Monday students in Mrs. Cobb's class talked about safe chatting and passwords. Mr. Hogue's class read an article and text coded it on the background of the Reformation. Tomorrow will be the final day to makeup the Socratic Seminar. Please bring your lunch, better for time, and we will discuss in the final 15 or so minutes. I will use your discussion coupled with your research questions to arrive at your grade because of the limited time frame.

TGIF

Hey, it's Friday. Today Mrs. Cobb completed the regularly scheduled Socratic Seminar event and Mr. Hogue's class had a guest speaker from Notre Dame on Cyber Bullying. Hopefully, you all had an opportunity to look at your online usage and safety associated. We looked at good passwords and safe chatting. Mrs. Cobb's class will continue with online safety on Monday. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask a teacher, your parents, or Guidance.

 There will be one more opportunity for students that have not been in a Socratic Seminar "fish bowl" experience over lunch on Monday and Tuesday. If you were absent or not prepared you may be involved on those two days. If possible, please bring your lunch on Monday and Tuesday for that event.

 Once again, if you were in the fish bowl already, you will not be involved during lunch. Have a great weekend.

Thursday

Hey all. Today students completed the third and final "fish bowl" or socratic seminar experience in Mr. Hogue's class and worked on text coding a couple of documents in Mrs. Cobb's class. Once again I have to say that the seminar experience has been a very good one. Mrs. Cobb's class will finish tomorrow.

Any student that has missed their rotation for the fishbowl either because they were absent or had incomplete work will meet in their respective class rooms during lunch on Monday. It is required that you appear even though numbers may dictate that a second day will be needed. Please bring your lunch if possible.

Socratic Seminar

Wednesday we held our socratic seminar discussion. In most classes we held two of three discussions and will hold the last one tomorrow in Mr. Hogue's and Friday in Mrs. Cobb's classes. This was part of our assessment over Renaissance Players and your score will be based on what you said during your discussion and not what your two observers put down on the feedback sheets.

The interaction was a blast and I hope each student found it fascinating because we will hold more of these in the coming weeks.

If you did not have your preparation sheet ready or you were absent you will have one last chance to participate on Monday during your lunch hour. If at all possible you should bring your lunch on that day as your walk through the lunch line will cost valuable time.

Tuesday

Today we completed our work with Renaissance impact players. Each student is required to have researched (C level) and compiled information that will help them draw conclusions to the following three questions:

1. Which category of Renaissance Players had the biggest impact on the Renaissance and why?
2.Which individual person had the most impact on the Renaissance and why?
3. Which one Player from the Renaissance did you find the most interesting and why? The why should be supported by your Internet or other sources.

The B-A+ level of the assessment will be determined by how well you respond to the three questions in your socratic seminar experience. Remember, you must share your information or I will not be able to score you properly. Also, you may find more resources and information to use in the socratic experience, if you like. The better you are prepared, the better you will be able to share and score.

Monday - Jigsaw Groups

Monday we concluded our category groups and moved into jigsaw groups. Students have to collect information for the three groups they were not a part of and share information for the group they were.

After completing the jigsaw collection sheet students will move into the solo portion of the project and answer the following three questions: "Which category of Renaissance Players had the biggest impact on the Renaissance and why?" "Which individual person had the most impact on the Renaissance and why?" and "Which one Player from the Renaissance did you find the most interesting and why?"

The answers to these questions displayed in a Socratic Seminar style of discussion will be the B-A+ level of the assessment. Each student that completed the research collection portion on their Player, including three sources, already has achieved a C on the basic level of the assessment. Any student that did not complete that part or does not complete it by Wednesday will not participate in the Seminar and will only be able to score a C.

Most of the information that students will need has already been provided either by themselves or from their group. If you want to collect some more information to help you with the three questions, giving you a better shot at a high score on the Socratic Seminar, you may do additional research at home. Tomorrow we are offering another BYOD day to aid you in that endeavor. Your B-A+ level score will depend on what and how your share information connected to those three questions mentioned above.

Cold Friday...2 hour Delay

Hello! Hope everyone is keeping warm and safe! We had a 2 hour delay schedule which means that our classes were shortened to 40 minutes. Mr. Hogue's class did not get to hear the speaker about on-line safety but he will try again next Friday. Mr. Hogue's class instead did another lesson on safe on-line talk. Mrs. Cobb's class was able to complete the acuity post test for quarter 2. On Monday we will continue our group discussion on our Renaissance Players.