Agendas
Thurs 3/14:
Projects--two different groups
11:20 Wrap-up/Final Questions for me
11:35 Final Thought Go 'Round
IC Check/Revision Time--stay after?
Tues 3/12
Mia--Whiteness
Luka & Angus
Anyone on Jonah?
Tomorrow: Presentations/Wrap-up/Final Questions & Thoughts
Fri 3/8
World Cafe--my Q's--yours
Wed 3/6
Ishmael as Narrator/Survivor
Your questions from logs
Ahab--Starbuck
Ahab-Fedallah--do they know what's happening?
Saying Something as a concept
Presentations Ongoing project Activities up to 88
What should be in your log on Assignments Page
Coming:
Wednesday:
110 Minutes
72 to listen
35 to talk
Tues 2/26
Jigsaw 124-128 Q's and Comments
"The Symphony"--Listen
Fri 2/22
Jigsaw 124-128
number off 1-5
expert groups all take notes on one chapter
number off 1-4
Relocate get notes from each chapter's expert(s)
Reading time if available
Read to 132 for Tues. We will listen to the rest next week.
Week of 2/19
Content/Language Objectives: Students will look into reading the text more--through the characters take.
T 2/19 Ch. 115 (Listen to “The Bachelor”)
W 2/20 Ch.119
Last Lessons, Projects, Presentations
Start with Fedallah and Ahab
Quadrant--Why is it important?
(Listen to “The Candles”)
Madlib Get to the Musket? (Listen)
2/20 Log Entry
React to Candles
WSSD? (What Should Starbuck Do?) What are the pro/cons/optionsr/ealities
F 2/22 Adjust
Jigsaw 124-128
number off 1-5
expert groups all take notes on one chapter
number off 1-4
Relocate get notes from each chapter's expert(s)
Reading time if available
Read to 132 for Tues. We will listen to the rest next week.
Tues-Thurs 2/12-14
Content/Language Objectives: Students will look into reading the text more--through the characters take. We will consider author's intention vs. reader interpretation. Students will follow and interest of their choosing.
Wed 2/13
What should be in You log on Assignments Page
Present after Break
Tues:
"Doubloon" Discussion
Doubloon Log Entry:
General Reaction and Questions You have
Who makes the most sense?
What is Melville up to?
Fri 2/8:
Listen to 93
Five minute Moby-Dick?
Presentations Ongoing project Activities up to 88
Read to 100 for Tues. 2/12
Wed 2/6
Dana Carvey--I understand my dilemma
Listen to 78?
82-86 on Podcasts Page (optional)
Listen to "The Grand Armada" Chapter 87
Read to 93 for Fri.
What should be in Ship's Logs
First impressions (a couple of paragraphs)
Spouter Inn Drawing
4-8 Notes Jigsaw Notes
1/16 Log Entry
Quarterdeck Reaction (1/18)
Monkey Rope Drawing (2/1)
73 Log Entry (2/5)
Tues 2/5
Put a caption on Monkey Rope Drawing
Ch73 Log
Stubb and Flask--so where are you with their conversation?
If you were in the conversation what would you say?
Who/what is Fedallah?
What's the Ahab/Fedallah relationship?
What's taking shape in terms of interpretation?
Chapter 73 Discussion
-write Ch. 73 Log Entry
-small groups
-large group
Listen to 81? (25 minutes)
Turn in Logs
Read to 87 for Wednesday
Read to Chapter 71 for Fri 2/1 (We'll listen to it on Friday)
Friday 2/1
Biblical interaction between Ahab and Elijah
Draw Opening scene of Chapter 72
Listen to 73 together--analyze as we go? (Podcasts Page)
Preview upcoming--Twiggy Chapters on Podcast Page (74- 80 & 82-86)
Read to for Tues 81 (Also on Podcast Page)
Wed 1/30
A related news story
For Wed 1/30 to Ch 65
Podcasts Page--Listen to first four audio
Blue Note Questions--look in your notes/log--comments and also things you want to know
Melville/Ishmael
Finish 42-62 Notes
What do we know about Ahab?
