Agendas
Last Two Daze:
Check out the Paradise Page
2019 Found Poems--post yours here
"Have you ever seen the Moon (Article and Movie)
Thurs-Fri 5/16-17
Work time on your sphere
Make a shared Doc--share it with group and me
Mon 5/13
Welcome back
Wrap-Purg
Tues w/Codrey
Paradise Plan
Purgatory Mini-Paper (1-2 Pages--start Friday, due after Tuesday after Service Week)
Discussion Questions on Purgatory
"Ask me about this" mini conferences
Thurs-Friday
Garden of Eden Audio
Purgatory 27 Audio (8min)
Purgatory 28 Audio (6min)
Purgatory 29 Audio (7min)
Finish Purgatory--we'll wrap it after Service Week.
Purgatory Mini-Paper (1-2 Pages--start Friday, due after Tuesday after Service Week)
Discussion Questions on Purgatory
Reflections
Greed/Gluttony/Lust
Paradise Plan
Mon-Tues 4/29
Content-Language Objective: Students will start up the mountain covering Pride, Envy and Anger. Students will reflect on each ledge and the relates sins and virtues.
Agenda
Reading Time
S2LSs
Tues:
Anger/Sloth/Greed
Through 21
Dawn Treader?
Fri 4/26
Content-Language Objective: Students will plan their lessons for their particular ledges.
Agenda
Reading Time
Good on Notes? Questions so far?
Anything else on Canto 9
Plan S2LS
Hey Seniors? Paper?
Thurs 4/25
Reading Time
2-8 Notes
Canto 9
Plan S2LS
Tues. 4/23
Content-Language Objective: Students will start their voyage up The Mountain of Purgatory together and plan our voyage. I will be the example for the first nine cantos
Agenda
Inferno Paper is it in?
Movie Reaction--Se7en Writing Questions
Student Led Lesson Supplements and the plan for Purgatorio.
I lead a lesson on 1-9
Canto One modeled
Break up Two-Eight
Seminar Canto Nine
Week of 4/16
Reading Schedule Tues: 4/22 Purgatorio Canto 10
Friday:
Reading Time: Start Continue Purgatory
Inferno Paper Peer Edit everyone
9-11 Papers Due 4/22
Seniors Papers Due 4/26
Sins Vs. Virtues
Start Se7en
Bring Permission Form
Inferno Wrap-up (Tues)
Inferno Paper Topics Do some Pre-writing (Tues)
Turn in Notes Thursday--Work Day (Seniors use your time) Study Center
Thurs "Daily Camera in the Driveway"
Plagiarism--avoid temptation and stick to the assignment.
Use quotes if you want
Cite any sources--if you use them
But you don't need to
Presentations are on the Podcast Page (For review and 8th Circle Notes)
Friday:
Inferno Paper Peer Edit everyone
9-11 Papers Due 4/22
Seniors Papers Due 4/26
Sins Vs. Virtues
Start Se7en
Bring Permission Form
Thurs 4/11
We can talk at lunch--b/c we'll break the silence during GSA.
Start with the 4th Ditch and see how far we can get
Reading Schedule Tues 2/16 Finish Inferno
Do Inferno Wrap-up for Tuesday
Next Week:
Inferno Paper Topics Do some Pre-writing
Inferno Paper Peer Edit Friday
Mon 4/8
Work time
First Three Pouches be ready after break
Notes on Cantos 18-29
Thursday:
Continue
Day of Silence Thurs--Ryan helping
Fri 4/5
Work time
Resources
Thurs. 4/4
Content-Language Objective: Students will look back on what we've covered and make a plan to tackle one of the longest sections of Inferno.
Agenda
Geyron Drawings Canto 17
Why so much about Fraud? Thoughts on organization?
Look forward:
Form groups, Draft for circles
Read, Plan, Work Time
Presentation Schedule
Turn in notes
Tues. 4/2
What should be in your notes on the Assignments Page
Check back in on yesterday & Subplans
Go through the 7th Circle
Draw Geyron Canto 17
Look forward
Tues-Fri 3-19
Content-Language Objective: Students will get their bearings--along with Dante--and begin to see what Dante must see.
