Thursday, April 6

Starter (NO WRITING REQUIRED): Watch "The Meatrix" (parody about industrial farming)
Talk:  What is our reaction to this?  Is factory farming worth the trade-offs?  Would we want to give up the things we listed yesterday (plus plentiful cheap meat) in order to have a different agricultural paradigm?


Quiz Tomorrow!!!

Today:  Finish Part 1 (The Industrial Meal) and review the study questions.  Get your questions answered.  If you have finished the assigned section, study!!!!

Wednesday, April 5

Starter 4.5: With a partner, make a brief list of ADVANTAGES of the food system in the United States.  What do we love and celebrate it?


Today....

• Conferences
• Read (Quiz Part 1 on Friday)
• Project Work

Tuesday, April 4th

Welcome back, mis pollitos!!!!

Starter 4.4: Initial thoughts about food...
How do you characterize your relationship with your food sources?
AND/OR
How do see America's relationship with food?


April Plans
Check out a book!

Friday, March 17

OH HAPPY DAY!!!!!



"COVER LETTER"
When you turn in your project, please include the following info:
1. Explain the philosophical perspective of the project in 1 or 2 sentences. (in the body of the email or in the document itself).
2. Explain or SHOW how your work is intertextual.  You can explain the intertextual connections in a few sentences, OR you can annotate the intertextuality itself, like I have modeled here in my poem:  "Whichever Road Taken."
3. ANSWER: What do you still need to do after break to get this project ready for exhibition?

Thursday, March 16

GET 'ER DONE!!!

Tomorrow, you will turn in your project in its current form, including the completed written work.  Many of you have extensions on your visual piece, which is fine, but you must turn in your writing and documentation of  the vision you have for your entire project.

See the rubric

Add some Grand Style!

Conference with me if you haven't already!

Senior TED Talk schedule

HONORS: 

• Please turn in reflection/synthesis from A Tale for the Time Being
• Turn in book and get a copy of Cat's Cradle
• Don't forget you have an essay due before break:)
• Second semester Honors doc

Wednesday, March 15

Add some beauty and flair to your written projects: 
USE THE GRAND STYLE OF RHETORIC!!!!!

Grand Style definition and examples

Other resources:
Poetic Devices
Extended Metaphors 
Extended Metaphor Examples

Monday, March 13

Starter: Check-in
On a scratch piece of paper, tell me where you are in your project process.  What have you gotten done?  What do you need to do in the next few days?  What are your struggles?  What are your needs?

Draft of my poem    
Critique, anyone?  (Totally optional, but everyone could use a little feedback)
#projectbasedlife


DO BEAUTIFUL WORK!!!

Conference with me?

TED Talk schedule

HONORS:

• Please turn in reflection/synthesis from A Tale for the Time Being
• Turn in book and get a copy of Cat's Cradle
• Don't forget you have an essay due before break:)
• Second semester Honors doc