droid?). He is like Crusty the Clown ,Marshall Applewhite, George Stropppolis, Wolf Bitzer, Sharon OsbourneBill O’Reilly< Mr. Rogers, Fox News, Steven Colbert,
Mercer(ism) Empathy box. More important as religious sign. Jesus/Mercer--both stood for peace and love--both suffer .
Empathy ties the whole book together.
HW:
Finish creative presentation---due tomorrow.10-28-11
Last report on Utopian Societies; New Harmony.
Write in journal, answer the question: Name a time when you felt different from others in a group.
Went over answers to the post #4 on the book.
1. Why does Deckard seem to be a cold person? because of the work he does and the uncertainty of his life hunting the androids
2. How are androids made? A company makes them
3. Why are they hunting androids? Outlawed on earth but also androids wanted to take over the earth. Android first built to help people
4. people were leaving earth because of nucleur fallout.
HW:
Read up to page 83 in DADoES.10-27-11
X Day after showed had made up work.10-26-11
Progress reports handed out. Last chance tomorrow to get all make-up work done. End of quarter is Friday.
Students got Study Guide for Blade Runner ( Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
Presentation of Uopian project. Platos Replublic. Three classes; producers, auxillaries, guardians. Metals relate to classes; gold-guardians, iron/bronze-producers, and silver-auxillaries. The healthy city(city of pigs) producers expend to include merchants, extra wealth to guardians
DADoES:
Book setting; future, post nucleur event, West Coast,
Protagonist; Rick Deckard, android bounty hunter, applies Voigt-Kampff test ( empathy) to deterime whether it’s a person or android.
Antagonist;
Discussion of movie “Majority Report”.
HW:
Read pages 48-68 in “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”10-25-11
Watched rest of the movie “Minority Report”.
HW:
Read pages 35-47. Post to question #410-24-11
Collected papers. Watched five minutes of movie”Minority Report”. Returned books and got new one to read for next project” Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?” Read aloud fist two pages in class.
10-21-11
Mr. Bourne out; Ms. Judd sub. Watched “Minority Report”. Some students did their conferences with Ms. Judd10-20-11
Watched “Minority Report” 10-19-11
In Class quiz on vocab. Watched movie “ Minority Report”10-18-11
Watched movie “ Minority Report” Mr. Bourne meet with students during movie to check their outlines.
HW:
rough draft due tomorrow.10-17-11
Shared more Utopia projects from previous years.
Discussion of the project. What’s allowed and what is not’ Journal entry: ten favorite activities .
Writing the Literary Analysis ( posted on Mr. Bournes site)
An argument. Usually a literary anaylsis will involve a discussion of a tesxt as writing. in concepts. Specific attributes of text. Arguable point thesis about attributes. Evidence (quotes). Supporting a thesis statement; direct quotations. Analyze specific items, make an argument
Integrating Quotations: never just drop a qoutation into your paper. Use a qoute “sandwich”
Mr. Bourne handed out “Guidelines for Writing a Literary Analysis Essay” and how to do “Qoute SAnwich”. Will make copies for files.
HW:
Outline for paper(Utopian Creative Assigment) due tomorrow.10-14-11
NO SCHOOL10-13-11
Saw utopia presentation on Shakers. “1984” students staying for dicussion
Quesions:
1. Is the brotherhood truly good or bad? Thinks it good but O”brien uses it as a tool against others. Does it really exist. Idea was that it was out to destroy the Party.
Does the ends justify the means
HW:
Reading and vocab quiz on Monday
Read pages 232-245 “1984”
Read chap. “City of Ember”10-12-11
HW:
Vocab quiz tomorrow. Went over posted vocab list.
Transient Images video ( by Max Foster) dystopian society
Discussion of “City of Ember”
Question from post#3
Are people of Ember suppose to be smarter than average? is that a quality of a utopia and how everything is more advanced? Society has both smarter and less smarter people whether they are utopian society or not.
It say’s they will have to go down strem to get out of the city, wouldnit they want to go up stream or even up toward the surface? Instructions, boats, direction show they go down rather than up.
Why do Lina and Doon think its going to be easy for their families to find the way out when it took them sometime to figure it out themselves? Doon did not write everything down.
