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  everyone. Uh, this might be a little strange, because I'm

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  no doubt standing in front of you wearing a mask

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  right now, but I wanted to talk with you without

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  a mask on.

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  Basically. So the best way for me to do that

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  was to record a video.

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  I want to tell you a little bit about how

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  things work.

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  My classroom, a few procedures and also ah, little bit

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  about the class itself and also a little bit about

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  me. Let's continue.

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  So, first of all, welcome to American literature.

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  Uh, I'm really excited about this course.

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  I'm really excited that you're in this course, and I'd

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  like to tell you a little bit about my rash

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  behind it.

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  So the class is pretty much meant to teach you

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  about American authors, and I teach chronologically.

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  So we go through history and we talk about different

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  historical events, and then we talk about how the authors

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  responded to those events.

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  Ah, we also throw in just a little bit of

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  composition as well.

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  We do a lot of writing about literature in this

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  class. We do a lot of writing just about things

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  that you're interested in in connection with American culture.

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  So that's how the class works.

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  Basically, when you leave this classroom or by the time

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  you leave this classroom, my goal is the jewel know

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  a little bit more of how to identify and analyse

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  different literary movements In their culture, that means well.

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  But later we'll also be doing a lot of writing

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  about literature, as it was saying.

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  So I wanna make sure that you understand a little

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  more about how to write about literature.

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  I also want you to know how to conduct long

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  term research.

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  Can t use your findings to solve a problem because

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  that's gonna be a big project that work on.

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  It's going to be really useful for you later on.

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  I also want you to know how to work collaboratively

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  with other people while still taking on a responsibility for

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  your own work, too.

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  So what we working with groups?

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  Quite a bit, but you'll have responsibilities within that group

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  that are your own.

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  So will be expected.

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  Teoh contribute pretty quickly.

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  Uh, so we'll talk a little more about what that

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  looks like practically later on in the clasp.

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  Let's talk just a little bit about just some of

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  my expectations about procedures.

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  Now each of these slides is sort of broken down

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  into before in school, in person, versus if we're going

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  completely to you learning.

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  I know that we're doing a hybrid thing here the

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  very beginning of the year.

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  So ah, was in person is going to be.

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  That's how I'm going to basically follow things up until

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  the point where we have toe all go to the

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  learning all the time.

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  So just because you are seeing something virtually doesn't mean

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  I'm not following the in person procedure.

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  I am still following the in person procedure.

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  Like I said, up until the point where we all

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  have to be in the learning all the time.

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  So let's talk about communication, Comic.

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  If you're in this class, primarily, I'm going to be

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  sending you emails.

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  I'm gonna send you an email every single day because

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  our daily email is gonna tell you what was due

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  last night.

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  It's going to tell you what we're going to be

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  doing a class today.

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  It's going to tell you homework that you'll have for

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  tonight and then I will also tell you anything.

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  As for his tested quizzes coming up on and I

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  give you about a month's notice Fantastic.

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  Was is So I try to give you quite a

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  bit of heads up for that.

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  Um, in addition to the daily email that you'll be

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  getting in your inbox every single day from me, you'll

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  also see that I'm gonna post on teams every day

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  the same content.

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  It's not gonna be anything different, but just so that

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  you have it all in one place.

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  Oppose that.

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  Another thing that you're going to have for me is

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  a calendar that is the projected agenda for the whole

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  semester. So that's something to change, of course, but it's

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  something that I'm going to be giving you at the

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  very beginning of the semester, and then I'll if I

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  have to amend it a lot, I'll I'll give you

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  another copy of it, are all post another copy of

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  it digitally.

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  Um, and it just tells you what we're doing overall

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  basically gives you an overview of all the units of

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  the big projects.

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  So I'm also going to be giving you daily reminders.

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  Class is going to give you verbal reminders, and they'll

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  also be, uh, Homer will also be written on the

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  chalkboard as well.