Gabbing with Mogab
What should be in Ship's Logs
First impressions (a couple of paragraphs)
Spouter Inn Drawing
4-8 Notes Jigsaw Notes
1/16 Log Entry
Quarterdeck Reaction (1/18)
Monkey Rope Drawing
73 Log Entry (2/5)
Fri-Tues 1/25-29
Have you looked at what others wrote? Defining the whale
Activities 26-42 (Talk about them in groups)
Up to Chapter 54
Some preview and warnings necessary
watch out for 55-57
For Tues
Read to 58--Focus on Town-Ho (Ch 54)
42-62 Notes (we'll go up to 52-58 together on Tues)
Listen to my podcast on 47-51 on the Podcast Page
Tues: listen to Ch. 58
Wed 1/23
Get to Chapter 47 by 9:15
p.223 "...more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory"
We'll listen to 47-48
If done look at...
Activities 26-42 (Talk about them on Fri 1/25)
(5min Version)
Watch clip from Heart of the Sea
2015 Whale hunt in Indonesia--not for everyone
42-62 Notes. Get them--start Friday 1/25--finish Wednesday 1/30
F 1/25 Read Ch. 54
1/22
Content/Language Objectives: Students will shift their focus to Moby Dick and what he might symbolize . They will also learn a little bit about Ahab.
Podcast 29-40 (Feel Free to listen at 1.25 speed)
Listen this weekend and write a log entry
What further questions do you have?
Chapter 41
Discussion
(5min Version)
1/18:
Content/Language Objectives: Students will look more into Ahab get clarity on how the ship operates.
Agenda:
Your Q's from Log entry 1/16--or general
up to 36
Listen to 36
In your Log, react to the Quarter Deck
React as a reader or as a sailor
Podcast 29-40 (Feel Free to listen at 1.25 speed)
Listen this weekend and write a log entry
What further questions do you have?
Paper Copy of Chapter 41 Read for Tues 1/22 (Seminar)
Upcoming
Activities 26-42 (5min Version)
Tues-Wed 1/15-6:
Content/Language Objectives: Students will keep it rolling and finally set sail and meet the sailors.
Agenda:
Wed. 1/16
(Tuesday night Read to Ch. 28)
Finish 19-23
Kahoot (19-27)
Quick through 24 & 25
Listen to 28 &29
Gabbin' w/Mogab
30-31 Stubb & Ahab reactions to the scene
1/16 Log Entry:
What are you thinking about/noticing/curious about?
What do you want to remember about today's sections?
What do you want to talk about?
What questions do you have?
Read to Ch. 36 for Friday
Tues:
Read to Chapter 24
Do the 10-23 Notes--be ready for your section
Jigsaw on Tuesday--get as far as we can.
Tuesday night Read to Ch. 28
What should be in Ship's Logs
First impressions (a couple of paragraphs)
Spouter Inn Drawing
4-8 Notes Jigsaw Notes
1/16 Log Entry
1/11
Content/Language Objectives: Students will check in as a group about first impressions.
Agenda:
Chapter 1-9 Activities . (In your log)
Jigsaw 4-8 (Notes in your log)
Nine is mine--unless someone else wants to start
Ishmael as a narrator--Melville as author
A look ahead
Your Questions
Tuesday Log checks
Tues-Wed 1/8-9
Content/Language Objectives: Students will get an introduction to the class and dive into reading the book.
Agenda:
Attendance and Info Sheet
Book Tour
Chapter One (audio together)
Ship's Log: Notebooks vs. Electronic
First Entry: First Impressions
Impressions of Ch.1
Ishmael
Preview
Style & Content
Preview
Anything you noticed
The Voyage
Homework: Read to Chapter Four for tomorrow
Wednesday:
Book Titles--characters
Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses Job's whale round the world, at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals- morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck, the invunerable jollity of indifference and recklessness in Stubb, and the pervading mediocrity in Flask. Such a crew,
Draw the Spouter Inn Painting in your log.
Spouter Inn Painting
Can you see The Whale?
Syllabus--questions
Chapter 1 -6--listen to 4/5/6
Reading time
Bookmark
Map of the Voyage
Read to Ch. 10 for Friday
1/4/17
Content/Language Objectives: Students will get an introduction to the class and dive into reading the book.
