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The Jack Parry Memorial Scholarship
Project proposal Document
Annotated Bibliography Directions/Template
Easy Bib Citation Website
2nd Semester Book List
Book Project 
TurnItIn.com 
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SENIOR VIDEO FROM THE CEREMONY!
EXAM REVIEW MATERIALS:
Exam Review Guide
Parallel Structure practice_
Sentence Fragment Practice
Wednesday 5/25/16:
Filming of Senior Video 
EXAM Scheduled for Tuesday next week! 
What Speaks Truth presentations to be continued on Wednesday next week!
Tuesday 5/24/16:
What Speaks Truth Presentations
Monday 5/23/16:
What Speaks Truth Presentations
Friday 5/20/16:
Printed Resume DUE Today!
What Speaks Truth presentations begin MONDAY!
Thursday 5/19/16:
Resume's DUE Tomorrow!
What Speaks Truth Presentations Begin Monday
Wednesday 5/18/16:
Sample Resume
Resume Writing Tips Resource
109 Resume Examples
Printed Resume DUE Friday
Social Injustice Project LINKS
-Pretty cool Idea Generator
-Buzzle - Social Issues
-Worldwatch Institute
-Reporters without Borders
-Conversation starter list (Brainstorm) from Saint Leo University
-Sylvia Earle's TED talk on oceans
Tuesday 5/17/16:
Book Projects DUE TODAY!
PowerPoint Karaoke 
Monday 5/16/16:
Work Day - Book projects DUE tomorrow!
Wednesday 5/4/16:
Grammar exercises in the computer lab:
1. Fragments
2. Parallel Structure
When you're done...
​Research and development of project
Annotated bibliography DUE NO LATER than May 9th
Book Project - see link above - DUE NO LATER than May 17th 
*All seniors*- send the youtube link of your song choice with your name and the specified 20 seconds of your song to CSISeniorVideo@gmail.com 
Tuesday 5/3/16:
​Research and development of project
Annotated bibliography DUE NO LATER than May 9th
Book Project - see link above - DUE NO LATER than May 17th 
*All seniors*- send the youtube link of your song choice with your name and the specified 20 seconds of your song to CSISeniorVideo@gmail.com
Monday 5/2/16:
Research and development of project
Annotated bibliography DUE NO LATER than May 9th
Book Project - see link above - DUE NO LATER than May 17th 
*All seniors*- send the youtube link of your song choice with your name and the specified 20 seconds of your song to CSISeniorVideo@gmail.com
Friday 4/29/16:
Research and development of project
Thursday 4/28/16:
Research and development of project
Wednesday 4/27/16:
Project Proposals DUE
Annotated Bibliography Directions/Template - Due no later than May 9th.  Must be submitted via turnitin.com 
Tuesday 4/26/16:
Sign-up for senior speech at senior ceremony.
1st hour: play freshman games and provide feedback
3rd hour: work toward completing project proposals
Monday 4/25/16:
Read William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech about what matters to him among young people today
Watch Adam Grant's TED Talk: The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers
Five-Minute Timed writing exercise - What matters? (Due today)
Researchable Questions Reference Sheet
Research Question Log
Project Proposal Document DUE Wednesday - see link above for the template
Friday 4/22/16:
What matters?
​Project discussion - Project Proposal Document DUE Wednesday next week
Submit a copy to Elective teacher and to me! 
Thursday 4/21/16:
What matters?
