Pay Attention!

So many things pull at our attention--desires and duties, responsibilities and possibilities, causes and crises call on us, sometimes simultaneously, making it hard to focus on anything.  Yet to truly appreciate and understand something, we have to be able to turn off the noise, to look closely, listen carefully, and ponder deeply.  This week we'll pay attention to our attention.  We'll notice the connections between things, the inner workings and outer manifestations of the world around us, in biology through a microscope; in English through words.

MONDAY, 11/14
The Bird and the Machine
• reading check
• focused discussion:  form and function
• brief rhetorical analysis
Read Intricacy for TUESDAY

TUESDAY, 11/15
Intricacy
• questions
• discussion: details
• writing:  Big Idea, Small Focus--the Intricacy Essay

WEDNESDAY, 11/16
TED:  Beautiful Nano Details
• viewing
• observation

THURSDAY, 11/17
AP Prompt #5:  Analysis

FRIDAY, 11/18
Hills Like White Elephants
• reading
• analysis