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FRIYAY!!!! Thanksgiving Break!

11/22/2019

 
STARTER
  1. Make sure Parts 1-4 are posted on your DP and each page has been published.
  2. Email me the link to Part 3 and Part 4 
EXAMPLE EMAIL:
Dear Ashley, Goddess of Humanities Teaching,
​Here are the links to Parts 3 and Parts 4
Sincerely,
Your Stellar Humanities Scholar

SHARE AND TELL TIME
  • Form groups of 3
  • Take turns walking each other through your DP and sharing highlights about what you wrote about/did for Parts 2, 3, and 4
  • WHY? This is an opportunity to share your research, and an issue you're passionate about, with a smaller audience beyond yourself.  It is also a chance to learn about what your classmates have been up to!
  • Be ready to share out one cool thing you learned, or something you were impressed by from your group members' presentations.

SHARE OUT TAKEAWAYS (from small group presentations)

PART 5 REFLECTION TIME

STEP 1: Write OR record OR film yourself , or have a friend interview you reflecting on the following questions. Then, post it on a new page of your DP and email the link to that page to Ashley when done.
  1. To what extent did you choose an issue that you genuinely care about? Why is this something you are passionate about? Did you just pick low hanging fruit or go for something you really care about? 
  2. What did you learn from this process that will help you with your  senior project? (Research skills? Ways of being effective in making an impact? Etc..)
  3. ​What was the most valuable/informative/interesting part of this assignment?
  4. What is one thing Ashley could have done to improve this project the most? OR What is one thing YOU could have done to improve your own work?

STEP 2: Complete the self-assessment on the rubric for Parts 3-5 and turn it into the "Box o' Fun" on Ashley's desk.



THURSDAY

11/21/2019

 
STARTER: APPRECIATIONS!
  1. Write down an appreciation for 2 people in this class, they have to be sitting across the room from you!
  2. Set goals for yourself for work time today. Estimate how long each task will take you.  Remember-- Parts 3 and 4 due tomorrow, start of class, posted on your DP.
  3. Be ready to share them out!  You can't repeat an appreciation that someone else already gave.

WORK TIME and CONFERENCES

Proposal Time!

11/20/2019

 
STARTER
1.  Have you finished Part 3?  (what do you need to do today to wrap that part up?)
2. Have you posted Part 3 on your DP? Did you publish it?
3. Did you include a relevant image or something to make the page look nice?
4. What are you proposing for Part 4? 
5. Any questions for Ashley?

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Part 4: Proposal Work Time
Create a proposal for how you would use a similar approach as you analyzed in Part 3 to “making an impact”. The proposal should be formatted as follows (see my example on my DP as well).
  1. Brief summary of your proposal (2-3 sentences)
  2. Audience description: Who is your audience? 
    1. Who are you trying to impact?
    2. Who are you pitching the proposal to? (i.e. who is the decision-maker?)
  3. Written description of your proposal:
    • WRITING FOLKS: If you’re only doing a written piece, this should be an outline of your ideas in written form. 
    • If you’re feeling super motivated, feel free to write the entire thing-- for example, if you’re trying to write an op-ed for the Herald, write it all out and even try to submit it!  Or if you’re writing a piece of satire for The Quill, write it out. 
    • VISUAL FOLKS: If you are proposing an art piece, or blueprints for a piece of engineering, you only need to write an artist statement of sorts to briefly describe what you’re piece is and how you think it makes an impact. 
  4. For the VISUAL FOLKS ONLY: Provide a draft/sketch of proposal 
    If you are doing a visual piece, sketch it out! You don’t need to actually produce the final product, just sketch out what it would look like. Be sure to include the image on your DP! Either scan it or take a photo!

Approach Analysis Day 2

11/19/2019

 
STARTER
  1. Set work time goals for yourself on the note card I provide for you. Make the goals specific and estimate how much time each goal will take. 
  2. At the end of class, I'll ask you to jot down what you accomplished-- this is not meant to be "Big Brothery" of me but for me to assess your time management process and awareness so that I can better support you/coach you through Senior Project.

