2010 – 2011 Integrated Lit Agenda Trimester 2

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Week 1 11.29 — 12.03

Monday 11.29

Cut Day — no school

Tuesday 11.30

  1. House Keeping -
    1. Grades - If you are missing an assignment from the 1st Trimester please print it out (them out) - we are not negotiating grades with you
    2. If you are missing a quiz in quia - you will probably need the password from us - once you have completed your quiz email your teacher to let them know.
  2. Winter Skills –13 Days of Digital - Photoshop - Rogan will walk through various tools
    1. Olympics Grunge Poster

Wednesday 12.01

  1. House Keeping - Open your Worklinks - Set up a new table for the 2nd Tri assignments - Insert a Named Anchor as a hot spot on your banner image (Insert> Named Anchor)
  2. Winter Skills –13 Days of Digital - Photoshop - Rogan will walk through various tools
    1. Olympics Grunge Poster

Thursday 12.02

  1. Winter Skills –13 Days of Digital - Photoshop
    1. 20 minutes
    2. If you finish your Olympic poster - begin your poster (see assignment instructions)
  2. Portfolio
  3. Basic CSS and HTML Design Notes
  4. Checklist
  5. Posting your Portfolio

 

Friday 12.03

  1. Portfolio
Week 2 12.06 — 12.10

Monday 12.06

  1. Winter Skills - 13 DOD - 20 minutes!
    • Snowflake - Rogan walk through - Create One - then make many at least 4 in your background - vary the layer styles and size (when you are finished - you do not need to make 4 separate snowflakes)
    • Save this as snowflake1 in your Winter Skills folder (save both as a psd and for web and devices as an image when you finish)
  2. Portfolio

Tuesday 12.07

  1. Winter Skills - 13 DOD - 20 minutes!
    • Snowtext - Can you figure this out?- Write your name out in Snow Text
    • Save this as snowtext in your Winter Skills folder (save both as a psd and for web and devices as an image when you finish) and link it on your worklinks
  2. Portfolio Work

 

Wednesday 12.08

  1. Winter Skills - 13 DOD - 20 minutes!
    • Snowman - Using Adobe Fireworks - new program - new fun!
  2. Portfolio Work

Thursday 12.09

  1. Winter Skills - 13 DOD - 20 minutes!
    • Frost Text - Take your time and do it right
    • Save this as frost (save both as a psd and for web and devices as an image when you finish) in your 2nd Tri>Winter Skills folder and link up
    • Snowman - Using Adobe Fireworks - Finish up your snowman
  2. Portfolio
    • Portfolio PageCheck out the Portfolio page on the BIS website – look at the portfolios to see what pages you need to have completed – also, check the "bar" – in other words, where is the bar set? How does your's compare?
    • I will be coming around to do a check in – here's what I'll be looking at:
      1. Site Defined
      2. Home page
      3. Resume page
      4. Education Research page
      5. Career Exploration page
      6. Showcase page – with content
      7. pages are linked

 

Friday 12.10

  1. Winter Skills - 13 DOD - 20 minutes!
    1. Don't worry about Snow Text - need to figure out some funkiness
    2. Link up your snowman
  2. Portfolio
      • Portfolio PageCheck out the Portfolio page on the BIS website – look at the portfolios to see what pages you need to have completed – also, check the "bar" – in other words, where is the bar set? How does your's compare?
      • I will be coming around to do a check in – here's what I'll be looking at:
        1. Site Defined
        2. Home page
        3. Resume page
        4. Education Research page
        5. Career Exploration page
        6. Showcase page – with content
        7. pages are linked

 

Week 3 12.13 — 12.17

Monday 12.13

  1. Skills – 13 Days of Design
  2. Portfolio
    • Thursday – Portfolios are posted on the web – last day to design

Tuesday 12.14

  1. Skills – 13 Days of Design
  2. Portfolio
    • Thursday – Portfolios are posted on the web – last day to design

Wednesday 12.15

  1. Skills – 13 Days of Design
    • Winter Holly - set your page as 500 by 500 - Rogan will show some Tricks
    • Advanced People - Try to do the Winter Tree in Adobe Fireworks
  2. Portfolio
    • Thursday – Portfolios are posted on the web – last day to design

Thursday 12.16

  1. Skills – 13 Days of Design
    • Make sure you have all of your Days of Design Winter Skills linked
    • No new tutorial today - if you finished all of the winter skills items, make a poster (using some of the grunge olympic technique) - that has all of your winterskills stuff in it (snow, fun text, snowman, etc)
  2. Portfolio
    • Thursday – Portfolios are posted on the web – last day to design

 

Friday 12.17

Cut day — no school

Christmas Break 12.20 — 12.31
Week 4 01.03 — 01.07

Monday 01.03

Cut day — no school

Tuesday 01.04

  1. Skills – Free Rice – 15 minutes
  2. Literature – Anthem by Ayn Rand

Wednesday 01.05

  1. Skills – Free Rice – 15 minutes – start at level 10
  2. Literature – Anthem by Ayn Rand

Thursday 01.06

  2. Skills – Free Rice – 15 minutes – start at level 10
  3. Literature – Anthem by Ayn Rand

Friday 01.07

  1. Skills – Free Rice Vocab Quiz
  2. Literature – Anthem by Ayn Rand
    • Chapter 1 & 2 Review and Discussion
    • Free Reading – 15min.
    • Reading Homework: Finish Chapter 5 – expect a quiz Monday over chapters 3 – 5
Week 5 01.10 — 01.14

Monday 01.10

Go Ducks!

