Friday, April 27

WOOHOO!  You guys are amazing!  Congrats on making it through the final push!

HONORS BOOK CLUB MEETING
Reflection due by next Friday
Literary Analysis Essay due May 11 (see syllabus page 2 for resources)

Today, finish your DP Update/Project Reflection:

Create a DP Post that contains the following elements, refined and aesthetically arranged:

1.  Title of Project:  The Ethics and Chemistry of Food and Cooking

2. DESCRIPTION/REFLECTION
Paragraph 1: Describe the project (what we did in both classes)
Paragraph 2: Reflect on your group’s meal
Paragraph 3: How did the interdisciplinary nature of this project impact your learning?
Paragraph 4: What are your main takeaways from studying food academically?  How has your thinking about food changed from before?

3.  Food Ethic Essay

3.  Chemistry Reflection

4. ARTIFACTS: Photos, Recipes, Menu, and any other tidbits from the experience that you feel would make your DP beautiful and interesting!

Thursday, April 26

YAY Culmination!  Happy All-School Exhibition!

First:  Table Set-Up!  I can still print some things if you need me to.

Together:  Feedback/Reflection Circle

Today and Tomorrow:  DP Update/Reflection

• Send your DP link to Jessica by the end of class tomorrow!

Wednesday, April 25

Did you sign the thank you notes?

Room Set-up
1. Arrange tables in 6-tops.
2. Sit with your groups.
3. Plan your display: Make lists. See link to doc.

• What do you need to print for your display?
• Who brings what tomorrow?
• Think about decor AND artifacts.  Make it beautiful!

4.  Clean?  Help with sheets?  Other room decor?

Essay
1. TITLE!  Centered and Bold, one step larger font
2. Name underneath title, not bold
3. Get a proofread and make sure your formatting is clean.
4. Print and mount on black paper.  If you aren't quite done with the essay, you are responsible for this step before tomorrow.  I will be putting the printer away at the end of the day.

Tuesday, April 24

WORKY WORKY!

Let's Flip this Room!

Sign the Thank You notes!

Monday, April 23

Announcement:  Metro State University is in Suzy's room at lunch!

Shopping Trip @ 10:30!  

Advice for Meals, recapped...

• Give yourself ample time before meal service
• Make a list of your needs before you go
• Make more food than you need
• Invite Jessica and Steve
• Prepare an intro to the meal the contextualizes the project and the purpose of the meal: Don't wing it!
• THINK THROUGH (write down?) your TALKING POINTS.  These should be present at ASE, so it is to your advantage to have this done..
• PHOTO all parts of meal: cooking, serving, close-ups of the food itself
• Prompt your diners to think/talk about the themes we have studied.
• PRINT OUT A MENU!!!!!

For All-School Exhibition...

Your group will recreate a “table setting” based on your theme that documents your meal and the science and ethics behind it.  The table should include the following artifacts:

• Table setting and decor that matches of the theme of your meal
• Photos of the actual meal service
• A detailed menu
• Documentation of your content knowledge in Chemistry and Humanities
• Something for your audience to take away with them (Recipe cards? Quoteworthy ethical statements?  Food poetry? Advice about cooking methods?)
• Samples of the food itself?
• Food Ethic Essays of your group

Work Time 
Revise essays
Prepare talking points/intro for meals and any other details
Think about ASE display

Friday, April 20

Let's choose classes!!!

• Infinite Campus Academic Planner
• Slideshow of Instructions

Reflection from yesterday's meal

• How did it go?
• What advice can you guys give the other groups to help their meals go more smoothly.

WORK TIME

Essay

Meal Planning

All-School Exhibition Planning

Thursday, April 19

Announcements:

• Shopping Trip Monday during class....Who is going?
• Essay due next Wednesday.  Please conference with me today or tomorrow if you need to.  Tuesday, we will start setting up my class for exhibition, so plan your work time accordingly.
• Don't forget to be thinking about your All-School Exhibition display, including the "artifact" that should available for audience members to take away.  Please review the guidelines again here.  Do you need anything from me that will help you guys illuminate your theme?

WORK TIME
ESSAY
MEAL PLANNING

Wednesday, April 18

PULL IT TOGETHER!!!!

Most groups did not complete all of the tasks for Monday!  Please do so immediately!  Look below...what did your group not tell me?

Meal Planning (guidelines here)

By the end of the hour, you should submit to me the following information on a Google Doc

1. All group members' names

2. Date, time, location of your meal

3. A guest list and an explanation how they were/will be invited. (Hey, are Steve and I even invited?)

4. A full detailed menu with complete ingredient list and task delegration (who does what?)

5. An estimated budget for each piece of your menu, including a $ amount that you are requesting from us

6. An explanation of how your theme will be manifest at your meal

7. An explanation of how you plan to document your meal in order to present it at ASE

Add to your task list:  Introduction to the Meal

• Who will speak to introduce the purpose of the meal to your diners?  What will they say?

Add to today's work:  Submit a "write-up" for what you will personally say about the science and ethics of your own contribution.

