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Millennial to the bone, the Macy Homeroom is a community of 21st Century learners at Denver Academy High School in Denver, Colorado. Students and teachers are committed to growing our traditional and new age media literacies through reading, writing, and daily interaction with technology.
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T- Tell me something about what you read
EX- Write out an EXcerpt from the book (with citation) related to the most significant or pivotal point in the reading
Example: "My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible" (Wiesel 19).
T- Try to understand better by asking a question
Y- How does it relate to you? OR, if it does not relate to you; How did reading this make you FEEL?
EX- Write out an EXcerpt from the book (with citation) related to the most significant or pivotal point in the reading
Example: "My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible" (Wiesel 19).
T- Try to understand better by asking a question
Y- How does it relate to you? OR, if it does not relate to you; How did reading this make you FEEL?
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(T) They start to give us small tips. (EX) "a battery of other IQ tests, and the infamous Rorschach, where all the images looked like weapons or darkness" (Mooney and Cole 64). (T) What happened to pages 51-60? (Y) I can't stand the Rorschach test!
ReplyDelete(T) Jonathan and cole meet at a orientation meeting.
ReplyDelete(EX) "Two kids who where suppsoed to be a pair of statistics, now Ivy league students"(Mooeny 61)
(T) Why would they be statistics.
(Y) I have meet some really cool people at those mmetings.
T they talk about a girl that dose not have any LDs but still is made fun of and falis in school
ReplyDeleteEX " the day we were diagnosed as " disabled" is one of those memories that burns too bright ever to go away"mooney63
T whats davids cole's story?
Y i am slightly inspiedr by this
T: Why are people jerk faces
ReplyDeleteEX: "I don't get stars on my math homework." (J.M. & D.C. 62)
T: Why are people mean to Alexandra?
Y: this is interesting to read
T they tell us how to overcome problems
ReplyDeleteEx " We knew it had something to do with us not being "smart" and "good," words the teachers used when they taught we weren't listening, or when they yelled at us in the hallways." (63 Mooney)
T why do people get dyslexia?
Y i have been made fun of for not being "smart"
(T) tells them on what to do to think about there problems
ReplyDelete(EX) I don't get stars on my math homework."
(T) what is dyslexia anyway is it a serous disability??????
(Y) It's not very nice to make fun of someone because there not as bright as you are.
(T) mooney is giving us advice in these pages.
ReplyDelete(EX) Two kids who where suppsoed to be a pair of statistics now Ivy league students.
(T) How many tips will Mooney give us through out the entire book?
(Y) These tips will definatly help me in the future.
(T) mooney is giving us pointers.
ReplyDelete(EX) "Two kids who where suppsoed to be a pair of statistics now Ivy league students".
(T) where did they go to school?
(Y) i will get help from this book
t he gets to advice
ReplyDeleteEx two boys that were part of sattistic are ivy lege students
t what are the best larning techgs
y it doesnt
T they give us things to think about
ReplyDeleteEX "we need to think about how to learn"
T what will happen next to mooney
Y I have adhd
t-they learned about self-acdfecating
ReplyDeleteex"her exprince is not uncommen"(Monney 62)
t-what will happen next
y-i have dyslecsia
T. They talk about the institution known as public education. That compare the way that teachers teach today to socialism
ReplyDeleteEX. we were taught that sitting still and getting gold stars on our math work is more important then art and ideas (Mooney and Cole 68)
T. what happens next.
Y. my sisters says that their school is socialist.
T = This section talks about the public school system.
ReplyDeleteEX = "In this chapter, we take a critical look at the oppressive nature of institutionalized education" (Mooney and Cole 62).
T = Who came up with this system?
Y = The reading reminded me of my hardships at my elementary school and old middle school.
(T)Jonathan and David give us tips and advice on things to do that we can choose from insted of getting one thing that was supposed to work for everyone
ReplyDelete(EX)"in the end, the biggest challenge for us was not overcoming our weakness as LD/ADHD thinkers but transending the biases and oppression of the institution of education." (Mooney 63)
(T)Why do people have to think of us differently when were all people?
(Y) im always made fun of for being different