  1. Skills – Free Rice Vocab – 10 minutes – start at level 14
  2. Literature – Anthem by Ayn Rand

Tuesday 01.11

  1. Skills – Free Rice Vocab – 10 minutes – start at level 14
  2. Update Worklinks – make sure all assignments are linked
  3. Literature – Anthem by Ayn Rand

Wednesday 01.12

  1. Skills – Free Rice Vocab – 10 minutes – start at level 14
  2. Literature – Anthem by Ayn Rand
    • Chapter 3-7 Review and discussion
    • Free Reading (for sure this time) 15 minutes
    • Reading homework: finish chapters 8 & 9

Thursday 01.13

  1. Skills – Free Rice Vocab – 10 minutes – start at level 14
  2. Literature – Anthem by Ayn Rand

Friday 01.14

  1. Skills – Free Rice Vocab Quiz
  2. Literature – Anthem by Ayn Rand
  3. Open Lab
Week 6 01.17 — 01.21

Monday 01.17

Martin Luther King Jr Day — no school

Tuesday 01.18

  1. Skills – Free Rice – start at level 20 – 10 min
  2. Literature – Anthem by Ayn Rand
    • Food for thought – answer these questions in a Word doc – save as anthem_final_thoughts
      1. Explain the following quotes in your own words, and discuss how they can be applied to your life:
        • “Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me.”
        • “For the word ‘We’ must never be spoken, save by one’s choice and as a second thought.”
      2. Why do you think the main characters take the names Prometheus and Gaea? What do these names stand for in mythology?
      3. Prometheus reaches the important realization that “To be free, a man must be free of his brothers” (p. 101). Defend or refute this idea for both the book and the real world.
    • Final Discussion

Wednesday 01.19

  1. Skills – Free Rice – start at level 20 – 10 min
  2. Literature – Anthem by Ayn Rand

Thursday 01.20

  1. Skills – Free Rice – start at level 20 – 10 min
  2. Literature – Anthem by Ayn Rand

Friday 01.21

  1. Skills – Free Rice Vocab Quiz levels 20-22
  2. Literature – Anthem by Ayn Rand
  3. Working Lab Objectives
    1. Anthem Reading Assignments
    2. 13 Days of Digital
    3. Update worklinks
    4. Email Sinks or Rogie for regrades
Week 7 01.24 — 01.28

Monday 01.24

  1. Literature – Anthem by Ayn Rand
    • Study time: 10 – 15 minutes – if you don't take advantage, goes right into the test
    • Anthem Final

Tuesday 01.25

  1. Skills – Economics, Business, & Marketing – 15 minutes
  2. Literature – Harrison Bergeron
    • Harrison Bergeron story
    • Quick write – in a Word doc answer the following:
      1. Compare and contrast the societies in Harrison Bergeron and Anthem.
      2. Discuss the value of equality. What does equality mean to you? Why is equality important in a society and how can one guarantee equality as a right for every individual?
    • Email your answers to Rogan and Sinks

Wednesday 01.26

  1. Skills – Economics, Business, & Marketing – 15 minutes
  2. Literature – Harrison Bergeron
    • Follow–up discussion – What does equality look like in society?
  3. Anthem Creative Writing revisions

Please Note: any 13 days of digital or Anthem assignments are due Friday without penalty – after Friday the most you can receive on these assignemnts is a 2

Thursday 01.27

  1. Skills – Economics, Business, & Marketing – 15 minutes
  2. Creative Writing Revisions

Friday 01.28

  1. Skills – Economics in Business 1 Quiz
  2. Working lab
    1. Missing assignments – see note below
    2. Update Worklinks
      • All assignments updated with links to instructions
      • Check spelling
      • Check file path – make sure you don't have "File///" at the beginning
    3. Email Rogan or Sinks for regrades and missing assignments

Please Note: any 13 days of digital or Anthem assignments are due Friday without penalty – after Friday the most you can receive on these assignemnts is a 2

Week 8 01.31 — 02.04

Monday 1.31

Inservice Day – no school

Tuesday 2.01

  1. Skills – Economics in Business 3
  2. Green Economiics

Wednesday 2.02

  1. Skills – Economics
  2. Green Economics

Thursday 2.03

  1. Skills – Marketing 1
  2. Green Economics

Friday 2.04

  1. Skills – Economics in Business 2 Quiz
  2. Working Lab
Week 9 02.07 — 02.11

Monday 02.07

  1. Skills – Marketing
    1. Marketing 1
  2. Green Economics
    • Read Our Carbon Copies (or, Too Many Americans): Energy and Resource Supply and Demand (from Chapter 3 in Thomas Friedman's book Hot, Flat, and Crowded)
      • In order to use the tools of Acrobat
        • Open Our Carbon Copies
        • Click to save (the disc icon) - save this to your U drive - Intergrated Lit
        • Next - open Acrobat (this is in the Adobe Master Collection) - Start>all programs>Adobe Master Collection>Acrobat
        • File>Open> Point to your u drive and get Our Carbon Copies - once open - put the Comment and Markup Toolbar on your pdf - Click Tools>customize toolbars>Comment and Markup Toolbar
    • Reading Questions

