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Things we learn from fiction

10/15/2019

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Your assignment: find an article of your own on any of the issues Card brings up. 

Is Ender’s Game our End Game?- SecNav

SecNav Article
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Four Leadership Lessons From Ender's Game- Forbes

Forbes Article

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

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IEEE Article
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Symbols, Archetypes, and Motifs

10/1/2019

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Ender's Game -Chapter 8
What makes an archetype or motif a special kind of symbolism? How does the Hero's Journey, often referred to as the Hero Archetype or Hero Motif fit your favorite books, movies, or video games? How does it fit you? 
Fill out the Hero Chart in your packet for Ender's Game.
Soon we will watch a movie and you will chart the hero in that movie for comparison.
Do you have a movie or book you really like? You can do that one instead. :) ​
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Thursday and Monday: Periods 1, 3, 5

9/18/2019

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Hi everyone, I have two school business meetings on Thursday and Monday so I will be on campus, but out of class. Your work is below. Good Luck! Love, Graff-- LOL :) 
Thursday:
  • Turn in Vocab. 5 worksheet. If you have cards show them to Ms. Vincent.. 
  • Take the Vocab. 5 test. It is a baby test so that you have time for fun stuff. :)
  • Turn in V5 test and work on your Root List until the class is finished. 
  • Get into teams of 2-4 and go in the the center area of campus with Ms. Vincent to act out and take pictures of your vocabulary- just the roots! See the website for examples. :) Label the pictures with the root and the root definition. Email it them to me with your group members names so I don't miss someone. Have Fun! Ms. Vincent is your pass so stay within her sight,  between the Library and Pavilion. 20 min.
  • Come back at least the last 40 min. to work on pictures and email. 
  • Last 30 min. read chapter 6 in Ender's Game. Work on Study Guides. :)
  • Quiz on Ender's 1-3 on Monday
Fan audio: Chapter 6
Vocabulary Pictures!!
Monday:
  • Quiz on Ender's Game Chapters 1-3.
  • Read Chapter 7 and work on your study guide.
  • Homework: study vocabulary, finish root list, and any Ender's Game Chapters 1-7. See below. 
Fan audio: chapter 7, part 1
Fan audio: Chapter 7, part 2
Wednesday:
Vocab 1-5 Test, Root List due, Extra Credit for cards, Ender's Quiz 4-6 and study guide check 1-6. 
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Reading for depth, heart, and intellect

9/3/2019

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Ender's Game: What does leadership cost?

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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? How would living in this time period have changed the way you view leadership? How might it have changed you relationship with your parents?
Study guide questions may be added to your notes page, printed, or typed. Located on Google Classroom. :)
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.
Ender's Game Study Guide
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Cost of Leadership

2/12/2019

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

2/7/2019

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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).
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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.
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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!
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Veni Vidi Vici

2/5/2019

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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.
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Ender's Game

1/24/2019

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Is Ender’s Game our End Game?- SecNav

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

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Four Leadership Lessons From Ender's Game- Forbes

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

1/22/2019

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Ender's Game: What does leadership cost?

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​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. :)
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Reading for depth, heart, and intellect

9/12/2017

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Ender's Game: What does leadership cost?

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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
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