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Saturday, January 12, 2013

My Schedule (as of now)

     Today, I decided to write a post about my weekly schedule. My learning program, CSCL, goes from Monday to Thursday each week, so Friday is not included on the spreadsheet below. I may be doing different projects at home each Friday, but I don't have any solid plans. Here is my schedule:



  •      "Free Range Chicken" is a term that my dad came up with. It means that I do not have an activity scheduled, but I might jump in to a class for that day if the are doing something interesting and not really relevant to previous activities in  that class. Or I might work on a Scratch project.
  •      My programming class is in a visual programming programming language called Processing. By visual, I mean that the programmer tells the computer to make lines and circles and other visual designs. 
  •      In the one debate class I have attended so far, we ere read quotes that had reasoning that didn't make sense, which was called a fallacy. There were a list of classes of fallacies, and we had to say which fallacy the argument contained, and how we knew that. There will be classes where we argue a point, though.
  •      In the cooking class, we pick a recipe, then cook it. 
  •      The math class on Monday is a one-on-one class that I scheduled. Other people have other one-on-one math classes at different times.
  •      The policy meetings on Wednesdays are meeting that everyone must attend, and are about whatever policy they deem important enough to devote a meeting to. the meeting can also be about a change in a policy.
  • During the Book & Movie Club, we pick a book that has a movie that corresponds to  it, then over a course of a couple weeks read the book. When we have finished reading the book, we watch the movie version of it.
  • The Algebra class on Wednesday is a introduction class to algebra. In the class I attended, we graphed points  to show the relationship of x and y. We also found the value of x in a basic algebra problem.

6 comments:

  1. Perhaps you could work on your Spanish research project during one of your "free-range chicken" times.

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  2. Very interesting. Following up on the previous comment, I am interested in learning of the various possibilities for a Free Range Chicken. It might look like a menu. And also, do you get to play after school?

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  3. I am very interested in your learning program CSCL. This sounds like a really awesome way to learn. I wish our school was like this.

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  4. Spanish?

    ¿Max, le gusta tocar el piano?
    Do you know the word Tocar?

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  5. Hi Max,

    This is brilliant. What book / movie are you reading / watching?

    Regarding the policy meeting, a friend sent me this quote earlier today... "If you would truly wish to understand something, try to change it." Kurt Lewin

    Have fun!

    Ronnie

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    1. We are reading The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman.

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