E9H Week 4: Friday Scribe Emily Koke

Friday, January 30th

Essential Question:

How can literature motivate social change? How can it challenge the system?

Link to Smith's Presentation: 
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1q9ukDSOHIIozmsC43m9Mny9B8q8gkrpRCbKT0HKsCXM/edit#slide=id.g6c8b01790_077

Homework: Read 6-7 in Little Brother and write connection questions: What have we learned? What haven’t we learned? Where are we going? solutions? Also work on your Google Site.

During the class, we collected the DOL 7 exercises, took the DOL 8 quiz, and then started the Little Brother chapter 1-5 "Open Seating" fishbowl. The "Open Seating" fishbowl allows the outer circle to participate and speak by joining the inner circle.

E9H, Period 3, Maddie Gross, Scribe, 1-30-15

Homework: Read chapters 6-7, Google site, connections to the questions: What have we learned? What haven't we learned? Where are we going? Solutions?

Today: We collected DOL 7 exercises, took the DOL 8 quiz, and had the Fishbowl for Little Brother chapters 1-5 (make sure you have 3 questions!)

Essential Question: How can literature motivate social change? How can it challenge the system?

Also, Have a great weekend!!

LB 1-5 Period 5

Live Blog LB 1-5 Period 5

 

LB 1-5 Period 3

Live Blog Little Brother 1-5 Period 3

 

Annie Betts Scribe 1/29/15

Essential Question:

• How can literature motivate social change? How can it challenge the system?

Schedule:

• DOL 7: Mark punctuation and fill in sentence diagram
• On your own, look at the following (links on agenda)
• Technological transition - Orwell's technology to Doctorow:
• Bionic Eye, MIT TED talk, and blog post, Saavy Shop, Future Home
• A Day Made of Glass and Day Made of Glass 2
• When you are done, take the time to read, and prepare questions for the fishbowl tomorrow

Homework:

• Read NYT article safety vs. security (link on agenda)
• DOL quiz and exercises due tomorrow
• Read Little Brother Chapters 1-5, and 3 questions (1 textual and 2 higher level thinking) for fishbowl tomorrow

Scribe P5 1/28/15 Katie Franklin

Katie Franklin - January 28th, 2015 - Scribe

PLC Day (Short Day)

Essential Question:

How can literature motivate social change? How can it challenge the system?

(1984) What have we learned? What haven’t we learned? Where are we going?

DOL 7:

Wednesday - Sentence types & clauses

Today:

Went to Mr. Escue’s government class and discussed the topic: Security vs. Privacy

Homework:

Read Little Brother chapters 1-5

3 questions:

- 1 textual question: pull out quotes

- 2 higher level thinking questions: connections to 1984?

Scribe Period 3 1/28/15 Haley Lewin

Homework: Read chapters 1-5, 3 questions; 1 textual questions with quotes, 2 higher level thinking questions (Connections to 1984)

During Class 

• DOL 7 (Grammar) 
• Sentence 1: 1 subject 
•  Independent Clause - Simple Sentence 
• Sentence 2: 1 subject 
• Independent Clause - Simple Sentence  
• Guest Speaker: Mr. Eschew 
• Kids don't understand the historical significance of the government
• don't understand how the government has changed 
• Changes
• People are always being filmed 
• Do you value security or privacy? Which would you give up? 
• September 11, 2001 they valued privacy
• September 12, they valued security 
• Different generations remember different things 
• freshman weren't born in the 20th century 
• Generation Gap 
• Technology improvements
• Patriot Act: October 26th, 2001
• 5-6 weeks after 9/11 
• Rushed through Congress 
• Opponents have criticized the indefinite detentions of immigrants 
• Good result in stopping terrorists
• Bad Things: No privacy, people can charge innocent people 
• Roving wire taps: no search warrants
• You call a terrorist, they can tap you
• They can look at who you call, and who they call, and so on 
• Is this right?
• Civil Liberties 
• Haven't actually caught terrorists 
• NSA: National Security Agency 
• Patriot Act has given them more authorization 
• Edward Snowden: subcontractor who had access to what the NSA was doing
• Traitor or Hero? 
• Thought that what they were doing was wrong 
• Released documents saying that they can find anything on your phone 
• Released it to a reporter from the Guardian 
•  Information
• Tapped foreign leader's phones 
• AT&T, Google, Verizon; NSA has access to every text, phone call, email, searches 
• Is that OK? 
• No, because they wanted to be sneaky and didn't tell anyone 
•  Webcams: They can spy on you through the cameras with microprocessors 
• They can turn the camera on whenever, and the light doesn't come on  
• Hacker's do this as well 
• Building a massive building in Utah to store all of the data  
• Nicknamed the "Bumblebee Hive" 
• One leader, the rest are drones 
•  Has the government gone too far? 
• Where is the line? 
• Telescreens (1984) : the camera on your computer 
•  Do you value privacy or not? 
• Are you OK with other people having your information?
• Does it matter whether you are aware of it or not?  
• Are you OK with carrying something that tracks you?
• Kids are OK with Apple and the government having their information
• Not OK with the school having their information 
• A fact of whether you can choose it or not  
• More affected by the things close to home than the people who are far away and won't do anything about it  
• Could be used for a good thing 
•  Denmark
• Has CCTV's that monitor the population 
• One of the happiest countries in the world 

