Survey of Literature Block Day September 3, 2008.

Survey of LiteratureSurvey of Literature

Block DayBlock Day

September 3, 2008September 3, 2008

Today’s Class Warm UpToday’s Class Warm Up

Begin class by sharing your WPB entry with your Begin class by sharing your WPB entry with your group. group.

Start with the person who most recently read a comic Start with the person who most recently read a comic book or saw a comic book film & then go around in a book or saw a comic book film & then go around in a

circle.circle.

Please discuss the following…Please discuss the following…1) Your position: Do you agree or disagree with Jones? 1) Your position: Do you agree or disagree with Jones?

Why or why not?Why or why not?2) Jones’s evidence: pick one specific piece of evidence 2) Jones’s evidence: pick one specific piece of evidence

you wrote about and share why you believed it you wrote about and share why you believed it was convincing or not.was convincing or not.

Make sure you share both points!Make sure you share both points!

Today’s Class Warm Up Today’s Class Warm Up

Begin class by sharing your WPB entry with your Begin class by sharing your WPB entry with your group. group.

Start with the person who started playing Pokemon Start with the person who started playing Pokemon at the at the

earliest age and then go around in a circle.earliest age and then go around in a circle.

Please discuss the following…Please discuss the following…1)1)Your position: Do you agree or disagree with Your position: Do you agree or disagree with

Jones? Why or why not?Jones? Why or why not?

2) Jones’s evidence: Pick one specific piece of 2) Jones’s evidence: Pick one specific piece of evidence you wrote about and share why you evidence you wrote about and share why you believed it was convincing or not.believed it was convincing or not.

Make sure you share both Make sure you share both points!points!

Binder’s Dividers: The Final Binder’s Dividers: The Final WordWord

Kevin Lattin, I give you my word! Kevin Lattin, I give you my word! Promise!Promise!

Divider 1: 1Divider 1: 1stst Quarter Writing Quarter Writing

Divider 2: 2Divider 2: 2ndnd Quarter Writing Quarter Writing

Divider 3: 3Divider 3: 3rdrd Quarter Writing Quarter Writing

Divider 4: 4Divider 4: 4thth Quarter Writing Quarter Writing

Divider 5: HandoutsDivider 5: Handouts

Writing Practice Binders due Writing Practice Binders due FridayFriday

1)1) Writing Practice Binders Due Friday!Writing Practice Binders Due Friday! Please put in chronological order (dates).Please put in chronological order (dates).

2)2) Score your WPB Rubric (pink sheet)Score your WPB Rubric (pink sheet)3)3) Identify the Identify the controlling idea controlling idea (main idea, (main idea,

thesis) for each entry. Underline it.thesis) for each entry. Underline it.4)4) Select entry that BEST answers the Select entry that BEST answers the

prompt. *Star it.prompt. *Star it.5)5) Using the language of the rubric, explain Using the language of the rubric, explain

why it is your BEST piece of writing on why it is your BEST piece of writing on the back in a short paragraph.the back in a short paragraph.

10 Warm Up & WPB Entries 10 Warm Up & WPB Entries Due FridayDue Friday

8/218/21 Warm Up on speech you rememberWarm Up on speech you remember 8/22 8/22 Warm Up on communityWarm Up on community 8/258/25 Warm Up on kind of writing is strengthWarm Up on kind of writing is strength 8/268/26 Warm Up on which word doesn’t belongWarm Up on which word doesn’t belong 8/288/28 WPB on FUY Unit that interests you mostWPB on FUY Unit that interests you most 8/28 8/28 WPB Homework on teacher expectationsWPB Homework on teacher expectations 8/298/29 WPB Homework on learning obstaclesWPB Homework on learning obstacles 9/2 9/2 Warm Up on violence in the mediaWarm Up on violence in the media 9/2 9/2 WPB Homework on Jones’s articleWPB Homework on Jones’s article 9/49/4 WPB Homework on preconceptionsWPB Homework on preconceptions

What is a controlling idea?What is a controlling idea?

The main idea that runs throughout a The main idea that runs throughout a piece of writing, your thesispiece of writing, your thesis

Your big idea or major claim that anchors Your big idea or major claim that anchors your writingyour writing

Focused and specificFocused and specific Supported by other claims and evidenceSupported by other claims and evidence

Ex: Violent media is good for kids.Ex: Violent media is good for kids. Practice: Find a WPB entry and underline Practice: Find a WPB entry and underline

the controlling idea.the controlling idea.

WPB Homework Due Friday!WPB Homework Due Friday!

Write this on a clean sheet of paper.Write this on a clean sheet of paper.

WPB Prompt (write for 20 minutes)WPB Prompt (write for 20 minutes)

How will your preconceptions about what aHow will your preconceptions about what a

leader and a scholar are help or limit you leader and a scholar are help or limit you inin

your understanding of the ideas in this your understanding of the ideas in this unit? unit?

Group Think PostersGroup Think Posters

Create TWO portraits depicting your Create TWO portraits depicting your response to the following questions…response to the following questions…

1) What is a leader?1) What is a leader?2) What is a scholar?2) What is a scholar?

