Day 38: 28 February 2012

1. Return yesterday's work
2. Finish the PM slides
3. Brief Quiz on themes and motifs in the book

• avoid bad/good as theme

4. Notes on the Hitler's justification for genocide

• Darwin's survival of the fittest; the progress of evolution
• Neitzsche's superman

5. Google earth of Oswiecem, Poland
6. Read the first section of Night

Gave out Section 1-2 Questions

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B_CqpmMQoSLBS2RsX1NNcnVTZGFRVzVGOG44Wlc0QQ

Day 37: 27 Feburary 2012

1. 2 sentences each with the major patterns
2. 150 word journal about a kids' book you remember
3. Reminder of indoctrination
4. Visited USHMM's site:
http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/exhibit.html#/themes/indoctrinating-youth/
5. Discussed theme and motif in The Poisonous Mushroom an antisemetic kids' book.

• went through page 10

Day 36: 24 February 2012

1. List 6 Quiz

2. List 7 Words and Explanations

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/file/d/0B_CqpmMQoSLBR3FIajc0M1pSb3U0WDkxMC0xeXI4dw/edit

3. Discussed the Economics of hyper-inflation and Image in Germany

• Mentioned Aryanism
• Watched the following:

http://resources.ushmm.org/film/display/detail.php?file_num=3828


4. Write a 150 word response to how the video portrayed the Aryan image

List and Journal are due at the end of the period.

Day 35: 23 February 2012

Roots Quiz tomorrow.

1. Write a paragraph about the director's choices in the Of Mice and Men movie.

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/file/d/0B_CqpmMQoSLBWVNtSHF4SmRSbWF6MkRXZ1M5QUpCUQ/edit

2. Notes on conditioning

• very basic Pavlov, Watson and Skinner

3. Notes on Germany Pre- and Post- WWI

Day 34: 22 February 2012

Words and Explanations are due for List 6.

Watch Of Mice and Men

• continued attention to cinematography and artistic license.

Day 33: 21 February 2012

1. Discuss Artistic License
2. Brief journal on how you would have cast and shot the movie for Of Mice and Men
3. Watched a section of the Gary Sinese version

• right-to-left alignments
• colors
• vertical lines
• inside=danger
• outside=safety

Day 32: 17 February 2012

1. List 5 quiz
2. List 6

• word and explanation for each

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B_CqpmMQoSLBZWIzZGQ5NGEtNjY4MC00MzY0LTgyYmUtOGZmYzU0YThlMmI0

3. Final Draft of the essay is due

Rubric:

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B_CqpmMQoSLBNzE3YzU5YTAtZDRlMC00Mjc3LWFhYTItNWE5MzU2YWNjYzI5

Student may revise essay for full credit.

Day 31: 16 February 2012

Draft  Of Mice and Men paper.

Day 30: 15 February 2012

1. Journal on why MM ended the way that it did.
2. Notes on a number of the valid possible interpretations.
3. Take a quick scan over the book.
4. Time to prepare the essay.

• Build your points
• don't talk about everything in the book.

Day 29: 14 February 2012

1. A quick look at how subtle ads can get.

http://www.bhatnaturally.com/advertising/print-ads-from-ad-blogs/

2. Finish the Genesis-Fall Parallel
3. Find and make explanation for the following with woven text.

• Lennie takes her guilt onto himself. Compare the images of Curley's wife in Chapters 2 (pg 31) and 5(92-3).
• Pick one way that Genesis and Of Mice and Men compare and talk about why it is important.
• Find each of the characters' reactions to finding the body and explain what it means about him.

4. Prep Chapter 6
5. Read Chapter 6

Day 28: 13 February 2012

1. 5 Observations and 2 conclusions for the following pic

• Pay careful attention to the lines and the focal point.

2. Taught the term "target demographic."
3. Complete the rhetorical triangle for the following ad. Pay attention to the adjustment of the lines.

4. Prep Chapter 5  in Of Mice and Men
5. Notes/Thoughts on Chapter 5:

• Discussed Chapter 5 as an allegory for the fall of man.
• Lennie is a kind of Eve and Curley's Wife is a sort of serpent.
• Man had almost everything and might have had everything in time, but he disobeyed and lost the majority of it.
• Curley's wife tries to use Lennie in much the same way that George uses Slim in Chapter 3 to disasterous effects.
• L&CW represent the lower sense-oriented aspects of man while George and Slim represent the higher nature of man.

6. Began the chart paralleling The Fall in Genesis:

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B_CqpmMQoSLBNTlkMjQ0MDgtZTg4Mi00MDUyLTgzOGItOTI4YWU1Nzc2ZGRj

Day 27: 10 February 2012

1. List 4 quiz
2. Touched up the notes on chapter 4 in Of Mice and Men
3. Cognates and explanation as well as deconstructions for list 5

• due at the end of the period.

