Class+Agendas

//**Sessions will meet 10/22/08, 11/12/08, 12/23, 1/14/09, 2/19/09, 3/9/09, 4/16/09, 5/20/09**//

Session 8 - Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Evaluation and Planning...
Check out this poetry performance[| You Don't Look...] The poetry of Vanessa Hidary What do you think? Contribute to the discussion board...
 * Opening**
 * Lunch Count..**.determine how many pizzas, soda, call to order... + plates, napkins,

If you are a Harriton student who has not taken the diversity survey, please click on the link [|here]. Will you be a senior next year? Thinking about slacking after you get that dream acceptance letter. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! Read [|this].
 * I YBG Evaluation**: Take the survey [|here].

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 * II. T-shirt Collage** - new collage of YGB words... t-shirts will be ordered and distributed in the Fall.

a. Review Wiki** links for sources to go to over the summer - spend time exploring links on study skills, college scholarships, black history and more. Share what you find with others...
 * III. Choices
 * b. Write article** about YGB for Gifted Newsletter
 * c. Interviews** for Ms. P.s research


 * IV. Collection of books** not used...


 * V. Lunch and movie?

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I.Strategic Plan for District (real world / authentic activity )
- describe Strategic Plan goals/objectives/strategies/action plans/ accountability - Opportunity for student input into direction of LMSD for next 5 years!! - Seriously....

A. [| Click Here to Take Survey] Take this survey by yourself and be ready to share your answers with a partner. B. Turn to a partner and discuss your answers, write suggestions/recommendations on post it notes. 1. How can we identify ways to measure improvement of African-American student achievement at the elementary level? 2. How can we increase/improve grades for African American students? 3. How can we increase SAT, ACT, and PSSA scores for African American students? 4. How can we increase the number of African-American students attending and graduating from higher education institutions? 5. How can we provide mentoring for viable career paths as an integrated part of the educational experience of the African American student? 6. How can we increase African American enrollment in higher level courses? 7. How can we increase High School graduation rates for African American students? 8. How can we help guardians support student achievement?

C. Count off to make 8 small groups - "Carousel Walk" with markers to discuss each question and list recommendations on chart paper. D. Whole group reviews recommendations for each question/chart. ( Blog/video camcorder) media type="custom" key="3658485" E. **All work will be submitted to Superintendent and Administrators to be included in the Strategic Plan for LMSD !**

III. Discuss film / Blog
IV. Generate topics for next month's work = writing to publish on the WIki ie poems, songs, essays about racial identity, HBCUs, doll experiment, etc. We will talk, share, write and post stories on this Wiki.

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Session 8 - talking/ listening/sharing/ writing, summer plans...?, YGB evaluation on survey monkey

Session 6 - Monday, March 9, 2009
[|Don't Forget to Sign In Here]

//What Motivates You to Achieve?// Research Project

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 * Lunch**

- podcasts - write essays, poems, etc. to record with music using garage band - i-movie - edit video of focus group to create i-movie to share with teachers - Debate - choose a topic to plan debate ie HBCUs, segregation today, etc.
 * III.** **Plan Tech Projects** - small groups review past sessions to generate list of topics for tech projects for last two sessions (upload list to Technology Projects page of Wiki)

discussion board -
 * IV. End of Day Reflection** - Free write. Choose 1 question from our discussion

Next Month **Movie**...//The Great Debaters// and Tech projects


 * Need volunteers to write article for Gifted Newsletter about YGB

Session 5 - Thursday, February 19, 2009

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 * I. Seminar Guideline**s - Achievement, Responsibility,

• What is your full name? • What is your preferred name? • Who gave you your name? • How have you experienced your name? • How do you think others experience your name?
 * II. Team building** activity - Cultural Proficiency - "Name Story"




 * III. How has Brown Decision impacted your education today?**

- realities of segregation – - Share what stood out… - list Themes - importance of education in access to upward mobility/power - nature of discrimination, bullying of others who are different - Compare and contrast the experience of main character in __New Boy__ to yours today
 * New Boy**

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 * Small Groups** - choose from the following:

Choose a theme to discuss/explore/create discussion questions.
 * 1. New Boy**

- Read and discuss Zora Neale Hurston’s response to Brown vs Board - discuss Is segregation ever positive? What about HBCU’s, fraternities/sororities, YGB, - Segregation as in 1954 Virginia as in New Boy
 * 2. Segregation:** good or bad?

The doll experiment – since this was the basis of the 1954 decision to end segregation, what does the recreation of this social science experiment say to us today…where are we with respect to “psychological damage”?
 * 3. “Psychological damage”** of segregation

Respect - Bullying – policy/ TM/ art/ "**He Ain't heavy"** by artist Lucien Crump, retrieved 1.22.2009 from freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com "**Never look down on someone unless you are reaching to give them a hand up**" ...unknown

Reflections on last month - Hot Topics - HBCUs ~ Skin Tone Black White/Light dark, [|Dark and Lovely Michelle]
 * IV. Return essays** share/ comment/ save

-** Choose a topic from today's work - What are __you__ looking for from YGB?
 * V. End of day reflections

__Agenda__

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 * Obama Watch **[|Inauguration rap]**

I. Seminar Guidelines **- Socratic discussion, focus, attention, respect [|:) Climate of respect :P]**

II. Discuss novel **__[|New Boy]__ a. What stood out so far? How's the reading going? Strategies for when to read...**

III. The Doll Experiment View short video **[|"A Girl Like Me"] (for more on this topic go to Racial Identity) - notemaking for discussion while viewing - Blog whole group discussion media type="custom" key="2991514"**

