Agenda 4/27

Focus: Introduction to book clubsMs. Leclaire’s final takeaway from The Great GatsbyOverview and sample book club syllabusSetting up your club wikispaces:

Creating your reading calendarEstablishing expectations

HW: Complete the reading your group has assigned; whoever is in charge of the syllabus should complete the first one for Thursday.

Book Club Calendar

Look at the website calendar to see the days allocated to book clubs.Figure out how to divide the reading so that you are finished with the reading by the last day of your book clubs.Record each reading assignment in your student calendar; you can also make yourself a reading assignment bookmark if you think this will help.Decide who will be in charge of the syllabus each day, and record this in your student calendar as well.

Establishing Expectations for Your Book Club (Please type with a proper heading

—one per club)Outside of class

Work Ethic: How much time should we spend on reading each night? What do we need to do as we read? What is our division of labor (writing prompts, discussion questions, activities)?Accountability: What happens of some members of our group drop the ball? Forget their book? Don’t show when they’re in charge of the syllabus? How do we prevent ugly situations? How do we enforce the expectations?

In classWork Ethic: What are our expectations for discussion? How do we plan to spend class time?Accountability: What happens if two of us (or all of us) starting losing our focus? What happens if the bell rings and we haven’t accomplished everything we were supposed to do?

Agenda 4/28

Focus: Looking ahead to the end of the semester and to next year

A little Q&A with the A.P. Language teachers

Overview of the documentary (your final exam) and time to begin working

HW: Follow the website calendar.

Agenda 4/29

Focus: Setting you up for a successful junior year

Say hello to Mrs. Kirgan!

Time to work on schedules

HW: Follow the website calendar, and please have your proposal signed by this Friday.

Agenda 4/30

Focus: Settling into your book clubs

Reminder about ALIS revisions

Purple forms—please have them signed

10 minutes to touch base with your documentary group/work on proposal

Book club time!

Brainstorming how to use the wikispace

HW: Follow the website calendar.

Agenda 5/1: PLEASE PLUG IN ALL LAPTOPS TODAY.

Focus: Book Clubs, Day Two!

Collect signed purple forms

Overview of the wikispace and time to brainstorm

Book club meeting, day 2

HW: Assigned book club reading and documentary work.

Agenda 5/4

Focus: Book Clubs, Day 3!

Collect purple forms and ALIS revisions

Sharing your brilliant book club and wikispace ideas

Book club meeting #3

HW: Assigned book club reading; remember that tomorrow is a documentary day.

Agenda 5/6

Focus: Book clubs, day 4

Day 4 of book clubs!

If you haven’t done so yet, please take some time at the end of class to make sure your book club wikispaces are publishing your work thoroughly and professionally. Be creative!

A.P. Letters

HW: Book clubs/documentary work.

Agenda 5/8

Focus: Book clubs, Day 5!

Two big announcements/reminders

Take a look at the glorious epiphanies of others’ wikispaces!

Book club meeting, day 5

Please look at my feedback (I left some on every page of your wiki’s)

HW: Book clubs, documentary.

Announcements

All school copies of books (PW, Gatsby, book club book) need to be turned in by TUESDAY.

If you are taking A.P. Language, you to…

(1) Take a blue packet

(2) Sign the roster

Agenda 4/25

Focus: Book clubs, day 2A few Modern poems from yesterday (and a little time to finish if needed)Book club time; please make sure that I have your syllabi and scripts from both Wednesday and today before the end of classDistribute A.P. LettersHW: Book club assignments

Survey: Please pick any 5 to respond toIf you were describing this class to a friend, how would you describe it?  Consider both the learning environment and the expectations for homework.

What was your favorite unit of the semester and why?  What was your least favorite and why?

What was the most helpful feedback I gave you this semester?

What didn’t I do that you wish I had done?

What was your greatest struggle of the semester?  Are you still struggling with it?

What was your greatest accomplishment of the semester?

What advice would you give to next year’s class?

What do you think you need to focus next year?

Has this class made you think about anything differently?  Explain.

If you could narrow this class down to a single word, what would it be?

How has your learning changed this semester?

Do you feel that you are more or less in charge of your learning?