Freshman Academy

Mr. Kennelly

Syllabus and Classroom PolicyIB intro Learner ProfileAreas of IntroductionBinderName GameBring BinderBring Planner

Day 2

What is success?How is one successful?Who do you consider successful?

WHAT IS SUCCESS?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvVcXuHaRFk – Quotes success

Group Project

List of 10 things that go into being successful

List 3 ways individuals can be successfulList 3 people you consider to be

successful

SHOW CASE PROJECT

Planner

Enter Due Dates into planner

Straw building Project

In groups of three build the most successful building?

10 minute limit before judging

What made a successful building?Why was it successful?What can be improved?

Portfolio Reflection

Write in complete sentences what your definition of success is. Explain how you think success is achieved.

Day 3

Read “Who am I” on the introductory page of 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens.

Who is “Who Am I?Explain your answer in a minimum of 4

complete sentences using evidence

Human Beings a torn life

Divided between Apathy and ActivityNihilism and beliefBattle between our higher and lower selfSuccess and Hero went out of vogue till

9/11The label of Hero or Success were looked

on with disdain rather than admiration, gratitude, and awe

Success is Subjective

We often define individuals by their flawThomas Jefferson the slave owning

adulteressEinstein mistreated his wifeMozart the pervertedWe need to form a complex definition for

Success that acknowledges weakness, strength, failures, accomplishments, that celebrates and condemns

Human Nature

People are imperfectmany people make extraordinary

accomplishmentsexhibit courage and greatness of the soulpushes us to think beyond ourselves expand our sense of possibleWhat makes one successful?

Ben Franklin 1706-1790

Statesman or Ladies Man

Founding FatherFrequent of

Prostitutes & Illegitimate Kids

AbolitionistScientist

Franklin Ladies ManFranklin BioCornell Notes

Documents on kennelly.wikispaces.com

• Create a tracking device to anyalize how the individuals we study our succesful

• Organization is a key to success

Day 4

Define the word Habit?What is your neighbors definition of habit?Read pg 7-9 in & Habits of Highly Effective

Teens and wait quietly for your classmates

Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890

900 paintings 1100 drawings

Mentally illnessSold only one

painting in lifetime

"...my aim in life is to make as many good pictures and drawings as I can, as well was I can. Then at the end of my life, I can hope simply to pass away while looking back with love and wistfulness, thinking 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!' But this, mind you, does not preclude doing what is possible." -Vincent van Gogh 1883 (age 30)

Painted while Vincent was in the asylum at Saint-Rémy and his behavior was very erratic at the time, due to the severity of his attacks. Painted from memory and not outdoors explain why the emotional impact of the work is so much more powerful than many of Van Gogh's other works from the same period.

Starry Night: Saint-Remy 1889

Has been the subject of poetry, fiction, CD‑ROMs as well as the well known song "Vincent" or "Starry, Starry Night" by Don McLean.

Earliest Paintings

Boy Cutting Grass with a SickleEtten: October, 1881 Beach at Scheveningen in Stormy Weather

The Hague: August, 1882

Two Peasant Women DiggingNuenen: July, 1885

The Potato EatersNuenen: April, 1885

Self-PortraitParis: Winter, 1887-88

Vase with Red PoppiesParis: Summer, 1886

Still Life: Vase with Fourteen SunflowersArles: August, 1888

Harvest at La CrauArles: June, 1888

Saint-Rémy de Provence

St.Remy Asylum

Wheat Field with Cypresses Saint-Rémy: Early September, 1889

Portrait of Doctor GachetAuvers-sur-Oise: June, 1890

Thatched Cottages at CordevilleAuvers-sur-Oise: June, 1890

Vincent van Gogh Complete Cornell NotesDocuments on kennelly.wikispaces.com

Was Van Gogh a success?Support your answer with 5 pieces of

evidence

Day 5

Read pg 1-5 in 7HHETList your 5 best habits How did you acquire these habits?Which of the 7 habits listed in the reading

is most important to you?

Roy Bourgeois

Peace ActivistVeteranFelon

Roy bourgeoisbio.pdfCornell NotesDocuments can be found on

kennelly.wikispaces.com

Portfolio Work Day

Bring Completed Item into next class to put into binder

Day 6

Read page 11-16What is a paradigm?How has a paradigm helped you?Describe when you had or what you hope

will be your paradigm shift?