Example:
  1. Finish researching and writing up Step 2 (research/context of my approach): (30 minutes)
  2. Complete Step 3 (30 minutes)
  3. Have a friend proofread my write-up and give me some feedback for refinement (15 minutes)
  4. Refine (15 minutes)
  5. Post to my DP and  make that DP page look refined by adding a cool image of my approach, nice title, etc..: 15 minutes

Here are the steps for the Approach Analysis as a reminder:
Step 1: Pick an approach to solving this issue that is similar to the approach you’d take for “making an impact” for senior project
Step 2: Research the approach a bit to understand important context/info
Step 3: ANALYZE the approach
  • What are the strengths and limitations of this particular approach?
  • How might you apply aspects of this approach for your proposed solution?

WORK TIME

  • Try to wrap up Part 3
  • Begin Part 4 if you're ready!
  • Senior Project conference prep or Be of Service reflection
  • Portfolio conferences

Cover Letters Due, Let the Approach Analysis Begin!

11/18/2019

 
Starter
  • Share your philosophy cover letter with me digitally, please.
  • Copy and paste this rubric to the BOTTOM of your philosophy cover letter
  • Self-assess by filling out right hand column for all 3 categories and specifically doing the following:
  1. What grade do you think you deserve in each category?
  2. What is 1 bullet point item you did really well  and one you know you could improve on FOR EACH category? 

Class Biz
  1. Check-in with a neighbor on how you're doing with your senior project phase 2 research? Have you scheduled and/or had your conference?
  2. Have you completed your Be of Service reflection? If not, remind each other where to find the guidelines for that and when it is due.
  3. Curiously Connect with Community isn't due until NEXT semester. If you already did it, you can get points for THIS semester though. 
  4. Parts 3-4 of Immodest Proposal are due Friday, start of class. Part 5 is due at the end of class.
  5. If you have a BIG idea and/or want to go beyond the proposal min. requirements, talk to me! 
  6. This week's power lunch sounds cool! Check it out!  (Flyers in class)
  7. My senior project conferences this week are:
  • Des Merrill Mon. 11/18 Lunch
  • Raimy Sporl: Mon. 11/18 7th pd
  • Catalina Shirley: Wed 11/20 lunch
  • Caleb Gates: Thur. 11/21 9:30 am 
  • Zoe Hollowell: Thur. 11/21 lunch
  • Simon Donnaway: 11/22 lunch 

Let's go over the Approach Analysis (p. 6) and Proposal Requirements (p. 7)

  • With a partner, one of you read the approach analysis reqs. and the other read the proposal reqs. AND the parts of the rubric (p. 10) that correspond to your part.
  • Summarize for each other OR prepare a skit for the class that captures the requirements/process for both parts.
  • If you have any questions, I'll go over those as a whole class

WORK TIME
  1. Begin Part 3
  2. Senior Project conference prep (see the docs page for guidelines for phase 2 research requirements and the conference handout)
  3. Portfolio conferences

Philosophy Cover Letter Peer Critique Time Y'all!

11/14/2019

 
Link to your inspiration for approaches from yesterday's class (will be on the docs page from now on)
  • Who found a source of inspiration worth highlighting for others??

STARTER: Prep for Peer Critique
  1. Review the rubric on the backside of the peer critique form and circle the bullet point items you would like your peer critiquers to be sure to help you with.
  2. Number each paragraph of your essay so your critiquers can easily reference specific paragraphs on the feedback form

Peer Critique
  1. Go over the peer critique protocol
  2. Form groups of 3 and get started!
  3. Turn in your form at the end of peer critique for a 5 point on-time completion grade on your rough draft
  4. Portfolio conferences!

WORK TIME
  1. Refine!
  2. Honors Windfall discussion
  1.  




Thursday: Finish those drafts and choose an "approach" to analyze

11/14/2019

 
Starter
Either turn and talk to a neighbor or write your answers:
  1. When you think about the ways you can or do best contribute to the world around you, given your skills/strengths/interests, what comes to mind? Is it through art? Design? Engineering? Educating? Politics/governance? Writing? Public speaking? Leading by example? Something else? 
  2. What skills/strengths/interests come together for you to feel like that is the best method/approach for you to contribute?

REMINDERS:
  1. Rough draft of your philosophy cover letter is due at the start of class for peer critique-- electronic form is fine.
  2. Email me your FINAL draft as a google document by start of class on Monday.
  3. Ahead of the game today? Work on Senior Project conference prep/research or your Be of Service Reflection.