Fri:
Finish 5-9 Notes
Questions
Observations
Cantos 10-12--w/me
10-11 Presentation on Podcast Page
Prep for 7th Circle
Mon after Spring Break 7th Circle work time
Thurs:
Pfouts gone until 9:30--Ryan will lead
CS Lewis on Hell
Get the reading
Listen to The Podcast
Answer The C.S. Lewis Questions
groups
Homework
Finish 10-12 & C.S. Lewis Questions
Tues:
Cantos 2-4
Homework
Cantos 5-9 on your own--take notes on sheet provided
My breakdown of 8-9 on Podcast Page (19 minutes)
Mon 3/18
Content-Language Objective: Students will get a preview of La Comedia and record their initial impressions. We will learn a little about Dante.
Agenda:
Info Sheet/Attendance
What did you write on your info sheet? What led you to choose this class?
About Dante 1300 written in Italian
How it’s organized
Gallagher facts--outline
Maps
Canto one in Italian
Different Translations
Musa, Dale, Longfellow, Birk
Compare Longfellow is this our Latin? Not Latin—Birk as equivalent
with partner
whole class
Record impressions on back of notes
Make our own study guide
Who was Dante--politics/Florence
Father of modern Italian—different dialects
My Dante Movie--image search on links page
Record your reaction
Last Day:
Movie--look back
Follow up reads
Final Thoughts--go'round
Mon-Tues 5/22-23
Finish Webpages
Found Poems as we go--post one on Thursday.
Go Through Moon, Mercury, Venus (Mon)
Tues: Sun, Planets, Stars (note collection)
Thurs: The Empyrean
Thurs-Fri 5/18-19
Friday: study center: fishbowl and 200 Chrome Books
Exhibition Day Do we want to do something?
Missing Work? What's Left
Lunch Help Friday
Make a Doc--check in on your progress
Webpage? Other Options?
Read Paradise Monday-Tuesday
Final Contemplation (Sayers Quote)
Sites for Help
Ready to go on Monday--after break
Mon-Tues 5/15-16
Content-Language Objective: Students will take one last look at Purgatorio and ready themselves to read Paradiso.
Agenda:
Stuff back/grades posted
Last cantos of Purgatory
Sheldon's Lecture on Paradiso
Webpage? Other Options?
Read Paradise Monday-Tuesday
Final Contemplation (Sayers Quote)
Week of 5/1--Wrapping up Purgatory
Mon:
TED Talks--listen to yours and the ones that interest you.
Finish Sloth--Ted Talk
Sloth Reflections: you should have Pride, Envy, Wrath and Sloth in your notes.
Check IC--Paper grades up to date--fix errors and notes grades for Tuesday.
Read "Why do I Fast?"--for Gluttony lesson.
The End of Purgatory:
Finish reading Purgatory
Whomie notes --listen to audio for 27, 28 & 29 (below) after reading them. Take extra notes on the sheet.
Garden of Eden Audio:
The rest of the week:
Tues: Finish lessons: Greed, Gluttony, Lust.
Thurs: (Lust) Final Cantos/World Café/Matching Quiz/My Paper
Friday: East Lab One Page Paper Challenge
Post Service Week: wrap Purgatory & begin Paradise Project
Fri 4/28
Content-Language Objective: Students will continue climbing Purgatorio through teaching each other, discussion, looking at the text again and reflections.
Agenda:
TED Talks? Pride and Envy
Envy Notes? Something for each level--a reflection record of our discussions and your thoughts
Dante's creativity, geography, organization and variety
How's it going? Purgatory as core of it for us.
Anger, Sloth, Greed today
Gluttony, Lust Monday ("Why do I Fast")
Still finish reading Purgatory for Monday
Next week--wrap it up--paper
Inferno Paper revisions
Monday: Finish--Sloth & move on...
Thurs 4/27
More on Pride--pfrom Pfouts
anecdotes
Canto 12
Models/stories of humility
CS Lewis on Purgatory
Envy, Anger, Sloth, Greed
Gluttony, Lust Friday? Monday?
