Addie will be in Dan's room and Heather will be in Mike's room for the first 30min of Project Block today, to introduce the ELA Process Journal.
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ATTENDANCE: Please continue using the spreadsheet to take attendance.
*At this point students should not move from one p-block to another. All of the making experiences up until this point, support students in developing a project in the discipline they originally chose.
GATHERING: Storytelling Connections "Innovations"
- Think Time: What is your favorite innovation? Why?
- One person holds a ball for tossing, and begins by talking about their favorite innovation.
- The speaker will continue to share until another student hears something that they connect to in some way, and raises a hand. (The connection should be related to favorite innovations)
- When a hand is raised, the speaker will wrap up their current thought (quickly!), and then toss the ball to the raised hand.
- The students who now has the ball will share the connection they made, and continue to talk about their connection and other innovations until another student is ready to connect and raises a hand.
- Repeat.
GOAL SETTING:
- Identify a whole group or individual goal for studio time. Write down specific steps, how you know you are successful, and why you think this will help you get to a specific project idea.
STUDIO TIME:
Advisors will circulate and conference with each student about their ideas, providing suggestions and direction. Please document these conferences for future reference.
- Move forward as a group on something in progress.
- Continue making mind-maps
- Generate some sample What, Why, How ideas for specific projects
- Try the Beane Protocol- generate ten+ possibilities for each category.
CHECK IN:
- Circle up.
- Go around, share discoveries and questions/frustrations.
Project Block Advisors: Although, written proposals are no longer an English Language Arts requirement, please spend some time planning out how you would like students to formally propose their project ideas to you for feedback, revision, and approval. Please consider adapting the resources used last year to meet your disciplinary specific needs.
