Honors English Class
(Joy & Cherise)
Background:
As our school grows in size, prominence and reputation, it is important that we offer courses and curriculum that can more appropriately meet the needs of our highest-level students, many of whom are eager for a challenge. We want to also be sure to prepare them academically so that they will be able to experience success wherever they may go after high school. To this end, it will expose students to canonized literature while also allowing them to discover postsecondary options.
If possible, the class may be offered as a 2-hour block class. If so, it will simultaneously explore topics around college-readiness, including: study skills, the college application process, varieties of colleges and civic responsibility.
Ideas for Curriculum:
-Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
-Othello by Shakespeare
-Savage Inequalities by Johnathan Kozol
-Slam Poetry (using Def Poetry, Youth Speaks and UC Berkeley's Poetry for the People)
Essential Questions:
(These are also referenced in the earlier post, entitled "Essentials for Motivating Students")
-What are the benefits of knowing how to write and speak for various audiences?
-How can the themes and ideas that we are studying be translated into valuable meaning for my life and worldview?
-How does the literature we are reading reflect elements in my life?
Friday, June 6, 2008
Statistics & the Prison Industrial Complex
(Group: Ramel, Hillary, Dawn)
Our group began creating a unit that merged social issues/justice/studies with statistics. Our essential questions are:
1. How are statistics constructed?
2. Who benefits from incarceration?
One of the ultimate objectives is for students to think critically about the system, and for this to be an avenue to understand statistics. Other objectives and assessments revolve around research, persuasive writing and debate.
Our group began creating a unit that merged social issues/justice/studies with statistics. Our essential questions are:
1. How are statistics constructed?
2. Who benefits from incarceration?
One of the ultimate objectives is for students to think critically about the system, and for this to be an avenue to understand statistics. Other objectives and assessments revolve around research, persuasive writing and debate.
Motivating Student
The most important thing is for our students here at B-Tech to know what we are trying to do for them that will make learning fun. It is my belief that they must come to school with the desire to want to succeed and to know that all of us are working together for their good.
(1) One must come with the necessary equipment to work with such as erasers, pencils, pens, rulers, notebook, calculators, scissors, and etc.
(2) One must want to learn and to put forth their best effort.
(3) One must understand that what they don't understand and be willing to write it down.
(4) One must be willing to do a task successful more than (7) seven times.
(5) One must understand that any example written on the learning board is for their continuous reference point of study.
(1) One must come with the necessary equipment to work with such as erasers, pencils, pens, rulers, notebook, calculators, scissors, and etc.
(2) One must want to learn and to put forth their best effort.
(3) One must understand that what they don't understand and be willing to write it down.
(4) One must be willing to do a task successful more than (7) seven times.
(5) One must understand that any example written on the learning board is for their continuous reference point of study.
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