I’m not here today. I’m taking a yucky three hour blood test. All we are doing today is working on the Moral Thermometer!
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3/4/2015 – A
A thermometer measures temperature – today, we will create a thermometer that measures morality.
Things that need to be included on the poster:
1. A Title
2. Thermometer with the ten main characters and Isaac Morris on the scale in order of the guilt that you have assigned.
3. An explanation of what each person’s crime was and a justification of *why* you placed it where you placed it (print and paste on the poster)
4. A definition of morality
I am going to be focusing on your sentence variety and embedded quotes. Make sure you have your OWN opinion included as well. Otherwise, what’s the purpose?
I gave you all a PowerPoint with how to vary your sentences and even gave you an example of how a student did it – with a little help from the Captain. 😉
Here are Daniel’s notes about the Knight from the Cheat Sheet:
NOTE: THERE IS NO ORIGINAL THOUGHT HERE. THIS IS ALL JUST NOTES AND QUOTES.
He took that and came up with this for the chart:
NOTE: Here, you can see the beginnings of his opinion. THIS IS GOOD!
Lastly, he took both of those items and came up with this, focusing on his sentence structure and variety. He used the PowerPoint to help him when he got stuck. It has links that you can click on!
I put the paragraph in two formats for you: the first is just typed in Word, and the second is put in a text box. I personally find the text boxes easier to manage when making a poster, but creative design is up to you!
Remember, in the infamous words of the Bollato – before you can “frost and sprinkle”, you have to “bake the cake”.
2/28/2012
Bryan E. kicks it old school! Thanks to him, we started out watching Sir Mix-a-Lot’s video over his hooptie. Pretty funny, and now we see where Riley gets her dance moves from.
Today, we pimped out our formatting – make sure you have a double-spaced paper with 12 point Times New Roman font. Do a Header. Do a Head-ING that indicates your last name and the page number. Give the paper a working title. Riley walked us through that, so if you weren’t here today or didn’t have your hooptie to edit, then you may need some help.
The last two things we edited today were your introduction and word choice. Remember to keep this as an ACADEMIC paper – no informal slang, cussing, or text speak. Use the best words possible.
REMEMBER THAT YOU NEED TO DO ALL THESE EDITS WHILE TRACKING THE CHANGES IN WORD.
2/27/2012
Do you know what a hooptie is? Well, you do now! Riley must have watched one too many episodes of Pimp My Ride, because she is telling us that we are going to Pimp our Papers!
Remember on Friday she told us to take our paragraph “nuggets” and put them all into one word document in order? Well, that’s our paper! It’s ok. It probabaly doesn’t look like much of a paper right now, but we are going to turn this Pinto into a Cadillac!
Today, we pimped it out by looking at our organization, our thesis sentence, and lastly, our rhetorical strategies.
Make sure that you are TRACKING YOUR CHANGES in WORD. Riley will be looking at your tracked changes on Friday. There is a DROP BOX JUST FOR TRACKED CHANGES.
Remember – she expects everyone to start out with a hooptie and then turn it into a Cadillac. The tracked changes SHOW that process, much like Pimp My Ride shows the PROCESS of fixing the car up.
2/24/2012
We were all very glad to see Riley was in school today.
Today, she gave us time to work on our poster and then had us convert our poster’s paragraphs into a paper. There is a new folder called Pimp my Paper and this is where all of our material for the paper will go.
Remember, in order to pimp your paper out, you have to have to something to edit and revise! Make sure you have this to work on for Monday!
2/23/12
Riley was absent, so all we did was the DCA (District Common Assessment) and then worked on the thermometer.
Yeah.
2/22/12
PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICT LYRICS – How many of you have seen a CD with that warning on it and avoided it? Or does it just make you want to listen to the CD even more?
That’s how the Miller’s Prologue started out. Riley even asked people if they wanted to skip the story and go to the library because it was going to be a naughty story, but NO ONE LEFT.
The story, y’all, if you didn’t read it, go read it. You can either read the story in NoFear or read/listen to the rap.
We then did RAFT for the story with a postcard. The post card template is in LMS.
After that, we worked on the moral thermometer.
2/21/2012
We started out today by reading The Pardoner’s Tale. We read the Pardoner’s Tale Prologue, The Pardoner’s Tale, and the Epilogue to the Pardoner’s Tale.
After we read, we identified The Most Important Idea (TMII) through a foldable.
We also listened to the Pardoner’s Tale rap – Riley thinks she’s all hip hop. DENIAL.
We then spent the rest of the day working on the Moral Thermometer. If you don’t have the pre-writing done yet, you have got to get that done first.
There are instructions (and the rubric) for the Moral Thermometer poster in LMS – make sure you look at that before you compelte your poster!
2/20/2012
The Captain started out and gave us the last two pilgrims for the Cheat Sheet: The Narrator and the Host.
Whoa. That’s a GIANT picture.
Anyway, after we did that, we worked on our Moral and Corrupt Pre-writing. Using our cheat sheets, we individually decided who were the top five most CORRUPT pilgrims, and the top five most MORAL characters.
In LMS, there are two documents to fill out: The Moral Pre-Writing and the Corrupt Pre-Writing. Fill it out with an explanation and quote that proves your point. Make sure that you are using quotes that are accurate!
Corrupt is BLUE with dark blue being the MOST corrupt.
Moral is purple with the darkest purple being the most moral.
DON’T FORGET THE BIG IDEA FOR EACH ONE!
You will not be able to do the poster without doing the pre-writing, and it will be WAY easier to write the paper if all of this is done. It’s like a ladder – in order to reach the top, you have to work your way up.
Moral Themometer
A themometer measures temperrature – today, we will create a themometer that measures morality.
Things that need to be included on the poster:
1. A Title
2. Themometer with the ten main characters and Isaac Morris on the scale in order of the guilt that you have assigned.
3. An explanation of what each person’s crime was and a justification of *why* you placed it where you placed it (print and paste on the poster)
4. A definition of morality
Remember, in the infamous words of the Bollato – before you can “frost and sprinkle”, you have to “bake the cake”.