Draw all of the symbols, clothing, accessories, Draw all of the symbols, clothing, accessories, or or

objects the person might carry that would objects the person might carry that would signify that the person is a leader or a scholar. signify that the person is a leader or a scholar. Use color to help characterize the person. Use color to help characterize the person.

Outlines of Scholar & LeaderOutlines of Scholar & LeaderWhat is a scholar?

What is a leader?

Identifying PatternsIdentifying Patterns

Now beneath your WPB HW prompt, Now beneath your WPB HW prompt, make make

TWO bullet lists (one for scholar, one TWO bullet lists (one for scholar, one for for

leader) identifying patterns you see in leader) identifying patterns you see in

people’s drawings.people’s drawings.

Patterns Bullet ListsPatterns Bullet Lists

Patterns in Patterns in

““What is a scholar?”What is a scholar?”

Pattern 1Pattern 1 Pattern 2Pattern 2 Pattern 3Pattern 3

Patterns in Patterns in

““What is a leader?”What is a leader?”

Pattern 1Pattern 1 Pattern 2Pattern 2 Pattern 3Pattern 3

Essential QuestionsEssential Questions

What is an essential question?What is an essential question?

(Take Cornell Notes)(Take Cornell Notes)

A question that challenges your thinkingA question that challenges your thinking Complex, does not have a yes/no answerComplex, does not have a yes/no answer Open-ended, has lots of answersOpen-ended, has lots of answers Multi-faceted, multi-layeredMulti-faceted, multi-layered A question that gives a thematic focus for a A question that gives a thematic focus for a

unitunit

Examples of EQ’sExamples of EQ’s

1.1. What kinds of scholarship are relevant in the 21st What kinds of scholarship are relevant in the 21st century and what skills do I need to make learning century and what skills do I need to make learning meaningful to me?meaningful to me?

2.2. What kinds of leadership are relevant in the 21st What kinds of leadership are relevant in the 21st century and what daily opportunities do I have to century and what daily opportunities do I have to learn and practice being the kind of leader I want to learn and practice being the kind of leader I want to be?be?

3.3. What do I need to do to make myself into the kind of What do I need to do to make myself into the kind of leader and scholar who can make the kinds of leader and scholar who can make the kinds of changes necessary to create the world that I want to changes necessary to create the world that I want to live in?live in?

Group DiscussionGroup Discussion

Why are these good examples Why are these good examples of essential questions?of essential questions?

Understanding EQ’sUnderstanding EQ’s

Break down the questionBreak down the question Generate new questions from the EQGenerate new questions from the EQ Take for example…Take for example…

What kinds of scholarship are relevant in What kinds of scholarship are relevant in the the 21st century and what skills do I need to 21st century and what skills do I need to make learning meaningful to me?make learning meaningful to me?

Sub question: What are various kinds of Sub question: What are various kinds of scholarship?scholarship?

Uncover its assumptions, e.g. assumes that Uncover its assumptions, e.g. assumes that scholarship is relevantscholarship is relevant

Understanding EQ’s Understanding EQ’s

Now you try…Now you try…

As a group, create two questions that break As a group, create two questions that break down each essential question.down each essential question.

Write them on stickies, one question perWrite them on stickies, one question perstickie.stickie.

You will have 6 questions total.You will have 6 questions total.

Now you try writing sub-Now you try writing sub-questionsquestions

1.1. What kinds of scholarship are relevant in the 21st What kinds of scholarship are relevant in the 21st century and what skills do I need to make learning century and what skills do I need to make learning meaningful to me?meaningful to me?

2.2. What kinds of leadership are relevant in the 21st What kinds of leadership are relevant in the 21st century and what daily opportunities do I have to century and what daily opportunities do I have to learn and practice being the kind of leader I want to learn and practice being the kind of leader I want to be?be?

3.3. What do I need to do to make myself into the kind of What do I need to do to make myself into the kind of leader and scholar who can make the kinds of leader and scholar who can make the kinds of changes necessary to create the world that I want to changes necessary to create the world that I want to live in?live in?

Writing Deep QuestionsWriting Deep Questions

Challenge your thinkingChallenge your thinking Complex, do not have a yes/no Complex, do not have a yes/no

answeranswer Open-ended, have lots of answersOpen-ended, have lots of answers Multi-faceted, multi-layeredMulti-faceted, multi-layered

Sound familiar?Sound familiar?

Writing Your Own Deep Writing Your Own Deep QuestionsQuestions

Take out the questions you wrote for Take out the questions you wrote for homework last week.homework last week.

Work with a partner and transform two of Work with a partner and transform two of your questions into deep questions for the your questions into deep questions for the unit. (4 questions total, 2 originating from unit. (4 questions total, 2 originating from each person) each person)

Write them on stickies. Write them on stickies. Get Ms. Wu’s “That’s deep” approval.Get Ms. Wu’s “That’s deep” approval. Place them beneath the EQ to which you Place them beneath the EQ to which you

believe they belong. believe they belong. Feel free to write new questions.Feel free to write new questions.

ReflectionReflection

Record one of the questions that you wrote Record one of the questions that you wrote

on a stickie & the essential question on a stickie & the essential question

you wrote it in response to. you wrote it in response to.

Answer that question Answer that question or or the essential the essential

question to the best of your ability in WPB. question to the best of your ability in WPB.

Remember to create a controlling idea. Remember to create a controlling idea.