IV. Small Group Discussion **- select from activities below to guide your discussion** a**. list topics/themes from discussion for further discussion and/or writing. Choose one topic to continue discussion. record notes.** b. [|Simple Justice video clips] - **compare Social Science Evidence clip to "A Girl Like Me**" c. [|The Audacity of Taupe - commentary by a biracial man] d. Discussion **- relate to original experiment, views & norms today**

V. Writing **- choose one of the following a.. Choose a topic from your discussions to write your thoughts. Then go to the discussion page and respond to the prompt. b. Choose a topic from last month's film/discussion to write your thoughts c. Generate a list of topics from our discussions (see the previous agendas below) that we can further discuss or would be good topics for writing poems, raps, essays, etc. that we can then turn into podcasts!**

VI. Share **writings. Wiki discussion board... Discussion topics - segregation, separate but equal...is it ever ok?, HBCUs, race and color, psychological damage, the historical importance of education, achievement today,**

IV. __Learning to Learn__ - **Study Skills

Next month....** V. Discuss __New Boy__ VI. Review primary document **- //[|1954 Suprene Court Decision - Brown Vs Board of Education]//. a. analyze b. generate questions about document and decision c. [|Zora Neale Hurston's response]** VI. Plan interview questions for guest speaker. VII. Debate "Segregation vs Integration"

__Agenda__

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**__I. Announcements__**
> **[|Derrick #1] Obama supporter articulates his position, intellectual/articulate Black man... > [|Derrick #2] Obama Supporter defends his choice, emotional reasons for his choice...**
 * **In the 1st clip an anti-Obama reporter tries to get an interview from a young black man that he ASSUMES is ignorant. He assumes that he is only supporting Obama because he is a BLACK man and has no idea of what the issues really are. Boy was he wrong! In the 2nd clip the young man explains in depth his response to the reporter. BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check it out.**

**__Study Skills__**
- for SAT vocabulary development check out [|http://www.freerice.com]
 * - College opportunity - (see below...) + HBCU College Tour (Nia and Amy share...)**

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 * I have a friend who is a professor at Harvard University, who wants to get the word out that Harvard Univ. has a massive science endowment for African American ( High School Juniors/Seniors) who are interested in majoring in the sciences, Chem, Biology, Physics etc. A four year tution free education at Harvard Univ.!!! (regardless of parents income) ! The professor to contact for more info. is Professor Gregory Tucci, tucci@fas.harvard.edumailto:tucci@fas.harvard.edu> 617-496-4668.**=====
 * If you know any African American junior or senior students who excel and are passionate for the sciences please pass along this information**

How has the Brown vs Board Supreme Court decision affected your school experience today? __II. FILM__ **- Simple Justice finish viewing

Guided discussion - small group

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III. Introduce novel **__[|New Boy]__ a. study skill - time management strategy for reading divided page strategy **

IV. Distribute YGB materials...

**__Agenda__**
__Study Skills__ media type="custom" key="2673159" II. Achievement a. review blog from session 1 (scroll down). b. Survey Monkey (pre-test) c. "Finding Forrester" video - optional view on Wiki (see below in session 1) III. Learning Styles follow up a. flexible grouping by learning styles, grade, school, interest, etc. b. interest inventories**
 * **[|Don't Forget to Sign-In Here!]**
 * **Have You Submitted Your Address, Email, Grade, Etc. Information Yet? If Not, Click [|Here]**
 * **Seminar Guidelines - Socratic discussion, focus, sidebars, climate of respect, culture of achievement**
 * **News - Election Obama...What does this mean to us? [|THE ROOT Special Edition] [|"Little Rock Nine" response to Obama]**
 * **//"They and my other ancestors may be dead, but our ancestors live on in us, and I felt their presence powerfully on Nov. 4. They were very much alive that night."// By John H. Morrow Jr. "Barack and My Uncle Fred" | TheRoot.com - http://www.theroot.com/id/48834**
 * I. Strategies for making up missed work. Proactive approaches to make up work.

__Curriculum__ //"To know where you are going, you must know where you've been."// **//L. Partridge// Curriculum video** ===**IV. Brown vs Board of Education Topeka 1954 a. KWL - small groups list what you know about BvB? Generate questions b. Intro Video "Simple Justice" - view using double entry journal response**===

__Agenda__
I. Introductions -[|Sign-In Sheet & Update Information] - [|teachers] - group activities - same/different posters II. Assessmentsl - learning Style/ Interest Inventories II. Introduce Wiki - view YGB videos - students chose pages to preview and share IV. Define Achievement - discussion of barriers and supports to achievement - Survey Monkey (pre-test) - [|Wiki discussion] V. [|Film : "Finding Forrester" Part 1] [|Film: "Finding Forrester" Part 2] [|Film: "Finding Forrester" Part 3] [|Film: "Finding Forrester" Part 4] [|Film: "Finding Forrester" Part 5] [|Film: "Finding Forrester" Part 6] [|Film: "Finding Forrester" Part 7] [|Film: "Finding Forrester" Part 8] [|Film: "Finding Forrester" Part 9] [|Film: "Finding Forrester" Part 10] [|Film: "Finding Forrester" Part 11] [|Film: "Finding Forrester" Part 12] [|Film: "Finding Forrester" Part 13] [|Film: "Finding Forrester" Part 14] [|Film: "Finding Forrester" Part 15] - VI. __[|New Boy]__ - Introduce novel - organizational skills - divided page strategy -

__Materials__
1. 12x18 paper 2. markers/crayons 3. pencils.pens 4. sign-in sheet 5. Learning style/interest inventories 6. Books __New Boy__ 7. LMHS laptops 8. Video projector/speakers

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