Here's the link for the Memoir Assessment questions.
NOTE: Great Ideas this is not for you!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's the link for the Memoir Assessment questions. 1. How do you feel you contributed to the class community in whole class discussions, small group discussions, etc.? Own how you could have done more or could have been different. How did you NOT contribute and/or how did you detract from the experience for others in the community this week? Be specific.
2. You set a goal last week for yourself. How’d that go? 3. How is writing in the notebook going for you – in class and out? 4. How has your thinking expanded, shifted or changed due to class (readings, classmates, videos, etc.) this week? 5. Relook at your answers to 1-4. Look at the grade descriptions below and give yourself a participation grade for the week. Explain your answer. A = consistently exemplary participation B = usually, but not always, exemplary participation C = acceptable but not noteworthy participation F = sometimes unacceptable participation Here is a link to the document your group will need to complete the in-class assignment for today and Monday. Be prepared to present FIRST thing Monday.
And here are the topics you should be ready to address when we speak: How did you use workshop time? How did you contribute to small group/whole class discussions? One thing you did well this week? One goal you have for next week? Choose and explain your choice for a grade! A = consistently exemplary participation B = usually, but not always, exemplary participation C = acceptable but not noteworthy participation F = sometimes unacceptable participation Here's the link to the website with the creativity test we took in class. Check it out:
http://99u.com/articles/7160/test-your-creativity-5-classic-creative-challenges 1. How do you feel you contributed to the class community in whole class discussions, small group discussions, etc.?
2. Own how you could have done more or could have been different. How did you NOT contribute and/or how did you detract from the experience for others in the community this week? 3. We’ve talked about class discussion this week. What’s one strategy you think would improve whole-class discussions? Think about getting everyone’s voice heard, avoiding boredom, covering all the material? 4. How has your thinking expanded, shifted or changed due to class (readings, classmates, videos, etc.) this week? 5. How much have you embraced the requirement of the notebook? Think in terms of in-class time but also outside of class? Are you writing enough to feel like you are saying what you want to say? Is it easy? Frustrating? 6. What is one topic from our readings or discussions this week that you feel like you need to think about more/read more about to feel more confident in your opinions? Explain your choice. 7. Relook at your answers to 1-5. Look at the grade descriptions below and give yourself a participation grade for the week.Explain your answer. A = consistently exemplary participation B = usually, but not always, exemplary participation C = acceptable but not noteworthy participation F = sometimes unacceptable participation HEre is the PP with the explanation of the written response to the apology due friday 9/5.Welcome to Great Ideas!Answer the following questions in an email to [email protected]
1. Which unit/topic was your favorite this semester? Explain your answer. Please discuss activities, readings, discussions, assignments you particularly enjoyed. 2. Which unit/topic was your least favorite this semester? Explain your answer. Please discuss activities, readings, discussions, assignments you particularly disliked. 3. What information, ideas, knowledge, skills, habits, etc. will you take away from being in the class? 4. In what ways was this class similar to what you had heard about it from students who took it in previous years and/or last semester? How was it different? 5. How is my version of the class different than Ms. Cardinale’s (as far as you know)? 6. What advice do you have for me as I think about the class moving forward? Think specifically about the class website, the classroom set-up, class policies/procedures, etc. 7. Final thoughts or advice that doesn't fit somewhere else? Here is the Journal Reflection assignment description and rubric if you lose the one I've provided you.
1. 1/8: Who needs a little Socrates in their life? Whose beliefs and values need to be called into question? 2. 1/9: What value is there in philosophy (asking why, critically examining ideas of others, questioning beliefs/values, investigating cause and effects)? What might it add to your life? Based on what we read in Apology, how would Plato answer that question? Do you agree with him? 3. 1/10: If Plato and David Foster Wallace texted each other about thinking/how to live life/value of philosophy, how would that conversation go? 4. 1/13: Why do people live in community beyond familial ties? Which is better – living in community or living in solitude? 5. 1/15: What factors about a human being determine his/her likelihood to be successful in a community? Why are poor people poor and rich people rich? 6. 1/21: “All I'm saying is simply this, that all life is interrelated, that somehow we're caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. What is justice? Describe a just community. Describe a just person. 7. 1/27: If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. – Henry David Thoreau “Resistance to Civil Government” Pull out your copy of the (excerpts from the) essay. What challenges you? Which ideas do you embrace? Which ideas do you reject? What do you wonder about? What are you reminded of? 8. 1/30: What do you personally believe to be true about human nature? 9. 2/5: I showed you ten scenarios of potential cheating in high schools. I asked you to think about what you would do and what the right thing to do is in each scenario? 10. 2/13: Look back at what you wrote on 2/5. Evaluate yourself using Kantian and Utilitarian ethics. How does that evaluation make you feel? 11. 2/25: Choose one statement from Jay Smooth’s TED talk. What challenges you? What do you embrace and/or reject? Why? 12. 2/26: Do you care where your food comes from in terms of growers, processors, distributors, etc.? Why or why not? 13. 3/3: What is the purpose of education (formal or otherwise)? What is the purpose of teachers? How do people best learn? 14. 3/5: Fill in the blank. In order to be successful today everyone should know ______. Defend your choice. 15. 3/7: We watched a video of a high schooler expressing his problem with Common Core to his school board, and then I asked: What’s your problem with education? Who would you address your problem to? 16. 3/17: Say something philosophical about your spring break. 17. 3/25: What’s Plato saying with the Allegory of the Cave. Read Hedges thoughts on the Allegory. Do you agree with his interpretation of it? 18. 3/26: We looked at a slide show of images (Van Gogh’s was one of them). What are you seeing? How does what you are seeing change as I change the slides? 19. 3/27: You brought an object/image you thought was worth seeing. What do you hope people will see when they look at your piece? 20. 3/28: Think about a movie/book/play/TV show/game that you love/hate because of the plot. What is so great/awful about the plot? 21. 4/4: What do you think of Duchamp’s Fountain? 22. 4/7: What do you know about street art? 23. 4/14: Describe the kinds of/features of music you like. 24. 4/21: What makes a person beautiful? 25. 4/23: Think about all the pictures you’d never bring to the class to show. What’s wrong with those pictures? |
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