Starter:  STAC Survey

Assignment:  Write a sophisticated thesis statement that relates Monty Python and the Holy Grail to either the course concepts or the ideas of the narrative history project.

Narrative Project Due Tomorrow!!!
(You will not have class time tomorrow to work!)
Today...
1) Finish your narrative.  If you want to get one more critique, trade projects with someone.
2) Draft your reflection.  Please submit the draft along with the project by the beginning of the hour tomorrow.  You will have an opportunity to revise the reflection before we update our DP.  We will update your DP after LINK.
3) Brainstorm or work on your visual display for exhibition.


If you still have LINK work to do, you may use your class time to work on it.


For those that are finishing or want to participate...
Impromptu ungraded seminar!
Framing Question:  Would the proposed bill violate Section 1 of the 14th amendment?

1. Starter 2.26

2. SLC Prep

• Email your notes to me by the end of the hour.
• Business Casual!!! (Culture of Excellence, that's why!)

3. Narrative History Revisions

• If you have finished your revisions, trade revised projects with another peer and give each other an additional critique.
• Begin to conceptualize (and possibly start to work on) a visual display element for your project exhibition.
• Continue to revise your story.

4. Finalize LINK Work?

5. HONORS:  Reflection and DP Update

6. If you are done with your narrative, begin to brainstorm your Narrative History Project Reflection.

SLC's are tomorrow!  You must send me your prep notes for a 10-point completion grade by tomorrow.

Honors:  let's get ready for Exhibition!

See yesterday's post for list of things to do!

1. Check SLC schedule.  Check your grades and answer the following starter.  You may want to brainstorm on a separate sheet and then cut and paste it into your starter.


2.  Peer critique/analysis due by the end of the hour.  Turn in a copy to me and a copy to the person whose draft you critiqued.  If you were absent, check in with me about a make-up critique.

3.  WORK TIME

• Honors :  Get your project ready.  Put together your docuentation binder.  Make a "tent" with your research question.
• Critique due at the end of the hour
• SLC Prep
• Revise narrative
• LINK work

HONORS Documentation Binder Contents
1.  Cover Page:  Name, Project Title, Research Question
2.  Research Synthesis (1000-1500 words)
3.  Responses to five sources (at least one primary, one secondary, one creative, plus two others)
4.  Historical Thinking Skills Chart (2)
5.  Bibliography

1.  Random critique sort

2.  Talk to the person you will give your draft to and communicate how and when you will pass it to them.

3.  Narrative Peer Analysis and Critique (due on Monday at the end of the hour)
Use the handout as a guideline to answer the questions.  You may do so electronically on a separate document or use the handout to write your answers down.

WORK TIME:

• Honors:  Exhibition Tuesday!
• (Let your independent study project take priority during work time!)
• Narrative Project (Another draft is due tomorrow for peer analysis/critique)
• SLC Prep
• LINK work (project proposal, DP)
• Conference with me!

NARRATIVE DRAFT DUE TOMORROW

SLC Guidelines

Review SLC Schedule

Eight Rules for Writing Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut

In his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut listed eight rules for writing a short story:

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

DUE FRIDAY:  Draft for peer critique/analysis.  This should be a full draft with revisions!

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If you are absent today, please check in with Libby at your earliest convenience.

Narrative drafts due by midnight with cover letter. (see yesterday's post for cover letter questions)

Please sign up for an SLC time on this Google Doc.  Please sign up for the times in yellow if possible. Please sign up with your real name and not your Superhero name:)


WORK TIME!
Draft due to me tomorrow by  midnight with "cover letter."

Cover letter:  When you turn in your draft, please include in the body of the email answers to the following questions.  (If you turn in a physical draft, attach a paper)
1) What is the strongest aspect of your narrative right now?
2)  What needs most refinement?
3)  When I give you feedback, what areas would you like me to focus on?
4)  Is there anything else you want to let me know about your process or your draft or your struggles?

Critique #1:  PROJECT TUNE!

In groups of three, you will help "tune" each other's projects using the following protocol for each person.

