I hope all of you enjoyed your vacation...or at least tried to. Anyhow, it is back to our usual routines and graduation will be here sooner than you think. We're currently approaching marking period three on the 4th of January and there's a lot to be accomplished within that time.
I. Class 421 please do the following:
- Write a reflection about your experience recycling at the redemption maching, preparing advertisements for the school, collecting and separating acceptable and nonacceptable items, deciphering our fundraising deficiencies and goals, going to Toys R Us, eating, wrapping the gifts and the SCO. I will provide you with an outline tomorrow.
- Just added @ 5:49 p.m. - Please find an additional TWO articles by typing into the search engine: "journal articles about the competitiveness between girls and boys in sports". Select the best, detailed articles for our round table discussion in class next week.
- Based on today's videos, class and PBH assignments, begin to choose a position. Are you for or against sports programs in high schools or schools in general?
- Think of a thesis statement. What specifically are you trying to support or oppose? For example, my thesis statement may say, "...Sports programs should be allowed in schools because it promotes healthy eating habits." This statement is SPECIFIC, CLEAR and WILL BE THE FOCUS OF MY ENTIRE ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY. If I said, "...Sports programs should be allowed in schools because it helps students physically" would have been to broad and general. How does it help students physically would be the next question? However, we want to be VERY CLEAR in our thesis statement the first time. Please don't frustrate your readers by making generalized statements.
- On loose leaf with a proper heading, write a thesis statement in the form of a sentence NOT AN INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH. That means I should see a clear and specific SENTENCE on loose leaf.
- Then print TWO articles that supports your thesis statement.
- The class of 2012 did this and I am introducing it to you, class of 2013. You must read every night for 30 minutes (which most of you are already doing) and post a reading response based on the question posted on the blogspot using the example format below:
Title of your book: A Child Called "It"
Author: Dave Pelzer
Week Of: 1.7.13 - 1.14.13
Number of pages: pp.18-49
Question: Was the title an appropriate choice for this book? Why or why
not? Explain your reasoning using two or three details from the book.
Reading Response: Yes, Pelzer was very successful in naming the book, A Child Called "It". It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it." Dave's bed was an old army cot in the basement, and his clothes were torn and raunchy. When his mother allowed him the luxury of food, it was nothing more than spoiled scraps that even the dogs refused to eat. The outside world knew nothing of his living nightmare.
- In addition, you must respond to another classmates post on the blogspot. This will be a total of two posts per student.
- This will begin conversations about all sorts of books read by your classmates and SAVE trees too. : )
- Posts are due online every Monday starting January 14, 2013 no later than 7 pm.
- Please note that this does not substitue book reviews but in addition to book reviews. Your next book review, nonfiction, will be due on January 21, 2013.
Miss. N : )
