Essential Question: What is your hero's journey and how does it tie into the literature we have studied this quarter?

Agenda: 

1. Read your Quarter 1 Book for 10 minutes.

2. Reading Journal: Write about anything that stood out to you in your reading. Cite textual evidence and explain how this passage shaped your thinking. Write for 5 minutes. 

3. Finish your Hero's Journey Outline

4. Draft your Hero's Journey using your outline from last period and this checklist.
Your personal statement needs to be between 800-1000 words.

Today, focus on your INTRODUCTION: What was your life before everything changed? How do your childhood myths or social expectations you have been told tie into this? What happened to change it and how did you react to it? Be as specific and detailed in your writing as you can. The point of this essay is to really SHOW what happened and use specific details to illustrate your story and make the reader feel like they are right there with you.

Assignments:

• Submit the beginning of your Rough Draft on Canvas under the "Hero's Journey Introduction" assignment

Essential Question: What is the Hero's Journey and how does it apply to your own life?

Agenda: 

1. Read your Quarter 1 Book for 10 minutes. 

2. Quick write: Write for 10 minutes on the following:

• How are you the hero of your own story? 
• What's your story?
• What makes you heroic?

3. What is the "Hero's Journey"? 

• Watch the following videos and take notes on the steps of the hero's journey and how to apply it to your own life.

4. Brainstorm: 
When have you done something great in your life?

• What was it?
• ​How did you get there to that point?
• What decisions/choices helped you get there?
• What people helped you get there?
• ​What held you back (internally)?
• What tried to stop you (externally)?
• How did it change your life ?

5. Complete the Hero's Journey Outline. You will need it to complete your final quarter project.

6. Quarter 1 Writing Project:
You will write a 800-1,000-word personal statement in form of a hero’s journey. It will cover the following:

• Call to Adventure
• Initiation
• Transformation
• Return

Assignments:
Include the following in your GoogleDoc; title it "Hero's Journey Outline"

• Quickwrite
• Brainstorm
• Outline

Essential Question: How do villains compare and contrast to heroes and how can we analyze them in the context of today's society?

Agenda:

Follow the instructions on these slides:

Text: "In Defense of Villainesses" by Sarah Gailey

Assignments:
In your document for today, include the following:

• Reading Journal
• 3 Connections, Details, Questions (copy/paste the essay into your Doc and leave comments on the side as annotations)
• SOAPSTONE Analysis
• Response to the essay
• Compare/Contrast with Beowulf
• ​Quickwrite

​Essential Question: What are your childhood myths and how do they shape you?

Agenda:
Follow the slides below:

Assignments:

• Reading Journal
• Daily Dose of Grammar
• Childhood Myth presentation + video (post this on the "Blog" page of your e-Portfolio; title it "Childhood Myths")
• Exit Ticket

Essential Question: How do you present yourself in a professional context?

Agenda:
1. Read your Quarter 1 Book for 10 minutes.

2. Reading Journal: For five minutes, write about what your character is struggling with. Cite a piece of evidence from the text and explain how it shows this struggle.

3. Daily Dose of Grammar:
Which word would you use in each sentence? Choose between the bold words.

• Looking at the state of your room, I can imply/infer that you are having trouble with organization.
• When you say, "I wish you texted me more often," are you implying/inferring that I'm ghosting you?

4. UPDATE YOUR E-PORTFOLIOS on weebly with the the following (and submit the link once you're done):On the PROJECTS page, add your resume (in the "build" tab, drag the "Scribd Document" icon on your Projects page and then just upload your resume. This will visually display your resume well and make it look clean and clear.)

Once your resume is uploaded, answer FIVE of these commonly-asked interview questions (You MUST include the first question; for the rest, pick four you feel most apply to you). Add them either in quick video or text form next to or below your resume.