Tuesday 02.08

  1. Skills – marketing
  2. Green Economics

Wednesday 02.09

  1. Skills – Marketing 2
  2. Green Economics

Thursday 02.10

  1. Skills – Marketing 2
  2. Green Economics
    • Quia Activity: Basic Weather and Climate
    • Read the two articles below
      1. Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat – NY Times
      2. Biofuels Ignite Food Crisis Debate – Science Daily
    • Browse through the site globalchange.com and select an article of interest
    • In a new Word doc, do the following:
      1. Are Biofuels a better alternative than petrol for the environment? Explain in 1 paragraph (a paragraph means 5 sentences, or 1/4 of a page
      2. After reading both articles, which type of fuel is more effecient and better for the environment? Explain in 1 paragraph (a paragraph means 5 sentences, or 1/4 of a page
      3. Summarize the article you read from globalchange.com in a paragraph (see paragraph requirements above)

Friday 02.11

  1. Skills - - Study First - Marketing 1 - Marketing 2
    1. Marketing Quiz (1 and 2)
  2. Open Lab -
    1. Our Carbon Copies - Reading Questions
    2. Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat – NY Times
    3. Biofuels Ignite Food Crisis Debate – Science Daily
    4. Browse through the site globalchange.com
    5. Answer the questions (listed under 2/10)
Week 10 02.14 — 02.18

Monday 02.14

  1. Grammar and Punctuation Pre–test
  2. Watch an An Inconvenient Truth
    • One page of notes on a sheet of paper – graded assignment

Tuesday 02.15

  1. Skills – Homonyms – challenge board
  2. Green Economics/Greenovation
    • Documentary – An Inconvenient Truth
    • Note taking: you will need to take notes and be required to fill one page – graded assign.
    • PDF guide from the movie

Wednesday 02.16

  1. Skills – Homonyms – challenge board
  2. Green Economics/Greenovation

Thursday 02.17

  1. Skills – Homonym Quiz
  2. Green Economics & Greenovation

Friday 02.18

Cut day — no school

Week 11 02.21 — 02.25

Monday 02.21

Presidents Day — no school

Tuesday 02.22

  1. Skills – Punctuation – commas
  2. Greenovation

Wednesday 02.23

  1. Skills – Punctuation – commas
  2. Greenovation

Thursday 02.24

  1. Skills – Punctuation – commas
  2. Grennovation

Friday 02.25

  1. Skills – Punctuation – Commas Quiz
  2. Portfolio Time
    1. We will be using some time this week for you all to spend some time cleaning up and tweaking your portfolios for final grading - every student must have a showcase page - remember to put your site!
    2. Requirements of the Showcase Items:
      1. Basic description of showcase activity -
      2. picture/representation of showcase activity
      3. link to actual assignmnent (this must be copied into your portfolio folder-
      4. must have at least one example of writing and convert it to a pdf)
      5. Example – JW –
    3. Open Lab
Week 12 02.28 — 03.04

Monday 02.28

  1. Skills – Capitalization
  2. Portfolio
    1. We will be using some time this week for you all to spend some time cleaning up and tweaking your portfolios for final grading - every student must have a showcase page - remember to put your site!
    2. Requirements of the Showcase Items:
      1. Basic description of showcase activity -
      2. picture/representation of showcase activity
      3. link to actual assignmnent (this must be copied into your portfolio folder-
      4. must have at least one example of writing and convert it to a pdf)
      5. Example – JW –
    3. Crunch week – many of you have holes – any missing assignments = an incomplete for the term – refer to the handbook for questions
    4. Check Powerschool – all assignments that will be graded for the term are listed
    5. Update Worklinks

    Tuesday 03.01

    1. Skills – Capitalization
    2. Crunch Week
      • Portfolio Showcase
      • Greenovation Assignments
      • Email Sinks if you need your portfolio updated on the web server – make sure you put your site over in the P drive.
      • Email Sinks or Rogan (depending on which roster you fall under) for regrades
        • Be specific in your email – indicate which assignment you want regraded

    Wednesday 03.02

    1. Skills – Semi–colons
    2. Crunch Week – most common assignments people are missing

    Thursday 03.03

    1. Skills – Semi–colons

    Friday 03.04

    End of Trimester

    1. Capitalization, Semi–colons, and Colons
    2. AWEPA
    3. Missing work and regrades
      • Send electronically as an attachment
      • Send to either Rogan or Sinks – depending on which roster you fall under

 

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