YAY JUNIOR YEAR! Let's Deconstruct America!

Today's Goals

• Re-integrate into the classroom atmosphere
• Learn about this course and understand the idea of "deconstruction"
• Think deeply about the purpose of education and how you want to engage with yours this year

Introductions

1. Let's help the new Ospreys feel welcome!

• Name
• Spirit Animal OR Theme Song
• Why did you choose Animas?  

2. Who am I, Jessica, your teacher?  Questions for me?

A note on junior year:  Best year of your life so far?  
"For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
--Hamlet


Course Description from Syllabus: Deconstructing America

Business (to be done when you have your computer, but feel free to set these up tonight at home)....

If you don't have a computer yet, they are coming.  They will be ready Monday.
Join my Google Classroom!  Sign up and join my class with this code:  t59dlf
(New students:  your email is firstinitial.lastname17@animashighschool.com.  As in j.mccallum17@animashighschool.com.  Password: animas2017)

Bookmark my webpage!

Digital Comp Book Set-up

1.  Create a new Google doc and name it:  FirstName LastName Digital Comp Book 

2.  Share the document with me at jessica.mccallum@animashighschool.com.  Make sure you give me editing power!

3.  Each entry should be labeled so that it is clear to me which entry goes with which prompt.

4.  Master document on my Resources page to keep up with prompts

5.  You are responsible for all starters and entries, even if you are absent

6.  Feel free to add images, links, and other digital content in your responses!
7.  Chat with me if you prefer to keep your comp book on the Earth instead of in the Cloud.

Let's do some deconstructing....
Starter 8.27 (in Digital Comp Book, or on paper if you don't have a computer yet):  Complete this sentence as many ways as you can think of.  Be literal and/or figurative, positive and/or negative.

• America is....

Pink Houses

Listen once without video and answer prompt questions 

1.  Do you think that John Cougar Mellencamp’s tone is more patriotic or cynical?  Explain why you think so, using evidence.

2.  Make an interpretive claim about this song using evidence. What is he saying?  What is the message?  What do you think this song is trying to express about America?

3.  Group share/interpretation:  What meaning do we find?  What do the people in the song believe about America?

4.  DECONSTRUCTION?  (A good explanation of deconstruction...)

Discuss:  Does the video change your interpretation?  How and why?

 

Big Question:  What is the function of education?  Your own?  For the human race?

THIS IS YOUR EDUCATION!!!  We are going to be doing this together.





HOMEWORK:  
FOR TOMORROW
Read and annotate "The Function of Education" by Krishnamurti

• Mark quotes that stand out to you as thought-provoking, interesting, inspiring or with which you strongly disagree.
• Identify the author's thesis: What does Krishnamurti claim the purpose of education is?
• Be prepared to share your selections and explain what the quotes mean to you and why you chose them.

DUE MONDAY:

• READ SYLLABUS THOROUGHLY AND SHARE WITH PARENT/GUARDIAN...Last page signed by you and your parents.
• Add your parents' names and emails to this Google Form.
• Tell me a little bit about yourself (Turn in electronically to Google classroom or in my inbox on paper.)
• If you are interested in Honors, please review the Honors tab on my DP and come to an informational meeting next Wednesday, September 2.