Moon’s Day, August 12: Base Camp EQ: Before we start the climb – do we have everything we need? Welcome! Gather work, paper, pen/pencil, wits!
Base Camp: Check Gear! o Discussion: Last Week . New Gradebook Issues . Webpage Schedule . Who did what? E-Searches Kierkegaard Practice Essay o Notebook Ready? . Expectations and Sample Rubric . Notebook vs. Journal . Unit One Cover Sheet: “The Legacy of 1066”
o Cultural Literacy E-Search: Schrödinger’s Cat
ELACC12RI3: Analyze and explain how individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop ELACC12RL4-RI4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in text ELACC12W4: Produce clear and coherent writing appropriate to task, purpose, and audience ELACC12W9: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis ELACC12W10: Write routinely over extended and shorter time frames ELACC12SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions ELACC12L6: Acquire and use general academic and domain-specific words and phrases Notebooks
No activity separates successful students from their hapless counterparts quite as predictably as notetaking. Some people are blessed (or cursed) with memories like camcorders; the rest of us need help. Writing – not just highlighting but physically writing stuff down – cements information into memory, because reading, writing and thinking activate different areas of the brain. When one writes, the brain pays attention to information right away and stores it not only in the neural but in the motor memory; and, of course, one creates a record to viewlater. It is true that one may miss something while writing, but one gets better with practice.
You will submit a notebook for a grade each Unit – and materials must be in a binder. Unbound material will not be accepted; you may resubmit it in a binder for a late grade. If the material is not in the order requested on the Rubric, your Notebook grade will suffer.
You will get a Rubric each Unit, but I will look for the following each time:
1. Syllabus (Rule Brittania!) and its CLOZE, kept at front of binder all year.
2. Literary Unit Notes, including:
a. Cover Sheet for each Unit. This must display the Unit’s title, and must come at the start of that Unit’s section in your binder. Otherwise it can look as you wish: elaborately decorated, stark and plain, whatever.
b. Schedule of the Unit’s Assignments.
c. Handouts – all CLOZEs, Reading Guides, worksheets, supplemental texts and essays, Project materials – anything I have given out. All material must be COMPLETED as assigned; if you didn’t complete it when it was due, do so before submitting it in the notebook. Uncompleted handouts receive only partial credit, and blank handouts get no credit at all!
d. All freewrites written during that Unit, in order.
e. Test Review Materials.
This is a Major Grade – easy if you keep up with it, a killer zero if you don’t. Binders must be left with me; don’t use for Math unless you can do without it for a couple of days.
You may keep all four Units’ notes in your binder all year, or you may submit only one Unit in your binder each time. In that case, put each Unit’s notes away in a safe place as we start a new Unit., because at the end of the year you can submit a Course Notebook containing all four Units’ work for a major grade. This is an EASY grade, so keep your stuff! BritLitComp Unit One Notebook: Britain Before and After 1066 15 Point Major Grade due Moon’s Day, January 28 MUST be submitted NEATLY in a BINDER, “more or less” in this order
/10 pts: Syllabus: (Rule Britannia!) and the CLOZE (Rule Britannia!) /85 pts: Literary Unit ___/2 pts: Cover Sheet: “Britain Before 1066” (decorate or not as you wish) ___/2 pts: UPDATED Schedule of Assignments for Unit One ___/8 pts: COMPLETED CLOZE: “BritLit” ___/8 pts: COMPLETED CLOZE: Britain Before 1066 ___/20 pts: Beowulf Packet . Cotton MS; Beowulf in Saxon (Old English) . Excerpts from Beowulf (tr. Seamus Heaney) . All questions on Reading Guide COMPLETED ___/20 pts: Group Work Notes . Your Own Presentation – Preparation: Meditations on Beowulf . Completed Notes/Worksheets on all other Presentations – Strength Hero Leader Monster Ontology Gender Technology (1st Block Only) Choices (1st Block Only) ___/25 pts: Freewrites . “I Am ….”
. Wrestling With Ontology – response to Søren Kierkegaard . Analysis of analysis of “I Am….” – what did you learn from what you wrote? . True Lies – Is the story about Odin, Thor, and Trolls “true” (fiction/nonfiction)? . The Truth of Fiction – response to Aristotle, Poetics . Ragnarök: What would you do if knew you’d lose and die? . The Strongest Person You Know – Who, why, how? . Anomaly – Response to G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy . The Fight No Man Wants – how do gender questions influence fighting? . Here Be Dragons – what are dragons like, and why is this different for Beowulf? . Lofgeornost: Was Beowulf good for the Geats? /5 pts: THIS Unit Notebook Checklist (at front of notebook – checked off!) /100 pts: Notebook Grade
Make a Cover Sheet that reads: Unit One: The Legacy of 1066 Cultural Literacy E-Search/Freewrite
. Search for “Schrödinger’s Cat.” (Today’s Google logo features it!)
. Find a website that explains the term “Schrödinger’s Cat” so that you at least sort of understand it.
. Freewrite 100 words on your sort-of understanding of the reference.