Allen Iverson

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW4ipDzQ8dM

Scottie Pippen

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl8Y6k16mgg

Compare and Contrast

• alleniverson.doc• scottiepippen.doc• Documents on kennelly.wikispaces.com

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• Draw the following image

• Put similarities on the inside and differences on the outside

• Use illustrations and captions rather than words

Day 7

• Read pg 16-18 in 7HHET• What is your paradigm about the following

people

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• Write a one page compare and contrast essay

Day 8

• Read 7HHET Pg 19• List 2 benefits and disadvantages of a

Friend Centered paradigm• List 2 benefits and disadvantages of a

Stuff Centered paradigm

Kathy Kelly

• Peace Maker• Teacher• War Tax resister• Noble Prize

Nominee• Weapons

dismantler

Kathy Kelly

• Cornell Notes

George Martin

• Milwaukee Native• International

Speaker• Founder of

National Black Caucus of Green Party

George Martin

• Cornell Notes

Day 9

• Read 7HHET pg 20-24• List 2 benefits and disadvantages of

each paradigm

• What Is Success?

by Ralph Waldo Emerson To laugh often and much;To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To give of one's self; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - This is to have succeeded

Venn Diagrams- organize ideas-compare and contrast- use words and images

• Write 15 interview questions to ask a classmate on “What is success?”

• Interview one another

• Create a ven diagram with your 2 partners and Emmerson's definition of success

• You can ask if you agree or disagree with Emerson statements

WORK ON SHOW CASE

Day 10

Read 7HHET 24-27

Define Principal

What are 3 principals everyone should live by?

What is meant by a principal centered paradigm

Turn work in portfolio

Of the following three sentences, one is a metaphor, one is a simile and one is an analogy. Decide which is which ?

1. Her eyes sparkle like diamonds when they catch the sunlight just right. But in the dark of the night they are just as hard and cutting.

2. Her eyes are like diamonds.

3. Her eyes are diamonds.

Answers

1. Analogy

2, Simile

3. Metaphor

Metaphor: A metaphor (“Her eyes are diamonds”)

is a figure of speech that uses one thing to mean another and draws a comparison between those things. A metaphor says, “A is B.” Here are a few other examples of metaphors:

· All the world’s a stage. (Thanks, Shakespeare.)

· In business, our founder was a mad dog.

· If I have a drink now, my head will be a fuzz ball for the meeting.

SimileA simile (“Her eyes are like diamonds”) is a type

of metaphor with a twist: the comparison between the different entities is typically made with the words “like” or “as.” Whereas a metaphor says, “A is B,” a simile says, “A is like B.” A few other examples are …

· The world is like a stage.

· In business, our founder was like a mad dog.

· If I have a drink now, my head will be as unclear as a fuzz ball for the meeting.

· Politicians are like diapers: You should change them frequently and for the same reason.

Analogies often contain similes (as this does) or metaphors, or both, but they extend them. They are not mere figures of speech. They are more like arguments or explanations. Like metaphors and similes, they draw similarities between different things – in this case, politicians and diapers – but they take it further. They imply that because the two things are alike in one way, they are alike in other ways. Here’s one last example of an analogy:

· She was the sun, brightening everyone’s existence and dazzling them with her radiance. But she’d burn anyone who came too close.

Garth Brooks “The River”

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6931417793347126181&ei=-zdaSpBTj46pAvbK2ccD&q=garth+brooks+the+river&hl=en

Margret Atwood “You Begin”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16789

Pablo Neruda Power Point

• http://dfwinternational.org/Neruda/NerudaEnglish.html

How many of you are wearing socks at the moment?

b. Does anyone have a favorite pair of socks?

c. Is anyone wearing mismatched socks? What happened to the matching set?

d. When socks get lost, what happens to them?

Re-read Pablo Neruda Ode to my Socks" and identify the analogies for the socks and the feet.Use neruda.doc on kennelly.wikispaces.com

Socks Feet

NerudaAnalogy

ExplainWhy it is significant

Neruda on the Simpsons

• http://chileenhollywood.blogspot.com/2009/06/pablo-neruda-en-simpsons.html

Quiz1) Love is like oxygen: you get too much, it gets you

high; not enough and you're gonna' die. (from the song "Love Is

Like Oxygen", by ***Sweet.) .2) I say love, it is a flower, and you its only seed.