ESSAY?

Do you need to conference with me?

Monday, April 16

PROJECT WORK TODAY....

Meal Planning (guidelines here)

By the end of the hour, you should submit to me the following information on a Google Doc

1. All group members' names

2. Date, time, location of your meal

3. A guest list and an explanation how they were/will be invited. (Hey, are Steve and I even invited?)

4. A full detailed menu with complete ingredient list and task delegration (who does what?)

5. An estimated budget for each piece of your menu, including a $ amount that you are requesting from us

6. An explanation of how your theme will be manifest at your meal

7. An explanation of how you plan to document your meal in order to present it at ASE

By Wednesday...

Each individual should submit a draft of what you are going to present in terms of Humanities and Chemistry content

FOOD ETHIC ESSAY

If you turned in your draft on time, you have my feedback.  If you did not, please conference with me this week about where you are headed.  

Final essay due Wednesday, April 25

Friday, April 13

WORK DAY!!!
Do you need to meet with your groups to nail out some details?
Budget/Funds Request by Monday
What research might you need to do in order to present your meal?
What ethical/thematic/scientific details will you each present?


Turn in my books!
Is your name on the board?


Essay draft due tonight at midnight (or preferably before)
When you turn it in, reflect in the body of the email:
1. What area of the rubric do you believe is the strongest part of your essay?  Why?
2. What do you think you need to work on most when you revise?
3. What would you like me to focus my feedback on?
(If you already submitted your essay, please go back and answer these questions in an email.)


If you are finished with your essay, perhaps trade papers with someone else who has finished to give each other feedback?  Or, watch documentaries about food?  Additional research?  Start scripting your meal presentation, recipe, etc.?


Have fun at the promenade!!!

Thursday, April 12

TURN IN MY BOOKS!
Do you still have The Omnivore's Dilemma and/or Into the Wild?  Honors books?

THANK YOU NOTES (for guest speakers)
Anyone want to make thank you notes for Katrina, Brady, and Dan & Rachel?

WORK TIME
Draft essay!  If you finish, trade papers with someone and get some feedback.  Use the rubric as a guide.

GROUP MEETING:

• Check in with groups about how your meal with address the questions in both Humanities and Chemistry.  Review the questions here.  How will you present your answers to these questions?  What will each person say/present for their part?
• Budget for Meal
• Who will you invite?  How will you make this happen?

Wednesday, April 11

Welcome, Rachel and Dan!

Journal 4.11:  What are your takeaways from our guest speakers today?  

Monday, April 9

Meal group planning meeting!

New range for dates:  You can execute your meal anytime between Thursday, April 19 and Tuesday, April 24.  Check in with groups about nailing down a time and place on the calendar.  This opens it up to potentially be a slow food lunch on Saturday or Sunday:)

Due next Monday to Steve and Jessica:

• A detailed menu with task division indicated 
• An ingredient list for each component of the meal
• A proposed budget based on your ingredient list, including a request for funds (This means you should establish how much each of you can contribute to your own meal.  Steve and I can only afford to give each group around $75.)

WORK TIME

FOOD ETHIC ESSAY DRAFT due this Friday
Here is a good resource to help you determine the difference between the genre of the personal essay and more academic or "transactive" writing.

Upcoming...

On Wednesday, we have some awesome guest speakers.  Rachel Turiel and Dan Hinds will be here to discuss their food ethic and how they feed their family in a myriad of ways.  Rachel is a local food writer who edits Edible Southwest Colorado.  If you would like to check out her blog before Wednesday, click here:   http://6512andgrowing.com/.

Thursday, April 5th

Journal 4.5:  What is your reaction to the content of this film?  As a teenager, where does this info hit you?  Does the film inspire you to make any changes?
AND
To what degree is the health value of food a factor in your own personal food ethic?  

Wednesday, April 4th

Starter (on scratch paper, please):   
How are you feeling about this project so far?
Please give me:  A Rose, A Thorn, An "I wonder..."

WORK DAY!
Check in with your group.  Do you need to meet today?
Pre-write your essay and begin drafting! (ESSAY DESCRIPTION HERE)

2nd HOUR:  Honors Book Club meeting, Susy's room

Tuesday, April 3

Starter 4.3: How have you engaged with food for the last two weeks?  How has your thinking changed since you have been studying this topic in both classes?  Do you find yourself contemplating your food differently?

PROJECT TIME!

THE MEAL:  Initial planning meeting

Personal Essay: Your Food Ethic

Work Time:

Finish Journal 3.16?

Personal Essay Prewrite

• Re-read digital comp book for this project
• Brainstorm ideas in whatever way works for you

Turn in The Omnivore’s Dilemma if you are done with it!

Do you have Into the Wild?  Please turn it in ASAP!


HONORS BOOK CLUB MEETING TOMORROW

Friday, March 16th

Welcome, Katrina and Brady, our beloved local foragers!

Journal 3.16:  How do Part 4 and the wisdom of our guests today resonate with your own emerging food ethic?