Commonly-asked interview questions:

• Tell me about yourself.
• What are your biggest weaknesses?
• What are your biggest strengths?
• Where do you see yourself in five years?
• Out of all the other candidates, why should we hire you?
• Why do you want this job?
• What do you consider your biggest professional achievement?
• Tell me about the last time a co-worker or customer got angry with you. How did you handle the situation?
• Describe your dream job.
• Why do you want to leave your current job?
• What kind of work environment do you like best?
• Tell me about the toughest decision you had to make in the last six months.
• What is your leadership style?
• Tell me about a time you disagreed with a decision. What did you do?
• How do you think other people would describe you?

On your phone or Chromebook, make a quick VIDEO answering the 5 questions you chose, then upload this video to your @granitesd.org Youtube channel (log in with your @granitesd.org email and password, then upload this to your channel. You can keep it "unlisted" if you don't want people to just find the video). Add this to your Projects page with your resume. If you don't want to be seen on video, you can always type up your answers and publish them that way, but I really suggest you get comfortable talking on camera since that's where a lot of communication is going. Don't stress about it being perfect but try your best.

Make sure your HOME page contains the following:

• 3-5 sentence bio (stay in third person)
• One short-term (before graduation) and one long-term (post graduation) goal and three things you are going to do to achieve each
• Answers to the 3 Questions:
  • Who does society tell you to be?
  • Who are you really?
  • Who do you want to be?

Make sure you have completely customized your site. No filler text or empty pages other than your HOME, BLOG, and PROJECTS. Hit PUBLISH to get your shareable link and paste it into the box of your Canvas assignment.

Assignments:
Updated e-portfolio link

Essential Question: How do you create a professional resume?

Agenda:

Title your Google Doc for today "Resumes Day 1" and follow the instruction on the slides below:

Resources you'll need for today:Article: 42 Resume Dos and Don'ts Every Job Seeker Should Know
Link to Canva (sign in with your @granitesd.org email and search for "resume", then choose a template you like to customize.) For today, take a screenshot for your resume progress and copy/paste it into your Google Doc.

Assignments:

• Reading Journal and Grammar
• List of qualifications
• Start resume (take a screenshot of your progress on Canva and add that to your Google Doc for today.)

Essential Question: How can you present yourself professionally online?

Agenda:
1. Read your chosen Quarter 1 Book for 10 minutes.

2. Reading Journal: Write for 5 minutes.

• How is the main character in your book introduced?
• Choose one quote that in your opinion best introduces your book's main character. Cite and explain why you chose this quote and how it introduces your book's main character.

2. Daily Dose of Grammar:  Choose the correct sentence from each pair:​

• a) Many millennials have nostalgia for the 1990s.
• b) Many millennials have nostalgia for the 1990's.

• a) The year 2008s winter was extreme in many parts of the U.S.
• b) The year 2008's winter was extreme in many parts of the U.S.​​

3. Go to weebly.com and set up your professional ePortfolio. Follow THIS VIDEO TUTORIAL if you missed last time.

Your portfolio needs to have the following: 

• Home Page (this is the first page people see when they pull up your page), containing:
  • A short bio (3-5 sentences about yourself; stick to third person)
  • Your three questions from last period (edit this first)
  • (If you are comfortable) A professional picture of you
• Blog page: For writing prompts and journal entries
• Projects page: For longer, edited projects, essays, and videos

4. Customize your ePortfolio to truly make it "yours" by replacing any filler text with your own and replacing any stock photos with photos that reflect your aesthetic. Remember to check under  Tools and Usage Rights to make sure you can use images you find on Google Images.

For free stock images, use the following sites:

• Unsplash
• Pexels
• Pixabay

5. On your home page: Add three long-term (post-graduation) and three short-term (within the next year) goals. Keep them professional or related to you as a person. For each goal, add two bullet points about how you are planning to accomplish your goal. 

6. Hit PUBLISH to save your changes and copy/paste your website's URL (the domain, not the link to the editor) on Canvas in the "e-Portfolio Setup" assignment.

Assignments:

• Reading Journal (keep in your journal)
• Daily Dose of Grammar (keep in your journal)
• ePortfolio Link and Goals (copy/paste the link to your ePortfolio into the assignment on Canvas)