Welcome back!! We sure did miss you guys!

Goals for today
1. Ease back into life at school:)
2. Wrap up Narrative History project
3. Preview Energy and Place project

HOW WAS LINK?  Share with your neighbor the most interesting or incredible story or lesson from your LINK experience.   

Honors Announcements

• Wednesday lunch check-in meeting
• Click here to review Book Club requirements!
• Project proposal due Wednesday.
• Seminar on The Monkey Wrench Gang on Friday!  Prep due at the beginning of the seminar!
• Choice Project and Seminar Reflection:  Due Monday

Narrative Project Wrap

Resend your narrative project TODAY with self-assessment and cover letter!

1. Read your story and self-assess with rubric.  For each category, explain why you deserve the grade you are giving yourself.  (due today)

2. Revisit your Reflection.  Finish it up and submit it by Wednesday.

Set up new starter system: 

·        1.  Start a google doc:  Call it FirstName LastName Energy and Place Starters

·         2. Share with jessicaahs11@gmail.com

·         3. Label starters by date

Let's start now!!

Starter 3.31:  What do you think is meant by the phrase “environmental ethics”?  Where do you personally stand on issues of environmentalism?

Four Corners:  Energy and Environment

Project Overview

Homework:

Read project description in detail.  Jot down any questions you may have.

Read and annotate "Bakken Business" for Wednesday.  

Starter:  STAC Survey

Assignment:  Write a sophisticated thesis statement that relates Monty Python and the Holy Grail to either the course concepts or the ideas of the narrative history project.

Narrative Project Due Tomorrow!!!
(You will not have class time tomorrow to work!)
Today...
1) Finish your narrative.  If you want to get one more critique, trade projects with someone.
2) Draft your reflection.  Please submit the draft along with the project by the beginning of the hour tomorrow.  You will have an opportunity to revise the reflection before we update our DP.  We will update your DP after LINK.
3) Brainstorm or work on your visual display for exhibition.


If you still have LINK work to do, you may use your class time to work on it.


For those that are finishing or want to participate...
Impromptu ungraded seminar!
Framing Question:  Would the proposed bill violate Section 1 of the 14th amendment?

1. Starter 2.26

2. SLC Prep

• Email your notes to me by the end of the hour.
• Business Casual!!! (Culture of Excellence, that's why!)

3. Narrative History Revisions

• If you have finished your revisions, trade revised projects with another peer and give each other an additional critique.
• Begin to conceptualize (and possibly start to work on) a visual display element for your project exhibition.
• Continue to revise your story.

4. Finalize LINK Work?

5. HONORS:  Reflection and DP Update

6. If you are done with your narrative, begin to brainstorm your Narrative History Project Reflection.

SLC's are tomorrow!  You must send me your prep notes for a 10-point completion grade by tomorrow.

Honors:  let's get ready for Exhibition!

See yesterday's post for list of things to do!

1. Check SLC schedule.  Check your grades and answer the following starter.  You may want to brainstorm on a separate sheet and then cut and paste it into your starter.


2.  Peer critique/analysis due by the end of the hour.  Turn in a copy to me and a copy to the person whose draft you critiqued.  If you were absent, check in with me about a make-up critique.

3.  WORK TIME

• Honors :  Get your project ready.  Put together your docuentation binder.  Make a "tent" with your research question.
• Critique due at the end of the hour
• SLC Prep
• Revise narrative
• LINK work

HONORS Documentation Binder Contents
1.  Cover Page:  Name, Project Title, Research Question
2.  Research Synthesis (1000-1500 words)
3.  Responses to five sources (at least one primary, one secondary, one creative, plus two others)
4.  Historical Thinking Skills Chart (2)
5.  Bibliography

1.  Random critique sort

2.  Talk to the person you will give your draft to and communicate how and when you will pass it to them.

3.  Narrative Peer Analysis and Critique (due on Monday at the end of the hour)
Use the handout as a guideline to answer the questions.  You may do so electronically on a separate document or use the handout to write your answers down.