Day 2: College Essay Bootcamp and the Hum 12 Syllabus!

CACAW

1. Any Community Announcements? (see mine below)
2. Concerns?
3. Appreciations?
4. Wonders?

Community Announcements
Honors Overview linked in google classroom. We'll go over it during class today.
Homework reminders

1. Turn in your letter to your teachers (hopefully this was submitted before class)
2. Syllabus signed by next Thursday, 9/10
3. ​Draft of of college essay due Thur and Friday 9/10 and 9/1​1
4. Honors application due Friday, 9/11

A note on the opt-out policy for displaying your college essay in the hallway
Sign up for a conference time with Ashley or Jess! (posted in google classroom)
Next Week’s Schedule

• Online class Tuesday at 10 am. Use the ZOOM  link listed on the right hand side of my LESSONS page-It is in ORANGE! 
• Expect to spend about an hour in the google meet with each other and then I’ll roll into conferences
• Thursday and Friday are in-person days! We’ll do peer critiques (Thursday for students who had a head start on the essay! Friday for students who just started!)

*** Classroom Tech Resources

1. My DP Layout (daily + weekly lessons)
2. ZOOM Meeting Link (located on the right-hand side of my "Lessons" page of my DP.  Always the same! Use that for our online class days.)
3. Google Classroom set-up
   1. Classwork/Assignments
   2. Stream function
   3. Questions?

STARTER 2:  Humanities KWL (5 minutes)

1. What do you already know about Humanities 12?
2. What do you want to know about this class? (Curriculum? Expectations? Rules, etc…)

Welcome to Humanities Syllabus + Powerpoint (30 minutes)

Follow-up on starter: (15 minutes)

1. What did you learn about this class from my powerpoint?  Specifically, what did you take away about my philosophy as a teacher? Write 3 important new things you learned-- 1 needs to be about my philosophy. 

1. What do you STILL want to know? Write any other questions down.  Read the syllabus linked on my DP
2. Any more questions? Let me know; I’ll answer them!

BREAK! AKA: Super fun acting out what we learned from the syllabus and getting other people to guess it outside game time!!

1. Two groups: Actors/Illustrators and Guessers
2. Actors/illustrators: pick one thing you learned about Humanities and either come up with a way to act it out (without speaking) or draw it. You have 1 minute!
3. Guessers: Once outside, you'll mill about and walk up to one actor/illustrator, check out what they have, and try to guess what they are representing.  You get 2 guesses before they have to tell you and then you move on. 
4. Why are we doing this? Movement! Fun! Silliness! Creativity! Brain break and community connection!

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College Essay Boot Camp Warm-up:

• Core Values for Pod 1 (in your guidebook)
• Feelings and Needs exercise for Pod 2 or if you did this with Jess-- 10 minute FREEWRITE

College Essay Writing/Support Group Agreements

1. We will all commit to stretching out of our comfort zone when brainstorming, sharing, and creating
2. We will all listen to each other's ideas, experiences, and thoughts without judgement
3. We will encourage each other to be creative and hold space for any emotions that come up during our exercises
4. If we are asked to provide feedback we will do so in a caring manner that is specific and focused on improving each other’s work.
5. Any others you feel important?

Vets: If you have some experience, please follow the instructions in green below--> 

• Periods 1/2 some of you can work in Torrey's classroom
• Periods 3/4 some of you can work in the Music room!

Montage v. Narrative Essay: Refer to this powerpoint

• We'll pick up where your pod left off yesterday. Pod 2 got up to Narrative structure. Pod 1??? Did you look at any student examples?
• Pod 2, maybe we'll just look at one more student example if you got through all this powerpoint with Jess. We'll look at "What had to be done"

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In Support Groups

• First check-in on how you are each doing today.  1= really bad and 5=awesome! No need to explain your rating.
• Then, if your group didn't do this yesterday, get with support groups and complete Steps 1 and 2 on the Support Group Scheduling Document. Once you’ve done ALL the things there, move on...

Introduce the Pomodoro Method (Italian accent needed) (7 minutes)

• Who struggles with procrastination, focus, productivity and generally feeling like you’ve squandered hours of your  avoiding homework with snapchat, IG, or any other myriad of distractions?
• Well, then, this method is for all of us!
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l4w7uHdNaQ

Ready to write?
(Pass "Values poster" around during work time)

1. Pick a topic! 
   1. See the college essay boot camp overview for a list of questions or review the supplemental essays for your colleges or pick a scholarship prompt)
2. Pick your approach
   1. Narrative Essay (if you haven't done the Feelings and Needs exercise , you should do it now)
   2.  Montage Essay 
3. Begin brainstorming/free-writing-- Practice the Pomodoro Method

Brainstorming Techniques

• See the values/needs and essentials exercises above
• Mind map
• Freewrite
• Freespeak (record it!)
• Talk with a partner-- Record each other’s thoughts
  • Ask each other any of these 100 Brave and Interesting Questions (scroll down a bit to see the list)
• Go for a walk- one person at a time, though, sorry :( 
• Others that have worked for you in the past?
• Here are a whole lot more Brainstorming Strategies

Still Stuck? 

1. Read some more Animas student examples
2. Conference with Ashley

WRAPPING UP! (11:20 and 2:25)
Review homework and next week’s schedule
EXIT TICKET

1. What was most valuable about class time this week?
2. What did you learn about how to write a college essay?
3. What did you take away most about what to expect from Ashley and Humanities 12?
4. What is one piece of feedback or a suggestion you have for me moving forward?

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Instructions for the Vets

1. First get with support groups and complete Steps 1 and 2 on the Support Group Scheduling Document. Once you’ve done ALL the things for Steps 1 and 2, move on:
   1. Work on the draft of your essay
   2. Look at colleges you’re applying to and see what additional essays they require (supplemental essays)
      1. Begin brainstorming for those
   3. Also, this year, there will be an optional box on your app where you can talk about any extenuating circumstances that you had during covid and how that impacted your academics…..So, was something happening in your homelife, worklife, etc…
   4. Sign up for a conference with Ashley