E9H Thomas Baggerly January 27 Scribe Period 5

Homework

• Google site
• Read Chapters 1-5 of Little Brother by Friday
• 3 questions on Little Brother
• 1 textual question
• 2 high level thinking questions; connect to 1984

• Worked on DOL 7:

can you come over and watch the movie casablanca (after school)

v      s     v                        v               do                        prep phrase (school is op)

the chemistry club visited boulder colorado (for a science experiment)

                  s            v                 do                       prep phrase (experiment is op)

• Read the two articles below and discussed them:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-06/the-nba-will-now-track-every-players-movements

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/21/schoolgirl_expelled_rfid_chip/

• Denver Youth Poet Laureate
• Signed up for fishbowl
• Read Girl Expelled and discussed
• Worked on group posters
• Essential Question: How can literature motivate social change? How can it challenge the system?

E9H Natasha Sandalcidi January 27 Scribe Period 3

Daily Agenda

Homework

• Google site
• Read Chapters 1-5 of Little Brother by Friday 
• 3 questions on Little Brother
• 1 textual question
• 2 high level thinking questions; connect to 1984

Worked on DOL 7:

can you come over and watch the movie casablanca (after school)

v      s     v                        v               do                        prep phrase (school is op)

the chemistry club visited boulder colorado (for a science experiment)

                   s            v                 do                       prep phrase (experiment is op)

Read the two articles below and discussed them:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-06/the-nba-will-now-track-every-players-movements

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/21/schoolgirl_expelled_rfid_chip/

We got into our groups and worked on our posters

E9H Week 4- Monday Scribe Emily Koke Hour 5

Monday, January 26

Daily Agenda:
 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1q9ukDSOHIIozmsC43m9Mny9B8q8gkrpRCbKT0HKsCXM/edit#slide=id.g6c8b01790_030

Essential Question:

How can literature motivate social change? How can it challenge the system?

DOL 7
can (hv) you (prn) come (av) over (adv) and (cc) watch (av) the (art) movie (n) casablanca (N) after (prep) school (n)

the (art) [chemistry club] (N) traveled (av) to (prep) [boulder colorado] (N) for (prep) a (art) science (adj) experiment (n)

We began the class with DOL 7 (above) and then went onto our 1984 224-298 discussion. 

Tomorrow we will have a work day with our small groups to complete posters and then on Wednesday we will begin Little Brother. 

Maddie Gross, Scribe, 1/26/15 Period 3

Homework: 
Google site, What have we learned? What haven't we learned? Where are we going? Google Doc.

Today,  we did the DOL work for Monday, and had the Fishbowl for the end of the book.

Essential Question:
How can literature motivate social change? How can it challenge the system?

Also, start thinking about whether you want your own copy of Little Brother as we will begin to read this week.