Reading Schedule
Friday 4/28 Canto 28
Gluttony/Lust
Monday 5/1: Finish Purgatory
Tues 4/25
Planning time for lesson
Read
Pride and Envy after break
Read
Home work for Thursday 4/27: Read to Canto 22
Anger/Sloth/Avarice & Prodigality teach on Thursday
Thurs: in class CS Lewis on Purgatory
Monday:
Day of Silence explained
Se7en
Seven Questions: replay the scenes 1:28:15 & 1:47
Any more writing?
Discuss
Justify watching--modern context
Put in your notes
Talk Sins vs Virtues
S2LS prep & goals/work time/when to start on Tues?
April Tues-Fri 18-21
Finish 1-9 my model S2LS
Make sure you've read and annotated Canto 9
Purgatory Outline--get it check it out.
S2LS Planning
Inferno work--notes, paper--deadline Friday
Ted Talks--whole show 50 min, each show 10 min
Commentary, read your section
Start Se7en--finish Friday (Day of Silence)
Homework:
Have your section read--whatever ledge you've been assigned
Read your Commentary
Listen to your Ted Talk
Make a plan with your S2LS group around your ledge in Purgatory
What will you bring on Monday?
Keep up with Reading Schedule
We will talk on Monday. For now write on the questions. Read the handout on virtue too. Consider the last question. Bring all this on Monday.
Mon-Thurs 4/10-13:
Content-Language Objective: Students will begin wrap up the Inferno by focusing on their papers. They will begin Purgatorio and get a look ahead.
Agenda:
Thurs:
Read/Write/Work time 30 min
My S2LS on Cantos 1-8--Get notes Sheet
groups: 1-5 today
6-9 Tuesday
Are your notes in order? Check Assignments Page.
Tues
Five Minute Dante
Stuff Back/Grades
Gallagher Final Commentary
Use Web--Links Page
use your notes too
Peer Edit on Thursday
let's share now and figure out how it will go
A Look Ahead:
Reading Schedule:
Read to at least Purgatory 6 by Thursday 4/13
Peer edit Papers
My S2LS
Read to at least Purgatory 10 by Tuesday 4/18
Tuesday 4/18:
Inferno Papers Due
Get a Ledge to focus on
read your ledge but keep reading on your own
Thurs 4/20: Work on S2LS/Start Se7en
Friday: Finish Movie/ Writing Questions (Day of Silence)
Read to Purgatory 28 by Monday 4/24
Two full weeks before service--Ledge by Ledge your lessons
Garden of Eden
Paradise
Thurs-Fri 4/6-7
Content-Language Objective: Students will begin wrapping up the Inferno through reading, discussion and writing.
Agenda:
Stressweek?
Finish Inferno for Thursday 4/6
Any more 8th Circle
Ninth and Inferno Wrap-up
Gallagher final commentary
Mon-Tues April 4/3-4
Finish Inferno for Thursday 4/6
Stress Week: Laughter
Discuss some of your q's this week
Presentation
(Rehearse--judge with rubric, adjust, your questions.)
(Post eighth: wrap, writing process, paper, Se7en) Permission Slip
Presentation Check-in
The continuum of presenting Informal guidelines vs Rubric
goals & guidelines
know a ton--give us the most interesting--we'll ask questions
Be ready to present Monday--
Read to Canto 30 by Tues 4/4
Finish Inferno for Thursday 4/6
Thurs-Fri 3/23-24
Content-Language Objective: Students will begin their work on the Eighth Circle through reading, discussing and planning. They will consider how to most effectively present/teach their information.
Agenda:
Pouches: 8th Circle:
Read your Cantos for the 8th Circle
Get Commentary
Generating Questions (Fri?)
Get presentations ready
Fri 3/23 Read to Inferno 24. Start S2LS Presentations Friday? For sure after break.