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  I'm either in the front of the back of the

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  room. So that's how things will go in person As

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  Hersey learn and goes, The only thing is really gonna

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  change is that I'm gonna try to give you a

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  lot Were detailed instructions basically, in my daily emails and

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  also in the team's post.

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  You're gonna have a lot more of, like, step by

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  step process written out there since I'm not gonna be

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  in front of you on then.

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  Also, uh, we'll have the same semester calendar and should

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  be updated with probably less content and probably should throw

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  out of you things if we go to completely learning

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  on. And then we'll also be doing a lot more

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  posting to message boards.

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  Inter knitted dot com It's probably going to change.

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  So that's communication.

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  I'd like to talk to you next just a little

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  bit about the format procedures we're gonna be using when

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  we re short fiction on short nonfiction poetry.

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  So you could expect that we're gonna be reading about

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  1 to 2 short works per week with those short

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  works. We're gonna be doing different activities.

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  It's going to depend on the work honestly.

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  But a lot of it's going to be connecting that

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  work to something happening.

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  History or it's gonna be taking a look at the

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  tone of the author.

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  Or it's gonna be trying to figure out about the

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  author a lot of times, those sorts of things.

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  So we'll have.

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  Pdf ce of all the readings that will be posted

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  two teams and then also sent you a pdf here,

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  the daily I'm also gonna have audio files, all the

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  readings that I send out to the email and then

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  tried also post those two teams as well.

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  Ah, lot of the audio recordings you're naming me, reading

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  the stories and those air really good to listen to,

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  because I can fill in a lot of blanks for

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  you, especially if you're not directly in the classroom.

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  I could fill in a lot of stuff for you

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  in those recordings on I do.

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  I pause, reading and I say, Hey, you know, in

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  order for us to understand this better, I just want

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  to let you know this fact, or I want to

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  let you know this about the author things like that.

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  So they're really good to listen to.

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  Um, Then, uh, in addition to that all works is

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  gonna be a work for those short works of fiction.

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  Nonfiction poetry is gonna be turned in.

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  He turned it in dot com.

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  So we're gonna use turn in a lot, Not just

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  for bigger writing assignments.

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  We're gonna be using that for, like, pretty much every

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  single assignment, because it's just a way of keeping everything

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  together in the same place.

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  So pretty much all that works committee turned in a

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  turn it in dot com and then we'll have a

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  few things that are turned in me ago Formative as

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  well. So that's something that I'll give you a heads

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  up on a Obviously, if you're gonna be doing the

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  work and go formative, you know that it's probably could

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  return to envy ago Formative.

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  Um, but if you're doing it on a pdf or

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  something, it's probably gonna be treated it dot com.

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  So So that's how the in person procedures we're gonna

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  work for those with the learning.

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  If we moved to that, it's just going to basically

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  be I'm gonna cut it down to one short work

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  per week instead of 1 to 2.

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  And then it's gonna really important for you to listen

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  to the audio off reading story because that's where I'm

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  going to get you the information you need to know.

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  So again, if you go to if we go to

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  the learning and we're all any learning, listen to the

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  audio recordings of greeting story that's gonna be, like, really,

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  really import less important, one more in class, I will

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  say, when we're in person, I can fill in a

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  lot more for you here in class.

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  But when we're any learning, you just kind of have

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  to listen to the audio recordings.

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  That's how it goes.

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  We're also gonna be utilizing the message boards attorney did

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  a lot more, as was saying, with going to you

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  learning. So just expect that you're gonna be posted to

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  the message for it's a lot more about what you're

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  reading. And then I also want to talk about literature

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  circles. Letter to circles are something I'm really excited about.

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  It's, uh, basically 2 to 3 days per week.

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  You get together in a group of between four and

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  six people and everybody has a different role each week.

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  And as we're completing bigger literary works, things like not

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  novels or plays or things like that, you're gonna be

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  working through the novel with the same group of people.

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  And as was saying, each person has a different role

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  each week to complete your own work.

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  You turn that nb eternity in dot com, and then

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  we get together once a week and we talk about

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  it. So you're bringing your own work to the table.

