Advisory: College Stuff!

Students Applying to College via the CommonApp

1. Have students log onto their accounts
2. Have students click on the CommonApp tab at the top
3. Have students review the Education information they filled out against the information I provided on this document CommonApp Ready-Counselor Sheet (Can also be found on my DP under Seniors>>CommonApp)
4. Then have students click on My Colleges tab
5. Under each college listed on the left have students click on Recommenders and FERPA check box
6. Make sure students have signed the FERPA release authorization
7. Next have students click on video titled video about recommenders next to the Invite and Manage Recommenders button.
8. Have students watch this video about how to invite recommenders and counselors
9. SUPER IMPORTANT: Remind students that even if their advisor is writing their counselor letter of recommendation they will still invite Jess as the college counselor using the following email collegecounseling@animashighschool.com
10. Have students invite their counselor and teacher recommendations or edit if they need to.

Remind Students: After school today starting at 3:30 in the Commons Jess has an optional CommonApp Assistance session where she can go over specific questions and review any information they want her to review.

Wednesday, October 5

POLITICAL IDEOLOGY (NON)QUIZ!

If you finish early, you can start tomorrow's assignment...

MINI RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT

1. Choose an issue to research today. (Journal #1) It doesn’t have to be one that you are thinking of for your project, but feel free to begin this process of exploration.  Let it be one that you feel STRONGLY about.  Here are some websites that lay out some issues (but feel free to choose a topic from your heart or from the discussion yesterday).

• http://www.procon.org/
• http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm

2. First, you will reflect on your current opinions/feelings (journal #2).  

3. Second, consume ideas on the other side of the topic (the side you disagree with!).  Please be willing to be disturbed! You should explore opinion journalism on your chosen topic.  Find 2-3 sources that explore your chosen issue and hold the opposite bias from yours. (journal #3)

Please consult with me if you are having trouble finding opinion journalism on one side or the other.  I am pretty good at politics on the web:)

• Real Clear Politics: a mix of editorial voices!
• List of Conservative Media on the Web
• List of Liberal Websites

4. Lastly, write an additional paragraph explaining the oppositional viewpoints on the topic.  Include a discussion of the VALUES and MORAL FOUNDATIONS of the other side’s views.  Can you understand better where the other side is coming from?  (Journal #4)

JOURNAL 10.6

1. What is your topic?
2. Write one paragraph explaining your current opinions/feelings on the topic.
3. Identify the titles and authors of the articles you found.  Link them here in your journal!
4. After exploring media sources on the other side of the political aisle, write an additional paragraph explaining the oppositional viewpoints on the topic.  Include a discussion of the VALUES and MORAL FOUNDATIONS of the other side’s views.  Can you understand better where the other side is coming from?

Tuesday, October 4th

Today’s Question:  How can we better understand those that differ from us ideologically in order to foster healthy dialogue in our democracy?

Starter 10.4:  React to yesterday’s panel.  What surprised, enlightened or disturbed you? What are some ways that your thinking was expanded or challenged?

Announcements:

• Tomorrow:  Quiz alternative/Reflection on political ideology in America. You will be able to use your T-chart, your comp books, panel notes (mine and yours), and any other notes you have taken from the debates or any other media sources.
• Tonight is the vice-presidential debate!  Watch it!  Take it in!  Consume rhetoric critically.  Explore the differences between the candidates and their presidential counterparts.
• Honors Essay due by midnight tomorrow night. Get a peer critique! Get a proofread! Don't forget MLA formatting!

Debrief panel:  What are our take-aways?  How do we understand ideology better?  How did our willingness to be disturbed play into the experience? What feedback do you guys have for future panel experiences?

Key phrases spoken by our panelists yesterday

Review project description: PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Topic Brainstorm:  Small groups...make a list of project topics and then copy and paste your ideas to this Google Doc.

• What are the political and social issues at stake in American (and human) life right now?  
• What issues have you seen emerge in this election or in the news that you might be interested in researching?
• What are possible topics on which young Americans are compelled to get rhetorical?  

Exit ticket:  Write down 5 different political issues/topics that you might be interested in taking on for your project.

Monday, October 3

Welcome, Panelists!

Friday, September 30

Starter:  OW survey

Fun with satire:  Onion Fact-check

What are some questions that we have about American politics after watching the debate? (yesterday's journal)

Group work: Debate Analysis

HONORS (time to work).  

You can do Journal 9.30 with or without independent research.  Please feel free to use this time to work on your essays, ask Jessica for help, and organize critique plans with your fellow Honors students.  

Independent Work Time: Media Consumption (and journal)

1. Google media analyzing the debate.  Does it match your thoughts on the debate?
2. Research some of the questions we have about American politics.
3. Look at the websites of each candidate.  Read up on their positions.  How do their plans reflect the candidates’ ideologies?
1. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/
2. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/
4. Journal 9.30:  After watching the debate and reading up on the candidates’ positions on the issues, which candidate do you find resonates more with you?  Who is a better ideological match for your own positions?  Why?

Thursday, September 29

PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

Follow along with the debate transcript.  (NPR fact-checked many claims during the debate).

Other fact-checking sites:

Factcheck.org

NY Times Fact check

Politifact

Honors: Let’s meet for a few!

Journal 9.29:  

1. React to the presidential debate.  Who do you think won and why?  Who had better rhetorical strategy?  Cite some specifics from the debate in analyzing why one person’s rhetorical strategy was better than the others.
2. What questions do you have about American politics after watching this debate?  What ideas or policies do you want to find out more about?

Wednesday, September 28

Welcome, Dr. Sarah Roberts-Cady!

Starter 9.28:  What was one thought and one question you had about Dr. Roberts-Cady's talk?  Why was it relevant to our study?

Questions/Debrief

Begin Watching Presidential Debate
Look for the types of political language we have been studying.  Raise hands with questions and observations.