ICB Movie and Vacation HW

In Class:

• Watch ICB Movie

Due after vacation:

• Reading questions for ICB 199-248 
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MI9a1tGjc3lBvdMLfVgBacvmzRWGnw7fMAkw4ymviGQ/edit?usp=sharing

ICB to198 Discussion

Opening Moment:

• Today: Hailey 
• Make up?

Collect:

• Manipulating Language worksheet from Sub Day

Activity: 

• Watch 30 mins of ICB movie
• ICB to 198 discussion today

HW: 

• Next chunk of reading due after vacation with corresponding questions.

Sub Plans

You have two tasks for today:

• Complete the handout for In Cold Blood I passed out digitally last class.  You are looking for examples of  how Capote manipulates syntax, diction, tone, and figurative language to change how the reader views Dick and Perry.
• Find two places where he manipulates the language for Dick
• Find two places where he manipulates the language for Perry
• Fill out the sheet like in the example
• Hard copies have been left with the sub (I changed the layout slightly if you prefer this one)
• For next class, get to 198 in In Cold Blood and have the homework questions prepared prior to class.

Love letter assignment

Opening Moment:

• Today: Asher
• Next class: Hailey

Collected Assignments:

• None due today

Activities:

• Partners: Love Letter Assignment (click for hyperlink)
• Persons Unknown: Collecting syntax, tone, figurative language in In Cold Blood

HW:

• Due next class, ICB 152-198: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nLtqJWK-LGMOy6dz13OeVLwS804oUJzPwrSoFM7FeJY/edit?usp=sharing

100-152 ICB, Vocab Quiz Sets 1 & 2

Opening Moment:

• Today: Nate
• Next class: Asher

Collecting:

• "ICB 100-152 HW" questions due to your google name folder

Activities:

• Vocabulary quiz (Sets 1 & 2): 50 points
• Index Card Conversation

Homework:

• Due two classes from now, ICB 152-198: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nLtqJWK-LGMOy6dz13OeVLwS804oUJzPwrSoFM7FeJY/edit?usp=sharing

Opening Moment:

• Lilly (next time is Nate)

Activities 

• Vocabulary Review 

Homework:

• Quiz over 20 words from ICB, Quizlet Style
• http://quizlet.com/join/9Hn9sYKA8
• Group Conversation over In Cold Blood, 100-152
• Don't forget the the questions as well
• Save in your Google Folder with your name

ICB 1-100 discussion

Opening Moment:
-Demetrius

Pass in work to Google Folder:
- Page One reflection (OLD)---> EXAMPLES (100 points)
- Personality Profile (OLD) (100 points)
-Pass in 1-50 to your name Google folder; title it "ICB 1-50 HW" (OLD) (50 points)
-Pass in 51-100 to your name folder, title it "ICB 51-100 HW" (NEW!) (50 points)

Activity:
-Index Card Discussion for ICB page 1-100 (50 points)
-Set #2 of Vocabulary (if time)

Homework:
-Read 100-152 in ICB due on Dec 8th, with questions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17TZoSjQQnv8v0WSC8yPg3YC3HGKTpirFPJUW38YZgoc/edit?usp=sharing
-Quizlet style quiz on Dec 8 over the two sets of vocabulary (50 points)

Happy Thanksgiving! 1-50 due today in In Cold Blood.

Opening Moments:

1. Jake
2. Nichole

Passing in work:

1. Did you pass in your personality profile last class to your name Google folder?
2. Pass in 1-50 to your name Google folder; title it "ICB 1-50 HW"

Activities:

1. Vocabulary work for 1-50 in ICB
2. Visualizing page 30: get ready to draw!
3. Index Card Discussion

HW due:

1. Our next maroon day back, December 2, 51-100 are due in ICB.  
2. There are questions which go with this, just like last night.  Click here to see the questions.  

Substitute Day

1. Turn in your Personality Profile to your name folder.
2. Read toward 50 in In Cold Blood
3. Use the guiding questions to help with your general comprehension of the text.  Fill out the required number.  Click here for link.  Due on Tuesday.

