ODDS AND ENDS

• NOTE:  YOU MUST HAVE YOUR DP UPDATED BEFORE YOUR TPOL
• BOOKS:  Turn in today, or bring me a replacement copy before you do your TPOL.
• PLEASE TAKE THE FEEDBACK SURVEY!
• HONORS:  Seminar 7th period

TPOL LETTER OF REC CRITIQUE

(These guidelines can also be found in your prep packet on page 8)

Step 1: Read the draft once without edits

Step 2: Re-read to edit (spelling/grammar/content)

Step 3: On this document, answer the below questions

Step 4:  Share your feedback with the author

Critique Questions

1. Is the letter formatted correctly?
1. Size 12 font, date, To Whom it May Concern:, 4-5 paragraphs, Sincerely, Name

2. Does the letter have an intro, body, conclusion?

3. Does the opening paragraph meet the requirements as described on page 3 of the TPOL prep packet? DOes it have a “thesis” statement that lists the main qualities the recommender is going to highlight?

4. Do the body paragraphs clearly and articulately highlight how the candidate would be an asset to the college to which they are applying?

5. Are there any spelling errors? If so, circle them.

6. Are there specific examples or anecdotes to support claims made about the student’s character and/or academic abilities?

7. Is there anything you think should be cut or added?

MOCK INTERVIEWS

Take turns playing the following roles:

1. Candidate (student)

2. Interviewer (College Admissions officer)

• Spend at least 10 minutes interviewing the candidate.  Ask them questions from the list of interview questions in the TPOL Prep packet.  Feel free to throw some curve balls as long as they are relevant to this interview process.

• After the interview, the interviewer should share his/her observations with the candidate.

• Then rotate roles and repeat.

Observations: Does the candidate...

• Use academic, appropriate language?
• Speak clearly, with appropriate volume and pacing and avoid saying “um” or “like”?
• Seem confident (mindful of eye contact, posture, fidgeting and intonation)?

• Answer questions with in-depth responses and specific examples or anecdotes?
• Seem authentic/genuine/honest?

TO-DO:

1. Please take a moment today to fill out this course evaluation and feedback survey.  My students are my best teachers!  LINK TO SURVEY

2. Continue writing letters and revising resumes.  Put your letter of recommendation on AHS letterhead!

3.  Brainstorm answers and evidence to sample interview questions.

4.  Honors:  Finish book and work on final written analysis.

MOCK INTERVIEWS AND LETTER CRITIQUE TOMORROW!!!

STARTER (on paper)
What are your strengths, talents, and characteristics that you believe belong in a letter of rec?  What anecdotes from your time here could be evidence of these attributes?

NOTE: REQUIRED PEER CRITIQUE FOR TPOL LETTERS OF REC and MOCK INTERVIEWS WILL BE ON THURSDAY.
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Today
1. How to write a letter of recommendation:  See Pages 4-5 of your packet
Examples:
Hayden Stills
Sam Kuenzel

2. Work time:

• Draft your letter of rec
• Update/refine your resume 
• Brainstorm responses to the interview questions listed in your TPOL guidelines packet.  This may help you brainstorm for your letter of rec

3. Business:  

A FEW OF YOU STILL NEED TO SEND ME YOUR LINKS TO YOUR UPDATED DP!  I ALSO WILL NOT GRADE YOUR PROJECT UNTIL YOU FILL OUT THE GOOGLE SURVEY SELF-ASSESSMENT!

TURN IN MY BOOKS (ELSE BE CHARGED FOR THEM!)

Last push!

Starter:  Share a highlight from Osprey Week with a neighbor.

TPOL LAUNCH

1. TPOL PREP GUIDELINES

• Thursday, May 21: TPOL Rec Letter critiques and mock interviews

2. Respond to Sir Ken Robinson's TED Talk

Bring on the Learning Revolution

3.  Time to work on prep materials

Other TO-DO

1. Self-assess your final project using the rubric and this Google Form.  If you already did this, please get with me during work time to determine your answers, as there was a problem with the survey.  I will not grade your final project until you have completed this step.

2. Complete Project Reflection and DP update if you have not done so already.  Your teachers will be keeping track of your DP completion as a prerequisite to TPOL's.

3.  Check Infinite Campus.  I will not accept any late work after Wednesday at 5 pm.  

4. Honors:  Let's check in during work time today.  

• Seminar Thursday during 7th period
• DP Update and Book Blub Reflection due on Sunday, May 29th

5. Go to Advisory Monday and Wednesday of this week. Tuesday and Thursday is optional office hours/tpol work time. Honors: Seminar on The Bluest Eye

6. Conference with me if you need to!

YAY!!!  Exhale!  So proud of you guys!

