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4-01
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On the
Road and Modernism: What Makes Life Worth
Living? Discuss what it is like living in a
world that you feel makes no sense; Evaluate how the
author masks and deals with his pain; Examine the
text's raw honesty in dealing with life; Answer the
question what makes life worth living both for the
author and students; read and discuss selected
segments of the novel; students create a fictional
journal of a road trip that they take, discussing
what the see, feel, experience, why they went,
people they meet, and how they changed or grew from
the experience |
4-17 |
Creating SHS
Student Blog Accounts; Customize |
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4-02
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On the
Road and Modernism: What Makes Life Worth
Living? Discuss what it is like living in a
world that you feel makes no sense; Evaluate how the
author masks and deals with his pain; Examine the
text's raw honesty in dealing with life; work on
fictional journal |
4-18 |
Mr.
McMahon's Last Day Student Teaching |
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4-03
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Modernism
and The Things They Carried: What is Truth
(Block Lesson: PSSA Testing Modified Schedule);
Discuss what students consider truth, whether they
value truth; dicide it embellishment is still truth;
Reading Apprenticeship: Read and analyze
various selections from Tim O'Brian's The Things
They Carried; Assessment: Five-Paragraph Essay
comparing/contrasting how Kerouac and O'Brian
discuss truth and honesty in their works |
4-19 |
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| 4-04 |
Modernism and The Things They Carried:
What is Truth (Block Lesson: PSSA Testing
Modified Schedule); Discuss what students
consider truth, whether they value truth; dicide
it embellishment is still truth; Reading
Apprenticeship: Read and analyze various
selections from Tim O'Brian's The Things They
Carried; Assessment: Five-Paragraph Essay
comparing/contrasting how Kerouac and O'Brian
discuss truth and honesty in their works
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4-20 |
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| 4-05 |
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4-21 |
Check Blogs
and PageFlakes / NetVibes Ginger Accounts for Social
Networking and Academic Research; Reading
Apprenticeship: Using RSS as Student Portal for
Reading; Using Student Blogs for Writing;
Demonstrate Two Ways to Import Blog Feeds into
PageFlakes or NetVibes Ginger; Import student blogs
and RJS website into Pageflakes or NetVibes (use
Ginger version); Take Climate Survey |
| 4-06 |
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4-22 |
Communication Tools of Social Networking:
Twitter and
Twittearth; Import
Twitter and Skype Feeds; First Blog
Post: Discuss your earliest memory; why do you
remember it; was it authentic? What happens when you
embellish memory? What makes memory authentic? |
| 4-07 |
What is
Truth? An Introduction to Postmodernism and
the VietNam War; The Draft Lesson |
4-23 |
The Best
Years of Our Lives--Or Were They? The
Greatest Generation--What is the Cost of
Greatness? Analyze and discuss the difference
between duty and responsibility? Discuss the
price of sacrifice? Is duty dead? |
| 4-08 |
What is
Truth? An Introduction to Postmodernism and
the VietNam War; The Draft Lesson; Challenge ideas
of truth; Define Fiction; Determine where the line
between truth and fiction is solid v.
blurred; Empathize with people affected by the
VietNam War |
4-24 |
Import feeds for NonFiction Unit: Duty;
one news feed in US and one feed from abroad;
one video feed, one image feed; RSS feed (PageFlakes
or NetVibes Ginger evaluated for total feeds) and
First Blog assessment today!! |
| 4-09 |
What is
Truth? An Introduction to Postmodernism
and the VietNam War; The Draft Lesson; Challenge
ideas of truth; Define Fiction; Determine where
the line between truth and fiction is solid
v. blurred; Empathize with people affected
by the VietNam War; Analyze the novel to see if
it is real or not
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4-25 |
SCHOOL HOLIDAY |
| 4-10 |
What is
Truth? An Introduction to Postmodernism
and the VietNam War; The Draft Lesson; Challenge
ideas of truth; Define Fiction; Determine where
the line between truth and fiction is solid
v. blurred; Empathize with people affected
by the VietNam War; Washington, DC Trip
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4-26 |
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| 4-11 |
Washington, DC Trip |
4-27 |
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| 4-12 |
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4-28 |
Import 4
additional websites re: WW II [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_World_War_II_in_Europe;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=na5ZMkUO5oQ;
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/]
and Paul Tibbets [http://www.acepilots.com/usaaf_tibbets.html;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tibbets;
http://www.theenolagay.com/man.html;
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhZERU58RSI] |
| 4-13 |
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4-29 |
Tagging Blog on Earliest
Childhood Memory; complete/edit blogs. |
| 4-14 |
Introduction
to
RSS Feed in Plain English by The Common Craft
Show;
Kinds of Feeds; Second Generation Feeds:
Pageflakes
and NetVibes
Ginger as Student Portals; Think Before You
Post: Your New Permanent Record
Video |
4-30 |
Read and discuss Duty: A
Father, A Son, and the Man Who Won the War, pp.
1-26; PSSA: Science; Period 1 Cancelled |
| 4-15 |
(Personal
Half Day); Mr. McMahon worked on make up on
Julius Caesar (quizzes, tests, class/homework,
notes) |
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| 4-16 |
Creating a
PageFlakes or NetVibes Ginger Account as Student
Portal; Customize |
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