Day #1: In Cold Blood

• Should the United States stop using the death penalty?
• Make predictions about the book based on the following covers:

• With your partner (decided by the fates), look up information on the author and post as a "reply" to this blog thread.
• Family
• Where he lived
• History with drugs and alcohol
• Education
• Why he was drawn to this story
• What makes his writing special
• Groups for Capote research:
  1. Hannah and Wynne
  2. Jake and Ramsey
  3. Nate and Hailey
  4. Pam and Lilly
  5. Peter and Demetrius
  6. Nichole and Julia
  7. Asher and Joey
  8. Josh
• Vocabulary Work pages 1-50
• HW: Read pages 1-50 by two classes from now

Peer Editing your Personality/Profile

1. Opening Moment: Pam (next time Joey)
2. Demo of Explain Everything
3. Peer editing with Explain Everything --> hard copy also given in class
4. Due next class: response to Page One, posted into your Google Name folder 

Page One: Day #2

• Opening Moment: Peter
• Personality Profile due next class: Rubric link
• Movie: Page One
• Be prepared to do end of movie reflection 

Personality Profile & NYT Page One

1. Opening Moment: Wynne
1. Article from last class: http://www.amplifyingglass.com/hickox-ebola-symptoms/
2. Personality Profile example: Finally Drug Free (November 2, 2014)
1. I noticed...
2. I liked...
3. I didn't care for...
3. Interview Tips from Katie Couric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eOynrI2eTM
1. What's your biggest take-away from this video?
4. 8-12 open-ended questions for your interview.
5. Pre-viewing questions for documentary: Page One
6. Due next class: Interview...consider audio recording so you don't have to take notes.

Personality Profile

1. Opening Moment Calendar: double-check

1B. Listen to last two podcasts.

2. Entrance ticket

3. Read the article "New York Marathon 2014: A Lawyer by Day, A Runner Always." With a partner, respond to the following and be ready to report out:

• How does the writer open the piece? Is this an effective lead? Why or why not?
• Who is the subject of the article and what is the angle of the story?
• What details and anecdotes does the writer include about her life that help illustrate the subject's personality?
• What is your overall impression of the subject after reading this piece?

4. Reverse Interview

• To get us thinking about how to ask questions and incorporate quotes in our profiles, complete the Reverse Interview assignment in your quarter 2 folder. 

5. Interview due date--Monday (not Thursday); you're welcome

Interviewing: Lessons Learned.

• Make sure that your audience is being serious...or not
• Make sure you pick people who could answer your question
• Thinking on feet...if questions you have planned aren’t enough, know what to do next.
• Be willing to following the questions...but to a point.  On the fly.
• Have a manageable amount of questions.  Be concise.
• Considerate of the other person’s time.
• Give questions before you go to the interview.
• Scheduled meetings ahead of time.

Personality profile--a person with a unique story to tell:

• DR: Ms. Varela “She’s not from around here!”
• Why she came to the US.
• All the languages she knows
• JM: Chandler Vincent, #1 runner
• How he got to be a #1
• Not always interested in running, didn’t start until a freshmen.
• HM: Laurie-the-musical-lady
• Mom of a student, just moved here lately
• Family seems interesting!
• AS: Step-grandfather, musical theater
• Macy’s commercials
• Voice recordings
• Teacher
• Moved around

-LS: Virginia Fullagar

• Tu-tu-Tuesdays
• Circus
• Loves French

-RD: DAD!

• Travel ME-NY everyweek
• Work and family

-JB: Simon Skold

• Lived in Palestine; lived there a year? Bias into world conflicts.
• Wants to be a director
• Traveled across the country on a bike

-JP: GRANDFATHER!

• Best gardener EVER!
• Veggies, specializes in carrots & beans

-HS: ???

Finishing NPR projects, Blog reflection, Personality profiles

• Finish listening to NPR style projects
• Homework due: three ideas on who to interview
• Personality Profiles
• Hearst Journalism Awards: The Hearst Journalism Awards Program, was founded in 1960, to provide support, encouragement, and assistance to journalism education at the college and university level. The program awards scholarships to students for outstanding performance in college-level journalism, with matching grants to the students' schools.
• Links to Hearst Journalism Award Winners: Visit the section marked Personality/Profile.  Feel free to look at other years as well. Read 2-3 different personality profiles.
• With a partner, discuss (and write down so you remember!)/be prepared to talk about with the class:
• 1. How is a personality/profile different from an article you would read on the front page of a newspaper?
• 2. How did the writer hook you in the first paragraph?
• 3.  If we create a rubric in order to assess a quality personality profile, what elements would we need to assess? (EX: what categories would go down the left-hand side of the rubric).  