Did You Turn in Your Notes:
Syllabus
Maps
Outline from Joseph Gallagher
Canto One Notes
First impressions
Notes on Canto 2-4 (on generic notes sheet)_
Cantos 5-9 Notes (my handout)
10-11 Annotations from Pfouts
Seventh Circle Jigsaw Sheet
12-16 Notes Everyone Created
Canto 17 Summary and Drawing
Mon-Tues 3/20-21
Content-Language Objective: Students will explore the seventh circle through discussion and note taking.
Agenda:
Parodies
12-16 notes together. Expert groups get criticism.
Canto 17 Geyron
CS Lewis answers/discussion
Go to The C.S. Lewis Questions
Pouches 8th Circle Tuesday
Thurs-Fri 3/16-17
Content-Language Objective: Students will continue getting their bearings in the poem and explore podcasts and extras I've created.
Agenda:
5-9 Notes Done?
10-11 Annotations (I gave them to you)
10-11 Presentation (Do together)
CS Lewis on Hell--do this if you're caught up/homework if you need to read
How useful?
Read to 17 by Friday break--for sure by Monday.
Monday 12-16 notes together. Expert groups get criticism. Parodies. Generating Questions
Homework:
Check the Assignments Page and get your notes in order for collection on Tuesday
Make sure you've read to at least Inferno 17
CS Lewis on Podcast Page.
Tues 3/14
Content-Language Objective: Students will get organized with the class and get clarity on the first few cantos.
Agenda:
Stuff Back how organize yourself
Notes/Discussion on 2-4
Limbo
CS Lewis on Hell
Read to 10 for Thursday
Reading Schedule
Mon 3/13
Content-Language Objective: Students will get a preview of La Comedia and record their initial impressions. We will learn a little about Dante.
Agenda:
Info Sheet/Attendance
What did you write on your info sheet? What led you to choose this class?
About Dante--1300--written in Italian (not Latin)
How it’s organized
Gallagher facts--outline
Maps
Canto one in Italian. Listen to the Listen to the Italian.
Different Translations
Musa, Dale, Longfellow, Birk
Compare Longfellow is this our Latin? Not Latin—Birk as equivalent
Let's take notes on Canto 1
with partner
whole class
Make our own study guide
Who was Dante? Politics/Florence
Father of modern Italian—different dialects
My Dante Movie
Record your reaction
Read to Cantos 2,3,4 for Tuesday.
Tues: 2-4 discuss, read to 10 for Thursday
Last Week:
Grades? Notes?
Purgatory Papers
Website
Fri 5/22
Agenda:
Grades? Notes?
Purgatory Papers--proofread and turn in.
What will we do with the website?
Check out Final P ideas
Thurs 5/21
Agenda:
Grades? Notes?
Purgatory Papers Tomorrow
Empyrean
Found Poems
Reactions
Reread Canto One
Fri: What to add to the webpage?
Mon-Tues 5/18-19
Content-Language Objective: Students will decide how to dive into Paradiso and get the deepest read they possibly can. We will also wrap up Purgatorio.
Purgatory Paper Pre-writing
Lecture on Paradiso
Discuss
Look at the Website
What will we add?
Pick a sphere--how should we do it this year?
Exhibition Day Room?
World Cafe Questions
Half Paper/Paradise groupings
Turn in Notes if you didn't before Service Week.
Tues: first half work on papers and Paradiso Notes (pre Empyrean)
Tues-Fri 5/5-5/8
Content-Language Objective: Students will lead us through the rest of Purgatory. Pfouts will get us through the end.
Agenda:
Grades? Notes in today.
Wrap up the ledges
Paper
pfouts' college paper
Pre-writing--paper topics page
You got one piece of paper
Friday:
Garden of Eden (Friday)
jigsaw 28-31
Paper Pre-writing
Lecture on Paradiso Read over Service Week
If you intend to read every word, start Paradiso too?
Pick a sphere--how should we do it this year?
Monday after Service: World Cafe questions Half Paper/Paradise groupings
Mon 5/4
Content-Language Objective: Students will lead us through the rest of Purgatory.
Agenda:
Inferno Papers back
thanks for your patience
reflections on reading them
Se7en quotes
Garden of Eden tomorrow
Thurs-5/1 4/30-5/1
Content-Language Objective: Students will teach their sections of Purgatory.