Agenda:
Attendance and Info Sheet
Grab a book--Book Titles
Book Tour
Website tour
Chapter One (audio together)
Ship's Log: Notebooks vs. Google Folder--your choice.
Assignments Page
First Entry: First Impressions
Impressions of Ch.1
Ishmael
Preview
Style & Content
Preview
Anything you noticed
Homework: Read to Chapter Seven for Friday
Spouter Inn Painting
Homework:
Read to Chapter Seven
Record Your First impressions (see above)
Read the Syllabus
Last Day:
-Logs/IC/Grades
-The rest of the projects
-Your Questions
-My Take
Tues.-Wed 3/7-8
Final Project go 'round
Anyone want to present?
Q3 Exhibition Day is Friday March 10, 2017
- Sign up by Tuesday March 7, 2017 at 3pm
We can start today and finish Wed
Logs tonight
Wed. My take--talk me out of it
Did you do the Wrap-up
Ship's Logs
First impressions (a couple of paragraphs)
Spouter Inn Drawing
Tues 1/10 Notes
17-23 Notes
Knights and Squires Notes
Quarter Deck Reaction (a couple of paragraphs)
The "The Whale represents..." (A couple of sentences)
Notes 48-64 (Handed out)
Monkey-Rope Drawing
66/71/73/81 Notes
93-100 Notes
Notes from 101-131 (filled in as we go)
2/22 Prediction (Paragraph--What do you think is going to happen? Why?)
Re-read chapter one (paragraph or two)
Moby-Dick Wrap-up
Fri 3/3
What do you want to know?
Final Project work time/check-in
Did you do your Wrap-up?
Check IC do I have it right?
Use the web and resources below
I will use this page to post links and resources for the class
Podcasts, Rants and Extensions Page
This page contains extra materials that I can't fit into class
What You Wrote: The "The Whale represents..."
Wed 3/1
Content/Language Objectives: Students will begin making sense of the whole book.
Agenda:
What You Wrote: The "The Whale represents..."
Ship's Logs
First impressions (a couple of paragraphs)
Spouter Inn Drawing
Tues 1/10 Notes
17-23 Notes
Knights and Squires Notes
Quarter Deck Reaction (a couple of paragraphs)
The "The Whale represents..." (A couple of sentences)
Notes 48-64 (Handed out)
Monkey-Rope Drawing
66/71/73/81 Notes
93-100 Notes
Notes from 101-131 (filled in as we go)
2/22 Prediction (Paragraph--What do you think is going to happen? Why?)
Re-read chapter one (paragraph or two)
Moby-Dick Wrap-up
Tues. 2/28
Content/Language Objectives: Students will begin making sense of the whole book.e
Agenda:
Eli/Ashley's Conversation
Other Lessons/Projects/Presentations
Reactions/Questions
Reading/Research/Project/Paper
What You Wrote: The "The Whale represents..."
Ship's Logs
First impressions (a couple of paragraphs)
Spouter Inn Drawing
Tues 1/10 Notes
17-23 Notes
Knights and Squires Notes
Quarter Deck Reaction (a couple of paragraphs)
The "The Whale represents..." (A couple of sentences)
Notes 48-64 (Handed out)
Monkey-Rope Drawing
66/71/73/81 Notes
93-100 Notes
Notes from 101-131 (filled in as we go)
2/22 Prediction (Paragraph--What do you think is going to happen? Why?)
Re-read chapter one
Fri 2/23
Content/Language Objectives: Students will keep progressing through the book and head towards making sense of it all.
Agenda:
A Look Back
Listen to "The Symphony
Reactions/Questions
Reading/Research/Project/Paper
Ship's Logs
First impressions (a couple of paragraphs)
Spouter Inn Drawing
Tues 1/10 Notes
17-23 Notes
Knights and Squires Notes
Quarter Deck Reaction (a couple of paragraphs)
The "The Whale represents..." (A couple of sentences)
Notes 48-64 (Handed out)
Monkey-Rope Drawing
66/71/73/81 Notes
93-100 Notes
Notes from 101-131 (filled in as we go)
2/22 Prediction (Paragraph--What do you think is going to happen? Why?)
