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Quarter 2, Week 3 of 10

Publishing finishes next!
Begin thinking about Major Project #1. The theme this quarter is 'dreams'.
Monday, October 30
Due Today: Fairy Tale rewrite on Google Classroom
Learning Target: W.11-12.3.B Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. RL.11-12.5 Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text.
Classwork
  1. Do Now: Read this article about choosing a genre for your writing.  Take notes in your journal about what genres seem interesting to you for this project. 
  2. After: In your journal, write for 10 minutes about why you chose to write in the genre you did for the major project. Include a potential outline for your writing.
  3. Then: Discuss timeline for the project.
  4. During:  Revise your letter of intent for the major project. Print, sign, and turn-in by the end of class.
Target Practice: I know that my project will incorporate the idea of 'dreams' and am ready to begin writing it. Fist-5?
Homework
  • Begin drafting the major project
  • Continue the dream journal. For the class, you are expected to keep a dream journal for 5 consecutive days. This will not be assessed until the last week of the quarter. So, you have time. Feel free to do more if you feel it is a valuable activity! The dream journal must include:
      1. Day, Date, and Time (morning, night, nap...specific time is not required)
      2. Description: focus on sensory details, not analysis
      3. Analysis: write a sentence or two about what you think the dream was about
      4. Reflection: write a sentence or two about what you think precipitated the dream, why you might dream something like this, or what larger meaning it might have.
Tuesday, October 31
Due Today: none
Learning Target: W.11-12.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. W.11-12.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. L.11-12.3 Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style.
  1. Do Now: In your journal reflect on the Japanese idiom Saru mo ki kara ochiru (literally, "even monkeys fall from trees"). Use the entire time provided to WRITE!
  2. After: Read the article linked here about writing dream sequences. In your journal, take notes on the parts that can help you write your major project.
  3. Then: Use the Save the Last Word for ME discussion protocol to learn how other's read the article.
  4. Next: Writing exercise from the article
Target Practice: I can improve my major project with ideas gleaned from the article and discussion. Fist-5?
Homework
  • Continue drafting major project
Thursday, November 2
Due Today: none
Learning Target: W.11-12.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. L.11-12.3 Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style.
Classwork
  1. Do Now: In your journal reflect on the Japanese idiom neko ni koban (literally, "giving money to a cat"). Use the entire time provided to WRITE!
  2. After: Finish the dream sequence writing exercise from last class.
  3. Then: Individual meetings about major project
  4. Next: Continue drafting major project- Leave this week with a clear idea of where you want to go with this project.
Target Practice: I have a clear idea about what I will write for my major project. Fist-5?
Homework
  • Continue drafting major project
Looking Ahead...writing a query letter! 
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Quarter 2, Week 2 of 10

Publishing finishes next!
Begin thinking about Major Project #1. The theme this quarter is 'dreams'.
Monday, October 23
Due Today: none
Learning Target: W.11-12.3.B Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters. RL.11-12.5 Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text.
Classwork
  1. Do Now: Create a page after your last entry labelled Quarter 2: Dreams. Draw a single image of what you think of when you hear the term 'fairy tale.'
  2. After: Read the Grimm fairy tale entitled The White Snake and evaluate after reading/listening.
      • Does it have a 'once upon a time' or 'long, long ago' feel?
      • Does it deal with good vs. evil?
      • Is there a decision that is/needs to be made?
      • What is the conflict?
      • Is there significance placed on the number 3 or 7?
      • Are there repeated phrases or structures?
      • Is there some form of magic or magical element?
      • Does the story resolve at the end?
  3. Then: Begin your own fairy tale in the style of The White Snake
  4. During:  Editors finish drafts of the Quarter 1 magazine for group review.
Target Practice: I can draft my own fairy tale in the style of The White Snake. Fist-5?
Homework
  • Finish drafting your fairy tale in the style of The White Snake by next class.
  • Begin dream journal. For the class, you are expected to keep a dream journal for 5 consecutive days. This will not be assessed until the last week of the quarter. So, you have time. Feel free to do more if you feel it is a valuable activity! The dream journal must include:
      1. Day, Date, and Time (morning, night, nap...specific time is not required)
      2. Description: focus on sensory details, not analysis
      3. Analysis: write a sentence or two about what you think the dream was about
      4. Reflection: write a sentence or two about what you think precipitated the dream, why you might dream something like this, or what larger meaning it might have.
Tuesday, October 24
Due Today: Fairy Tale
Learning Target: W.11-12.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. W.11-12.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. L.11-12.3 Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style.
  1. Do Now: In your journal reflect on the Japanese ideal of Komorebi (literally, the way sunlight dances between leaves, limbs, and trunks of trees in the forest). Use the entire time provided to WRITE!
  2. After: Revise fairy tale with any ideas gleaned from today's 'Do Now' (hint: the link will take you to a poem for inspiration).
  3. Then: Fairy tale checklist...need to say 'yes' to all of these!
      • Does it have a 'once upon a time' or 'long, long ago' feel?
      • Does it deal with good vs. evil?
      • Is there a decision that is/needs to be made?
      • What is the conflict?
      • Is there significance placed on the number 3 or 7?
      • Are there repeated phrases or structures?
      • Is there some form of magic or magical element?
      • Does the story resolve at the end?
  4. Next: Vote for one of the two versions of the magazine
Target Practice: I can improve my fairy tale using today's learning. Fist-5?
Homework
  • Finish revised fairy tale
Thursday, October 26
Due Today: final fairy tale
Learning Target: W.11-12.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. L.11-12.3 Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style.
Classwork
  1. Do Now: In your journal reflect on the Japanese ideal of minu ga hana (literally, "not seeing is a flower"). Use the entire time provided to WRITE!
  2. After: Read The Golden Goose
  3. Then: Consider options for writing about dreams.
  4. Next: Draft letter of intent proposing your idea for Major Project #1
Target Practice: My team's preliminary design for the magazine is ready. Fist-5?
Homework
  • Finish letter of intent by classtime on Monday
Looking Ahead...Major Project 1 approval! 
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Quarter 2, Week 1 of 10

