Battle of The Blogs

Because of Chase's idea for march madness, we have created a tournament based on brackets. Here are the following URLs for each class:

Period 4: http://challonge.com/tournaments/bracket_generator?ref=Latbs88HIJ
Period 5: http://challonge.com/tournaments/bracket_generator?ref=Oq1K36Czxb
Period 6: http://challonge.com/tournaments/bracket_generator?ref=VLtu31qpZe

[All randomized seed]

The way we could grade, critique, comment, or whatever, everyone could simply download the Tapatalk app and find the forum under the name "Open Source Learning 2014". I say this because personally, none of us don't want to receive negativity for not posting things or having sufficient content. (No Account needed to create in order to make posts on forum).

Hints: Look for consistency, up-to-date assignments, outside course posts, masterpiece/big question, etc. Comment on people's blog if you want to changes/improvements/modifications.

If you agree to this, comment to this post or make posts or comments at the 5PH1NX blog (http://sphinxproject2015.blogspot.com/). If you disagree or want to make suggestions comment anyways, its always great to hear great feedback.

An example for what the contests might look like....

The Top Winners in each class will battle it out. The Final Tournament Winner will gain something special....

kudos: march

Congratulations to the following students on their college admissions and scholarship wins!

If I've missed anyone, or if something wonderful happened for you over the break, please either put it up in class or comment to this post.

Omar Dominguez: UC Irvine, USCB; sponsored by #Musiquality to Yosemite
Noah Hernandez: UCSD
Joey Buelow: Northeastern, Cal Poly SLO, SDSU
Lukas Sheckherd: Naval Academy, Air Force
Melissa Sobczak: UC Riverside, Cal Poly Pomona, Purdue University
Hannah Hurd: UCSD, UCLA
Hikaru Kasai: UCSD, UC Irvine
Courtney: UCSD, UC Santa Cruz, UCLA
Elizabeth Smith: UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, USC (Blech. -Ed.), UC Berkeley
Alec McFarland: UC Santa Cruz, UCSB
Victoria Tonascia: Cal Poly SLO, UC Santa Cruz, UCSD, UCLA, UC Irvine, UCSB, Westmont
Shailynn Joseph: UC Davis, UCSD, SFSU
Danielle Cadena: UCSD, UC Santa Cruz, UCSB, UCLA
Alyssa Oh: Cal Poly Pomona
Laike McFarland: UC Riverside, UC Merced
Naiomi Desai: UCSD, UC Davis, UCLA, UCSB, IC Irvine
Stevie Wisz: UCLA
Ephraim Rodriguez: UCSB, Boston University, NYU, Pepperdine
Marcel Dube: University of Colorado
Bianca Aleman: UC Santa Cruz, Cal Poly SLO
Erica Paculan: Boston University
Eric Montero: Alan Hancock College
Shanaya Stephenson: Pomona College, Carnegie Mellon University
Sean Rebaldo: San Jose State

march madness osl-style

Chase just had a great idea.  He's going to post more about it.  I'm stoked.

march 31

JOURNAL TOPIC: (today's tunes: "Limelight" by Rush)
Think of a popular saying or song inspired by Shakespeare.  Why do the Bard's words continue to have so much influence?

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Poetry and Shakespeare (& check-in with period 4 on poetry schtuff from yesterday)
3. Peer feedback for tomorrow's blog jury

HW:
Bring everything you've done so far up to date and get your peers to love your blog

march 30

JOURNAL TOPIC:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Why does poetry matter?

AGENDA:
1. Journal/Discussion
2. Prepare your blogs for a jury of your peers tomorrow -- whether you think it's ready or not, get feedback from at least five people during class today and make changes to improve it
3. Multiple choice analysis (*period 4, we'll do this tomorrow)

HW:
1. Select a poem from this list
2. Apply either the TPCASST or Vendler analysis and write up on your blog

vendler grid poetry analysis

Here is an example of a Vendler grid with explanations after the jump.
(Thanks, Ms. Fischer!)

Vendler Grid

Meaning
Antecedent Scenario
Structural Parts
Climax
Other Parts

Skeleton
Content Genre- games
Tone
Agency
Roads Not Taken
Speech Acts
Outer and Inner Structural Forms
Imagination

TPCASST poetry analysis

Here is the TPCASTT
(Thanks, Ms. Fischer!)

TPCASTT:  Poem Analysis Method:   title, paraphrase, connotation, diction,  attitude, tone, shift(s), title revisited and  theme
Title of poem means
Paraphrase parts of the Poem
Connotation of some of the words – changing literal meaning to implied or associated values
Attitude What is the attitude of the author, characters or yourself?
Shift At first we think or feel one way – then there is a shift:  identify the shifts and explain them
Title revisited Any new insights on meaning or significance of title?
Theme