Re-read chapter one
Tues- Wed 2/21-22
Content/Language Objectives: Students will keep progressing through the book and head towards making sense of it all.
Agenda:
Presentations/Lessons/Projects
116,117, 115
121-123 echo of 37-39
Preview For Tues. 124-129 More presentations
Preview the schedule
Ship's Logs
First impressions (a couple of paragraphs)
Spouter Inn Drawing
Tues 1/10 Notes
17-23 Notes
Knights and Squires Notes
Quarter Deck Reaction (a couple of paragraphs)
The "The Whale represents..." (A couple of sentences)
Notes 48-64 (Handed out)
Monkey-Rope Drawing
66/71/73/81 Notes
93-100 Notes
Notes from 101-131 (filled in as we go)
2/22 Prediction (Paragraph--What do you think is going to happen? Why?)
Fri 2/17
Keep going on 101-131 notes
Listen to "The Candles"
Go to 124
WSSD?
Project/Presentations/MiniLesson (Start w/ this?)
Preview For Tues. 124-129 More presentations
Preview the schedule beyond Tuesday
Tues: 116,117, 115
121-123 echo of 37-39
Wed 2/15
Content/Language Objectives: Students will begin there lessons
Agenda:
Divide up 93, 96, 99, 100, 106,108,109
93-100 Notes (In Your Log)
Notes from 101-131 (You're Welcome)
Project/Presentations/MiniLesson
Sign-up here--be ready to show your work tomorrow
Tues.-Wed 2/14-15
Content/Language Objectives: Students will investigate how "The Doubloon" chapter relates to the rest of the book.
Agenda:
Your Valentine from me
Discuss the Doubloon
1) Ishmael,2) Ahab, 3) Starbuck, 4) Stubb, 5) Flask, 6) Manxman, 7) Queequeq, 8) Fedallah, 9) Pip
Divide up 93, 96, 99, 100, 106,108,109
Project/Presentations/MiniLesson
Sign-up here--be ready to show your work tomorrow
Wed-Thurs 2/8-9
Melville/Hawthorne
Notes from Melville.org
are they useful?
Listen to Rosebud
Project/Presentations/MiniLesson
Sign-up here--be ready to show your work next Wed. 2/15
Homework for Tues. 2/14:
Read to 110
Read and Annotate "The Doubloon" chapter
Focus on CH 93, 99, 100, 106,108,109
Tues 2/7
Talk:Shark Massacre/Cistern Buckets
Pitchpoling/The Fountain/The Tail
Listen to Grand Armada
visualize
Questions
Preview
Wed: Melville/Hawthorne
For Next Week : focus on CH 93, 99, 100, 106,108,109
Doubloon Text for Seminar,
Fri: 2/3
72 Monkey-Rope Drawing in your log
66 The Shark Massacre
71 Jeroboam
73 Stubb and Flask
81 Virgin/Jungfrau
Tues: Listen to Grand Armada/Shark Massacre/Cistern Buckets
Tues-Wed 1/3-2/1
Content/Language Objectives: Students will follow up on Chapter 41, look into the following chapters and work on their first papers.
Agenda:
Go through chapters--49-60
Papers in? (Midterms due Thursday)
Tuesday Night Homework:
Podcast, Rants and Extensions Page
use it to get through some smaller chapters
Get to 74 for tomorrow
Wed: Town-Ho, Jeroboam, Monkey-Rope, questions
Mara, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Albatross
Finish notes up to 60
Discuss further chapters
Fri 1/27
Turn in Paper
Mat Maker & Fedallah
Listen to "First Lowering"
Go through chapters
Wed 1/25
Content/Language Objectives: Students will follow up on Chapter 41, look into the following chapters and work on their first papers.
Agenda:
Paper work time--reading time
Logs back
Post-Seminar mop up
"Whiteness of the Whale" and other chapters
Listen to "First Lowering"
What You Wrote: The "The Whale represents..."