Publishing continues this week- finishes next!
Quarter 1 Grades are final.
Monday, October 16
Due Today: Determined by your group
Learning Target: W.11-12.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information. W.11-12.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Classwork
  1. Do Now: Continue discussion as-needed from previous class.
  2. After: Consult classmates as-needed to determine if excerpt or full-text will be published in the magazine
  3. Then: student-teacher meetings as-needed
  4. Next: Three possible names for the magazine...research and e-mail Mr. Fisher
Target Practice: I understand my role in the production of a literary magazine. Fist-5?
Homework
  • Continue communicating with your team about a design for our magazine. We will only have one more week upon return to choose and finalize a design.
Tuesday, October 17
Due Today: Determined by your group
Learning Target: W.11-12.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information. W.11-12.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
  1. Do Now: Continue discussion as-needed from previous class.
  2. After: Consult classmates as-needed to determine if excerpt or full-text will be published in the magazine
  3. Then: student-teacher meetings as-needed
  4. Next: Three possible names for the magazine...research and e-mail Mr. Fisher
Target Practice: My team's preliminary design for the magazine is ready. Fist-5?
Homework
  • Continue communicating with your team about a design for our magazine. We will only have one more week upon return to choose and finalize a design.
Thursday, October 19
Due Today: Preliminary Magazine Design
Learning Target: W.11-12.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information. W.11-12.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Classwork
  1. Do Now: Continue discussion as-needed from previous class.
  2. After: Consult classmates as-needed to determine if excerpt or full-text will be published in the magazine
  3. Then: student-teacher meetings as-needed
  4. Next: Three possible names for the magazine...research and e-mail Mr. Fisher
Target Practice: My team's preliminary design for the magazine is ready. Fist-5?
Homework
  • Continue communicating with your team about a design for our magazine. We will only have one more week upon return to choose and finalize a design.
Looking Ahead...Magazine Publication! 
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Quarter 1, Week 9 of 9

Major Project #2 revisions may still happen, but not for grading purposes.
Designing of the Magazine will happen during class this week. Publication will happen during Week 1 or Quarter 2!
Monday, October 2
Due Today: None
Learning Target: W.11-12.2.A Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information so that each new element builds on that which precedes it to create a unified whole. W.11-12.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback.

Classwork

  1. Do Now: Title today's journal entry Quarter 1 Reflection. Use the time provided to reflect on your progress in Quarter 1. Written reflections usually revolve around the following:
          • Identifying and explaining your own/teacher's successes
          • Identifying and explaining your own/teacher's failures
          • Identifying and explaining own/teacher's ways of improving
          • an overall analysis of your own/teacher's growth
  2. After: Breakout by editor groups to begin the design process- assign roles (Revisit the Design Team article if necessary)
  3. Then: Adapt Save the Last Word for ME discussion protocol to discuss design focus by role
  4. Next: Reminder: make sure that EACH journal entry is dated. You will receive an overall score on the journal based on completeness and total # of entries.
Target Practice: I understand my role in the production of a literary magazine. Fist-5?
Homework
  • Begin designing literary magazine- amount of work is determined by your discussion today. Everyone must do their part in order for this to be a success! You are one competing design teams, but must consult each other when determining if full publication of a written piece will happen OR if the work must be excerpted.
Tuesday, October 3
Due Today: Determined by your group
Learning Target: W.11-12.2.A Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information so that each new element builds on that which precedes it to create a unified whole. W.11-12.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback.
Classwork
  1. Do Now: Continue discussion as-needed from previous class.
  2. After: Consult classmates as-needed to determine if excerpt or full-text will be published in the magazine
  3. During: student-teacher meetings as-needed
  4. Next: Confirm publication role on Google Classroom- Revisit the Design Team article if necessary
Target Practice: I understand my role in the production of a literary magazine. Fist-5?
Homework
  • Continue designing literary magazine- amount of work is determined by your discussion today. Everyone must do their part in order for this to be a success! You are one competing design teams, but must consult each other when determining if full publication of a written piece will happen OR if the work must be excerpted.
Thursday, October 5
Due Today: Preliminary Magazine Design
Learning Target: W.11-12.2.A Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information so that each new element builds on that which precedes it to create a unified whole. W.11-12.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback.

Classwork
  1. Do Now: Continue discussion as-needed from previous class.
  2. After: Consult classmates as-needed to determine if excerpt or full-text will be published in the magazine
  3. Then: student-teacher meetings as-needed
  4. Next: Any questions about how publication will be scored? Impact on your overall grade?
Target Practice: My team's preliminary design for the magazine is ready. Fist-5?
Homework
  • Leave notebook in class for assessment (this is the last grade for Quarter 1)
  • Read- do some thinking, reading, and writing over this break that will inspire you to create works on the theme of Dreams.
  • Continue communicating with your team about a design for our magazine. We will only have one more week upon return to choose and finalize a design.
Looking Ahead...Magazine Publication! What do we name it?
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