I was grateful for the timing of Spring Break. It allowed me to rest, plan and process the fact that I will have to give up some of the interactive class lessons and activities I was so looking forward to! I thought quite a bit about what is most important for your growth and future, and how to deliver that to you in a way that is a good use of your time, as well as manageable.
This week's agenda
MONDAY(A Day) / TUESDAY(B Day): Offline, work independently. Read and/or listen to "The Three-day Blow" by Ernest Hemingway, a great American writer. The story can be found on page 8 of the Gender Packet, which is linked under Class Handouts on the right-hand sidebar.
How do the men communicate with each other? How does the weather (as mentioned in the title) symbolize what's going on in Nick's world? Is this still relevant to today's world, in your experience, is this how men communicate (or don't really communicate)? To what extent does it apply to women as well? Think about these questions and be ready to share on Thursday/Friday.
Due: N/A
Homework: Make sure your Covid-19 outline response is uploaded to Turnin.com (scroll down to the entry for March 20 for complete instructions, and e-mail me with questions).
WEDNESDAY (A Day): Welcome to Wired Wednesday! No live Zoom class will be held today; instead, please choose one article of your choice from Wired.com to read and think about. Complete the typed, Turnitin.com online journal entry question for today under the Discussion tab. We'll reference these in Friday's online class.
THURSDAY(B Day) / FRIDAY(A Day): Log in at your designated time, (see the sidebar for times and login details). Verbal, live journal questions based on the reading to be answered in small, breakout groups. Live, popcorn-style reading: "I Want a Wife" by Judy Brady; notice how the rhetorical strategies in the passage help forward the argument. Related small group activity with live breakout sessions. Introduce English 3 Gender Debate Prep Work sheet due in a week.
Due for both A and B days: Finish reading or listening to "The Three-day Blow" short story by Hemingway.
Also due for A Day only - Complete the typed, Turnitin.com online journal entry question for your choice of "Wired Wednesday" article under the Discussion tab.
Homework for Monday/Tuesday: Please read or listen to "The Quiet Destruction of the American Teenager" from the Gender Packet. (Go to the right-hand sidebar under "Class Handouts" for the Gender Unit: Reading Packet, page 33.)
Homework for Thursday/Friday: Please complete the Gender Debate Prep Work sheet and upload to Turnitin.com before class on April 16 (A Day) or April 17 (B Day).
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FYI, this is the general game plan going forward (subject to change):
Monday/Tuesday- offline. Read the agenda for the day, read/listen to the reading(s). The best practice would be for you to print out the selection, then read and annotate in a quiet place, writing your ideas in the margins. You could also listen to me read it as you read along. If you are working, helping with child care, or in need of physical movement, you can listen to the recording when it's convenient, and maybe be throwing loads of laundry in or walking/driving to and from a job.
Wednesday - offline. On the week that your class also meets on Wednesday, we'll hold offline "Wired Wednesdays." You'll go to Wired.com, pick an article of your choice, and answer a question in the Turnitin.com discussion tab. We'll talk about these on Fridays during the live Zoom meeting. This will take the place of the Science and Nature unit I had planned and hopefully give you the habit of keeping abreast of how technology and other advancements are shaping our society.
Thursday/Friday - live Zoom classes with ample use of the breakout rooms for small group discussion and connection. (Please see the sidebar for the schedule, which will follow the PVHS online schedule, plus login information.)
Bottom line: there will be one typed journal entry online in the Turnitin.com discussion tab every other week, rather than Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays. The journal questions will be answered verbally, live in small groups on either Thursday or Friday instead.
We'll work on a few final highlights of the Gender Unit, including the debate about women in the draft. You'll write an argument essay soon, by getting detailed feedback on a rough draft and then making revisions and uploading a final draft. We'll read the Declaration of Independence as an argument, and complete a Bill of Rights activity that will help you use this knowledge for evidence and examples in the future. We'll remotely act out the parts of A Raisin in the Sun, a modern play about a family living in close quarters with each other, each person chasing their dreams, by American writer Lorraine Hansberry. Vocabulary, grammar, and writing workshop "mini-lessons" will be blended into the weeks. Finally, we'll complete either a good draft of a college essay or a short research paper on a job title of your choice as the final before we end in June.
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