Monday, April 28, 2008
Should teachers be banned from being on MySpace?
Click on the title of this post to read an article from the Washington Post about controversy surrounding teachers with public MySpace and Facebook profiles. What do you think? Should teachers be punished for having racy or offensive profiles on MySpace? 20 points extra credit for your well thought-out opinion of 5 sentences - post it here in the comments section or email to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net.
Monday, April 28 - Friday, May 2, 2008
Students will continue their practice PowerPoint presentations. See entry on Thursday, April 17, 2008, for scoring rubric. Ms. Ellis' English class will join our class as well to view and practice presentations. Extra points given for an extra-large audience!
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Is life a little less fun these days?
Please read this article from the Lew Rockwell website about the demise of fun in our lives:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/trench3.html
What do you think? Is the article right? Is life less fun than it used to be? 20 points EC for your well thought-out opinion of 5 sentences posted in the comments section here or emailed to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/trench3.html
What do you think? Is the article right? Is life less fun than it used to be? 20 points EC for your well thought-out opinion of 5 sentences posted in the comments section here or emailed to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net.
Want to be a teenage millionaire?
Please read this article about teen millionaires:
http://www.mmhabits.com/teenage-millionaires/
What do you think? Could you be a millionaire before you turn 20? Do you have a million dollar idea? Share you well thought-out opinion of 5 sentences for 20 points EC via the comments section here or by email to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net.
http://www.mmhabits.com/teenage-millionaires/
What do you think? Could you be a millionaire before you turn 20? Do you have a million dollar idea? Share you well thought-out opinion of 5 sentences for 20 points EC via the comments section here or by email to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net.
What makes a great teacher?
Please read this article from the Arizona Republic about the number one quality of a great teacher:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0424edteacher0424.html#
What do you think? Is the number one quality of a great teacher her/his unconditional love of students or is it something else? 20 points EC for a well thought-out opinion of 5 sentences. Email to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net or post a comment here!
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0424edteacher0424.html#
What do you think? Is the number one quality of a great teacher her/his unconditional love of students or is it something else? 20 points EC for a well thought-out opinion of 5 sentences. Email to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net or post a comment here!
Monday, April 21 - Friday, April 25, 2008
Students will continue their practice PowerPoint presentations. See entry on Thursday, April 17, 2008, for scoring rubric. Ms. Ellis' English class will join our class as well to view and practice presentations. Extra points given for an extra-large audience!
Friday, April 18, 20008
Students will continue their practice PowerPoint presentations. See entry on Thursday, April 17, 2008, for scoring rubric.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Students will begin their practice PowerPoint presentations for their Senior Project. Presentations will be graded on the following score sheet and criteria:
Name:
Date:
Topic:
Prepared and ready to go on assigned day? (50 pts for showing up!)
Length of presentation (20 pts for each minute)
5 questions answered after presentation (10 pts for each)
How many slides are present (15 minimum, 10 pts each)?
Do you elaborate on the information you present on each slide?
Do you provide informative details?
Is your presentation well organized?
Do you talk clearly and loudly?
FINAL SCORE out of 400 pts.
On a scale of 1 to 10, higher being better, your presentation scores:
Comments and Concerns:
Please have Academy Leader initial this form after you complete your formal and official PowerPoint in order to get another 200 points!
Name:
Date:
Topic:
Prepared and ready to go on assigned day? (50 pts for showing up!)
Length of presentation (20 pts for each minute)
5 questions answered after presentation (10 pts for each)
How many slides are present (15 minimum, 10 pts each)?
Do you elaborate on the information you present on each slide?
Do you provide informative details?
Is your presentation well organized?
Do you talk clearly and loudly?
FINAL SCORE out of 400 pts.
On a scale of 1 to 10, higher being better, your presentation scores:
Comments and Concerns:
Please have Academy Leader initial this form after you complete your formal and official PowerPoint in order to get another 200 points!
Saturday, April 19, 2008
All the things you can become once you're a grown up!
Read this satire from the CS Monitor:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0418/p20s03-lign.html
What do you think? Does adulthood sound fun? Do you get the joke? 20 points EC for your opinion emailed to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net or posted here in the comments section.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0418/p20s03-lign.html
What do you think? Does adulthood sound fun? Do you get the joke? 20 points EC for your opinion emailed to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net or posted here in the comments section.
Are Americans Afraid?