Project proposal Document
Wednesday 4/20/16:
In-class writing: Tone comparison between "My Papa's Waltz" and "Those Winter Sundays"
Tuesday 4/19/16:
Read Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"
Complete poem analysis questions
Monday 4/18/16:
Read Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"
Analysis of Turning Point, figurative language, sound devices, and theme
Friday 4/15/16:
Read Mary Oliver's poem "The Sun"
Answer focus question
Thursday 4/14/16:
Poetry Notes 
Wednesday 3/23/16:
Part Two: Oprah/Elie Wiesel interview at Auschwitz
Continue Night Webquest - Due by tomorrow
Vocabulary Quiz TOMORROW
Read Night Chapter 4 for HW
Tuesday 3/22/16:
​Night Webquest Assignment
1. Webquest first site
2. Webquest second site
3. Webquest third site
​
Read Night Chapter 3 for HW
Monday 3/21/16:
Part One: Oprah/Elie Wiesel Interview at Auschwitz
Read opening pages of Night: constructing context
Friday 3/11/16:
Finish The Great Gatsby film

Thursday 3/10/16:

​Watch The Great Gatsby film
Wednesday 3/9/16:
Watch The Great Gatsby film
Tuesday 3/8/16:
No School
Monday 3/7/16:
Crash Course - John Green's Discussion of The Great Gatsby
Bad Driver article
Peer Evaluation for Discussion Groups
Friday 3/4/16:
​Chapter 9 Discussion Groups
Symbolism and Themes assignment DUE
Thursday 3/3/16:
Living the Dream in the Valley of Ashes - John Green
Discussion groups - work on either Symbolism and Themes assignment or Chapter 8 Discussion questions
​HW - Read Chapter 9
Wednesday 3/2/16:
Discussion groups - work on either Symbolism and Themes assignment or Chapter 8 Discussion questions
Tuesday 3/1/16:
Symbolism and Themes Assignment - Due Friday
Chapter 8 Discussion Group Session
Monday 2/29/16:
Anachrony Response Question
Chapter 7 Discussion Group Session
Friday 2/26/16:
Chapter 5 Discussion Group Session
Chapter 6 Discussion Group Session 
Thursday 2/25/16:
Snow day - no school
Wednesday 2/24/16:
Chapter 4 Discussion group session
Read Chapters 5 and 6 fro Friday
Tuesday 2/23/16:
Modernism and The Great Gatsby (background refresh)
Chapter 3 Discussion Group Session
Monday 2/22/16:
​The Great Gatsby Close Reading Assignment - Chapter 2
Chapter 2 Discussion Group session
Friday 2/12/16:
​Guided-read Chapter Two - the Valley of Ashes
Read up to page 80 over break (chapters 1-4)
Secure your "Book Project" book and begin reading it also!
Thursday 2/11/16:
Discussion Groups
​Discussion Springboards
​Chapter One Close Reading Assignment 
Wednesday 2/10/16:
Begin The Great Gatsby 
Read Chapter One - Discussion Groups Tomorrow
Tuesday 2/9/16:
Discussion: a person's behavior, occupation, and clothes are good indicators of...
Hidden Rules Among Classes
Monday 2/8/16:
Gatsby discussion groups assigned
Discussion practice/Gatsby intro
Gatsby books assigned
Friday 2/5/16:
Debate: Does income inequality impair the American Dream? 
Thursday 2/4/16:
Socratic Circle Discussion: The Health of the American Dream
Wednesday 2/3/16:
Discuss Preface
American Dream Writing assignment
Partners for tomorrow's Socratic Circle
Topic: The Health of the American Dream
Tuesday 2/2/16:
Read "Decoding Midnight in Paris"
Read "Preface to the Picture of Dorian Gray"
Answer questions - Due Tomorrow
Monday 2/1/16:
Finish Midnight in Paris
Discuss message/insight./theme
What is art?
Friday 1/29/16:
Midnight in Paris
Thursday 1/28/16:
Research Assignment DUE
Discuss Modernism, etc
Begin viewing Midnight in Paris
Wednesday 1/27/16:
Research Assignment DUE Tomorrow
2nd Semester Book List (see link above)
Tuesday 1/26/16:
Letter DUE
Research Assignment - DUE Thursday
Monday 1/25/16:
Letter to students - letter to Mr. F due tomorrow
Research Assignment
Tuesday 1/12/16:
Work on Theme Project - due tomorrow!
1st hour EXAM - Thursday
3rd hour EXAM - next week Tuesday
Monday 1/11/16:
Exam Review guide
Work on Theme Project - projects due Wednesday
Friday 1/8/16:
Work on theme project - get approval for your theme! 
