May 2018
Upcoming Dates
- Monday May 7th: One Second Every Day start date
- Thursday May 17th / Friday May 18th: Rhetoric Gone Real / P4SL due date
- Saturday May 19th: Applebee's JORTS car wash (fundraiser for P4SL) from 10 - 2
- Monday May 21st: Tentative date to begin P4SL in-school fundraising
- Wednesday May 23rd: YoFresh from 4:00-9:30: mention Parkland for Sierra Leone with your purchase!
- Thursday May 24th: Senior speaker tryouts (8:30 am in C200)
- Saturday May 26th: One Second Every Day end date (Day 20)
- Sunday May 27th, Tuesday 29th, Wednesday 30th, Thursday 31st:
- Tuesday May 29th: One Second Every Day: video due date / share date
- Thursday May 31st: Teacher Dunk Tank outside C wing (rain date is Friday, June 1st)
- Monday June 4th: Last day of classes for seniors
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Parkland for Sierra Leone's Gofundme link is live!
Share it with someone you know!
(and someone they know, and someone they know, and...)
Period 3 Team roles can be found here
Period 5 Team roles can be found here
Period 6 Team roles can be found here
Period 7 Team roles can be found here
Sierra Leone media folder can be found here (let me know if you have something to add)
Period 5 Team roles can be found here
Period 6 Team roles can be found here
Period 7 Team roles can be found here
Sierra Leone media folder can be found here (let me know if you have something to add)
Week 5
Lunch Collections Schedule
Monday May 28th
Tuesday May 29th
Wednesday May 30th
Thursday May 31st
Friday June 1st
Monday June 4th
Monday May 28th
- Memorial Day
Tuesday May 29th
- One Second Every Day due (submit in Schoology, either private or shared)
- Make sure to complete reflection and reply within Schoology
- Make sure to complete reflection and reply within Schoology
- HW: make sure to submit your Sierra Leone Project Checklist once everything is documented and complete
Wednesday May 30th
- Into the Wild
Thursday May 31st
- Senior eval
Friday June 1st
- Finish Wild
Monday June 4th
- Advice to next year's seniors
English Final: Tuesday, June 5, 2018
7:40-9:17 in C200
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Week 4
Monday May 21st
Tuesday May 22nd
Wednesday May 23rd
Thursday May 24th
Friday May 25th
Schoology: Rhetorical analysis of Blackfish and Seaworld's response due by tonight, 11:59 pm
Day 20 (final day) of One Second Every Day is Saturday. Bring your video to class on Tuesday to submit it and share!
- Report directly to BLACK BOX for performances
Tuesday May 22nd
- Complete StudentPaths Spring Survey (if you didn't)
- Finish Blackfish
Wednesday May 23rd
- Parkland for Sierra Leone updates:
- YoFresh today! (4-9:30: must mention Parkland fundraiser at checkout)
- Lunch collections team assignments here.
- Confirm our athlete interviews (must be available Friday?)
- Music in halls? What number? Make contact to get confirmed.
- Hang those posters. Get creative!
- Period 6: ad ideas? Who is/are the "face"?
- Numbers on Keystone Pub interest so far? Need $10 per voucher and # of people in party.
- Louie's dates (and flyers)
Thursday May 24th
- Finish Student Paths
- Schoology: Rhetorical analysis of Blackfish and Seaworld's response due by Friday, 11:59 pm
Friday May 25th
- "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods . . ."
- Begin Into the Wild
- See StudySync for excerpts
Schoology: Rhetorical analysis of Blackfish and Seaworld's response due by tonight, 11:59 pm
Day 20 (final day) of One Second Every Day is Saturday. Bring your video to class on Tuesday to submit it and share!
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Week 3
Monday May 14th
Tuesday May 15th
Wednesday May 16th
Thursday May 17th
Friday May 18th
- Remember to keep noticing those Seconds! Any interesting ones from this past weekend?
- P4SL work day 1: sketch your poster, plan your website, type up your fundraising plan, etc.
- Update your google doc to account for your work.
Tuesday May 15th
- P4SL work day 2: make your poster, build your website, draw up necessary contacts for your fundraising plan, etc.
- Update your google doc to account for your work.
- Mystudentpath.com Spring Survey (extra credit). Show Mr. Neff final page for credit.
- Please note that if you're working on the project today, you will be able to complete this in class next Tuesday.
- Senior speaker sign-up sheet is in main office. You must sign up by this Friday, May 18th if you wish to try out (tryouts are May 24th, 8:30am in C200)
Wednesday May 16th
- Period 3 ONLY: we're in the auditorium balcony for one more day due to AP testing. This may change if they can find us a room, so check here for any updates.