Two tasks left before Osprey Week...

1. Self-assess your final project using the rubric and this Google Form.

2. Complete Project Reflection and DP update by Sunday.  SEND ME THE LINK!!!

REHEARSAL TODAY!

SEND ME YOUR PROJECTS IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO ALREADY!!!

REFLECTION/DP UPDATE:  If you want to get a jump start on your project reflection and DP update, follow these instructions.  We will have time in class Friday to work on it, but feel free to get started early!

Exhibition Prep

• Send me your files TODAY!!!
• Set up the room (Who is my crew?)
• Schedule:  You must be there for your 30 minute block
• Master Schedule for All Juniors
• Can anyone make a poster/sign for exhibition?
• Essay contest!!!  Enter it!
• Rehearsal tomorrow:  Be ready to share!  (Still a moment for a mini-critique, but you should be performing your final version!)

FINAL PUSH! Let's do this!!!

Starter:  On a scratch piece of paper or post-it, write your name and answer the following question:

• Where are you with your project?  What do you need to do today and tomorrow to be ready to rehearse on Wednesday?

1. Optional Critique:  Gallery Walk with paper (T-charts)

At least one like and one suggestion or question 

2. Due tomorrow at the end of class:  Electronic file of your visual OR Link to your film OR what you will display the night of exhibition

3.  Rehearsal (with impromptu critique):  Wednesday and Thursday

4.  If you are done with project, let's set this room up!  The goal is to have it set up by the end of class tomorrow so that we can roll with rehearsal on Wednesday/Thursday.

WRITTEN PIECE CRITIQUE
1. Critique Groups:  Number off
2. Share your draft with your group, either by sharing your Google doc or printing off a draft and having me copy it for you.  If you have a focusing question for your critique, share that with your group at the beginning of critique.
3.  For each of your peers' drafts, complete the critique questions.  You should also comment freely on the draft itself, but be sure to write out substantive feedback on the sheets as well.
4.  Review the rubric as you give feedback.  Add some evaluative comments to the rubric categories on the back of the critique sheet.  You don't have to grade each other per se, but comment on how you see your peers achieving the standards of the rubric.

Honors:  let's check in during class!



WORK TIME!!!
Conferences:  If you haven't talked to me yet, sign up today!
Revise your writing!
Work on visual*
*Note:  I will need a digital version of your art by the end of the day next Tuesday, so that we can put it together for exhibition night.

Add some beauty and flair to your writing!
The Grand Style 
Poetic Devices
Rhetorical Devices

Draft for Critique:  Due Thursday
Conferences 

Announcements:

• Turn in books!  Omnivore's Dilemma, Honors books, others?
• Honors:  Meeting at lunch on Thursday.  Note changes below.
• Project Work Time!  Critique drafts on Thursday and Monday
• Exhibition Details:  What will it look like?  Who is interested in coordinating?
• Schedule
• Set-up/Room Transformation
• Digital Details
• Quiz:  finish today
• Conference with me about project and whatever else
• LAST PUSH!!!

Four corners
"We have to start acting as one species with one destiny."


PROJECT RESET!
A statement of personal philosophy
Get creative!
Add beauty and force!
Add the "Grand Style" of rhetoric!
Be intertextual!
Have some fun with this.  It is yours.

Expansion of Essential Questions:
What is the purpose of (your/human) existence?
What is happiness and what makes you happy?
What does it mean to live a meaningful life?
What is your place in the world?
How do you characterize your relationship with Earth/place/resources?
How do you characterize your personal ethics?


IDEAS?
How can new content be woven into our project?

WORK TIME
Finish Quiz
Project:  ready, set, go!
Conference with me




HONORS:  NOTE CHANGES TO BOOK CLUB!

The Bluest Eye Deadlines

·        Tuesday, May 23: Seminar (in class)

·        Friday, May 27th:  Literary Analysis

Support Materials for a Literary Analysis Essay

Here are some supporting documents to help you with your essay (5 paragraph minimum):

a. Writing a Literary Analysis (developing your thesis, integrating evidence and analysis)

b. Literary Analysis Planning Guide (outline template)

c. Lit Analysis Rubric

d, Lit Analysis Self-check

e. Here is a folder with some additional support materials as well as some quality model essays.

DP Update and Book Blub Reflection due on Sunday, May 29th