First Paper Due Friday
Friday Mat Maker, First Lowering
Ship's Logs
First impressions (a couple of paragraphs)
Spouter Inn Drawing
Tues 1/10 Notes
17-23 Notes
Knights and Squires Notes
Quarter Deck Reaction (a couple of paragraphs)
The "The Whale represents..." (A couple of sentences)
Tues 1/24
Content/Language Objectives: Students will dive deep into Chapter 41.
Agenda:
Seminar
The "The Whale represents..."
Log Check
Content/Language Objectives: Students will move towards their interpretations of the book and the whale.
Agenda:
First Paper Due Next Friday
Your questions. Tracy's
Review Chapters 37-40
Get chapter 41
Wed. 11/18
Content/Language Objectives: Students will look into a pivotal scene which sets the major plot in motion.
Agenda:
Read a little
33-35 discuss
Listen to 36
In your log: Quarter Deck Reaction
Your questions. Tracy's
Post 36-41
Upcoming
Friday: review Chapters 37-40/26-42 (40) Activities/get chapter 41
Ship's Logs
First impressions
Spouter Inn Drawing
Tues 1/10 Notes
Knights and Squires Notes
Quarter Deck Reaction
Tues 1/17
Some Video
Knights and Squires
Listen to 28-29
30-31
Ch. 32 Skim/Skip
Your questions. Tracy's
Fri 1/13
Content/Language Objectives: Students will continue exploring the early chapters of the book.
Agenda:
The Ship? Can you picture it?
Other Chapters: expert groups for 17-23
Your questions. Tracy's.
Log Entry: 17-23 notes
Ship's Logs
First Impressions
Spouter Inn Drawing
Tues 1/10 Notes
17-23 Notes
Wed 1/11
Reading time--generate your own questions
Grades
Chapter 13
1-9 (14) Activities--student centered
Tracy's Q's/Your Questions
Pictures? Video?
Flipping some of this class--making class less teacher centered:
Podcasts, Rants and Extensions Page
This page contains extra materials that I can't fit into class
Tues 1/10
Content/Language Objectives: Students will get grounded on the plot and ask questions up to Chapter 14.
Agenda:
Notes, questions, go through chapters
Turn in Ship's Logs
First Impressions
Spouter Inn Drawing
Tues 1/10 Notes
1/6/17
Content/Language Objectives: Students will begin their dives into the book.
Agenda:
Syllabus--questions
Missing books titles
Let's talk: homework writing what you're thinking
First Entry: First Impressions
Impressions of Ch.1
Ishmael
Preview
Style & Content
Preview
Anything you noticed
Chapter 1 -6
Spouter Inn Painting
Reading time
1/4/17
Content/Language Objectives: Students will get an introduction to the class and dive into reading the book.
Agenda:
Attendance and Info Sheet
Grab a book--Book Titles
Book Tour
Website tour
Chapter One (audio together)
Ship's Log: Notebooks vs. Google Folder--your choice.
Assignments Page
First Entry: First Impressions
Impressions of Ch.1
Ishmael
Preview
Style & Content
Preview
Anything you noticed
Homework: Read to Chapter Seven for Friday
Spouter Inn Painting
Homework:
Read to Chapter Seven
Record Your First impressions (see above)
Read the Syllabus
Tues 12/16
The Gilder (pfouts)
The Dying Whale/The Whale Watch
The Quadrant
The Candles
The Deck
The Musket
The Needle
The Life Buoy/The Deck
The Rachel
The Cabin
The Delight
The Symphony (listen)
Tomorrow's plan
Tues- Wed 12/9-10:
Agenda:
Project/Presentation/Mini-lessons
Museum plans
Podcasts
Ship's Logs--turn in today
Expert Groups:
Take us to the important lines--point out quotes
Tell us why your chapter seems important
Point out anything Melvillian
The Castaway (Keith, Nicole)
Try-Works (Gisele, Ben)
"The Doubloon"
(Mark Twain and "A Fable")
Friday:
Samuel Enderby (Emma, Lilli)
Ahab's Leg/Carpenter (Jon Allison)
The Cabin: Ahab and Starbuck (Aster, Grace)
Queequeq and his Coffin (Txell, Hailey)
The Bachelor (Genevieve, Jonas)
Rush through some chapters
Listen to "The Symphony"
Finish for Tuesday.
