Survey of Literature Block Day September 3, 2008

Today’s Class Warm Up Begin class by sharing your WPB entry with your group. Start with the person who most recently read a comic book or saw a comic book film & then go around in a circle. Please discuss the following… 1) Your position: Do you agree or disagree with Jones? Why or why not? 2) Jones’s evidence: pick one specific piece of evidence you wrote about and share why you believed it was convincing or not. Make sure you share both points!

Today’s Class Warm Up Begin class by sharing your WPB entry with your group. Start with the person who started playing Pokemon at the earliest age and then go around in a circle. Please discuss the following… 1)Your position: Do you agree or disagree with Jones? Why or why not? 2) Jones’s evidence: Pick one specific piece of evidence you wrote about and share why you believed it was convincing or not. Make sure you share both points!

Binder’s Dividers: The Final Word Kevin Lattin, I give you my word! Promise! Divider 1: 1 st Quarter Writing Divider 2: 2 nd Quarter Writing Divider 3: 3 rd Quarter Writing Divider 4: 4 th Quarter Writing Divider 5: Handouts

Writing Practice Binders due Friday 1) Writing Practice Binders Due Friday! Please put in chronological order (dates). Please put in chronological order (dates). 2) Score your WPB Rubric (pink sheet) 3) Identify the controlling idea (main idea, thesis) for each entry. Underline it. 4) Select entry that BEST answers the prompt. *Star it. 5) Using the language of the rubric, explain why it is your BEST piece of writing on the back in a short paragraph.

10 Warm Up & WPB Entries Due Friday 8/21Warm Up on speech you remember 8/21Warm Up on speech you remember 8/22 Warm Up on community 8/22 Warm Up on community 8/25Warm Up on kind of writing is strength 8/25Warm Up on kind of writing is strength 8/26Warm Up on which word doesn’t belong 8/26Warm Up on which word doesn’t belong 8/28WPB on FUY Unit that interests you most 8/28WPB on FUY Unit that interests you most 8/28 WPB Homework on teacher expectations 8/28 WPB Homework on teacher expectations 8/29WPB Homework on learning obstacles 8/29WPB Homework on learning obstacles 9/2 Warm Up on violence in the media 9/2 Warm Up on violence in the media 9/2 WPB Homework on Jones’s article 9/2 WPB Homework on Jones’s article 9/4WPB Homework on preconceptions 9/4WPB Homework on preconceptions

What is a controlling idea? The main idea that runs throughout a piece of writing, your thesis The main idea that runs throughout a piece of writing, your thesis Your big idea or major claim that anchors your writing Your big idea or major claim that anchors your writing Focused and specific Focused and specific Supported by other claims and evidence Supported by other claims and evidence Ex: Violent media is good for kids. Ex: Violent media is good for kids. Practice: Find a WPB entry and underline the controlling idea. Practice: Find a WPB entry and underline the controlling idea.

WPB Homework Due Friday! Write this on a clean sheet of paper. WPB Prompt (write for 20 minutes) How will your preconceptions about what a leader and a scholar are help or limit you in your understanding of the ideas in this unit?

Group Think Posters Create TWO portraits depicting your response to the following questions… 1) What is a leader? 2) What is a scholar? Draw all of the symbols, clothing, accessories, or objects the person might carry that would signify that the person is a leader or a scholar. Use color to help characterize the person.

Outlines of Scholar & Leader What is a scholar?What is a leader?

Identifying Patterns Now beneath your WPB HW prompt, make TWO bullet lists (one for scholar, one for leader) identifying patterns you see in people’s drawings.

Patterns Bullet Lists Patterns in “What is a scholar?” Pattern 1 Pattern 1 Pattern 2 Pattern 2 Pattern 3 Pattern 3 Patterns in “What is a leader?” Pattern 1 Pattern 1 Pattern 2 Pattern 2 Pattern 3 Pattern 3

Essential Questions What is an essential question? (Take Cornell Notes) A question that challenges your thinking A question that challenges your thinking Complex, does not have a yes/no answer Complex, does not have a yes/no answer Open-ended, has lots of answers Open-ended, has lots of answers Multi-faceted, multi-layered Multi-faceted, multi-layered A question that gives a thematic focus for a unit A question that gives a thematic focus for a unit

Examples of EQ’s 1. What kinds of scholarship are relevant in the 21st century and what skills do I need to make learning meaningful to me? 2. What kinds of leadership are relevant in the 21st century and what daily opportunities do I have to learn and practice being the kind of leader I want to be? 3. What do I need to do to make myself into the kind of leader and scholar who can make the kinds of changes necessary to create the world that I want to live in?

Group Discussion Why are these good examples of essential questions?

Understanding EQ’s Break down the question Generate new questions from the EQ Take for example… What kinds of scholarship are relevant in the 21st century and what skills do I need to make learning meaningful to me? Sub question: What are various kinds of scholarship? Uncover its assumptions, e.g. assumes that scholarship is relevant

Now you try… As a group, create two questions that break down each essential question. Write them on stickies, one question per stickie. You will have 6 questions total.

Now you try writing sub-questions 1. What kinds of scholarship are relevant in the 21st century and what skills do I need to make learning meaningful to me? 2. What kinds of leadership are relevant in the 21st century and what daily opportunities do I have to learn and practice being the kind of leader I want to be? 3. What do I need to do to make myself into the kind of leader and scholar who can make the kinds of changes necessary to create the world that I want to live in?

Writing Deep Questions Challenge your thinking Challenge your thinking Complex, do not have a yes/no answer Complex, do not have a yes/no answer Open-ended, have lots of answers Open-ended, have lots of answers Multi-faceted, multi-layered Multi-faceted, multi-layered Sound familiar?

Writing Your Own Deep Questions Take out the questions you wrote for Take out the questions you wrote for homework last week. Work with a partner and transform two of your questions into deep questions for the unit. (4 questions total, 2 originating from each person) Work with a partner and transform two of your questions into deep questions for the unit. (4 questions total, 2 originating from each person) Write them on stickies. Write them on stickies. Get Ms. Wu’s “That’s deep” approval. Get Ms. Wu’s “That’s deep” approval. Place them beneath the EQ to which you believe they belong. Place them beneath the EQ to which you believe they belong. Feel free to write new questions. Feel free to write new questions.

Reflection Record one of the questions that you wrote Record one of the questions that you wrote on a stickie & the essential question you wrote it in response to. Answer that question or the essential Answer that question or the essential question to the best of your ability in WPB. Remember to create a controlling idea. Remember to create a controlling idea.