HW:
Read pages 215-232 in “1984”
Read chap. 18 and 19 “City of Ember”10-11-11
Went over schedule for rest of the week. Assignment: 1984/City of Ember and Farenheit 451. Due 10-21-11 Topic ideas due 10-17-11
Essay is a contrast/compare work on which ever book student is reading.
1984/city of ember : control of media, brain washing, lots of substance abuse, both at conflict/war, illusion of freedom, both are negative.
HW:
read pages 198-215 “1984” post to question #3
read chap. 17 “City of Ember” post to question #310-07-11
1984 people stayed.
Prole Winston Outer
better lives detached not trusted
no survellance not afraid of death work hard
more freedom sick of life
get away with more
rocket bombs
inner party Clarisse Julia
ok with world active rebellion
thinks different hope
knows there’s hope hates party10-06-11
I was absent .10-05-11
Journal-- piece of paper into three colums. Answer question in first column and then pass to left and they comment and then pass on left to third person and they comment on the two answers. First prompt- whose your favorite character and why?
Quiz tomorrow. Post another vocab word.
10-04-11
I was proctoring NECAP testing; so no notes.
HW:
read pages 152-165 in “1984”
read chapter 15 in “City of Ember”
RWR due Weds. You can either do RWR or take quiz10-03-11
Watched rest of Gattaca. Went over schedule for week
HW:
Read pages 138-152 in “1984”
Read chapter 14 in “City of Ember”
RWR due Weds. If you want to do it or take quiz.9-30-11
Watched another student Utopia presentation. Rest of period watched more of the film “Gattaca”.
HW:
Read pages 122-138 i “1984”
Chapters10 and 11 in “City of Ember”9-29-11
Watched more of the film Gattaca.
HW:
read pages 105 to 122 n “1984”
read Chapters eight and nine in “City of Ember”
Students know which book they are reading.
Journal entry: Write a paragraph that compares a character in the book with someone you know.
CORRECTION: Yesterdays homework: In regards to post, all students post to question #2 not #2 or #3. If you already posted to #3 go in and correct to proper question.Thank you.
Presentations of Utopian/distopian society start today. some students signed up yesterday to go first today.
HW:
Read pages 84-96 in DADoES. Post vocab. Work on Creative Project
Thurs. quiz on vocab and reading.
10-31-11
Journal question: Who is Buster Friendly like in our society? And Mercer?
Buster Friendly is a dystopic Oprah (droid?). He is like Crusty the Clown ,Marshall Applewhite, George Stropppolis, Wolf Bitzer, Sharon OsbourneBill O’Reilly< Mr. Rogers, Fox News, Steven Colbert,
Mercer(ism) Empathy box. More important as religious sign. Jesus/Mercer--both stood for peace and love--both suffer .
Empathy ties the whole book together.
HW:
Finish creative presentation---due tomorrow.10-28-11
Last report on Utopian Societies; New Harmony.
Write in journal, answer the question: Name a time when you felt different from others in a group.
Went over answers to the post #4 on the book.
1. Why does Deckard seem to be a cold person? because of the work he does and the uncertainty of his life hunting the androids
2. How are androids made? A company makes them
3. Why are they hunting androids? Outlawed on earth but also androids wanted to take over the earth. Android first built to help people
4. people were leaving earth because of nucleur fallout.
HW:
Read up to page 83 in DADoES.10-27-11
X Day after showed had made up work.10-26-11
Progress reports handed out. Last chance tomorrow to get all make-up work done. End of quarter is Friday.
Students got Study Guide for Blade Runner ( Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
Presentation of Uopian project. Platos Replublic. Three classes; producers, auxillaries, guardians. Metals relate to classes; gold-guardians, iron/bronze-producers, and silver-auxillaries. The healthy city(city of pigs) producers expend to include merchants, extra wealth to guardians
DADoES:
Book setting; future, post nucleur event, West Coast,
Protagonist; Rick Deckard, android bounty hunter, applies Voigt-Kampff test ( empathy) to deterime whether it’s a person or android.
Antagonist;
Discussion of movie “Majority Report”.
HW:
Read pages 48-68 in “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”10-25-11
Watched rest of the movie “Minority Report”.
HW:
Read pages 35-47. Post to question #410-24-11
Collected papers. Watched five minutes of movie”Minority Report”. Returned books and got new one to read for next project” Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?” Read aloud fist two pages in class.