Personality Profiles and finishing NPR projects

1. Opening Moment: Hailey
2. Moving onto Personality Profiles!
1. Read article: In High School and Alone in Homeless Shelter
• Blog Post:
• Who is the main person in this article?
• What details, anecdotes, and other accounts illustrate this person's personality?
• What overall impression do you get of this person from this article? Which details give you this impression?
• Why do you think this article was published in the New York Times?
• If you had conducted this interview, what would be some of the questions you would have asked...keep in mind the sensitive nature of this topic.
3. Listening to NPR projects!
4. Homework: Consider who might make an interesting interview subject and why.  Create a list of three potential interviewees. Write a paragraph about each person and why they would be worth interviewing.  Think about peers, teachers, coaches, administrators, family friends, or other members of the community.  Post to your blog.  

10 Questions for Part III

• Opening Moment: Lilly
• Project Outline if you need it (emailed before)
• 10 open-ended questions for Part III of your project--> show Ms. P when done
• Conduct any interviews, in school, that will help you on Part II
• Research interesting facts and type up introduction for Part I

Due next Thursday, October 23rd 

Garage Band & Interviewing

1. Opening Moment: Demetrius
2. Mrs. Hogan visits! Garage Band info:
1. Cutting
2. Rearranging
3. Adding music 
4. Fading music
3. Interviewing 
1. fly swatter game
4. Create 10 questions for your own interview
5. Email/call/arrange for your interview (Part III is 3 mins total)

NPR Project Deadline: Next Wednesday, October 22nd

GarageBand and Blog Entry

1. Opening Moment: Jake
2. Discuss NPR report:
• Next time you will be polling the public...how will you approach people?
• An interview guide brainstormed by you
• Open-ended question...will it elicit a variety of responses?
• Trying out Garage Band. Practice your questions and recording skills in class.
3. Read article: "Against All Odds, A Beautiful Life" and consider the following:

1. Who is the main subject of this article?
2. What details, anecdotes and accounts from other people illustrate the subject’s personality?
3. What overall impression do you have of Maurice Mannion-Vanover from the article? What gives you that impression?
4. Why do you think this article was published in The New York Times?
5. If you were to write a more in-depth profile or obituary for Maurice Mannion-Vanover, which details from this article would you include? What additional information would you need to find out? Which people do you think you would interview to get this information? 

4. Due next class: Final draft college/narrative essay

Blog Post, TedTalk, College Essay

1. Opening Moment: Hannah 

2. Ted Talk: Vote

3. Using the narrative rubric to assess college essays. Pick one to assess with your partner (fates decided at lunch...):

• Josh and Jake
• Julia and Lilly
• Pam and Nichole
• Demetrius and Joey
• Faith and Wynne
• Hannah and Asher
• Nate and Peter
• Ramsey and Hailey

3.  BLOG POST: 
Carefully curating a limited set of objects has lately become a popular way for museums and historians to tell vast histories (e.g., the history of the world, or of America). After all, artifacts can help us visualize the past and see complex events as something tangible or relatable.

We can use the same approach to tell our personal histories as well. A sentimental T-shirt, a kindergarten drawing or a dog-eared book? What objects tell the story of your life?

Read the Sunday Review Article “Object Lessons in History” and answer the following questions on your blog.

— What objects tell the story of your life? Can you identify five or 10 objects that you would include in an exhibit or book about your life?

— Why did you select each of those objects?

— Do you think telling history through objects is a “a clever way to hook people on history”? Do objects tell a story that words or images aren’t able to convey quite as effectively?

Metaphorically Speaking; NPR projects; College Essay

1. Leaving the room protocol--NEW!
2. Opening Moment: Joey
3. Bouba or Kiki?
1. Ubiquitous = ?
2. Metaphorically Speaking TEDtalk 
4. NPR Project Form
1. Pick a partner (or work alone)
2. Outline your project using the form.
5. Work on your college essay or peer edits
6. Final drafts of essay: Due October 9th (Thursday)

NPR Project Link

College Essay Work Day #2

1. Opening moment: Pam
2. College Essay work
3. Make sure you check the calendar for when you are meeting with me in the library.

