2017 – 2018 Trimester 2 Agenda
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Week 1: December 4 – 8
December 4
- E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
- Worldviews – Free Reading Grade
December 5
Assembly Schedule – Assembly is at 12:00
- E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
- Truth – Free Reading Grade – 15 minutes
December 6
- E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
- Truth
- In a new Word doc, write a half-page response to the following prompt: (1) What does Dewitt mean when he says: "In short, we have no way of knowing, for sure, what reality is really like"? (2) Explain why the Correspondence Theory of Truth feels incomplete in explaining truth.
- Submit via Dropbox in Synergy
December 7
- E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
- Fireside Chat: Truth
December 8
- E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
Week 2: December 11 – 15
December 11
- E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
- Your Worldview
- In the center of a notecard, write down your core belief about the world – this is the central tenet of your worldview; the one you believe will NEVER alter – circle it
- Surounding this core belief, write in 5 more beliefs that are central to your worldview – ones you believe would be DIFFICULT to alter – draw in a circle surounding those beliefs
- Surounding the 2 inner circles, add 5 more beliefs that are peripheral to your worldview – ones you believe COULD be influenced or altered
December 12
- Switch Lab Electric Car – we got one, and it's coming today at lunch
- E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
- E4 Literature
- Read The Cop & the Anthem – Silent Free Reading Grade
December 13
- E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
- Tutorial – Create a Christmas Ornament in PS – Due Tomorrow
- E4 Literature
- Read The Cop & the Anthem – Silent Free Reading Grade
December 14
- E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
- Tutorial – Create a Christmas Ornament in PS – Due Tomorrow
- E4 Literature
- Soapy's Worldview
- The Cop & the Anthem
December 15
- Alumni Day
Christmas Vacation: December 18 – 29
Week 3: January 1 – 5
January 1
New Year's Day – No School
January 2
- E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
- WSIA #1 – Capitalization – Due Friday
- E4 Reads
- The Path to Understanding Computation
- You'll have to trust me with this one and take a leap of faith
January 3
- E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
- WSIA #1 – Capitalization – Due Friday
- E4 Literature
January 4
- E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
- WSIA #1 – Capitalization – Due Friday
- code.org
January 5
- E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
- WSIA #1 – Capitalization – Due Today in Synergy Dropbox
- E4 Literature
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Week 4: January 8 – 12
January 8
- E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
- WSIA #2 – Subject Verb Agreement – Due Friday
- E4 Literature
- Coding The Cop & the Anthem – Due Friday
- E4 Internships
- Starts January 16th and Ends February 15th
- Tuesday and Thursday from 11:00 - 1:30 – build in travel time and lunch
- 4 hours a week
- About BIS Internships
- DOCS: Contract | Limited Liability Agreement | Timesheet
January 9
- E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
- WSIA #2 – Subject Verb Agreement – Due Friday
- E4 Internships
- Internship Quest
- Killer Cold Call
- Internship Info
- Starts January 16th and Ends February 15th
- Tuesday and Thursday from 11:00 - 1:30 – build in travel time and lunch
- 4 hours a week
- About BIS Internships
- DOCS: Contract | Limited Liability Agreement | Timesheet
- E4 Literature
- Coding The Cop & the Anthem – Due Friday
January 10
- E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
- WSIA #2 – Subject Verb Agreement – Due Friday
- E4 Internships
- Internship Info
- If you've already confirmed an internship placement, fill out the info on the first tab
- If you HAVE NOT confirmed an internship placement, click on the 2nd tab and fill out the sheet
- Internship Quest – Due in Synergy Dropbox
- Killer Cold Call – Due in Synergy Dropbox
- Internship Info
- Starts January 16th and Ends February 15th
- Tuesday and Thursday from 11:00 - 1:30 – build in travel time and lunch
- 4 hours a week
