The+Goals

=**Unfamiliar Genre Project**=
 * **Author blurb qualities from Class of 2016**
 * Genre definitions from E 11-12

=**AP - decision - making and final product**=
 * What goals has your group set for itself?
 * Which activities promote achievement of that goal?
 * What final personal product or artifact might demonstrate attainment of or progress toward such a goal?

For example, our group decides:
 * to appreciate The Kite Runner, and
 * to keep daily individual reading logs, use entries from those logs to begin daily discussions, and to write a collective or individual thinking log entry after each discussion, all in order to monitor enjoyment, interpretation, and understanding (which contribute to appreciation) of the novel.
 * Kathy Moosher decides to collect and present her best entries scrapbook fashion; Jennigail Firak determines to create a road map of the journey through her mind as she read this book; Aberine Hoffer writes a novel about her own heritage, The Kilt Weaver.
 * Other groups might decide on individual tasks such as researching the origins of Shakespearean phrases, considering the influences of the Greek epic on modern stories, relating another book they read to the one under investigation, or bringing Christian truth to bear on a passage from a work.
 * Still other people have chosen to ask overarching questions, such as "what is good writing?" "why has God designed it so that art and poetry are beneficial to a satisfying life?" "Is it a good thing or a bad thing that the average American reading level is between 8th and 9th grade, and what if anything should we do about it?" They read poems, news articles, and book reviews, and decide to educate the rest of the class on this topic by holding a tutorial seminar on the topic with 2 relevant readings, at which they preside as tutors on the last week of class. Yet another pair of students wants to work on a Twitter book club as their summer reading, so they begin to experiment with it @ICSAMLit or using hashtags #SR, #Startrek, #icsbk; their final product is a co-created paragraph which will be inserted into the summer reading packet for the summer.
 * having enjoyed the multi-genre paper years ago, the group decides to address a personal inquiry question using the multi-genre research format. Expressing herself through poem, narrative, loan agreement, holocaust survivor memoir, and dramatic monologue, Courtielle Kfewart addresses the contemporary relevance of Merchant of Venice.


 * Apologies:**
 * **Mine - for ugliness in the guise of art (without warning)**
 * **Mine - for less attention than we might had had on short timed writing, close analysis of poetry and prose**
 * **Today - beauty ONLY - biblical, ennobling use of film**

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 * Poem Choices ** 9th

=English 11-12=

Scarlet Letter Unit Goals
(under construction...what can you add?)
 * ====To become more independent readers ====

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