January Big Doings Report, Pt. I

	JANUARY 2014
Identity Projects	complete projects
Identity Exhibitions	rehearse
Athletics & PE	plan travel (U of M, Eastern, AAA); identify Ann Arbor school for AAA
Place out of Time	select character
Lit Publications	edit explorers selections; decide format; select identity pieces
Work Crews	second rotation
Americans	single project (5-8)
Student Gov't	set goals; survey; Robert's rules of order
Detroit	determine itinerary
Cities Books	select and begin reading six Cities novels; create coursepack
Spring Trip	web research & calls

The first day of school in February is in the books. This seems like as good a time as any to check in with the Giant Chart on our wall and see how we're doing.

Due to the weather, we missed five days of school in January out of a scheduled seventeen. Given that, we're doing well. The Identity Projects are humming along. Most will be completed this week, but a few ambitious undertakings, like Jianmarco's totem pole and Trent's fundraiser, look like taking a little more time. The Exhibitions have been rehearsed and will get underway tomorrow.

Our internal Athletics program has been planned out for the semester--I'll outline that entire plan and its rationale in a post later this week. Travel is half done: I've identified four intercollegiate athletic contests in four different sports. I'm organizing optional trips to these matches, games, and meets. Here is that schedule:

• Sunday, February 16, 1:00: Eastern Michigan wrestling meet v. Buffalo (men)
• Friday, March 14, 3:30: U of M gymnastics v. Penn State (men)
• Saturday, March 29, 12:00: U of M water polo v. Indiana (women)
• Friday, May 9, time TBA: U of M invitational track meet (women and men)

We have identified a couple of possibilities for Ann Arbor partners in the Alternative Athletic League and will continue to keep you availed of our progress.

Place Out of Time characters have been selected. With an emphasis on historical figures rather than literary ones, our students have made the following selections:

• Harry Houdini
• Elizabeth Bantory
• Queen Elizabeth II
• King Henry VIII
• Esme Raji Codell
• Stan Lee
• Leonidas of Sparta
• Israel Putnam
• Pope Francis I
• Frederick Douglass
• Peter Strasser
• Raymond Spruance

They are now beginning to do the research necessary to writing autobiographies.