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Cost of Leadership

2/12/2019

Ender's Game: Chapter 13, Valentine
Loving your enemy, facing yourself, and what that costs as a leader.

Book Recommendations

2/7/2019

Love Ender's Game? Wondering what to read next? There are two parallel series to choose from. Ender's Shadow is book one in a series that begins at the same time period as Ender's Game. While Game follows Ender's life and point of view, Shadow follows Bean's. Arguably more intelligent than Ender, Bean arrives at Battle School after Ender has already been chosen as the one, but it turns out that Bean is needed, too. One problem, Bean has to learn what comes to Ender naturally-- empathy. Without love or trust, will anyone follow him?

Ender's Shadow Series, Book 1, "Bean's past was a battle just to survive. His success brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender...." (Amazon).

Option two is Speaker for the Dead. While this is technically the second book in the Ender series, it takes place decades after the war, unlike the Shadow series. A more mature and psychological book, an older Ender must face his past, risk his life, the lives of three cultures, and try to stop history from repeating itself.

Ender's Game Series, Book 2, Speaker for the Dead, "In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.

Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth" (Amazon).

Remember- I came across Card and the Ender's series' because a student recommended it to me about 20 years ago. It was the first book a student gave to me to read. Since then hundreds of student have read Ender's Game and I have read about 13 books a year recommended by students. My board is always open to student recommendations! I take the homework you assign to me seriously, and I am always on the look out for good books to share, or possibly, to add to our official curriculum. Sophomore year's student recommended book? The House of the Scorpion. Look for it forth quarter next year!

Veni Vidi Vici

2/5/2019

I Came. I Saw. I Conquered.

Latin. Attributed to Julius Caesar.

Today we finish the last 20 min. of How to Train Your Dragon.
Please pay attention carefully to our last hero motif stages.
Hiccup has lost everything. Now it is time to face everything. Like many heroes he trains and gathers an army, but also like most of our heroes, he has to face the Evil and the final battle --alone.
Stages: Hell, Devil, Death, and Resurrection.
Pay special attention to: hero stages, symbols linking Hiccup to Toothless, links to previous foreshadowing, falling or other worlds apart from the human realm. We will discuss charts when I return.

Read Veni Vidi Vici--Ender's Game Chapter 11.
Think about how Card is drawing plots together: the mind game, the battle room, the "real world" of the boys at school, and the bugger war. What similarities to you notice? What questions is Card asking the reader to think about? How does this track with the hero motif and Dragons.
Finish chapter and work on packet with class time and for homework.
Edit: Packet check 1-12 and Quiz 9-12 on Thursday- 2/21.

Ender's Game

1/24/2019

Is Ender’s Game our End Game?- SecNav

Ender’s Game is Already a Reality for the U.S. Military- IEEE

Four Leadership Lessons From Ender's Game- Forbes

Ender's Game: Reading for Depth, Heart, and Intellect

1/22/2019

Ender's Game: What does leadership cost?

There are some easy steps to help you focus on your reading and what to annotate. Writers do write so that you have a relationship with the text. Just like your relationship with anyone- there are first impressions and introductions; you have to repeat yourself sometimes because people forget; you have to make mistakes, feel awkward, angry, hopeful, and sad; you have to share experiences and find understanding. Read not for the ending, but for the journey. Since we know these things are there- we should be able to make a list of conversation starters and relationship builders. For now we are going to walk through them slowly and show them too you. Because, after all, we are building a relationship with reading.

For Ender's Game we made a work cited and talked about the original publication date. If Ender's Game was originally written in 1977 (and even earlier as a short story) what was the world like in the 1960-70's that would have influenced the author? Look up information and add it to your Ender's Game notes.

Study guide questions may be added to your notes page, printed, or typed. Located on Google Classroom. :)

Reading for depth, heart, and intellect

9/12/2017

Ender's Game: What does leadership cost?

There are some easy steps to help you focus on your reading and what to annotate. Writers do write so that you have a relationship with the text. Just like your relationship with anyone- there are first impressions and introductions; you have to repeat yourself sometimes because people forget; you have to make mistakes, feel awkward, angry, hopeful, and sad; you have to share experiences and find understanding. Read not for the ending, but for the journey. Since we know these things are there- we should be able to make a list of conversation starters and relationship builders. For now we are going to walk through them slowly and show them too you. Because, after all, we are building a relationship with reading.

For Ender's Game we made a work cited and talked about the original publication date. If Ender's Game was originally written in 1977 (and even earlier as a short story) what was the world like in the 1960-70's that would have influenced the author? Look up information and add it to your Ender's Game notes.

Study guide questions may be added to your notes page, printed, or typed. Located on Google Classroom. :)

Google Classroom- Study Guide

Ender's Game- Finished!

10/26/2015

Ender's Game Test is Friday(10/30) and Monday (11/2) depending on your period. Study guides are also due before the test. After 2 other practice runs, we are treating this study guide like an essay! All you need: MLA format first page, Work Cited for Ender's Game, study guide answers with quotes and citations, and finally- an article on any connection between Card's themes and our real world. For example: Is war a real problem? Are children used as tools? Do we have issues with various forms of prejudice? Which is more important our individual rights or our national security? Can you have both? Any one of all those great ideas you put on the board! Make sure that you annotate your article with your thoughts, important points, and how it relates to Ender's Game. Include a work cited for that too. :)

Week of 10/5

10/5/2015

Hello!
This week Vocab. 7, Ender's Game Chapter 13 and Blog Posts!
Next week vocabulary: 7-8
Ender's Game study guides due next: 11-15
Blog post rough drafts due digitally or hard copy.
Make an appointment or come tutorial to learn to post on our site.

Blog Post handout

How to read...for depth

9/1/2015

There are so easy steps to help you focus on your reading and what to annotate. Writers do write so that you have to take notes. They write so that you have a relationship with the text. Just like your relationship with anyone- there are first impressions and introductions; you have to repeat yourself sometimes because people forget; you have to make mistakes, feel awkward, angry, hopeful, and sad; you have to share experiences and find understanding. Read not for the ending, but for the journey. Since we know these things are there- we should be able to make a list of conversation starters and relationship builders. For now we are going to walk through them slowly and show them too you. Because, after all, we are building a relationship with reading.

1) For Ender's Game we made a work cited and talked about the original publication date. If Ender's Game was originally written in 1977 (and even earlier as a short story) what was the world like in the 1960-70's that would have influenced the author?

2) As we read Ender's Game we also noticed that titles were incredibly important. As we turn to "The Scarlet Ibis" what symbols are present for us in the title that make a first impression? Are those ideas contradicted or elaborated on in the first paragraph?

Classwork: Read Ender's Game chapters 3-4. Start and discuss "The Scarlet Ibis"
Homework: Vocabulary 3 and Ender's Game study guide for chapters 3-4 with quotes and citations.

Let the Game Begin

8/28/2015

Today we read chapter one of Orson Scott Card's, Ender's Game. After reading the first chapter, Card displays a setting in a dystopian society where an innocent six year old boy named Ender is not considered a person, but a living "experiment". The government put a monitor chip on the back of his neck in order to view everything that is going on in his life. It is clearly displayed that Ender is alienated from the other children because they envied him since he was special. Society changes Ender to act more like an adult rather then a small child he truly is.

To help us answer each question of the study guide and give proof to each of our statements provided, we must cite each answer with a quote from the book.

Here is the Ender's Game trailer

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