Monday September 26, 2016

Pick up a copy of the figurative language handout Tape it into your Writer’s Notebook.

Quickwrite: Who are you? What defines your morals,

ideas, friends, reactions, and future? (not sharing out)

“Lost Generation” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRG4ySdi_aE&safe=active

How can you connect this to the notion of positive epidemics?

Monday September 26, 2016

Seats 1 and 2 will analyze the Lost Generation

Seats 3 and 4 will analyze the Salvador poem

How will you be analyzing?

What will you be looking for?

6 Word Memoir

What First?

Create list of 8-10 words or ideas that stood out

to you from this piece.

Pick two or three that stand out to you.

Going Further Take those ideas and synthesize

them into a 6 word idea about

your text (Lost Generation or

Salvador) with your partner.

Example (Suzuki article):

Suzuki wanted change. Grew up.

Reflected.

Suzuki inspired then shifted her

focus.

Saving the Earth requires

individual responsibility.

Monday September 26, 2016

Example 6 word memoir: Guy danced. Others followed. Epidemic resulted.

Lost Generation video here if needed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRG4ySdi_aE&safe=active

Use the Haiku Deck app on the iPad (or Pic Collage), with your shoulder partner to create a slide for each of the following (Write down ipad #) (with a picture that best represents): #big ideas (2) {main points}

@theme (1) {the message or takeaway of the story}

6 word memoir (1) {summary}

You will create and present to your peers during class tomorrow (due today).

Tuesday September 27, 2016

Get the same iPad you used yesterday

Open your Haiku Deck or Pic Collage

Make sure you have a slide for each of the following (with a picture that best represents): #big ideas (2) {main points}

@theme (1) {the message or takeaway of the story}

6 word memoir (1) {summary}

Present today!

During Presentations: All students write down 1 take-away from each team on

notebook paper.

These are due at the end of class. This will show me what you learned from your classmates today!

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

QW: Login a Google book and go to Google Classroom. Open the assignment for chapter 2 of Tipping Point reading.

Everyone read pages 30-34 and section 5 (pg 56-59) of chapter 2 in Tipping Point. Then, take notes over your section of chapter 2 on the shared document.

Your notes are due today!

Chapter 2 is on the 8th grade website also: http://wjhs8.weebly.com/

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

These are the assigned sections to read for your team.

Tables 1, 6 – Connectors (sections 1-5)

Seats: #1 read section 1, #2 – 2, #3 – 3, #4 – 4&5

Tables 2, 5 – Mavens (sections 6-9)

Seats: #1 read section 6, #2 – 7, #3 – 8, #4 – 9

Tables 3, 4, 7 – Salesmen (sections 10-12)

Seats: #1 read section 10, #2 and #3 read sections 11-12, seat 4 read either 10 or 11 & 12

You will notice your graphic organizer has 12 sections, and you will take your notes in your assigned section.

When you finish your notes, think about and research a positive epidemic.

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Quickwrite: make a list of characteristics common of either Connectors, Mavens, or Salesmen (based on your reading yesterday)

Login to a Chromebook and go to Google Classroom. Open the Positive Epidemics Research assignments.

Choose and research one positive epidemic. The epidemic must tie in with your section and “The Law of the Few”.

Connectors/Mavens/Salesmen

It should be inspirational and should connect to your section of chapter two.

You will research your chosen positive epidemic and write a half page explanation with visuals of your reading section and your positive epidemic. See plan and rubric. Due today!

Essential question: How can you connect a positive epidemic to either Connectors / Mavens or Salesmen?

Positive epidemic research

You are trying to figure out how you can connect your reading about Connectors, Mavens, or Salesmen to a positive epidemic. In other words, how are these positive epidemics started? How are they spread? Specifically, when you research your positive epidemic you should give detailed information about – who started your positive epidemic? Who spread it? Why did it spread? (You can also tie it into stickiness factor and power of context)…

MAVENS

Mavens yearn to share their knowledge, but more importantly, feel a need to learn more about a subject.

A maven might be a fashion-forward teenager or a technological wizard. In fact, a maven can be literally anyone with a deep understanding of any given field.

What makes mavens so effective is not their persuasiveness (that falls under the realm of the salesmen), but their overpowering understanding of a subject.

The advice of mavens is often what allows connectors to spread ideas. Without the guidance of mavens, the connectors would rarely have exciting or important messages to share.

CONNECTORS

Connectors are the rare people who have incredibly widespread "social networks.“ They are often successful businessmen or politicians, and play an integral role in the spread of ideas.

With their wide reaching group of friends and acquaintances, connectors can spread a message rapidly to a receptive audience. Nowhere was the role of connectors more clear than in the midnight ride of Paul Revere.

Revere was possibly the best-connected man in Boston, and when alerted to the impending British attack on the armory at Concord, he was able to alert and arm much of the Boston countryside.

Both Revere and William Dawes rode out that night, but Revere was far more effective in delivering his message. In any given town, Revere would know the right doors to knock on, the right people to talk to, and the right message to convey.

SALESMEN

Salesmen are possibly the most easily identifiable group in "The Few." A salesman specializes in the art of persuasion.

These are the people who are responsible for advertisements and marketing, and who strive to convince others of "needs" that may or may not exist.

Salesmen are masters of The Stickiness Factor, and know how to make ideas and products simpler and more attractive in general.

One obvious distinction between salesmen and mavens is that salesmen are far more likely to be paid for their gift, whereas mavens exercise theirs for the simple pleasure of learning and helping others.

Friday, September 30, 2016

Go to: noredink.com

Login and complete the assignments for your class period. This is for a grade today!

Here are the class codes if you were not here when we used No Red Ink last week:

1st hour: axh9av43

3rd hour: fw4fa8ae

7th hour: c48ac8wa

LATER – need a more current link

o LATER -

o Malala update:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/12/world/asia/malala-attack-arrests/index.html