Thursday 1/7/16:
Socratic Circle groups
Tuesday groups work on Theme Project
Wednesday 1/6/15:
Socratic Circles postponed till tomorrow - Naviance with UCS Career Development Facilitators
THEME Paragraphs DUE
Grammar Practice - always click on GET AN EXPLANATION!
Click Here First: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers - Exercise 1
Click Here Next: Fixing Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers - Exercise 3
Tuesday 1/5/16:
Socratic Circle groups
Wednesday groups work on Theme Project
Monday 1/4/16:
1984 Theme Project
Part 3 Socratic Circle Sessions begin tomorrow!
Part 3 Questions due Tomorrow!
Monday 12/21/15:
1st hour:
Reflection #8: Innovative Product... or Big Brother is Watching You?  Sesame Credit
​BBC Report: China's "Social Credit System"
Sesame Credit, China's Social Credit System, explained
Friday 12/18/15:
1st hour:
Finish yesterday's TED Talk.  
Read from Part 3 of 1984

3rd hour:

Reflection #8: Innovative Product... or Big Brother is Watching You?  Sesame Credit
​BBC Report: China's "Social Credit System"
Sesame Credit, China's Social Credit System, explained
Thursday 12/17/15:
North Korea Camp 14 Story from 60 Minutes
Tuesday and Wednesday 12/15 - 12/16
1984 Part Two Socratic Circle Sessions
Part Three Reading Questions - Due 1/5
Monday 12/14/15:
Reflection #7: Innovative Product... or Big Brother is Watching YOU?  Xbox Kinect
Socratic Circle Sessions for 1984 Part TWO begin tomorrow
Friday 12/11/15:
Dayorder: goodthinkers upsub doubleplusgood Newspeak assignment to Minitrue Inbox.  No memory hole.
Read from part TWO of1984
Avoid prolefeed this weekend
Part TWO Socratic Circle TUESDAY next week
Thursday 12/10/15:
Reflection #6: Innovative Product... or Big Brother is Watching YOU?  "School to track kids with chips" 
Newspeak Activity DUE TOMORROW!
Wednesday 12/9/15:
Reflection #5: Innovative Product... or Big Brother is Watching YOU?  Office 365
​Newspeak Activity - DUE FRIDAY
Tuesday 12/8/15:
​Reflection #4: "Search engines know more about you than your family does..." Mikko Hypponen, from his TED talk
How and Why is this true? 
READ: 1984 Appendix - "The Principles of Newspeak" pp. 299 -312 (14 pages)
Monday 12/7/15:
Article about the senior trade show!
Mikko Hypponen's TED talk “How the NSA betrayed the world’s trust - time to act”
Friday 12/4/15:
Reflection #3
Innovative Product? ...OR... Big Brother is Watching You!?  Amazon Echo and Voice responsive Siri
Thursday 12/3/15:
CSI Gives Back Final Reflection
1984 Part Two Reading Guide - DUE 12/15
Wednesday 12/2/15:
Trade Show!
Tuesday 12/1/15:
Tuesday Socratic Circle Groups
1984 Part ONE Questions DUE
Elevator Pitch for Monday Socratic Circle Groups
Trade show Tomorrow!!
Monday 11/30/15:
Documentation of feedback for project DUE
Monday Socratic Circle Groups
1984 Part ONE Questions DUE
Elevator Pitch for Tuesday Socratic Circle Groups
Trade show Wednesday!!
Tuesday 11/24/15:
Mini-Trade Show with 9th graders
Over break, gather feedback from product users.  This is DUE Monday!!  Gather Feedback
1984 Part One Reading Questions DUE MONDAY  
Socratic Circle Groups for Monday and Tuesday 1st hr / 3rd hr
Trade Show Wednesday, December 2nd
Have a great break!
Monday 11/23/15:
Read from Part One of 1984
Project presentations to Freshman tomorrow
Friday 11/20/15:
Project DUE Date!
Return to your user(s) and gather feedback about your prototype.  Gather Feedback from at least TWO potential users. 