(from the song "The Rose" by Bette Midler).3) Television, the drug of the nation...(from the song of the same name, by The Disposable Heroes of

Hiphoprisy).

4) Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs, that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care...

(from the song "Unanswered Prayers", by Garth Brooks.)

5) See how they run - like pigs from a gun...

(from the song "I Am The Walrus", by The Beatles).6) Have you come here to play Jesus, to the lepers in

your head? (from the song "One", by U2)

Bonus Questions!a) Identify any similes or metaphors that you can find in the

following sentence,

"A great song is like a salad dressing: you need just the right amount of sweet, sour and salt to get it right and when you do you only notice the balance of flavors, not the ingredients."

b) Compare the following two lines, and determine which - if either - is a metaphor. Explain your reasoning.

"You are the sunshine of my life..." (from the song of the same name, by Stevie Wonder)

"A day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine." (Florida Citrus Commission slogan)

Answers

• 1. S 2. M 3. M 4. M 5. S 6. MA great song is like a salad dressing (S): you need

just the right amount of sweet (M), sour (M) and salt (M) to get it right and when you do you only notice the balance of flavors (M), not the ingredients (M)."

2. Bonus Simili

Day 11

• Read 7 HHET 24-27• Why value principals?• List 3 principals and behaviors that

follow and result when a person does not follow that principal

• Honesty, lies , people do not trust individual and individual has low self esteem because people don't like that person

Bernard Madoff 20/20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjlSmh4B2MI• http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=FNJImHgbhig&feature=related

Bernie Madoff and Ponzi Scheme Explained

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtqsqG74agA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNJImHgbhig&feature=related

Cornell Notes and Create 5 Analogies on Madoff

Analogies often contain similes (as this does) or metaphors, or both, but they extend them. They are more like arguments or explanations. Like metaphors and similes, they draw similarities between different things but they take it further. They imply that because the two things are alike in one way, they are alike in other ways. Here’s one last example of an analogy:

· She was the sun, brightening everyone’s existence and dazzling them with her radiance. But she’d burn anyone who came too close.

Bernie Madoff.doc On kennelly.wikispaces.com

Day 12

• List 4 principals that build success• List 3 you neighbor believes build

succeess• Together form a list of the top 3

principals and be prepared to defend your point

Video Bio

• http://www.5min.com/Video/Nelson-Mandela-Biography-Part-1-120007059

• http://www.5min.com/Video/Nelson-Mandela-Biography-Part-2-120007009

Harvard Outline

• Mandela.doc on kennelly.wikispaces.com

Rubric and Review of Portfolio's

• Peer Review

Day 13

• Create 3 analogies based on principals and success

• Example:• Cleanliness is next to godliness

Michael Jackson

Michael Joe Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958,

1970 the group, known as the Jackson Five, was topping the charts and riding a wave of popularity with such hits as "ABC," "The Love You Save," and "I'll Be There," each of which sold over one million copies.

Dec. 2, 1983: MTV debuts Jackson’s 14-minute “Thriller” film. "The Making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller," released in time for Christmas, becomes the largest-selling music home video ever.

Jan. 31, 1993: Jackson performs at Superbowl XXVII.

Jackson receives the Living Legend Award at the 35th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, and 1.2 million people worldwide view his performance and acceptance.

Feburary 10, 1993 - Jackson first speaks openly about his childhood abuse from his father in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.

1993 - Michael Jackson is accused of child abuse for the first time.

February 6, 2003 - British journalist Martin Bashir’s famously candid interview with Jackson airs in the U.S. Controversy ensues after Jackson admits to letting children sleep with him in his bed.

May 2005 - Jackson is acquitted of seven counts of child sexual abuse.

June 25, 2009: Jackson passes away in Los Angeles after suffering from cardiac arrest.

• Harvard Outline • MichaelJackson.doc• kennelly.wikispaces.com

Work Time on Show Case

Day 14

• What is success ( 3 sentences)• How are you going to achieve success?• Who do you consider succesful?

Guest Speaker Ralph Bronner