Please read this article from the Washington Post about America's fear that everything is harmful:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041803172.html
What do you think? 20 points EC for a well-thought opinion of 5 sentences on this topic, emailed to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net or posted here in the comments section!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041803172.html
What do you think? 20 points EC for a well-thought opinion of 5 sentences on this topic, emailed to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net or posted here in the comments section!
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Students will spend one more day in the computer lab putting the finishing touches on their senior project PPPs. In-class practice sessions begin tomorrow!
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Due to today's DAY OF EXCELLENCE assembly, we will spend today doing make-up work from the past week.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Objectives:
After this class, students will be able to:
a. reflect on personal experiences.
b. schedule a personal deadline.
c. analyze an educational issue.
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: Report cards come out tomorrow. How do you think that you did? What will you do over the next two months to make sure you pass all of your classes?
2. Reading and Issue Analysis:
"Baltimore to Open Schools for Grades 6-12"
Questions to answer and for discussion:
a. When you see the title of this article, do you think this is a good idea or bad idea? Why?
b. What is the name of this new type of school with grades 6-12?
c. In what grades do most students drop out?
d. What does the word "retain" mean in this article?
e. What is the main advantage of putting grades 6-12 in one school, according to the article?
f. What does the word "factory-size" mean in relation to school?
g. What do you think of putting grades 6-12 together? Could it work? What are the benefits? Drawbacks?
3. Students will schedule their practice powerpoint presentations to be done in front of the class before going to present them to their Academy Leaders. 300 points - must be brought in on a flash or floppy drive.
Homework: There is no homework in this class tonight.
After this class, students will be able to:
a. reflect on personal experiences.
b. schedule a personal deadline.
c. analyze an educational issue.
Agenda:
1. Warm-Up: Report cards come out tomorrow. How do you think that you did? What will you do over the next two months to make sure you pass all of your classes?
2. Reading and Issue Analysis:
"Baltimore to Open Schools for Grades 6-12"
Questions to answer and for discussion:
a. When you see the title of this article, do you think this is a good idea or bad idea? Why?
b. What is the name of this new type of school with grades 6-12?
c. In what grades do most students drop out?
d. What does the word "retain" mean in this article?
e. What is the main advantage of putting grades 6-12 in one school, according to the article?
f. What does the word "factory-size" mean in relation to school?
g. What do you think of putting grades 6-12 together? Could it work? What are the benefits? Drawbacks?
3. Students will schedule their practice powerpoint presentations to be done in front of the class before going to present them to their Academy Leaders. 300 points - must be brought in on a flash or floppy drive.
Homework: There is no homework in this class tonight.
Thursday, April 10 - Friday, April 11, 2008
Students will spend time in the computer lab working on their senior project powerpoint presentations.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Objectives:
After this class, students will be able to:
a. reflect on personal experiences.
b. locate a visual representation of love.
c. create a piece of creative writing.
Agenda:
1. Warm-up: Textbook - page 1060 - Is it better to be a part of a couple or to be alone as a single? Students will write the answer in their notebook and then share answers for EC.
2. Scavenger Hunt - students will search their textbook for a picture which represents love to them. In their notebooks, they should write down: name of the picture, page #, what is in the picture, and what it means to you.
3. Creative Writing Assignment: Students should write one of the following:
a. a dialogue between two people who love each other
b. a monologue entitled "Why I Don't Love You Anymore"
c. a love poem
Homework: Students should continue to work on their senior project powerpoint presentations.
After this class, students will be able to:
a. reflect on personal experiences.
b. locate a visual representation of love.
c. create a piece of creative writing.
Agenda:
1. Warm-up: Textbook - page 1060 - Is it better to be a part of a couple or to be alone as a single? Students will write the answer in their notebook and then share answers for EC.
2. Scavenger Hunt - students will search their textbook for a picture which represents love to them. In their notebooks, they should write down: name of the picture, page #, what is in the picture, and what it means to you.
3. Creative Writing Assignment: Students should write one of the following:
a. a dialogue between two people who love each other
b. a monologue entitled "Why I Don't Love You Anymore"
c. a love poem
Homework: Students should continue to work on their senior project powerpoint presentations.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Grades 6-12 under one roof?
Please read this article about a plan in Baltimore to put grades 6-12 under one roof:
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/04/09/32baltimore.h27.html?tmp=1881955185
What do you think? Good idea or not? 20 points EC for a well thought-out opinion of 5 sentences on this topic. Email to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net or post a comment here!
