LiteratureCirclesSlavery

Daily Lit Circle Work:
__**BINDER DUE WED 1/13:**__
 * [[file:Lit Circles Binder.doc]]Lit Circles Binder Table of Contents Template**
 * The following documents should appear in your binder in a neat, organized, logical, useful order:**
 * **Table of Contents and Self-Assessment (you cannot earn higher than a C on your binder without a complete self-assessment)**
 * **Discussion Question Tracker**
 * **Notice & Note and Goblet of Good DQs Instructions handout**
 * **Trifold Bookmark with your KEY to your Annotations -- key showing how you marked various things in your book**
 * **Lit Circles Vocabulary handout**
 * **COMPLETED Vocabulary illustrations handout (if we didn't finish in class, please do so on your own!)**
 * **Notes on Walt Whitman**
 * **Words, Actions, Symbols -- And Resilience handout from Civil War Museum trip**

__**OTHER DUE DATES:**__
 * **Round Two of Projects for Points (25 pts) - due Wed 1/11.**
 * **Poetry Anthology - due Wed 1/11.**
 * **Unit binder, DQ tracker, and book with annotations - due Wed 1/11.**
 * **Vocabulary Quiz - Mon 1/16.**

Lit Circles Docs:
Homework Tracker DQ Tracker Notice & Note and Goblet of Good DQs Instructions Trifold Bookmark Weekly Evaluation Log Lit Circles Vocabulary Notes from Class on Lit Circles Vocabulary @http://quizlet.com/8785615/english-flash-cards/ -- Lit Circles words @http://quizlet.com/7674061/english-flash-cards/ -- Poe words Project for Points Rubric Poetry Anthology Assignment Sheet
 * QUIZLET MADE BY CHAD C AND AARON P IN 8-4!**
 * [[file:Lit Circles Binder.doc]]Lit Circles Binder Table of Contents Template**
 * The following documents should appear in your binder in a neat, organized, logical, useful order:**
 * **Table of Contents and Self-Assessment (you cannot earn higher than a C on your binder without a complete self-assessment)**
 * **Discussion Question Tracker**
 * **Notice & Note and Goblet of Good DQs Instructions handout**
 * **Trifold Bookmark with your KEY to your Annotations -- key showing how you marked various things in your book**
 * **Lit Circles Vocabulary handout**
 * **Notes on Walt Whitman**

Lit Circles LiveBinder:
@http://livebinders.com/play/present?id=47378

Friday 12/9 Group Discussion Assignment (25 pts) w/ today's small group:
Begin with this assignment on Friday 12/9 -- Reading Checkpoint #1 Do this work in GoogleDocs on a document shared with all small group members.

Homework due Monday 12/12--Wallwisher Walls of Facts on Slavery (20 pts) on your own:
Group One Wall Group Two Wall Group Three Wall
 * Explore all of the subtabs of the following tabs of the LiveBinderabove:
 * Primary Sources tab
 * Slavery Resources tab
 * Slavery Museums tab
 * Spirituals and Music tab
 * Find five facts you consider extremely important, surprising, or interesting, each from a different resource.
 * In GoogleDocs, record these facts //**in your own words**.// If there is something you must quote word for word because it would not make sense in your own words, be sure to use quotation marks appropriately.
 * Also record the source of each fact (author, title of webpage, name of website, URL) in your GoogleDoc.
 * Share your GoogleDoc with each member of your literature circle team (in your own class) and with me (lbarth@ga.usmk12.org).
 * Choose one fact, the one you think is most significant, to add to your Friday 12/9/11 group's Wallwisher. If your fact is already present on the wall, choose a different fact to add.
 * Be sure to include your first name, last initial, and English section on your post on Wallwisher. You will not receive credit for this assignment if you do not have this information on your post.

Lit Circles Projects for Points:
Each project idea is worth up to the number of points listed with it; remember, however, that your work is evaluated and will be awarded up to that number of points based upon quality and effort. Only those group members who contributed to the project will earn the points. If a group member does no work at all, he/she earns no points. The group with the highest number of points in each class wins MORE bragging rights and candy. 8-4 is dominating! This is a chance to turn the tides. Work on the chapters that you've read so far. As we continue in the unit, you can add to your project for more points! SEE RUBRIC ABOVE UNDER "LIT CIRCLES DOCS."
 * ROUND ONE AND ROUND TWO**
 * ROUND ONE: Each group should try to earn up to 50 points before winter break!**
 * ROUND TWO: Each group should try to earn up to 25 points by Wed 1/11 PLUS FINAL ROUND PROJECT worth 75 points!**
 * FINAL ROUND worth 75 points: Each group must complete the Final Round Project worth 75 points by Wed 1/11 as well as 25 points from Round Two. That's 100 points due by Wed 1/11.**

35 points = C 40 points = B- 45 points = A- 50 points = A+ Over 50 = You can earn up to 10 points extra credit toward the homework portion of your grade for Q2! (This is HUGE.)
 * Points earned by winter break:**