DOL Sentences: 
1.) can you come over and watch the movie casablanca after school
2.) the chemistry club visited boulder colorado for a science experiment  

1984 224- end Period 5

Live Blog 1984 224-end Period 5

 

Scribe 1-23-15 Ji-Wei

English 9 Honors, Friday January 23, 2015

DOL 5, DOL 6 Quiz
We're living 1984 video
We're living in 1984 article
Read 224-end
What have we learned? What have we not learned? Where are we going? Solutions? (451 and 1984)
Small group poster work

Homework
Read 224-end by Monday
Fishbowl Monday+
Work on Google site

Essential Question
How can literature motivate social change? How can it challenge the system?

1984 224-end Period 3

Live Blog 1984 224-end Period 3

 

Scribe 1-22-15 Ji-Wei

English 9 Honors Week 3- Thursday, January 22nd 2015

DOL 5
Fishbowl 167-224
Read 224-end

Homework:
Read 224-end (due Monday)
Google Site

Trade in computers: need charger and netbook
-Kinsey
-Haley
-Sofia
-Mia

Spoken word poems on Google sites
DOL: Punctuation, capitalization and diagramming.
jeb likes cars but he cant drive yet
kristin watched the tv show law and order in her class 

Essential Question
How can literature motivate social change? How can it challenge the system?

Sccribe 1/13 Jackie Durnford

Homework: Read 69-117, Fishbowl Tomorrow

Two minutes of Hate Video:

• focuses on "Our People"
• Depicts War and Anger
• Winston is not at all liked by these people, depicted along with traders 
• purpose: 
• People yelling loudly- common enemy 
• Party is "force feeding" them information-control
• Use of propaganda 

DOL 2

Appositives: noun or a pronoun that follows another noun or pronoun which renames it 

Predicate Nomnitive: noun or pronoun follows a linking verb renaming the subject

Sentence 1: 

friend-subject 

alex- appositive

plays-verb

tennis- direct object 

Sentence 2:

tom-appositive

friend-subject

is-verb

president- predicate nomnitive

after obama-prep phrase

Political Cartoon

Pass around the Political Cartoons and comment

• fonts, color, reasoning, connecting to events of that time

discussion about cartoons

presentation of best new & old cartoon

Jackie Durnford

Scribe 1/21/15

Alicia Nguyen Scribe 1/21/15 

• We did our daily grammar lesson labeling the following sentences:
• jeb likes cars but he can't drive yet 
• kristin watched the t.v show law and order in her law class 
• Smith split the class into 8 groups where the students would read two different articles found on Smith's website
• Once the students finished reading the article, their groups discussed the big ideas they found in the article and how the article relates to 1984 
• After the students finished and wrote what they talked about on the whiteboard, Smith gave them time to silently read 1984 until the other group finished reading and discussing their article
• We all, as a class, discussed ideas from both articles and what we learned from George Orwell's time period
• Smith then gave us the rest of the class period to have silent reading time until the bell rang 

Homework: 167-224 fishbowl Thursday; 3 big questions; Read 224-end if finished with 167-224 with 3 big questions; Google Site

*If you have a school computer, bring it on Thursday to get a new one.

Tatiana Beasley Scribe 1-21-15 Period 3

Essential Question: How can literature motivate social change? How can it challenge the system?

In Class: DOL 5 (Wednesday Work); Break into 8 groups, find big ideas from articles, Security Cameras and End of Anonymity, make connections to 1984, "What can we learn? What haven't we learned? Where are we going?"; a Reading Day.

Homework: 167-224 fishbowl Thursday; 3 big questions; Read 224-end if finished with 167-224 with 3 big questions; Google Site

*If you have a school computer, bring it on Thursday to get a new one.

Katie Franklin - January 20th, 2015 Scribe

Scribe - January 20th, 2015 - Period 5

Essential Question:

How can literature motivate social change? How can it challenge the system?

In Class:

DOL 5:

(Monday & Tuesday work; Part of Speech & Sentence Parts & Phrases)

jeb likes cars but he cant drive yet

kristen watched the tv show law and order in her class

Fishbowl 117-167

Homework:

1984 pages 167-224 (Fishbowl on either Thursday or Friday)

3 questions for next fishbowl

Google Site

*If you have a school Chromebook, bring it to school on Thursday to get a new one.

Scribe 1/20/15 Period 3

Link to Smith’s website.

New Grammar sentences.

jeb likes cars but he cant drive yet

kristin watched the tv show law and order in her law class

Fishbowlers for 167-224.