List 5:

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B_CqpmMQoSLBYjg3NjkxYTEtOWI2ZS00Y2U5LTgzM2ItZTczYWUyZGZhY2Qy

Day 26: 09 February 2012

1. Three Pictures:

Make 10 observations about each of these pictures.

2. Notes on the Margins

• discussed marginalized populations and situations where a person might be marginalized
• there is the majority--the "normal"--and the people that are forced to the edges as "abnormal"
• Might be according to race, economics, disability, sexuality, ideology, religion or some other "division"

3. Write a 1/2 page journal on a time that you have been or have seen someone forced to the margins.May also write about when being in the margins is a better thing or is enlightening.
4. Prep Chapter 4

• Steinbeck is legitimizing the margins on the ranch by taking a break in the story and giving the betas some time to be human.
• All the people in Chapter 4 are marginalized somehow or another.

5. Time to read Chapter 4
6. Brief Notes on 4:

• Each of the characters is marginalized through no fault of his (or her) own. In a sense, Curley's Wife's beauty is the same as Crooks' being black is the same as Lennie's having a mental disability.
• Steinbeck allows them to be 3-D and avoids stereotyping them
• By allowing Crooks to have flaws, Steinbeck gives him humanity--he is real and not simply the token.

Day 25: 08 February 2012

1. 10 Minutes to read and review Chapter 3
2. Closed book quiz
3. Sentence Combination Exercise

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B_CqpmMQoSLBOTg5MTYyNDktZDRmOS00MjgzLTgzZWEtNmU3MTNlNTA1NDNi&hl=en_US

Example:

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B_CqpmMQoSLBMWY3NTQ1YjItMWUyMi00Nzg5LTgzZjEtY2ZmY2E2YTMwZjE3&hl=en_US

4. Notes on the book so far.
5. Begin work on the MM Chart from yesterday's post.

Day 24: 07 February 2012

1. Write 4 sentences with the following patterns. Use different conjunctions.

• C;C
• C;ca,C
• C,ccC

(cc)Coordinating: FANBOYS

(sc)Subordinating: Because, since, when, after, even though, though, although

(ca)Conjunctive adverbs: However, moreover, therefore, whereas

2. Combine the following sentences into 1.

• They went to the ranch.
• They talked to the boss.
• They ate dinner.
• They went to bed early.

3. Time to read Chapter 3 in Of Mice and Men (15 minutes)

4. Possible ways to combine the sentence: Mini-lesson on parallelism

• They went to dinner, talked to the boss, ate dinner and went to bed early.
• After they went to the ranch and talked to the boss, they ate dinner and went to bed early.

5. More time to read (10 minutes)

5. Notes on theme and motif

• Theme is an idea that shows up throughout a work and bleeds over into other books.
• Of Mice and Men presents the theme of innocence.
• A motif is a "smaller" idea or symbol that supports the theme.
• Small animals are a motif in Of Mice and Men because they represent Lennie's innocence.

6. Chart on Of Mice and Men

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B_CqpmMQoSLBYTExYmEwYzctYmNiMC00YzY5LWI4YjEtYWI1YWFkMDQ0MWNi&hl=en_US

Day 23: 06 February 2012

1. Three pictures from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

• Family Picture:

• Allie Mae Burroughs:

• Floyd and Lucille Burroughs

Make 10 quality observations for each and then draw 3 conclusions.

2. 20 Minutes to finish reading Chapter 2 in Of Mice and Men
3. Assignment/Quiz

Track Evidence of Hope and Danger in Chapters 1&2

• 2 quotes for each in each chapter (total of 4 per chapter)
• Explanations for all the quotes.

For Example:

Example for Danger:

Text: “Well, nex’ time you answer when you’re spoke to” (26).

Explanation: Curley is trying to pick a fight with Lennie simply as a result of Lennie’s size. Lennie didn’t provoke him.

Day 22: 03 February 2012

1. Time to study roots 3
2. Roots 3 Quiz
3. Stump the Chump
4. Roots 4 Cognates and explanations

https://docs.google.com/a/oconeeschools.org/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B_CqpmMQoSLBYjM2MDBjMjAtMGQzMi00N2NhLTg5ZWItOWU3MTc1NjU3ZWFh&hl=en_US

5. Read some of Chapter 2

Day 21: 02 February 2012

1. Time to read and take notes on Chapter 1
2. Of Mice and Men Chapter 1 Quiz

• Deconstructions 3 as the bonus

3. Notes on the Chapter 1

4. Groupwork:

• find 5 pieces of text that decsribe George as a teacher
• find 5 pieces which discuss Lennie in terms of an animal