1.  SHARE: Presenter will share the project with their group in whatever way works best.  If it is a story or poem, let them read the draft.  (Critiquers feel free to annotate the draft with specific questions and feedback.  For images, share your sketch or storyboard, explaining the narrative elements thoroughly.  

2. FRAME THE CRITIQUE:  Presenters should frame the tune with a question or concern that they want their peers to think about.  What are you struggling with?  What is the emotional effect that you are trying to create for your reader?  Where is your narrative headed?

3. QUESTIONS:  Peers will barrage the presenter with questions about the project.  Start with clarifying questions, and then move into open-ended questions that help the person think more deeply about what they are doing with their story.  Use the rubric to generate ideas for questions.

4. OPEN DISCUSSION:   The whole group discusses the project, offering suggestions for refinement and creative direction.  What can the presenter do to bring their historical perspective to life and highlight the humanity in the history?  Don't forget to address the presenter's framing concern/question.

WORK TIME:  Continue Drafting

The Voyage in Between by Cora Kilgo








PUNCTUATING DIALOGUE

Model Narrative:  "Silence is a Corpulent Passenger" by Ian Bowers

Use the RUBRIC to critique the story.  Submit your critique in the Google form.








WORK TIME
Draft your narrative!  Working draft due tomorrow.

NARRATIVE PROJECT RUBRIC

"The Ludlow Massacre" by Woody Guthrie and Howard Zinn's Graphic Novel adaptation






WORK TIME
1.  Project Plan due Today!!!!

2.  Begin to work on Narrative

3.  Honors:  Synthesis Due for Ind. Study Project

PROJECT PLAN DUE TOMORROW:
Submit a plan for your narrative project that makes sense for your genre.  You may submit a written plan, a graphic organizer, or an annotated sketch for a visual project.  Whatever form the plan takes, it should somehow include the following details.
1.  What is your historical topic?
2.  What conflict will your narrative be centered on?
3.  Describe your intended "plot."  How will you "rise the action"?  What will be your resolution?
4.  Who are your characters?  How will you characterize them?
5.  Describe your setting.
6. What tone will your project take on your topic?
7.  What mood do you want to create for your audience?
8.  What theme(s) will your project treat?
9.  What is the message you seek to transmit?
10. Any other important details?

O Captain! My Captain!

BY WALT WHITMAN

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,

The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,

The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,

While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;

                         But O heart! heart! heart!

                            O the bleeding drops of red,

                               Where on the deck my Captain lies,

                                  Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;

Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,

For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,

For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

                         Here Captain! dear father!

                            The arm beneath your head!

                               It is some dream that on the deck,

                                 You’ve fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,

My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,

The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,

From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;

                         Exult O shores, and ring O bells!

                            But I with mournful tread,

                               Walk the deck my Captain lies,

                                  Fallen cold and dead.

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Discuss:  How does this poem narrate history?


WORK TIME:
Research Synthesis and Annotated Bibliography Due by midnight!

Yearbook Survey



WORK TIME:
Research Synthesis and Annotated Bibliography due tomorrow


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Work with a partner (or solo) to answer the following questions about Galeano's vignettes.  Jot down your answers on a piece of paper or into the body of an email.  Make sure both names are on the paper.
"Sun of Fire"
1.  How does Galeano develop setting in this passage? (Think beyond just time and place.)
2.  What is the tone of this passage?  What language reveals the tone (note some phrases)?
3.  What mood does this passage create for you as a reader?
"Einstein"
4.  How does Galeano characterize Albert Einstein in this passage?
5.  What does Galeano mean by "The most famous of sages has the saddest eyes in human history"?  What is the message?

6.  How do these two passages further your understanding of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?


Research Synthesis Rubric

Model Synthesis 

Model Annotated Bibliography 


WORK TIME
1.  Research notes on a minimum of 5 sources due by the end of the hour.  (You may keep researching beyond today if you need to.)
2.  Begin working on your research synthesis and annotated bibliography. (due Wednesday)
3.  Begin narrative?  (plan due by the end of the week)