Ryan, Scott, Jackson, Jake, Finn, Maddie G, Sam, Rachel, Aiden, Sophie, and Rachel.

Fishbowl on Thursday

DOL 7

We did Monday’s work as well because we had Monday off.

• Parts of Speech
• Sentence Parts and Phrases

Fishbowl today on pages 117-169.

Homework:
Read 1984 pages 169-224. Bring 3 big thinking questions. This section might be a little harder so think carefully and bring good questions.

Isabella Boecker

Scribe 1/20/15

Tuesday 1/20/15 - Diana Torralba
-Essential Question: How can literature motivate social change? How can it challenge the system?
-Grammar: Monday and Tuesday work
1st Sentence: jeb likes cars but he can't drive yet
Quiz Sentence: kristin watched the tv show law and order in her law class
-Fishbowl for 117-167

HW: Read 167 - 224 for FishBowl on Thursday, 3 big thinking questions.  Work on website.

1984 167-224 Period 5

Live Blog 1984 167-224 Period 5

 

1984 167-224 Period 3

Live Blog 1984 167-224 Period 3

 

Scribe 1-16-15

Friday 1/16/15- Thomas Baggerly

Essential Question: How can literature motivate social change? How can it challenge the system?

• Grammar
• Exercises collected
• DOL Quiz

• Listen to 1984 songs:
• Make a copy of document,
• Record reactions
• We listened to “I did it just the same”, “Sex Crime”, “For the Love of Big Brother” and “Double Plus Good.”

Homework: Read 117-167 with 3 questions for Tuesday. Reading ahead 167-224 (Thursday), Work on website.

Scribe 1/16/15

Friday 1/16/15 - Diana Torralba
-Essential Question: How can literature motivate social change? How can it challenge the system?
-Grammar: DOL Exercises collected, Grammar quiz, Graded 
-Listen to 1984 songs, make a copy of document, record reactions (We made it to I Did it Just the Same, Sex Crime, For the Love of Big Brother, and Doubleplusgood)

HW: Read 117 - 167 for FishBowl on Tuesday, 3 big thinking questions. Read ahead 167-224 for fishbowl on Thursday/Friday. Work on website.

1984 117-167 Period 5

Live Blog 1984 117-167 Period 5

 

1984 117-167 Period 3

Live Blog 1984 117-167 Period 3

 

Smith 9H Period 3 1/15/15 Scribe Ryan Snow

Thursday 1/15/15 - Ryan Snow

-Daily Grammar: Thursday Work. Quiz Tomorrow.
-Watched 2 Minutes of Hate from "1984" Movie. Represented pent up emotion and manipulated anger.
-Political Cartoon Presentations: Comparing past to present through cartoons. Finished presentations.
-Watched and Discussed: Manipulation of "1984" for Macintosh advertisement vs. for political advertisement. Showed how things can break through the social norms and become different/special/powerful.

HW: Read 117 - 167 for FishBowl next Tuesday. Grammar Quiz Tomorrow. Work on Website.

Annie Betts Scribe 1/15/15

Essential Question:
How can literature motivate social change? How can it challenge the system?

Schedule:
DOL 3
Present political cartoons
Mac Commercial-Olympics vs. Clinton Commercial

Homework:
Read 117-147, 147-167
DOL quiz tomorrow
Google Site
Fishbowl Tuesday for 117-167

What did we do today?

• DOL 3: We marked the punctuation and made the diagrams for the two grammar sentences.
• Present political cartoons: The last couple groups presented their political cartoons from the 1930s-1940s and present by explaining the cartoon and how it connects to 1984.
• Commercials: We watched the Mac Commercial-Olympics and the Clinton Commercial and discussed how they connect to 1984. 
• After we completed everything on the schedule, we used the remainder of time to read 1984 and write discussion questions for the fishbowl on Tuesday.