Feedback documentation DUE MONDAY 11/30 (or before)
Trade Show Wednesday, December 2nd
Thursday 11/19/15:
1/2 day AM classes only
Full work day for "CSI Gives Back" Project
Wednesday 11/18/15:
1st hour only:
1984 books 
Reading Questions for Part One - DUE 11/30/15
Tuesday 11/17/15:
1st hour- TED Talk "Why Privacy Matters"
3rd hour- 1984 books 
Reading Questions for Part One - DUE 11/30/15
Monday 11/16/15:
3rd hour only...
Theme Analysis Assignment for "The Lottery"
TED Talk "Why Privacy Matters" 
Friday 11/13/15:
Says, Means, Suggests for "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
1st hour only: Theme Analysis Assignment for "The Lottery
Thursday 11/12/15:
​1st hour ONLY - See above for 2nd quarter ESSAY PROMPTS and DUE DATES
Handouts on Effective Writers and Taboos
HW: Read "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson for FRIDAY
Wednesday 11/11/15:
3rd hour ONLY - See above for 2nd quarter ESSAY PROMPTS and DUE DATES
Handouts on Effective Writers and Taboos
HW: Read "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson for FRIDAY
Tuesday 11/10/15:
Group discussion "The Ones Who Walk Away..."
Group Reflection - Due at the end of class
Monday 11/9/15:
Says / Means / Suggests assignment for "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" Due at the end of class
Friday 11/6/15:
"2BR02B" discussion
Read Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"
Thursday 11/5/15:
CSI Gives Back project work day
Wednesday 11/4/15:
"...to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" --  Malala, education, and the things we take for granted...
NOTES: dystopias 
HW: Read Kurt Vonnegut's short story "2BR02B"
Monday 11/2/15:
Documentation of Empathy Phase Due
Define Phase -Define your group's challenge statement
Ideate Phase - Brainstorm!  How NOT to brainstorm -- How TO brainstorm
TED Talk - Creative Confidence
DUE Wednesday - Ideate sheet with Feedback
Friday 10/30/15:
Project work time - mentors assigned.  Group discussions on beginning the empathy phase
Thursday 10/29/15:
TED Talk -- Clint Smith:The Danger of Silence
Cross-Curricular project DESIGN CHALLENGE - "CSI GIVES BACK"
Phase one... EMPATHY - Click here to find our more
Evidence/Documentation of the EMPATHY phase due MONDAY
Wednesday 10/28/15:
Share prototypes from Design Thinking Challenge
Tuesday 10/27/15:
​Design Thinking in Practice - Redesign your partner's morning experience
Monday 10/26/15:
Intro to Design Thinking Process
Ideo Shopping Cart Challenge - Glean process from watching 
Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test
Friday 10/23/15:
Finish Visual Character Analysis Sketch Presentations
How to Start a Movement TED talk by Derek Sivers
Thursday 10/22/15:
GP #7 - Subject-Verb Agreement
Visual Character Analysis Sketch Presentations
Wednesday 10/21/15:
Whole class Antigone Discussion
Finish Visual Character Analysis Sketch project - Presentations tomorrow!
GP #7 - Subject-Verb Agreement 
Tuesday 10/20/15:
Tuesday Groups Socratic Circle Discussions - Antigone Discussion Questions DUE
Monday Groups work on Visual Character Analysis Sketch project
Monday 10/19/15:
Monday Groups Socratic Circle Discussions - Antigone Discussion Questions DUE
Tuesday Groups work on Visual Character Analysis Sketch project
Friday 10/16/15:
Continue Visual Character Analysis Sketch
Monday begins the Antigone Socratic Circle Seminars... And discussion questions will be DUE on the day of your discussion.