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  You know, I'm nobody's relying on any any other person

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  really to do all the work on, and everybody gets

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  to discuss what they were able to find in the

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  work. And everybody kind of has a unique perspective.

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  That's pretty cool.

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  I really like doing director circles with you guys, so

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  you know that Texas really, really small.

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  But I just wanted to let you guys know that

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  your work in literature circles again is going to be

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  your own work.

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  So there's no relying on somebody else to do the

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  work for you.

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  You are going to be expected to read the material,

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  get that work done.

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  That is your individual work every single week because yours

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  is gonna be unique from somebody else's.

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  So there's not gonna be any copying that's allowed.

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  There's not gonna be any kind shortcuts you can take

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  on that.

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  You have to do the work yourself.

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  You That role is you need to do that week.

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  So got to make sure that it gets done.

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  In addition to that, I'm also gonna hold you accountable

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  because your group will have a discussion director every week.

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  And the discussion director will be asking questions so you'll

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  be expected to answer those discussion director questions.

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  So you'll only be able to do that if you

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  actually read the story.

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  So that's gonna be another way that I sort of

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  hold you accountable for that work.

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  Uh, the only difference with the learning literature circles is

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  that obviously you're doing the work at home on your

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  own. You're not working with other people in the same

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  room with you.

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  But then also with the discussion director, questions could be

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  really important that you post them the answers to those

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  questions to the message board.

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  So we'll talk a little more about that if that

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  does happen.

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  But you're basically every week going to have the discussion

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  director questions posted to the message word.

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  And then you're gonna be expected to reply with your

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  answers to those questions so that literature circles are gonna

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  work to go to you learning.

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  All right, we don't What are you learning?

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  It will just be in person.

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  Still will be a little easier.

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  Let's continue on and talk a little bit about weekly

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  writing. So every single week on Fridays, we're gonna focus

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  on a writing task.

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  And for the first quarter, the writing task is going

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  to be free.

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  You to edit an essay on Animal Farm within the

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  first week of school are the first maybe about 10

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  days of schools they were gonna be writing in the

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  first draft of an essay on Animal Farm.

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  We're gonna be doing it all kind of one shot.

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  We're gonna be writing the essay in one class, period.

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  Whatever you get done is your first draft.

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  You're turning that into the internet in dot com.

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  We're gonna be using that first draft as a jumping

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  off point.

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  You're going to be editing that into a second draft.

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  Then I'm going to get your feedback on that second

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  draft and then you gotta be editing it.

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  Finally, 1/3 draft after we do appear added as well.

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  So that's where we focused on first semester.

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  Is that Animal Farm s A To help you be

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  ableto write about literature on.

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  And then after that, during orders 23 and four, we're

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  gonna be doing something called 20% Time, which is a

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  research project.

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  And you're gonna be researching a an issue in the

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  world, basically something that you believe needs to be solved

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  as faras world problem.

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  And you're gonna be finding what people believed to be

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  the best solutions to that problem.

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  And then you're going to be doing projects based on

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  that research that you do.

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  So we'll talk a little more about that when we

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  get to it.

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  But writing, writing workers, basically it's gonna be all do

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  the internet in dot com uh, within like a week

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  of us assigning it basically.

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  So if I assigned you something on Friday, it's going

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  to do via turn it in dot com that Thursday

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  expected you to have something done on it.

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  By that, um, and then the due dates on those

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  things will be communicated be a daily email and the

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  team's posts, too.

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  So when we go to the learning or if we

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  go to you learning, I should say, basically, the only

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  difference is that we're to be doing two drafts of

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  the animal firm s A rather than three.

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  And then we would only dio 20% time for Borders

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  two and three.

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  We wouldn't be doing the fourth quarter project if we

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  go to learning.

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  So that's really the only difference.

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  Other than that you'll have basically the same tasks to

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  do. So let's talk a little bit about no red

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  ink. So hopefully you all remember no reading.

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  If you were here last year with Miss Loads, you

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  would have worked on Reddick, and we're gonna have a

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  continuing your work with already.