College Essay Work

1. Opening Moment: Peter

2. First Lines: Rate them

3. College Essay Rubric

4. Conference College Essay- folks who completed a peer review last time will be conferencing with me today. Everyone else will be completing a peer review or continuing to work on a draft.

Writing Goals and Peer Review

1. Opening Moment: Ramsey & Wynne

2. Blog Posting #2: Set 3 writing goals for yourself that you would like to accomplish over the course of the year.

3. Peer workshop the college essay: Make a copy of the Peer Review Sheet in your Quarter 1 folder. You will be filling this out for your partner and sharing it with them.

Peer Review Protocol:

• Read the essay (either out loud with your parter or to yourself)
• Using the comment feature in google docs, make comments or suggestions as you are reading 
• Fill out Peer Review Sheet (make sure this is shared with your partner!) 
• Take turns discussing what you noticed on peer review document

When you are finished conferencing, you will be revising this essay in preparation for your conference with me next class. For homework, you will complete the College Essay Review Sheet -this must be finished before conferencing with me!

Friday's Agenda: Second Essay!

1. Opening Moment: Wynne
2. Submit your first draft of your first personal narrative/college essay into your first name/last name folder.  Label it: Narrative #1
3. You are going to spend the period today writing a second first draft of a personal narrative/college essay.  Also put this in your name folder.  Label it: Narrative #2. Choose another prompt from the common app to write on (see tab at top of page for the prompts)
• Consider one of the following ways to put a spin on your narrative:
• Tell your story in the third person
• Tell your story from the perspective of an inanimate object
• Keep considering how the mundane could be the jumping off point of a great essay.
• Start writing...from the end of your story
• Start writing...from the middle of your story
• Begin a story with dialogue
• Begin with a shocking statement

*By the end of class today you should have TWO rough drafts in your name folder in Googledocs*

College Essay Checklist & Writing Tips

1. Opening Moment: Faith

2. Activity #1, Group work: Admissions Committees

• Look at the college essay checklist and discuss what you're looking for in a college essay; hard copy also given in class. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/studentactivity/20090423a.pdf

• Choose an essay to review from this site, fill out the checklist: http://www.conncoll.edu/admission/apply/essays-that-worked/

• Group chat: Read a few more essays.  Which students would you accept? Which would you reject?  Be ready to report out.

3. Now, we are going to consider and evaluate advice about how to write a good college essay. Choose one of the following articles and answer the three questions below in your group. Type your answers in a response to today's post on our class blog.

• Your Comments on Admissions Essays
• Tip Sheet: An Admissions Dean Offers Advice on Writing a College Essay
• An Applicant’s Perspective on the College Essay
• Treating a College Admissions Essay Like a First Date
• Admissions Essay Ordeal: The Young Examined Life
• The ——– That Changed My Life

1. What are the top three pieces of advice you glean from this piece?
2. From whose perspective does this advice come?
3. Do you find this advice compelling? Why or why not?

HW: Use the advice given in these articles to write the first draft of your college essay. Try writing on one of the free writing prompts we did last week....build off of one that you already did, or feel free to start over. We will be working with these drafts next class.

Narrative/College Essays

1. Opening Moment: Josh 
2. Groups: discuss article analysis

• what were the highlights?
• what would you recommend modeling from the articles?

3. Blog posting: what makes a good college essay?

• http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/essay/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

4. Documenting the mundane...activity 

5. (If time...) Group work: Admissions Committees

• Look at the college essay checklist and discuss what you're looking for in a college essay; hard copy also given in class. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/studentactivity/20090423a.pdf

• Choose an essay to review from this site, fill out the checklist: http://www.conncoll.edu/admission/apply/essays-that-worked/

• Group chat: Which students would you accept? Which would you reject?