Week of 12/2
Content/Language Objectives: Students will catch back up, dive deeper with what interests them and start prepping for the end of the novel.
Agenda:
Tues:
Paper Due
Podcasts
Project/Presentation/Mini-lesson
my example--Brit/Grand Armada
Wed.
Letters to Hawthorne
Some time to get set--Start presenting
Bookmark:
Rosebud?
Doubloon?
Fri: sub again--sorry
East Lab/Study Center
podcasts
read
questions in the cup
Week of 11/17
Content/Language Objectives: Students will dive deeper into Melville's novel and look deeper into what has happened so far.
Agenda:
Tues:
Paper & Podcasts
Wed.
Peer edit discuss
Questions--esp from notes sheet
Monkey Rope Drawing
Project/Presentation/Mini-lesson
A look ahead--what to focus on
Fri: sub/workday
Thanksgiving week--catch up
Tues. when we come back: presentations
Fri. 11/4
Questions in a cup
everything you wanted to know about Moby-Dick but were afraid to ask
Whale definitions...
Read
Podcasts?
Notes sheets--group discussion.
Ship's Log
Wed 11/12
Content/Language Objectives: Students will dive deeper into Melville's novel and look deeper into what has happened so far.
Agenda:
Podcasts?
Notes sheets--group discussion.
Ship's Log
What to do in class?
Bookmark?
10/7
Agenda:
Job Podcast--available?
26-42-Activities due.
Present?
Wed. 41 Seminar Outcomes
9th-11th graders prepare brief seniors
Listen to "The First Lowering"
No class Tues--review schedule, get preview.
Homework:
Reading to 61
Check Podcasts Page
Wed.
Define the whale, review, mop-up
Grades Updated
Tues-Wed 10/-5
Content/Language Objectives: Students will look into the sections of Ch. 29-40 that they find most interesting through various activities.
Agenda:
Podcast ch.29-40
Activities/Choices
Read 41 for tomorrow
Wed. 41 Seminar
9th-11th graders prepare something for the seniors
Fri: Present Activities, Seminar outcome, define the whale, review, mop-up
Grades Updated
Friday 10/31
Agenda:
Knights and Squires
Ahab reaction
Activities for....
Notes?
Podcasts?
would that be useful
Two kinds--need you to know, would like you to know.
I want to support, encourage and help you see--not ruin it.
Logs--Leave them
grab them after school if you need to...
Tues:
Wed 10/29
Content/Language Objectives: Students will finally leave land and meet more of the main characters.
Agenda:
How I'm grading--so ya know.
Chapter 10-23 Notes
get ready
go through
Pfouts 24-27
Listen to 28-29
Tues 10/28
9 The Sermon--Does Jonah connect with Ishmael?
10-23 Notes
Start Today
Finish Tomorrow
To 28 for Tomorrow
Wed: Listen to 28-29.
Fri 10/24
Content/Language Objectives: Students will continue to record their initial responses to the book--looking for clarity through discussion, notes and some activities.
Agenda:
Activities
Chapter by Chapter?
important points
things we noticed
questions we have
Wed 10/22
Content/Language Objectives: Students will dive into reading the first few chapters of the book through writing, drawing, discussion and questioning.
Agenda:
Ship's Log: Notebooks vs. Word Press
First Entry: First Impressions
Let's Talk
Questions and Clarification
Notes on Chapters 2-3
Your Questions
We'll have a half hour to read
Bookmark/Schedule
Spouter Inn Painting (Draw it in your log)
Can you see The Whale?
Is this a boggy, soggy, squitchy book?
Tues 10/21
Content/Language Objectives: Students will get an introduction to the class and dive into reading the book.
Agenda:
Attendance and Info Sheet
Book Titles
Book Tour
Chapter One (audio together)
Ship's Log: Notebooks vs. Word Press
First Entry: First Impressions
Impressions of Ch.1
Ishmael
Preview
Style & Content
Preview
Anything you noticed
Homework: Read to Chapter Four for tomorrow
We'll have the first half hour to read
Spouter Inn Painting