- About BIS Internships
- DOCS: Contract | Limited Liability Agreement | Timesheet
- E4 Literature
- Coding The Cop & the Anthem – Due Friday
January 11
- E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
- WSIA #2 – Subject Verb Agreement – Due Friday
- E4 Literature
- Coding The Cop & the Anthem – Due Friday
January 12
- E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
- WSIA #2 – Subject Verb Agreement – Due Today
- E4 Literature
- E4 Internships
- Internship Info
- If you've already confirmed an internship placement, fill out the info on the first tab
- If you HAVE NOT confirmed an internship placement, click on the 2nd tab and fill out the sheet
- Internship Quest – Due in Synergy Dropbox
- Killer Cold Call – Due in Synergy Dropbox
- Internship Info
- Starts January 16th and Ends February 15th
- Tuesday and Thursday from 11:00 - 1:30 – build in travel time and lunch
- 4 hours a week
- About BIS Internships
- DOCS: Contract | Limited Liability Agreement | Timesheet
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Week 5: January 15 – 19
January 15
Martin Luther King Jr. Day – No School
January 16
- Internships
- Don't Forget your Timesheet
- Contract
- Limited Liability Agreement
- Internship Makeup (IMU) #1
- Internship Make Up (IMU) #1 – upload to the Synergy Dropbox under the Internship Mini
- People w/out an internship:
- Issac E.
- Kianna E.
- Levi K.
- Ryan K.
- Kameron L.
- Andrew L.
- Malika P-S
- Matt P
- Cooper R.
- Dillon S.
January 17
- Winter Formal Court Finalists
- E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
- WSIA #3 – Commas – Due Friday
- Turn in your internship timesheets and contracts
January 18
- Internships
- ATTENTION E4 PEEPS: you WILL STILL GO to your internship today even though we are an assembly schedule. You will be excused from 4 period.
- Internship Makeup (IMU) #2
January 19
- E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
- WSIA #3 – Commas – Due Friday
- Turn in your internship timesheets and contracts
- Open Lab
- Writing Skills in Action
- Coding The Cop and the Anthem
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Week 6: January 22 – 26
January 22
- E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
January 23
- Internships
January 24
PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT UPLOAD .AI OR .PSD FILES TO THE SYNERGY DROPBOX
ACTION TO TAKE: in Synergy, delete the .psd or .ai files you uploaded. save as or export as a .jpg, .png, or .pdf (least preferable)
- E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
- Funny Papers
January 25
- Internships
January 26
PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT UPLOAD .AI OR .PSD FILES TO THE SYNERGY DROPBOX
ACTION TO TAKE: in Synergy, delete the .psd or .ai files you uploaded. save as or export as a .jpg, .png, or .pdf (least preferable)
- E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
- Funny Papers
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Week 7: January 29 – February 2
January 29
- Teacher Professional Development – No school
January 30
Assembly – Late Start Schedule – GO TO YOUR INTERNSHIP
- Internships
January 31
- Funny Papers – Due today
February 1
- Internships
February 2
- Turn in your internship timesheets
- Working Lab
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Week 8: February 5 – 9
February 5
- E4 Lit Cranes
February 6
- Internships
- Internship Makeup #7
February 7
February 8
- Internships
February 9
- Winter Olympics
- E4 Lit Cranes
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Week 9: February 12 – 16
February 12
- E4 Lit Harrison Bergeron a little dystopia for your Monday
February 13
- Internships
February 14
- E4 Lit & Global Studies
- Where Should We Go?
- Notecard:
- First and Last Name
- Answer this: what region do you want to learn more aobut? (1) China (2) Africa (3) Middle East
- Which book sounds intersting to you? Why?
- What is your second choice?
- E4 Lit Harrison Bergeron
February 15
- Internships – last one!
February 16
- E4 Lit & Global Studies
- Drumroll... We are going...
- Internships
- Turn in your completed timesheets
- Internship Reflection
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Week 10: February 19 – 23
February 19
President's Day – No School
February 20
- E4 Lit & Global Studies
- Ghost Wars: Prologue
- On a Notecard, answer the following:
- What is an operator?