1st hour Socratic Circle Groups
3rd hour Socratic Circle Groups
Thursday 10/15/15:
​Visual Character Analysis Sketch project
Socratic Circles Monday and Tuesday next week
Antigone discussion questions now due Monday
Wednesday 10/14/15:
No CSI for seniors
Tuesday 10/13/15:
Grammar Practice #6
Antigone - Creon's Paranoia Close Reading Assignment
No CSI tomorrow for seniors

Monday 10/12/15:
Complete Antigone Discussion Questions

Friday 10/9/15:
Finish reading Antigone 
Antigone Discussion Questions

Thursday 10/8/15:
Read Antigone with reading groups
Wednesday 10/7/15:
Antigone - Prologue Close Reading Assignment
Continue reading Antigone ​with reading groups
Tuesday 10/6/15:
Grammar Practice #5
Continue reading Antigone ​with reading groups
Monday 10/5/15:
Begin reading Antigone
Friday 10/2/15:
Discussion Questions, Socratic Circle Evaluations, and "Seven Passages" assignment should all be submitted to the inbox
Sustained Silent Reading
Thursday 10/1/15:
​Thursday Groups:
Socratic Circle Discussion 
Socratic Circle Evaluations DUE tomorrow
Wednesday Groups:
Find SEVEN examples of Oedipus referring to vision, sight, or blindness - BEFORE he resorts to violence on himself.  Write down the complete passage (sentence) and page number for each.
​Wednesday 9/30/15:
Wednesday Groups:
Socratic Circle Discussion 
Socratic Circle Evaluations DUE tomorrow
Thursday Groups:
Find SEVEN examples of Oedipus referring to vision, sight, or blindness - BEFORE he resorts to violence on himself.  Write down the complete passage (sentence) and page number for each.  
Tuesday 9/29/15:
Grammar Practice #4
NOTES: Characterize Creon in Oedipus the King
Prepare for Socratic Circle by completing Discussion Questions
Monday 9/28/15:
Read excerpt from "You Don't Need a Title to be a Leader"
Brainstorm: Characteristics/Traits/Virtues of a leader
Work on Discussion Questions
Socratic Circle Groups - Wednesday and Thursday
Socratic Circle Rubric
Friday 9/25/15:
Finish Oedipus the King
Discussion Questions - Due Next Week
Socratic Circle Discussion Groups Next Week
Thursday 9/24/15:
Grammar Practice #3
Read Oedipus the King with reading groups
Wednesday 9/23/15:
Olympian Deities 
Read Oedipus the King with reading groups
Tuesday 9/22/15:
Grammar Practice #2: Subject/Verb Agreement with compound subjects
NOTES: Tragedy
Read Oedipus the King with reading groups
Monday 9/21/15:
NOTES: Parable, Hubris, Tragic Flaw
Intro to Oedipus
Reading Groups - choose roles
Begin reading Oedipus the King
Friday 9/18/15:
"Microsoft Riddle"
Share your original riddles
Riddle of the Sphinx
Reflection #2
Thursday 9/17/15:
Grammar Practice #1 - Subject/Verb Agreement with compound subjects
Riddle Me This...
Wednesday 9/16/15:
Reflection #1: Think about the power of storytelling.  How much of what you have learned about family values, ethics, and morals (about how to conduct yourself in this world) has been learned through stories?  
Watch TED talk: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story
Tuesday 9/15/15:
Impromptu Essay 
Monday 9/14/15:
Examine/Discuss Brueghel's Fall of Icarus
"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by William Carlos Williams 
"Musee des Beaux Arts" by WH Auden

Impromptu Essay Tomorrow
Senior Class Cross-Curricular Brainstorm Session
Friday 9/11/15:
College Essay writing tips from the Princeton Review
College Essay writing tips from the University of Michigan Admissions Office
TED talk by Lawrence Lessig 
What's your issue?  What do you care about? 
Thursday 9/10/15:
College Essay Analysis
The Naked Truth - collection of college essays published in the Chicago Tribune
Due tomorrow - Three question analysis of at least THREE essays - Click HERE for the assignment
Wednesday 9/9/15:
Letters DUE
Course Policies/Procedures - parent signature required - please return by Thursday (tomorrow!)
College? Discussion
Tuesday 9/8/15:
Welcome back!
Return letter from 10th grade
Write a NEW letter to Mr. Feldkamp - due tomorrow!
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