Part 3 Brainstorm Time: Approach Analysis
  •  Starter share outs
  • Let's review the requirements for Part 3  (Note: I don't want you guys to be scrambling next week to find an idea for Part 3, so we're "planting seeds" today!)
  • 15 minute google search for an approach you plan to analyze for Part 3 of the "Immodest Proposal" assignment
  • Paste the links to websites/images you find that stand out to you into the survey below so that we have a class database of inspiration!   

Philosophy Cover Letter Work Time

Wednesday: Day 2 of Cover Letter work time

11/13/2019

 
STARTER
Class Biz
  1. Honors Windfall-- summary and discussion questions due Friday
  2. All students: Don't forget to put your citations in alphabetical order like this student example show.

TODAY'S AGENDA
  1. Part 2 Work Time and portfolio conferences
  2. Ahead of the game? Work on Senior Project Phase 2 research or your Be of Service Reflection.  See the top of the docs page for all needed resources!

Part 2 Work Time: Philosophy Cover Letter

11/12/2019

 

DUE: Share your issue research notes with me-- They should be on your DP as a new tab under "Immodest Proposal".  Thus, share the link to that specific DP page.

STARTER
Turn to your neighbor and tell them something cool you learned from your issue research!

CLASS BIZ
  • Reminder on portfolio conferences this week! Who is up?
  • Who attended Saturday's City Council meeting? Update??
  • ​Update on my trip and Sally Jewel's responses to your questions-- see photos below
  • Homework this week: Work on your philosophy cover letter, write your Be of Service Reflection and prepare for Senior Project conferences. 
  • Who has their senior project conference this week? Don't forget to get the form signed by your advisor.  It is on the documents page!  Turn that into me after your conference. 
  • MY conferences for senior project include:
Payton Vaughn:11/12 lunch
Hannah Shew: 11/13 lunch
Alex Kolter: Th. 11/14 Lunch
Kaylee Beeman 11/15 9:30-10:15
Robbie Patla: 11/15 lunch

Ashley's Read-aloud of her philosophy cover letter
  • What are the main points about my philosophy?
  • What "rhetorical strategies" do I use?
  • Any suggestions for refinement?

Let's Review the requirements for this part of the assignment (page 5 of the"Immodest Proposal" guidelines document)

WORK TIME
  • Start drafting your cover letter (perhaps start with just a 15 minute freewrite, all the ideas that come to mind when you think about what we should do about your issue to bring about more justice...)
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FRIDAY and MONDAY, 11/8 and 11/11

11/8/2019

 
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AMAZING Students! I am not here today or Monday as I mentioned in class yesterday. I'm in these crazy mountains with Sally Jewel (#NBD) trying to avoid rattle snakes and poisonous plants. I hope your exploits in research are less perilous!

Please use these two days for PRODUCTIVE work time, or at the very least, cause ZERO disturbance and don't complain when I return that I didn't give you enough work time :)


Here is a reminder of what you are working on:
  • Issue Research notes and bibliography (DUE Tuesday, on a separate tab of your DP)
  • Senior Project phase 2 research
  • If you get done early, feel free to begin your philosophy cover letter!

Here are all the resources you'll need:
  • "Immodest Proposal" project guidelines document (page  4 as Part 1 guidelines, page 5 has part 2 guidelines)
  • My example issue research notes for Part 1
  • My example bibliography
  • My example philosophy cover letter
  • Senior Project Brainstorm Discussion and Next Steps (see page 2)
  • REFINED Portfolio Requirements and Guidelines (last two pages has the Be of Service and CCwC guidelines)

Bibliography formatting and in-text citations

11/7/2019

 
STARTER: Write down a question for me to to ask Sally Jewel this weekend!
I'll be out Friday and Monday for an REI Adventure backpacking trip in the Superstition Mountains outside of Phoenix with Sally Jewel, the former Secretary of the Interior. She collaborated with the Bears Ears Intertribal Coalition to get Obama to designate Bears Ears as a national monument in 2016. The United States secretary of the interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior. The Department of the Interior in the United States is responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land and natural resources; it oversees such agencies as the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Geological Survey, and the National Park Service. 

FOR THE STARTER: Come up with at least one question (write it in the survey at the top of this blog post) you'd like me to ask Sally Jewel either about her time working for the POTUS, or about Bears Ears, or Chaco, or more generally about managing our nation's federal lands and natural resources! 