- What are "clandestine services?"
- Why do you think the CIA pumped a tremendous amount of cash to a guerilla commander like Masoud? What was the ROI – Return On Investment?
- What was the "Stinger Missile Re-purchase" program?
February 21
- E4 Lit & Global Studies
- What Do We Know About 9-11?
February 22
- Snow Day!
February 23
- E4 Internships
- Thank You Post Cards
- Thank you for your time...
- I really enjoyed...
- I found...
- I enjoyed...
- Sincerely...
- Working Lab
- HB: Critical Response
- Internship Reflection
- Please send Sinks an email when you complete or redo an assignment – I will do my best to get to it quickly
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Week 11: February 26 – March 2
February 26
- Working Lab – Sinks is out with the flu
- HB: Critical Response
- Internship Reflection
- Please send Sinks an email when you complete or redo an assignment – I will do my best to get to it quickly
February 27
- E4 Lit & Global Studies
- Read this Excerpt of the Epilogue in Lawrence of Arabia
- This gives you just a small snippet of how the nation states of the modern Middle East formed.
- Click here to read more about T.E. Lawrence
February 28
- E4 Lit & Global Studies
- At the onset of WWI, the Ottoman Empire enters the fray with the Axis powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria)
- But at the time, the Ottoman Empire was unified in name only, not in mind and spirit.
- This was well known to the British, so they exploited the divide.
- Read the following articles:
- The Rise of Arab Nationalism
- The Arab Revolt
- Sykes-Picot: The map that spawned a century of resentment
- Using the 3 articles you just read, write a 1/2 page Critical Response to following prompt:
- How did the Sykes-Picot agreement set a collision course for future conflict in the Middle East? How did this agreement establish mistrust of the western powers? How does the rise of the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) parallel the rise of Arab Nationalism in 1908?
- Submit via dropbox in Synergy
March 1
- E4 Lit & Global Studies
- Let's recap:
- How the British Divided up the Arab World
- Creating Chaos: Lawrence of Arabia and the 1916 Arab Revolt
- Map of the Arab Revolt
- Map of the Ottoman Empire circa 1914
- Map of the ME as Drawn by the Sykes-Picot Agreement
- Map of the Middle Eas Before and After WWI Settlements 1914-1922
- Mordern Day Map of the Middle East
March 2
- Exhibition Night is March 14
- What do you want to showcase?
- Working Lab
- End of the Trimester is NEXT WEEK!!! YIKES!!!
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Week 12: March 5 – 9
March 5
Reminder: Trimester 2 Ends Friday
- Exhibition Night Prep – Exhibition is March 13
- Your Exhibit: "Building a Personal Brand" – from the Careers Unit
March 6
- Exhibition Night Prep – Exhibition is March 13
- Your Exhibit: "Building a Personal Brand" – from the Careers Unit
- Photoshoot: Sharted Drive P/handouts/Sinks/2017-18/E4/Exhibition Poster Shoot
March 7
- Exhibition Night Prep – Exhibition is March 13
- Your Exhibit: "Building a Personal Brand" – from the Careers Unit
- Save in the P drive under: handins\BIS\Sinks\E4\2017-18\Exhibition Night
- Photoshoot: Sharted Drive P/handouts/Sinks/2017-18/E4/Exhibition Poster Shoot
March 8
- Exhibition Night Prep – Exhibition is March 13
- Your Exhibit: "Building a Personal Brand" – from the Careers Unit
- Save in the P drive under: handins\BIS\Sinks\E4\2017-18\Exhibition Night
March 9
End of Trimester 2
- AWEPA + HoM + E3
- Exhibition Night Prep – Exhibition is March 13
- Your Exhibit: "Building a Personal Brand" – from the Careers Unit
- Save in the P drive under: handins\BIS\Sinks\E4\2017-18\Exhibition Night