Finals Weeks

The final exam will be based on a portfolio review activity.

Mr. Zartler will be at a training for the new GeoTech Course in Loveland Colorado during finals week. If you need to contact him, please email him at jzartler@pps.net

He will try to reply each evening; and will return to Grant on Friday, the 10th of June.

Friday, 3 June

Today students turned in their interlocking rubiayats on the topic of Persepolis today.

They did this attached to a analysis of the poem that addresses the following questions:

1) What was the overall main idea of your Interlocking Rubiayat? What were the individual Rubiayats designed to do to support that? Did you meet your goals? Why or why not?

2) How is your poem an example of an interlocking rubiyat? What are it's strengths and weaknesses?

3) Process:
How did this project effect your thinking about Persepolis? Why?
Describe the process of writing a poem: what was hard? easy? challenging?

23-27 May

Persepolis Journals are due on Friday, March 27th

Class spent time reviewing key passages of Persepolis on Monday and began creating a three column chart with quotes; paraphrases; or examples from the text showing:

Who Marji was          Significant Events that         Who Marji is

                                                                   Led to Changes

Students shared their evidence.  

Next Mr. Zartler reviewed the Rubiayat handout with the class (see below). Students were then given the following criteria for their final Persepolis project.

Write an "Interlocking Rubiayat"

At least five stanzas

Showing Understanding of Marji's development

or

A theme explored by M. Satrapi in Persepolis

The poem should make sense to someone with a basic understanding of history

The poem should make sense even to someone who has NOT read Persepolis.

Here is an example of a four stanza, interlocking rubiayat: "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening," by Robert Frost.

The final exam will be an activity built around each students writing for the year and their writing portfolio. Barron will be teaching the class because Mr. Zartler will be in Loveland, CO being trained to teach GeoTech next year. He will be available by email (jzartler@pps.net) and will be back on Friday to evaluate the final activities.

Race Forward

Race Forward

17 May, 2016

We will read this news story about women in Iran as part of class today.



We will also read this story about men supporting women.

Turning in Research Papers

Students were given a chance to double check the finer points of MLA formatting.
Students were given the following questions for self-reflection and self-evaluation.

What did you learn about researching and writing research papers?

What do you need to learn or learn more about doing research and writing research papers?

What are strengths of this paper, why?

What are weaknesses of this paper, why?

What grade would you give to this paper, why?

Monday, 9 May

Students were reminded that research papers are due 17 May.

Students should bring drafts to work on to class on Wednesday.

Students should read Persepolis to page 81 for Wednesday and 93 for Friday.

The class discussed Fear in Persepolis; shared some student writing about Persepolis and discussed questions raised by students about the text. Mr. Zartler asked students to consider the questions of forgiveness and justice raised on page 46 and elsewhere.

Thursday, 5 May

Students were reminded that research papers are due 17 May.

Students practiced writing analyses of Marji's relationship with God, by comparing the photo of Marji in the bathtub with God next to her to another panel showing the two together.

Students worked in small groups and shared their answers to questions about the first forty (40) pages of Persepolis.

Students should have read at least through page sixty-two (62) of Persepolis for Monday.

Students have gotten their rough drafts back from Mr. Zartler.