Class Biz
  • Review deadlines for "Immodest Proposal" 

Mini-lesson: Proper in-text citations and bibliography formatting powerpoint 
We'll just scroll through a few slides (2, 3, 15, 16, 18 and 19) to get a general idea of formatting rules.


Issue Research and note-taking WORK TIME
  • Today's portfolio conferences
  • LUNCH-- HONORS: Part 2 of Windfall Discussion

Throughline Podcast DUE and Issue Research Begins!

11/6/2019

 
DUE: Throughline notes

Justice Monologues
  • Josh and Heleny
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STARTER
  • Read page 4, about Part 1: Issue Research from our "Immodest Proposal" guidelines document
  • What questions do you have?

Throughline Podcast Share-out
In groups of 3 or 4, take turns sharing a summary of your Throughline podcast. Teach each other cool stuff!


Mini-lesson Time!
Mini-lesson #1: Taking notes/keeping track of sources
  • For your senior thesis, this will be CRUCIAL so let's practice now
  • Here is my example with color-coding
  • What are your strategies for taking notes and keeping track of your sources during research?

Mini-lesson #2: Finding quality sources
  • What are they? What aren't they? How do you decide?
  • What's the different between an academic and non-academic text?
  • Jigsaw on Owl at Purdue (God's gift to all things writing) 
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SAME GROUPS FROM THROUGHLINE SHARING: 

  • One person read THIS PAGE up to the section titled "Primary v. Secondary Sources"
  • One person read THIS PAGE starting at "Primary v. Secondary Sources"
  • One person read  THIS PAGE up to "Identify the Language Used"
  • One person read THIS PAGE starting at "Identify the Language Used"
  1. Read your assigned section
  2. Report out a summary of what you read to the group!
  3. Be prepared to share out one thing you took away from this mini-lesson that will help you do high-quality research!

Begin Issue Research and note-taking + Portfolio Conferences for today!

Issue Selection and Throughline Podcast

11/5/2019

 
Starter- 10 minutes
  1. Skim through the following resources with lists of issues of injustice (briefly check out at least 3 of them to just see what they offer)
  2. Pick one issue from one of the websites and explore a link to see where it leads you
  3. Be ready to share out which website you landed on, which issue you chose, and what you found from the link
  4. IF YOU KNOW your issue already, please write your name and the issue on the whiteboard above the tea station.  
http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/problem/133064 (scroll down to the list of issues)
https://www.isidewith.com/polls/social
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/ListOfIssues.aspx
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ 
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/  

SHARE OUT STARTER FINDINGS

Part Zero Guidelines (Throughline)
  • Let's read page 3 of the "Immodest Proposal" guidelines
  • Let's check out my Throughline Write-up Example
  • UPDATE: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO POST IT ON YOUR DP! Only Parts 1-5 need to be on the DP.

HOMEWORK and Other CLASS Biz
  • Share your monologues with me digitally please
  • Tonight's Homework: Be ready to share out your issue choice and notes from Throughline tomorrow.
  • Be of Service Reflection-- 3/4 page min. DO background research on the organization to bolster your reflection! 
  • Don't forget about the Portfolio Conferences scheduled this week
  • Justice Monologue make-ups: Lunch tomorrow?
  • My morning pod-- Honors: Lunch discussion on Thursday! OR in class with me popping in and out 

WORK TIME
FIRST: Select your issue (stuck? See below)
SECOND: Begin Part Zero- Throughline assignment

Listen to a Throughline of your choosing and take notes and document the following:
  1. What essential question is the podcast trying to answer?
  2. Outline the major events/arguments the podcast makes to answer their guiding question

ISSUE Selection Help!
  1. Spend 10 minutes free writing or making a jot dot a list of all the issues you care about or what comes to mind when you think of injustices.​
  2. Scroll through the list of websites under today's starter and research a few issues that stand out to you
  3. Pick your topic and then narrow it down. For instance, Google “current events articles on _____” Example: “current events articles on food and water security”
  4. Research the issue! The narrower you focus the easier it will be to keep your research tight. For example, rather than researching food and water security around the world, I might just pick one specific community that is facing food and water security injustices OR I might find an organization/individual/community/artist (depending on my preferred method of IMPACT) who is trying to solve that issue and find out where/how they’re focusing their solution and then research the context on that more specifically. Make sense? 
  5. Talk to a friend for ideas.
  6. Talk to Ashley

Here is what my process for selecting an issue entailed! It took me about 30 minutes to do this!

