May 5, 2021

 Hello! Here's what we're up to today:

Blocks 2/3

• Checking in
• Red Dress Day
• Library's homework
• "High School Wasn't Supposed to Be Like This"
• Reaction
• Discussion
• Freewrite
• Returning assignments. Let's review the assignment instructions, the structure of a paragraph, and the rubric
• Checkin in on the three assignments and the rubrics
• What book will you read for your Independent Novel Project? Do you know who you'll work with?
• What freewrite will you turn into a paragraph?
• For your media project, what argument will you make? What method will you choose to respond?
• Spoken word poem on cell phone use
• "The Veldt"
• History of technology lesson from the library
• Cognitive Biases
• Fake News and Confirmation Bias
• "High School Wasn't Supposed to be Like This"
• Return to Structure of a Paragraph, and building a paragraph together on the Lesson Notes document
• For tomorrow
• Come with a rough plan for both the writing and the audio assignments
• Tomorrow, I'll show you an in-class example of how to write a paragraph, and you'll have the next two lessons to work on your homework.