Setting the Bar High: April 25, 2018

Focus: What standards do we need to establish and hold ourselves to for the next 4 weeks?

Turn in your book club contracts.

1. Warming up with an overview of your final speech and the importance of your book club

2. Recommitting to high standards: 

• Book clubs: Your freedoms and responsibilities

3. Setting your book clubs expectations (please have your signed sheets and books out on your desks):

• Click HERE to revisit what an excellent syllabus looks like.

• Fill out the bookmark: Which reading will be due which days? Who will be in charge of the syllabus each day? Please write this on your bookmark AND in your calendars.

• Create a shared folder called "[Title of your book] Book Club Folder." It should be shared with each member of your group and placed inside your Transcendentalism folder. ALL SYLLABI AND CLASSWORK must be placed inside this folder.

• Complete your book club manifesto and place it inside your shared book club folder.

4. Voting on your third documentary: Please click HERE to vote.

I Am

Life, Animated

HW:

1. Bring your documentary tracking sheet back to class tomorrow; you will turn it in before you leave tomorrow.

2. Complete your assigned book club reading and syllabus before class on Tuesday.

3. Make sure all Gatsby work (journals, fishbowls and timed writing) is 100% complete. Turn in your Gatsby book if you have not done so yet.