Agenda:
S2LSs
Start our ascent
Thurs: get to 22?
Fri: get to 28
Ted talks?
Mon 4/27
Content-Language Objective: Students will get a demonstration of how to prepare to teach their sections of Purgatorio.
Agenda:
Review my lessons on Cantos 1-9
Notes
Outline
Discussion
Seminar
Matching questions on Allegory
Supplemental Texts
S2LS work time
Chromebooks
New reading schedule
Listen to the Ted Radio hour show--for sure your section
Watch the Ted Talk related to your ledge
Friday 4/24
Content-Language Objective: Students will get a demonstration of how to prepare to teach their sections of Purgatorio.
Agenda:
Finish 2-8 (we left off at 5?)
Seminar Canto 9
S2LS work time
New reading schedule
Listen to the Ted Radio hour show--for sure your section
Watch the Ted Talk related to your ledge
Week of 4/21
Tuesday:
Paper Due--Proofread/turn it in.
S2LS Registration
Movie Reaction--Se7en Writing Questions
Finish Movie (1:50:30)
Pfouts demonstrates S2LS Thurs/Fri
Read Mark up Canto 9 for Thursday
Week of 4/13
Content-Language Objective: Students will from wrap up Inferno and transition to Purgatorio through discussion, writing and watching a movie.
Agenda:
Inferno Paper
Pre-writing and writing process
Monday:
2nd half West Lab--Paper Work Time
Tuesday:
1st half West Lab--Paper Work Time/Peer Edit
Schedule check
Grades Posted
2nd half Start Se7en
Thursday: Day of Silence. Finish Se7en
Find out More: dayofsilence.org
Turn in Papers for extra feedback?
Finish paper--turn in today or Tues.
Start Purgatorio
Get reading schedule
Read to Purg. 5 by Tuesday
To 10 by next Thursday
Finish the Movie
Tuesday:
Finish Movie (1:50:30)
Movie Reaction
Paper Due
Pfouts demonstrates S2LS Cantos 1-4
Friday 4/10
Content-Language Objective: Students will wrap up Inferno through notes and discussion.
Agenda:
C.S. Lewis "Hell"
Blake: 8th Pouch
Gallagher Notes
Inferno Paper
Pre-writing and writing process
Schedule check
Monday:
2nd half West Lab--Paper Work Time
Tuesday:
1st half West Lab--Paper Work Time
2nd half Start Se7en
Thursday: Day of Silence
Tues-Thurs
Stress Week?
Go over the Rubric
Pouches Presentations
Notes
Fri: Blake (8th)
Inferno Wrap-up
CS Lewis
Monday 4/6
Content-Language Objective: Students will get ready for their Pouches Presentations.
Agenda:
Mon: Pouches Prep/Work time
Dante on-line
Homework:
CS Lewis on Hell
Read Handout
Check out podcast (on Rants Page)
Answer Questions on the reading
Fri 4/3
Content-Language Objective: Students will work in groups--getting away from me a little--and see the value--and potential drawbacks--of literary criticism.
Agenda:
Geryon Drawing
Pouches intro--choose groups?
read yours over the weekend?
Mon: Pouches Prep/Work time
Dante on-line
Homework:
Your Cantos for 8th Circle
CS Lewis on Hell
Read Handout
Check out podcast (on Rants Page)
Answer Questions on the reading
Tues-Thurs 3/31-4/2:
Content-Language Objective: Students will continue their descent through questions, discussion--whole class and small group. They will get their notes together to turn in Friday.
Agenda:
Organize Notes
My 10-11
Fri:
Geryon Drawing
Pouches
Mon: Pouches Prep
Fri 2/20
Content-Language Objective: Students will dive in and start to see Inferno for themselves through questions, discussion and notes.
Agenda:
Reading time
Info Sheet/First Impressions/Questions in the Cup
Outline and Maps
Two-four Notes
number off by table
pairs, groups, class
5-9 Notes on Monday--sub day
get clarity
change bookmark--get to nine
Info Sheet
What do you know? What words come to mind?