1. Create a collage of the best passages from the book so far. Be creative! (up to 25 points) 2. Write a script for the opening scene of the movie version of your book. (up to 50 points) 3. Create a movie poster for your book. (up to 15 points) 4. Create a movie/book trailer for your book. (up to 50 points) 5. Write a choose your own adventure story based upon your book. (up to 50 points) 6. Create "found poetry" or "black-out poetry" from passages in your book. (up to 25 points) 7. Create a soundtrack for your book. Include a CD cover and liner notes that explain how each song reflects your book. (up to 25 points) 8. Create any kind of visual art representation of your book, highlighting important elements or symbols in the book. (up to 25 points) 9. Compose an original piece of music for the book. (up to 50 points) 10. Research music related to the book and create a presentation on your findings. (up to 50 points) 11. Record a performance of music related to the book to share with the class. (up to 25 points) 12. Create a readers' guide to the chapters you've read so far in the book with highlights of important aspects and discussion questions. (up to 15 points) 13. Adapt the story for a younger audience and create a picture book. (up to 50 points) 14. Create a collage on the history of slavery in the United States, based upon what you learned in Mr. Taft's class. (up to 25 points) 15. Write a choose your own adventure story on the Underground Railroad. (up to 50 points) 16. Create a presentation on the history of slavery in the United States, based upon what you learned in Mr. Taft's class. (up to 25 points) 17. Write a picture book for a younger audience on the history of slavery in the United States, based upon what you learned in Mr. Taft's class. (up to 50 points) 18. Create a new book cover for your book, including the description that would be on the back cover/inside flaps. (up to 15 points) 19. Create a map of the land(s) and location(s) described in the book. (up to 15 points) 20. Create a map that illustrates specific topics related to the history of slavery in the United States, based upon what you learned in Mr. Taft's class. (up to 15 points) 21. Create an ebook on the history of slavery in the United States, based upon what you learned in Mr. Taft's class. (up to 50 points) 22. Create a 3-D model of a location from your book (for example, a 3-D model of the Derby Plantation). (up to 35 points) 23. Create a storyboard for a scene of a movie version of your book. (up to 35 points) //Got other ideas? Propose them in class!//
 * Project Ideas for ROUND ONE AND TWO:**

Resources for Projects for Points // and Poetry Anthologies //:
[|Script formatting] -- for a scene for the movie version of your book. Choose your own adventure -- use GoogleForms to easily create a choose your adventure story. picnik.com -- photo editing.

[|Poetry Foundation]
 * Poetry:**

[|poets.org] by the Academy of American Poets

Also be sure to check out the Tech Tools page!

Milwaukee Art Museum Art Institute of Chicago MoMA Guggenheim The Met National Gallery of Art Louvre Musee d'Orsay The Tate del Prado Museum for African Art National Museum of African Art at Smithsonian African Art Museum of Maryland
 * Art:**

Use NoodleBib! See me for help. Remember, EVERYTHING should be cited on your bibliography -- all poetry, all art, etc.
 * Bibliography:**

The Goblet of Good Discussion Questions:
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 * Every day, each group will enter one DQ into the Goblet of Good DQs competition.
 * Groups should choose what they think is the absolutely best example of an outstanding discussion question from among all of the questions composed by the group members for the day.
 * Any single group member's question may be submitted only twice in a week (For example, if my question is submitted on Monday and Tuesday, it cannot be submitted Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday).
 * All questions in the Goblet will be judged by Ms. Barth. Groups will be allowed to argue for their question.
 * The winning question will be awarded a point. Over the course of the unit, the group that accumulates the most points wins eternal glory! And bragging rights! And maybe candy!

Walt Whitman -- Uncle Walt
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 * Slate article on Levi's commercial: "Walt Whitman Thinks You Need New Jeans" by Seth Stevenson
 * 1890 recording of Walt Whitman reciting "America"
 * Walt Whitman and the Civil War exhibit at American Treasures of the Library of Congress
 * Like many Americans, Whitman and his family daily checked the lists of wounded in the newspapers, and one day in December 1862 the family was jolted by the appearance of the name of " G. W. Whitmore" on the casualty roster from Fredericksburg. Fearful that the name was a garbled version of George Washington Whitman's, Walt immediately headed to Virginia to seek out his brother. Changing trains in Philadelphia, Whitman's pocket was picked on the crowded platform, and, penniless, he continued his journey to Washington, where, fortunately, he ran into William Douglas O'Connor, the writer and abolitionist he had met in Boston, who loaned him money. Futilely searching for George in the nearly forty Washington hospitals, he finally decided to take a government boat and army-controlled train to the battlefield at Fredericksburg to see if George was still there. After finding George's unit and discovering that his brother had received only a superficial facial wound, Whitman's relief turned to horror as he encountered a sight he would never forget: outside of a mansion converted into a field hospital, he came upon "a heap of amputated feet, legs, arms, hands, &c., a full load for a one-horse cart." They were, he wrote in his journal, "human fragments, cut, bloody, black and blue, swelled and sickening." Nearby were "several dead bodies . . . each cover'd with its brown woolen blanket." The sight would continue to haunt this poet who had so confidently celebrated the physical body, who had claimed that the soul existed only //in// the body, that the arms and legs were extensions of the soul, the legs moving the soul through the world and the hands allowing the soul to express itself. Now a generation of young American males, the very males on which he had staked the future of democracy, were literally being disarmed, amputated, killed. It was this amputation, this fragmenting of the Union—in both a literal and figurative sense—that Whitman would address for the next few years, as he devoted himself to becoming the arms and legs of the wounded and maimed soldiers in the Civil War hospitals. By running errands for them, writing letters for them, encircling them in his arms, Whitman tried, the best he could, to make them whole again. -- The Walt Whitman Archive