Grade+11+Team+Wiki

=OUR CORE VALUES= ==I would love it if your team could start thinking about and planning lessons to incorporate the work we did with Don Profitt on ethical literacy and developing our school's core values. We need to develop advisory lessons so that as a school we can refine the list the staff came up with and share that with parents so that as a school community we can come up with our five core values!!!== = =

9/11 Commemoration--what do you think??? Just wondering how you 11th grade team members feel about doing something with the poetry/dedications to the victims of 9/11 that the kids wrote for their summer projects on 9/11 with the whole school at the memorial to 9/11 on our campus. It may be a good way to connect the summer assignment to their lives and make it relevant to their learning. Plus, it will be a good way for the juniors to show off their work to 9th and 10th graders and help build community. Please let me know! Aimee

I am divided on this issue. On one hand I think it's important for us to commemorate in some way. On the other hand, I wonder if it will be too emotional for those of us (faculty and students alike) who lost loved ones and struggle with the day to begin with. I don't think everyone sees the wiki regularly so I'm going to e-mail this discussion to the 11th grade team. -Bridgette (from my new desktop computer!)

I wanted to ask that as you collect your Advisees summer assignments, you check off their AP US assignments but have the students submit them to me directly. They will need the essays they composed for an in-class open note DBQ on Friday. I'll follow up in e-mail. Thanks! Bridgette


 * Junior Summer Assignment**

I was wondering what we were doing with the summer assignments for the 11th graders. I know that teams haven't had a chance to discuss them yet. I just want to make sure that I know what we're doing with them since I don't teach juniors this year. - Susan

I was thinking about it this weekend ... the models and creative writing pieces seem like they could just stay in advisory for reflection and sharing. The sketches should go to math teachers (to review proportions), the articles and summaries and graphic organizers could go to history class (if they'd be useful there) and the foreign language pieces could go the world language teachers. That is, of course, assuming we want to split them up like we have done in the past. I'm up for that or keeping them together. I think the main thing will be to remember that we can grade less detail-oriented and more on completion, accuracy, and creativity (like we do with the portfolio), if that's what we decide we want to do. -- Jenn I think the split works well, but think the models are probably best left in Advisory as I know many are short on space. Students sharesd their models in my advisory today and it led to incredible discussions. I reccomend sharing them sometime this week if you haven't allready. Can everyone bring their projects to Wednesday's meeting? That way we can get started over the weekend. I'm assigning projects soon and really aim to keep up on things as they're submitted. Thanks Bridgette I was also in Claire's advisory today, where students were sharing their model memorials. Their creativity and their use of symbolism was amazing. I love this project! Kudos to Barbara and Jenn and all others that had a hand in creating this fabulous learning experience for our students. (Aimee)

Just want to remind you all that at team meeting tomorrow, in addition to what you have on your agenda, you should be establishing norms for your work together as a team this year. You can use the protocol distributed or any other process that works for your team. (Aimee)

We have some work to do in figuring out how best to divide the projects... in the meantime I'm going to create a 10 point rubric to guide us in the grading process. The project was beautifully designed and the students claim it was meaningful and enjoyable. Their reflections were nothing short of beautiful. Kudos to the project design team! Bridgette