EWL Week 2- Monday

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Pausch's Last Lecture: finish watching, Watching Last Lecture

• summary response due Wednesday
• summary: summarize Pausch's Lecture
• response: respond personally with specific examples to support feelings

Hw: begin writing your own LL- part 1 due 2/14, Summary response due Friday

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Essential Question:

"To what extent does a creator have responsibility for its creation? When does the creation assume responsibility for its own actions?"

Summary/response:

Summary:

• Begins with a topic sentence: title, author, strong verb, restates/answers question or states main idea, and why
• Ex: In Karl Fisch's "Did You Know", Fisch explains that technology is growing exponentially because of the changes in our personal lives, education, dating and the popularity of social networking.
• Summarize points of main idea
• Personal lives
• Education
• Dating
• Social networking
• Concluding sentence: TE, main idea and why
• Clearly, Fisch forecasts a technologically driven world through his various examples which will forever change the direction our world is headed.

Do not use the author's words, there is no emotional response

Strong Verbs

Tells, explains, compares, describes, gives, presents, lists, shows, defines, demonstrates, acknowledges, evaluates, classifies, adds, explores, confuses, advises, expresses, defends, asserts, features, depicts, assures, furnishes, encourages, blames, identifies, entertains, confirms, names, illustrates, confronts, offends, invites, considers, offers, judges, contrasts, predicts, misjudges, critiques, proposes, praises, demonstrates, provides, recommends, denounces, traces, simplifies, discourages, answers, solves, endorses, asks, suggests, entices, captures, supports, enumerates, classifies, teaches.

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Summary/response

Response:

• Topic Sentence:title, author, position on a "hot spot", and why
• Karl Fisch's “Did You Know" makes me wonder about the educational future of the United States since many other countries have more Honors students than America has students.
• Explain and examine "Hot Spots"
• Educational future of US
• Number of kids in other countries
• Number of Honors students
• Decline of educational opportunities
• Decrease in funding
• Use specific examples and explanations- extend out
• Concluding sentence
• TE, Summarize Hot spot and why

Remember, this is personal, this is emotional, this is a response

EWL Week 2- Wednesday

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Finish watching Last Lecture:Watching Last Lecture

Discuss Pausch's lecture- what can you take away? - Summary/ Response due Friday: typed, double spaced, 2 paragraphs

What is the point of hell? - discuss in small group, present to large group

Read Dante background: highlight- there will be a quiz

Watch:http://foxtwin.com/inferno/

HW: LL part 1, finish reading background, Summary Response: Pausch, Dante quiz

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Essential Question:

"To what extent does a creator have responsibility for its creation? When does the creation assume responsibility for its own actions?"

EWL Week 2- Friday

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Collect S/R on Pausch

Watch:http://foxtwin.com/inferno/ : Finish notes and clarify Dante

Summary Response at end of hell unit: videos, songs, photos

Watch videos

Legend

Satan's Sweet Sixteen?

Devil's Advocate

Bedazzled

look at photos

HW: LL part 1, SR

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Essential Question:

"To what extent does a creator have responsibility for its creation? When does the creation assume responsibility for its own actions?"

Directors and Movies

• Ridley Scott Legend
• Harold Ramis Bedazzled
• Taylor Hackford Devil’s Advocate
• Trey Parker and Matt Stone “Hell on Earth 2006” South Park

EWL Week 3- Wednesday

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Summary Response at end of hell unit: videos, songs, photos

Listen to songs:

Sympathy for the Devil

Flogging Molly

Devil Went Down to Georgia

look at photos

Review guiding question: "To what extent does a creator have responsibility for its creation? When does the creation assume responsibility for its own actions?"

HW: LL part 1, SR on Hell

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EWL Week 3- Friday

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Collect Summary Response: on Hell images/videos/songs

Read Dante background

Dante background: quiz

Ranking of sins: Smartboard

Inferno notes

Watch:http://foxtwin.com/inferno/ : Finish notes and clarify Dante

Summary Response at end of hell unit: videos, songs, photos

HW: Last Lecture1- 2/14

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EWL Week 4- Monday

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Collect summary response

Review guiding question: "To what extent does a creator have responsibility for its creation? When does the creation assume responsibility for its own actions?"

Read Genesis, LL part 1

Read Dante 1-3,

HW: LL part 1,

Next Week:

Monday: scribe, Read Dante 5, 34,- connect to guiding question, What are the seven deadly sins?, Read "Two Gallants" - connect to guiding question, connect to seven deadly sins, HW: Finish reading Two Gallants- highlight examples of each of seven deadly sins and label,Blog: what are the greatest wrongs society/ individual can commit?, LL part 1

Wednesday: scribe, Collect packets: Two gallants with seven deadly sins labeled, Discuss blog question: what are some of the greatest wrongs society can commit? an individual can commit?, Read Milton's "Paradise Lost" (big book page 435-448, read background on Milton and then excerpt) complete together and answer packet of questions (handout), can be in small group or large group, Hw: How does a just and good God allow evil to exist?- blog response, final fishbowl on Monday over unit- be prepared with questions

Friday: scribe, scribe, Discuss blog question, collect packet, Fishbowl: to what extent does a creator have responsibility towards its creation? HW: check out Frankenstein, read vii-xxii, LL1