Scribe- Ivey Peacock- 14/1/15

Homework:
- Read to 167 by Tuesday and prepare for fishbowl ( break it up
- Continue work on google site

• Continue presentations for political cartoon
• Fishbowl for 69-117

Jake Miles-Colthup Scribe 1/14/15

- 2nd Period February 12th miss class for Skype call with Cory Doctrow
- Writing classes for all ages
- Grammar Sentences
   - Wednesday Work
- Presented 2 political cartoon groups
- Fishbowl pages 69-117

1984 69-117 Period 5

Live Blog 1984 69-117 Period 5

 

1984 69-117 Period 3

Live Blog 1984 69-117 Period 3

 

Jake Miles-Colthup Scribe 1/13/15

Grammar Sentences Tuesday
   - my friend alex plays tennis
   - our friend tom is the next president after obama
       -look for apositive, predicate nominative
Watch 2 minutes of hate
Political cartoon Dissection
- Analyze, write in margins
- Discuss which ones are the best at the time
- Present to the rest of the class

HW: Fishbowl tomorrow

Scribe 1/12 Period 3 Danny Guo

Danny Guo 

Period 3

Scribe January 12, 2015

We started this Monday by doing the Monday assignment of the weekly grammar packet.

The sentences are:

• my friend alex plays tennis
• our friend tom is the next president after obama

Last week's quiz was handed back.

Then we start our fishbowl on 1984 by George Orwell pages 1-69

We discussed many things such as Big Brother, the 2 minutes hate, the Thought Police, and we thought deeper into what the book was saying about society. A lot of the conversation related back to present day America, and how Orwell seemed to predict what happened. One connection I thought was really good was the connection with the Jefferson School Board trying to remove certain lessons out of US history that made America look bad.

Fishbowl went on until the bell rang.

HW: Read 69-117 by Wednesday, be ready for the political cartoon dissection

Scribe- Annabel K (jan.12.2015)

Monday: January 12, 2015

     homework- read pg. 69-117 for 1984
                       Political Cartoon dissection is tomorrow
                       Do not forget to prepare for your fishbowl discussion!
     in class-     *DOL 3 (grammar packet) --> Monday (part of speech)
                             sentences: my friend alex plays tennis
                                              our friend tom is the next president after obama
                        * go over the Grammar quiz
                             What will you remember and take into mind going into the next
                             grammar quiz?
                        *fishbowl pg. 1-69
                          questions from the discussion:
                         1. What do you think the people in 1984 think of the word "Big Brother"?
                         2. What effects does Big Brother have on Winston, and do you think that it
                              could change over the course of the book?
                         3. How is the Ministry of Truth a 'paradox'?
                         4. How does the phrase "strict parents create sneaky kids" relate to the
                              government and the people in the society?
                         5. What is the significance of the fact that the phrases"Big Brother" and
                             "Brotherhood" both have the word 'brother' in them?
                         6.  Why is self expression considered a crime?
                         7. What is the significance of Winston waking up from his dream with the
                             word "Shakespeare"?

1984 1-69 Period 5

Live Blog 1984 1-69 Period 5

 

1984 1-69 Period 3

Live Blog 1984 1-69 Period 3

 

Scribe - Friday, 1/9/15 - Alyssa Leiby

Friday, January 9, 2015 Scribe (By: Alyssa Leiby)

• What kind of government is our class?
• DOL 1 collect, DOL 2 quiz
• Discuss 1-69- move to Monday
• HW: Read 69-117, DOL

NOTE: No political cartoons still so bring on Monday!

Today we did a grammar quiz! If you were absent you will need to make it up!

Discussion: What kind of government is our class?

A student suggested that we were totalitarianism. However, Smith argued that we have the choice to either do the assignments or not do them, and she does not force us to do them. Another student suggested that we do not match any of the structures on the "Governmental and Economic Spectrum" slide of Smith's agenda slideshow. The student said that Smith gives us a structure and outline but she does not enforce it. She gives us grades but it's not something she chooses, necessarily, because we are the ones who do the work and put in the effort. So in a way we don't follow any of the styles of government. Smith asks us our opinion and gives us opportunity to get help on anything. Others argued that this is wrong because in the end, Smith ultimately ends up deciding what assignments we get and even if we vote she still has the ultimate authority. The role of a teacher appears as a general role of totalitarianism. However, Smith gives us more freedom in what we do, so we are in some range between totalitarianism and democracy. Can we be both or are we either/or? What do you think? ... Oh, and then a student said we were anarchist... :)