10-21-11
Mr. Bourne out; Ms. Judd sub. Watched “Minority Report”. Some students did their conferences with Ms. Judd10-20-11
Watched “Minority Report” 10-19-11
In Class quiz on vocab. Watched movie “ Minority Report”10-18-11
Watched movie “ Minority Report” Mr. Bourne meet with students during movie to check their outlines.
HW:
rough draft due tomorrow.10-17-11
Shared more Utopia projects from previous years.
Discussion of the project. What’s allowed and what is not’ Journal entry: ten favorite activities .
Writing the Literary Analysis ( posted on Mr. Bournes site)
An argument. Usually a literary anaylsis will involve a discussion of a tesxt as writing. in concepts. Specific attributes of text. Arguable point thesis about attributes. Evidence (quotes). Supporting a thesis statement; direct quotations. Analyze specific items, make an argument
Integrating Quotations: never just drop a qoutation into your paper. Use a qoute “sandwich”
Mr. Bourne handed out “Guidelines for Writing a Literary Analysis Essay” and how to do “Qoute SAnwich”. Will make copies for files.
HW:
Outline for paper(Utopian Creative Assigment) due tomorrow.10-14-11
NO SCHOOL10-13-11
Saw utopia presentation on Shakers. “1984” students staying for dicussion
Quesions:
1. Is the brotherhood truly good or bad? Thinks it good but O”brien uses it as a tool against others. Does it really exist. Idea was that it was out to destroy the Party.
Does the ends justify the means
HW:
Reading and vocab quiz on Monday
Read pages 232-245 “1984”
Read chap. “City of Ember”10-12-11
HW:
Vocab quiz tomorrow. Went over posted vocab list.
Transient Images video ( by Max Foster) dystopian society
Discussion of “City of Ember”
Question from post#3
Are people of Ember suppose to be smarter than average? is that a quality of a utopia and how everything is more advanced? Society has both smarter and less smarter people whether they are utopian society or not.
It say’s they will have to go down strem to get out of the city, wouldnit they want to go up stream or even up toward the surface? Instructions, boats, direction show they go down rather than up.
Why do Lina and Doon think its going to be easy for their families to find the way out when it took them sometime to figure it out themselves? Doon did not write everything down.
HW:
Read pages 215-232 in “1984”
Read chap. 18 and 19 “City of Ember”10-11-11
Went over schedule for rest of the week. Assignment: 1984/City of Ember and Farenheit 451. Due 10-21-11 Topic ideas due 10-17-11
Essay is a contrast/compare work on which ever book student is reading.
1984/city of ember : control of media, brain washing, lots of substance abuse, both at conflict/war, illusion of freedom, both are negative.
HW:
read pages 198-215 “1984” post to question #3
read chap. 17 “City of Ember” post to question #310-07-11
1984 people stayed.
Prole Winston Outer
better lives detached not trusted
no survellance not afraid of death work hard
more freedom sick of life
get away with more
rocket bombs
inner party Clarisse Julia
ok with world active rebellion
thinks different hope
knows there’s hope hates party10-06-11
I was absent .10-05-11
Journal-- piece of paper into three colums. Answer question in first column and then pass to left and they comment and then pass on left to third person and they comment on the two answers. First prompt- whose your favorite character and why?
Quiz tomorrow. Post another vocab word.
10-04-11
I was proctoring NECAP testing; so no notes.
HW:
read pages 152-165 in “1984”
read chapter 15 in “City of Ember”
RWR due Weds. You can either do RWR or take quiz10-03-11
Watched rest of Gattaca. Went over schedule for week
HW:
Read pages 138-152 in “1984”
Read chapter 14 in “City of Ember”
RWR due Weds. If you want to do it or take quiz.9-30-11
Watched another student Utopia presentation. Rest of period watched more of the film “Gattaca”.
HW:
Read pages 122-138 i “1984”
Chapters10 and 11 in “City of Ember”9-29-11
Watched more of the film Gattaca.
HW:
read pages 105 to 122 n “1984”
read Chapters eight and nine in “City of Ember”
Students know which book they are reading.
Journal entry: Write a paragraph that compares a character in the book with someone you know.
CORRECTION: Yesterdays homework: In regards to post, all students post to question #2 not #2 or #3. If you already posted to #3 go in and correct to proper question.Thank you.
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