Issues I'm interested in:
  • Access to education
  • Environmental justice

My process: I skimmed through all the links under “resources for selecting an issue” and narrowed it down to a couple issues I care most about. I then spent about 30 minutes google searching key terms like “improving access to education”, “current events articles on environmental justice”, “environmental justice issues today”, “problems with education access worldwide”, “solutions to…”, etc…  This helped get the wheels churning for sure!

Then, I thought about what way I’d want to make impact on these issues.  I decided I am most passionate about using education as a way to affect change (no surprise there, folks!) and so I started googling “education programs to address environmental justice” and other keyword searches like that.  I found this article: https://urbanedjournal.gse.upenn.edu/archive/volume-5-issue-1-spring-2007/environmental-justice-education-empowering-students-become-envi  about a program called The Edible Schoolyard Project in Berkeley, CA.  The Edible Schoolyard Project is an internationally recognized program focusing on the concept of sustainable farming and embodied scientific literacy.  So I decided that program would be my “Approach Analysis”.

I realized that I probably don’t have the expertise or local knowledge to truly critique this particular program BUT I thought that I could apply the elements of it that seem to really work to developing a proposal for our community to engage youth in combating environmental injustices nearer to our home. 

Justice Monologues and Final Assignment Overview

11/4/2019

 
STARTER
  1. Skim through your Justice Monologue one more time and read it to yourself for fluidity.
  2. Tell yourself you are the best thing since sliced bread.
  3. Give your neighbor a hug or high five depending your/their spacial boundaries

Class Biz
  • Honors, can we meet at lunch Thursday for Windfall? 
  • Senior Project Phase 2 research (here is the CONFERENCE FORM you need to fill out WITH your senior project conference teacher!)
  • Be of Service reflection write-up (see the REFINED Portfolio Requirements and Guidelines document)

JUSTICE MONOLOGUES (45 minutes)
  • While you listen, jot down on the rubric ideas that stand out
  • Self-assess and turn in to the box 'o fun!

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Ashley will go over important context on "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift (
Thanks Wikipedia!)
1. WHAT IS SATIRE? the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

2. CONTEXT
"A Modest Proposal" is a satirical say written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as British policy toward the Irish in general. In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.


Swift's essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language. Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states: "A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout."[1]

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift's main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.[2] Swift was especially attacking projects that tried to fix population and labour issues with a simple cure-all solution.


Watch "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift (12 minutes)

FINAL JUSTICE ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW​: "An Immodest Proposal"
--> Who would like a printed copy of this document?

Note from Ashley #Empathy #TryitBeforeYouTeachIt
I did this assignment over the weekend. It took me about 6 hours to do everything from brainstorming and choosing a topic through Part 4.  I haven't done Part 5 yet, but I think that will take me 30 minutes. So 6.5 hours in all!  You all will have at least 13 class days, almost entirely devoted to work time with the exception of some peer critiques and mini-lessons.  That's at least 20 hours of work time in class alone. If you are using your class time well, you SHOULD NOT have homework. 
  1. Let's go over the 6 parts of this assignment in improv form. I need volunteer actors!
  2. NOTE:  I showed Swift's film adaptation to get you to think outside of the box on how to "make impact"
  3. Let's read page 1 and 2 of the assignment handout
  4. QUESTIONS?

Friday, November 1st

11/1/2019

 
CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE OF YOU WHO APPLIED TO COLLEGES FOR TODAY!  Phew! One deadline down...

CLASS BIZ
  • Please write your scheduled conference date on top of the new portfolio guidelines that I hand out in class.
  • Study/review session today for test corrections help
  • Test corrections due MONDAY
  • REVIEW Phase 2 senior project guidelines! (See page 2 of  "Brainstorm Discussion and Next Steps" document on the documents page for a reminder on the research requirements!)
  • This just in:  House passes bill to protect Chaco from oil/gas
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5th period: We have a guest speaker, Kevin Camp, who is an automation/radio technician for BP.

The other class period of Humanities class will be devoted to the following:
  1. Sean Holley is presenting his Justice Monologue today! Hooray!
  2. Honors Windfall discussion
  3. Work time on Justice Monologues, portfolio updates or senior project research 
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