Ultimate Class Vote Decision:
Torn almost equally between totalitarianism and republic/democracy (London/Sweden) with a few no governments and some republic/democracy (American)

Smith 9H - 3rd Period - Scribe - Thursday - 1/8/15 - Ryan Snow

Thursday 1/8/15
Daily Grammar - Punctuation/Capitalization (Thursday Work) and Diagramming (Friday Work)
Discussion of 1984:

Characters - Winston Smith, O'Brien, Mrs. Parsons, "Big Brother," Goldstein, Black Haired Girl

Setting - Oceania: London, Eurasia, Eastasia, "Victory Mansions"

Plot: Totalitarian Government, "Thought Police," "Big Brother is Watching," "Vaporized," parents are afraid of their children, TV screen cameras, manipulation of history, "IngSoc," "writing differently than the common word," "Newspeak," prominence of war, the four ministries.

Government Discussion - Types of government and their linked economic attributes. "What government would you want? What would you want your government to provide for you? At what cost? What style of government is the classroom environment?"

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Homework: Grammar sentences due tomorrow, grammar quiz sentence tomorrow, FishBowl tomorrow, 1984 1-69 due tomorrow, bring 3 analytically questions from 1984 reading, Bring printed political cartoons tomorrow.

Scribe - Monday, 1/8/15 - Alyssa Leiby

Scribe - Monday, January 8, 2015 (By: Alyssa Leiby)

• DOL 1
• Basic plot level understandings in 1984
• Discussion on Political Spectrum
• What kind of government is this class?
• Read 1984 (38-69)
• HW: read for tomorrow, fishbowl 1-69, 3 questions, DOL exercises and quiz

NOTE: We did not get to political cartoons today so bring them in tomorrow!

Grammar:

We diagrammed the following sentence. Try it on your own then check below. 

• neither of the boys ate their snacks
• Monday Notes
• neither - indefinite pronoun
• of - preposition
• the - article 
• boys - noun
• ate - action verb
• their - possessive pronoun
• snacks - noun
• Tuesday Notes
• neither - subject
• ate - verb
• snacks - direct object
• parenthesis around "of the boys" because it is a prepositional phrase
• boys - object of the preposition
• Wednesday Notes
• this is an independent clause because it can stand alone
• it is a simple sentence because there in only one independent clause
• Thursday Notes
• capitalize the "n" in neither
• place a period after the sentence
• Friday Notes
• sorry I can't put the diagram up here because I'm not sure how
• think about "subject" "verb" "what?" and then what modifies each word

QUIZ IS ONE SENTENCE TOMORROW

Basic Information on 1984

Characters

• Winston Smith
• Big Brother
• Goldstein
• Thought Police
• Sime (sorry if I spelled it wrong I can't read what she wrote :)
• O'Brien
• Parsons
• girl with red sash

Setting

• London
• East Asia
• Eurasia
• Oceania

Plot Elements (underscored lines mean I couldn't read the board and neither could others around me sorry guys)

• being watch - telescreen, helicopters look in, neighbors
• thought crime
• double think
• new speak
• purity
• party 
• W. S. writers in a diary
• Two Minutes of Hate
• Kids "spies"

Think:

What do you want your government to be able to do for you?

 

No government: what is best for everyone is better than what is best for every one person	Republic/ democracy: like London/Sweden- more out of our pocket book;	Republic/ democracy: elect representatives to vote for you; elect president	Totalitarianism:: total governmental control; dictatorship	Totalitarianism:
Communism: equality	Socialism: still some inequality: government helps make less equality	Capitalism: inequality; individual; competition; decision based	Facism: more inequality; value efficiency; more separation between winners and losers	Nazism: complete inequality; some aren't even allowed to compete- removed from life and competition

-political system and economic system should match

-Winner of WWII was somewhere between socialism and capitalism i.e. Britain and America

-Losers are communism, no government, facism, nazism, totalitarianism

* warning: as long as you have elections, and you elect your leaders giving up more control ot the government over economic decisions, you are eventually going to have a situation where they people you put in charge, are making decision that you don't like and you don't think is appropriate. (Hitler- made economic choices trying to save the country but eliminated other political parties and ended up as a dictator; he was elected to this position of power).

*BE VIGILANT  

-trust we have in our government today