Honors Big Question Upcoming Due Dates

Annotated Bibliography - Feb 22nd (A) and Feb 23rd (B)

Project Outline - Feb 28th (A) and March 1st (B)

*Both assignments will be submitted on Turnitin.com

*Zero block will follow the A day schedule

Presentations begin March 8th.

Friday 2/9 - Of Mice and Men and Snow Day Updates

- Of Mice and Men Introduction Power Point: PowerPoint Link

We have taken notes on this PPT in class, A day students please review the slides and take notes as needed.

- All students please complete the following Chapter 1 Study Guide: OMAM Chapter 1 Study Guide

- The following Honors students still need to submit Big Questions for teacher approval:
4th Block:
Peyton C.
Breaden D.
Morgan G.
Sam L.
Logan M.
Caroline M.
Julie O.

Homework:
All students should be done reading OMAM Chapter 1 (Click on Scanned Class Documents at the top of the blog, scroll down to Of Mice and Men to access the full text at home) and complete the OMAM Chapter 1 Study Guide by next week 2/12 (B) and 2/13 (A).

Honors Big Question Due Dates

Assigned: January 22nd, 2018

- Big Question Packet 2018
- Teacher conferences for question generation available: January 30th-February 2nd.
- Mrs. Whittington returns approved/denied Big Question submissions - January 30/31.

Annotated Bibliography Due: Week of February 19th-23rd.
- 4 artifacts all that need to be included/referenced/and cited in your final presentation.
- Check the BigQuestion blog label for types of artifacts that you can use.
- Each Annotation should include:
       paragraph one- summary of artifact
       paragraph two- how you will use it in your project and a quote that helps/supports your
                                          argument, or provides a counter argument.
- This will be submitted on Turnitin.com.
- Template: BQ Annotated Bibliography Template

Project Outline Due: Week of Febrary 26th-March 2nd.
- This will be step by step planning of your 8-10 minute presentation.

- Remember to fill out the works cited page at the bottom as well.

- Keep the headers on your outline so it is clear what you are talking about.
- This will be submitted on Turnitin.com.
- Template: Big Question Outline Template 

Practice Presentations: March 6th and 7th
- You will present your project to a small group of your peers to assure that you are comfortable, prepared, and that all aspects of your project work correctly.
- Your project is expected to be finished/mostly finished at this date. 

Presentations: March 8th-23rd
- You will sign up for an order to present the week before.
- Emergency dates after Spring break: April 3rd and 4th.

Big Question Speed Dating (Honors and Academic)

Big Question Packet 2019 (HONORS) - Handed out in class January 28th and 29th.
Good Human Project 2019 (ACADEMIC) - Handed out in class January 28th and 29th.
Due at the end of class January 30th and 31st.

Today in class you will rotate through most of your classmates to discuss your chosen Question before you submit it for teacher approval.

You will have two minutes at each station before you rotate to the next classmate. Make sure to discuss both questions during that time.

Consider discussing the following topics:
- Provide your partner ideas for their question - modify/change it if needed.
- Ask for help with your own presentation ideas.
- Ask your partner: What is your answer to your big question?
- Help your partner brainstorm ideas or sources.
- Can you think of a book/website/movie/song/etc. that relates to your partners topic or question?
- Is their/your question broad enough to have more than one LOGICAL answer?
- Ask your partner: Why did you pick your question?
- Ask your partner: Is there a better way to word my question? (Think formal)
- Is your question clear? Your partner needs to understand your question without you having to explain it to them.

Words to Replace in your BQ: (Informal and too broad)
Good
Bad
People
Us
You
We

Better Replacements: (Formal and Clarifying)
Helpful
Benificial
Society
Humans
Teenagers

When you get back to your original partner you will have two minutes to discuss how your question has changed over the course of our speed dating and any final thoughts you may have.

Vocab List #5

Vocab List 5 Quizlet

Quiz dates: 2/1 (A) and Skinny/Zero block --- 2/2 (B)

Ninth Grade Vocabulary – List Five
Prefixes	auto-	self	autobiography, automobile, autocracy, automaton, automatic
	co- / con-	with	co-worker, connect,  confide, conspire
	inter-	among or between	interstate, intervene (come between)
	intra-	within	intrastate, intramural
Roots/Bases	brev-	short	brief, abbreviate, brevity
	cruc-	cross	crucifix, crucial, crucify
	culp-	guilt	culpable, culprit
	glyph-	vertical groove	Hieroglyphics—Egyptian “sky writing”
	holo-	whole, entire	holograph, holocaust, holistic
	iso-	equal, identical	isolate, isotope
	mon-	warn	premonition, admonition
	sed- / sess - / sid-	to sit	sedate, subside, sedentary, session
	struct- / stru-	to build	misconstrue, structure, destruction
Suffixes

Odyssey Book Organization (Academic)

This assignment is to prepare for the Socratic Seminar that will take place on 1/23 and 1/24. It is a required assignment for Academic classes and an optional assignment for any Honors student who thinks they could benefit from the organization.

Go through each book in the Odyssey and write down the following:
- The book number
- The page number the book starts on
- One sentence summarizing the most important thing that happens in that book

Example:
Book 1 (Page 1) - Athena comes to help Telemachus search for his father Odysseus.

Having the summaries and page numbers will assist you in finding direct quotes and navigating your Odyssey book during the Socratic Seminar.

Remember, you can access the online version of the Odyssey by going to the 'Scanned Class Documents' section above, and following the directions that appear.

Socratic Seminar - Hero Music Analysis (Honors)

Analyze the following lyrics and relate them to The Odyssey and our Socratic Seminar Questions for Quarter 2.

Hero Songs

Links to listen:
Kryptonite by Three Doors Down
Superman (It's not Easy) by Five for Fighting

Link to how to analyze song lyrics: How to: Song Analysis