Post your genocide power point here

Be sure your presentation is open to public viewing.  Also, please identify which conflict (Rwanda, Congo, etc) you are posting.

Ideas for our spring debates

Take some time to read the news summaries and responses on some of your classmates' blogs.  As ideas for issues that we could use for our debates come to mind, post them here.

A few things to remember:


* Issues suitable for debate need to have both a pro side and a con side.  Try to frame your ideas as a questions that set the issue up as something that can either be argued for or against.


* If the issue is going to lead to a good debate, there has to be enough people who would be willing to argue one side or the other.  So, if most people would have the same opinion on the issue, it's not going to work because there won't be anyone to argue against.




You can post as many ideas and comments as you can think of!

Stanley Milgram Shock Experiment

For homework, view the following links about a famous experiment that examined the topic of obedience to authority.  As you watch them, be sure to answer the questions in your packet.




First video gives an overview of the experiment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1MJeHYlE0




Second video shows you a recent reproduction of the experiment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbqjLz0CmiQ

Individual Student Blogs & Outside Reading Books

“In a world….”

A blog trailer for your book….

Think of this assignment as a kind of movie trailer for your book, except instead of making a video, you must use your own words and whatever pictures and links you find that will give your readers hints about the plot, the characters, and/or the content of your book.  Don’t just use the back cover—craft this yourself.  Show me enough so that I know you read your book, but don’t give everything away--you can even put in some teasers.  Set it up to entice your peers to pick up the book themselves.   Be creative & have fun with it! 

Instead of doing this as a comment to my blog, you are first going to create your own blog.  I will show you how using Blogger.  As the author of your own blog, you can be very creative with the set-up as well as the use of pictures, videos, and music.  After we do this assignment you are going to use this blog for the rest of the year for future assignments.

**Note, if there is a movie version of your book, don’t use anything from it.  Make this about your experience with reading the book.

A good blog post will…

• Use language that is clear and creative and provokes interest and a desire to read the book.
• Highlight and describe important characters, key scenes or other significant parts of the book.
• Provide just enough detail to give evidence of reading but also set up teasers so that readers will want to examine the book themselves.
• Include relevant and meaningful images, music, and other links (perhaps even interactive ones) to enhance the depiction of the events, characters, ideas, symbols, and other content from the book. 
• Avoid using the book’s back cover or ready-made descriptions or trailers authored by other people—things that would take away from YOUR creativity and crafting of ideas.
   

Below put a link to the blog you created today in the comment box.  Make sure your blog is open to the public so we can all see what you came up with.

Directions for Found Poem

Found Poetry Activity

Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning.

 

You can create found poetry in many ways:

• You can make a list of powerful words and phrases from a passage or even another poem, and then rearrange them in a new way on a separate piece of paper.  You can add some of your own words to create meaning.
• You can use a pen or other writing utensil and block out other words from the text, leaving only the most powerful words and phrases showing.  You will have to think about how the reader’s eye will move down the page and take in the poem.
• You can circle the most powerful words and phrases, and then draw pictures or designs to block out the rest of the text and draw attention to the words you circled.
• You can actually cut up the text, and then rearrange and glue the most powerful words and phrases to a piece of art you create.

 

Check out these amazing examples of creativity:

https://www.google.com/search?q=found+poetry+pinterest&safe=strict&biw=1051&bih=495&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjUqNK8r-3JAhXCND4KHWPGDtwQ_AUIBigB

https://www.pinterest.com/venturingout/found-poetry/

http://starlygathered.com/found-poetry/

 

Directions for today:  Use the passage from Old School that you brought in today or use one of Frost’s poems.  Create a found poem – the method you use is up to you, but it should be something that is thoughtful, interesting, and provocative to both read and look at.  We will display them:)

You do not need to post anything here!

Your Poem Illustrated

Use this creative project as a tool to pay close attention to the particular word choices, images, patterns, sounds, and uses of figurative language in the poem you are doing for Poetry Out Loud.

Use Google Slides to create a power point for this project.  When you are done, copy the link in the comment box below.  Make sure your power point is open for others to view without special permission.  Be sure to include your name and the title of your poem.




How to make your illustrated poem:


1.  Break up your poem into smaller chunks.  If it is a long poem, break it down into groups of 2 lines.  If it is smaller, maybe go line by line.  You'll have to do whatever makes sense for your poem.  You want to break it down so you can attend to very specific details like word choices or images.


2.  Create a slide for each grouping of lines.  Write the lines right on the slide.  Go in chronological order.


3.  Find images that connect to the different word choices, images, patterns, symbols, sounds, and uses of figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, etc.).  Creatively display these images on the same slide as the lines they connect to.  Go for a collage effect that attends to multiple details and layers of meaning rather than just one image for the whole line.


4.  Your final project should consist of multiple slides which contain the smaller groupings of lines and their corresponding images.

Follow-up Othello Fishbowl Discussion Blog

Use this blog post to either reflect on a specific passage from the article about women in Othello that we didn't discuss in class, or to further explore an idea, a connection, a question, or a passage from our discussion of either "Othello's Alienation" or "Iago the Psychopath."

A good blog post will have an angle or a focus that will be hinted at in the title. This angle will be the driving focus of the blog post.  The post will discuss only a few really important specific ideas, connections, or passages from the play and the article, but it will discuss them deeply. Rather than just repeat what's already been said, the writer will strive to explore a new insight or perspective, or will connect ideas from the discussion to passages in the play and/or the article that weren't examined carefully yet. The writing will be clear, effective, and have a sense of voice.  Length: approx. 300 words.