- Rhetoric Test make-ups: today or Friday. See me with a day and period you plan to take this.
- Any athletes interested in being interviewed by the Morning Call to talk about Parkland for Sierra Leone?
- Story would probably be similar to last year's profile on Aubree Fritzinger
- P4SL work day 3: continue creating. Today you'll check in with the Project Manager and/or Mr. Neff on progress.
- You must show appropriate evidence of your work today or you will not be eligible for 100% project credit.
- Update your google doc to account for your work.
- Begin rhetoric on film: Blackfish
Thursday May 17th
- P4SL work day 4: finishing touches. If complete, submit/publish/finalize your work today for credit. If not, continue working.
- Update your google doc to account for your work.
Friday May 18th
- Blackfish cont'd. Preview assignment in Schoology.
- P4SL work day 5: Submit/publish/finalize your work today for credit.
- If not complete today, you will not be eligible for 100% project credit.*
- *This does not apply to jobs that will be completed in the next two weeks (e.g. teams producing keychains or bracelets; teams running fundraisers; photographers covering specific events)
- Update your google doc to account for your work.
- If not complete today, you will not be eligible for 100% project credit.*
- Note: Monday, all students should report to the Black Box. Go directly there. Do not report to our room. You'll be seeing either a one act play or a series of scenes and songs performed by your fantastically talented peers in the A wing.
- To get to the Black Box, head all the way down the hall past the FCS rooms and the Band room. Look for the red doors on the right just past the band room (You'll see us there).
Week 2
Monday May 7th
Tuesday May 8th
Wednesday May 9th
Thursday May 10th
Friday May 11th
- Rhetoric Test this Wednesday: discuss format and sample questions
- "One Second Per Day" details. Day 1 begins today! (Day 20 is Saturday May 26th; We'll share during last week of classes: Monday May 28th)
- Details on our final project: 2nd annual Parkland for Sierra Leone (and alternative options: Rhetoric Gone Real)
Tuesday May 8th
- "One Second" Day 2
- Project day: Parkland for Sierra Leone and Rhetoric Gone Real
Wednesday May 9th
- Rhetoric Test: the rhetorical triangle, the persuasive appeals, and rhetorical devices (100 points)
Thursday May 10th
- By your votes, our fundraising target IS . . .
- Those doors in the lower B wing open at . . .
- At $8,000 you get . . .
- If we reach our goal then . . .
- At $8,000 you get . . .
- Those doors in the lower B wing open at . . .
- Share our Gofundme link (https://www.gofundme.com/ParklandforSL18) with anyone you'd like, and include it in any media/advertising you produce
- But encourage physical donations if possible (we get 100% of that cut)
- Know your role (choose it, confirm it, and write it in your google doc in Schoology)
- For Step 3 in your google doc, keep concise but complete records of what you do for the project and when you do it. Link any documents made, pictures taken, items created. This will be the evidence you’ll use to earn your grade (no records = no grade).
- Jobs we still need filled are . . .
- Vote on final ideas from the collaborative board
- Let's get to work! (Most of this will happen next week)
Friday May 11th
- It's the day before prom.
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Week 1
Monday April 30th
Tuesday May 1st
Wednesday May 2nd
Thursday May 3rd
I'm out for curriculum today: be good people!
Friday May 4th
Our Day 1 begins on Monday.
Note for next week: rhetoric test Wednesday, our final project begins, and rhetoric on film
- Publish "Stories of Our Lives"
- class/HW: read "This is Water" for tomorrow's class
Tuesday May 1st
- Opener: What makes a great speech?
- (consider what you know about rhetoric so far; consider content; structure; message)
- handout: "What makes a great speech?"
- Watch and discuss: "This is Water"
- "What makes a great speech?" Qs #1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9
- class/HW: read "Inches" for tomorrow's class
Wednesday May 2nd
- Rhetorical devices: schemes and tropes
- Grab the Nearpod slides here (join code ODLZK)
- Watch and discuss: "Inches"
- "What makes a great speech?" Qs #1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10
Thursday May 3rd
I'm out for curriculum today: be good people!
Friday May 4th
- FREE MONEY opportunity
- Review yesterday's assignment
- Watch TED: "One second every day"
- Discuss "One second" options
- Story site clean-up
Our Day 1 begins on Monday.
Note for next week: rhetoric test Wednesday, our final project begins, and rhetoric on film
- To prep for test, review the first rhetoric Nearpod (Aristotle's triangle, the three persuasive appeals, and examples of each in text and advertising), review the second rhetoric Nearpod (definitions and examples of tropes and schemes), and review our application of these concepts to the editorials and speeches in your packet
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