Example Essays

1. Opening Moment: Julia
2. Three pieces of info...article from last blog entry
3. Example essays:
1. Read 1(+) essay from each category in small groups (Link: Click here)
2. Fill out form as you read: Model Article Analysis Sheet
4. Gulf Motel prompt
1. Video link: Write about a place that has meaning to you and that you wouldn’t want to see changed. Try to use the same types of details that Blanco uses in his poem.
5. First draft of first essay due: Friday, September 19th

Free Writing

Tuesday, Sept 9th

1. Opening Moment: What is it?
2. Still need your blog address:
• Nichole
• Hannah
• Josh
• Pam
• Jake
• Demetrius 
• Hailey
3. Free Writing Activity
1. Step #1: Writing Prompts
2. Step #2: Discussion
• Which of these topics did you find the easiest to discuss? Why?
• Which of these did you find difficult? Why?
• Which of these prompts did you want to continue talking (or writing) about?
4. Read examples and answer the question: What makes a strong narrative essay?
1. Link: Click here
5. Blog Entry #2:
• NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/education/09guidance-t.html
• After reading this article, what are three pieces of information you'll take away from this article that would be helpful to you or a friend?  Explain why the resonate with you.

Welcome to Journalism 2014-2015!

Today's agenda:

• Collect permission slips & read articles from last class

• Set up shared google folders (share with petersonb@rsu5.org)
• Title of folder: "Last name, first name"

• Set up blogger account and page 
• Add your blog account address to this google doc.  

• How are blogs assessed?

• The first post to your new blog is to explore what journalism means to you.  Some directions you can take this prompt include (but you are not limited to):
• What does journalism look like?
• Is there "good" or "bad" journalism?
• Where do you see journalism in your life?
• Talk about journalists you pay attention to.
• Why are you interested in journalism?
• What are you curious to learn more about in terms of this class? Journalism in general?

150-200 words.

• College/Narrative Essays: What makes a strong essay?  Respond to this thread with your answers. 

Good Night, and Good Luck

Complete the questions given in class; read the following before watching the movie.

Good Night, and Good Luck

Movie Notes

Characters of note:

Fred Friendly: Murrow’s producer; main character (George Clooney)

Edward R Murrow: Host of “See it Now”; main character (David Strathairn)

Joe Wershba: A reporter on Murrow’s team (Robert Downey Jr)

Sig Mickelson: One of Murrow’s bosses (Jeff Daniels)

Don Hollenbeck: Newsman who commits suicide (Ray Wise)

William Paley: The head of CBS (Frank Langella)

Source: Wikipedia

Good Night, and Good Luck. is a 2005 American drama film co-written and directed by George Clooney and starring David Strathairn, Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson and Jeff Daniels. The movie was written by Clooney and Grant Heslov, both of whom also act in the film, and portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, especially relating to the anti-Communist Senator's actions with the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

The movie, although released in black and white, was filmed on color film stock but on a greyscale set, and was color corrected to black and white during post-production. It focuses on the theme of media responsibility, and also addresses what occurs when the media offer a voice of dissent from government policy. The movie takes its title (which ends with a period or full stop) from the line with which Murrow routinely signed off his broadcasts.

The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Clooney and Best Actor for David Strathairn.

Plot Summary:

Good Night, and Good Luck. is set in 1953, during the early days of television broadcast journalism. Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and his dedicated staff—headed by his co-producer Fred Friendly (George Clooney) and reporter Joseph Wershba (Robert Downey, Jr.) in the CBS newsroom—defy corporate and sponsorship pressures, and discredit the tactics used by Joseph McCarthy during his crusade to root out Communist elements within the government.

Murrow first defends Milo Radulovich, who is facing separation from the U.S. Air Force because of his sister's political leanings and because his father is subscribed to a Serbian newspaper. Murrow makes a show on McCarthy attacking him. A very public feud develops when McCarthy responds by accusing Murrow of being a communist. Murrow is accused of having been a member of the leftist union Industrial Workers of the World, which Murrow claimed was false.

In this climate of fear and reprisal, the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity ultimately strikes a historic blow against McCarthy. Historical footage also shows the questioning of Annie Lee Moss, a Pentagon communication worker accused of being a communist based on her name appearing on a list seen by an FBI infiltrator of the American Communist Party. The film's subplots feature Joseph and Shirley Wershba, recently married staffers, having to hide their marriage to save their jobs at CBS as well as the suicide of Don Hollenbeck (Ray Wise) who had been accused in print of being a Communist.

The film is framed by performance of the speech given by Murrow to the Radio and Television News Directors Association in 1958, in which Murrow harshly admonishes his audience not to squander the potential of television to inform and educate the public, otherwise, it’s "just wires in a box".[2]