Plan Phase 1

Over the last two days I've really tried to figure out the answers to the questions in my last post. To say I've been consumed by this project would be an understatement. I can't remember the last time I was this excited about my classroom. I genuinely feel that if this experiment doesn't renew my students interest in their education, it definitely has renewed mine.

I decided that before I went through any past lectures to record, or even created in Interactive Notebook, I should set up my grading scale, and the basic structure..in other words realistically figure out how it would work.

After going through all of the notes and deciding which information was important I finally came up with the following plan:

Flipped Class Set Up

“Flipped” Class Unit Overview and Materials:

Greece is a 20 lecture Unit broken down into 4 sections.

Students will watch watch 2-3 lectures per week for homework. During the lecture they will fill out the corresponding pages in their “Interactive Notebook.” Finally they will take a quiz after each lecture.

When they have completed the quizzes for each lecture at 80% or better they may sit for the exam. An 80% or better will be considered “Mastery.” Students may retake the exam as many times as they wish, however only twice may be during school hours (once during class, once during SSR).

Students will be graded based on the number of units they master.

4 units= A

3 units = B

2 units = C

1 unit = D

Mastery of Units counts for 60% of their overall grade. Grade breakdown as follows:

Mastery of Unit = 60%

Notebook and Discussion Threads = 10%

Weekly Projects = 20%

CE Quizzes/BW = 10%

Week	Lectures to Master	In Class Project Options
1	Intro Geography Minoans	Texture Map Legend of Terrain Places of Interest Model of a Ship Poster on Palace of Knossos
2	Mycenaeans Dark Ages Trojan War	Perform the Odysee Read Illiad (Create Soundtrack) Journal Entries Trojan War Poster Compare Disney’s Herculese (Paper)
3	City States Athens Sparta	Class Deabate (All) Design a Greek Home Poster on Weaponry Persuasive Letter
4	Persian Wars Delian League Decline of City States	Research Boston Marathaon Poster on Trireme 300- Legend vs Movie Create a Shield Delian L vs League of Nations
5	Religion Olympics Theatre	Facebook Project (All) Mythology History of Olympics Mount Olympus Masks Perform Midas and Golden Touch
6	Philosophy Science	Medical Practices 2 Astronomers Weight Change Socrates Great Teachers/Academy
7	Phillip of Macedonia Alexander the Great End of Empire	Bucephalus report History of Alexandria Battle of Gaugamela Investigate PW
8	Wrap Up	Legacy of Greece Unit Project

How weekly Projects work:

Students will submit which project they want to do by Thursday of the prior week. Friday they will receive their placement for the week (weekend to get materials).

Monday they receive assignments and any in-class materials. Students will be seated with other students working on similar projects or at a similar place.

There may be multi-week projects offered for students quickly mastering the material.

Interactive Notebook:

To be filled in along with lectures.

Spot Checked each Friday

Checked in Full when student completes Section