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/04/09/32baltimore.h27.html?tmp=1881955185
What do you think? Good idea or not? 20 points EC for a well thought-out opinion of 5 sentences on this topic. Email to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net or post a comment here!
More children or less?
Read this article from Science Daily about declining fertility rates:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080122203051.htm
What do you think? It is better to have fewer children or more? 20 points for a well thought-out opinion of 5 sentences on this topic. Email to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net or post a comment here!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080122203051.htm
What do you think? It is better to have fewer children or more? 20 points for a well thought-out opinion of 5 sentences on this topic. Email to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net or post a comment here!
Would you want to be adopted by a celebrity?
Read this article from Science Daily about the "Madonna-effect" in foreign adoptions:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080409101313.htm
What do you think of this issue? Would you want to be adopted by a celebrity? 20 points EC for a well thought-out opinion of five sentences on this topic.... Email to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net or post a comment here!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080409101313.htm
What do you think of this issue? Would you want to be adopted by a celebrity? 20 points EC for a well thought-out opinion of five sentences on this topic.... Email to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net or post a comment here!
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
EC Opportunity: What is a Man?
Read this article about the new definition of a man from Ode Magazine:
http://www.odemagazine.com/blogs/readers_blog/1568/what_is_a_man
What do you think? Do you agree or disagree? For 20 points EC, write a well thought-out opinion of 5 sentences on this topic in the comments section or by email to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net...
http://www.odemagazine.com/blogs/readers_blog/1568/what_is_a_man
What do you think? Do you agree or disagree? For 20 points EC, write a well thought-out opinion of 5 sentences on this topic in the comments section or by email to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net...
EC Opportunity: Which kid would you be?
Read this article from Ode Magazine about teenagers & consumerism:
http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/52/childhood-unplugged/all
What do you think? Which kid would you be? Write a well thought-out opinion of 5 sentences on this topic and email to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net...
http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/52/childhood-unplugged/all
What do you think? Which kid would you be? Write a well thought-out opinion of 5 sentences on this topic and email to ms.kingsbury@verizon.net...
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
GUIDELINES FOR THE SENIOR PROJECT POWERPOINT PRESENTATION (PPP):
1. Your PPP must be at least 16 slides long (1 intro slide, 2-3 slides per chapter, 1 conclusion slide).
2. Your first slide = Title of your research paper, your name, and your book #
3. All other slides = 7 lines of text and 1 graphic
4. Put only the most important points of your research paper into your PPP. You should include statistics if you have any.
5. When you make your oral presentation in front of the class, it should be at least 10 minutes long. You will read from the slides plus elaborate on what the slides say.
6. After you give your presentation, you will answer 5 questions from Ms. Kingsbury.
7. Your presentation is also scored on content (do you provide enough details), organization, and speaking loud and clear.
8. You must be present on the day you sign up to present your PPP in front of the class - NO MAKE-UPS!
9. Your PPP must be saved on a disk (flash or floppy).
IMPORTANT DATES!
a. Your Senior Project is due NOW!
b. April 8, 10, and 14: Computer lab to work on PPP
c. April 16 to 22: PPP in front of the class (sign-up sheet available next week)
c. April 28 to May 24: Present your PPP to your Academy Leader
d. May 27 to 30: FINALS!
Today, you will begin working on your PPP in the computer lab. We will be back in the lab on Thursday and hopefully on Monday. If you need to finish your senior project work still before you start your PPP, please do that!!
If you already have your PPP complete or are working on it at home, you will be given extra credit work to do in class.
1. Your PPP must be at least 16 slides long (1 intro slide, 2-3 slides per chapter, 1 conclusion slide).
2. Your first slide = Title of your research paper, your name, and your book #
3. All other slides = 7 lines of text and 1 graphic
4. Put only the most important points of your research paper into your PPP. You should include statistics if you have any.
5. When you make your oral presentation in front of the class, it should be at least 10 minutes long. You will read from the slides plus elaborate on what the slides say.
6. After you give your presentation, you will answer 5 questions from Ms. Kingsbury.
7. Your presentation is also scored on content (do you provide enough details), organization, and speaking loud and clear.
8. You must be present on the day you sign up to present your PPP in front of the class - NO MAKE-UPS!
9. Your PPP must be saved on a disk (flash or floppy).
IMPORTANT DATES!
a. Your Senior Project is due NOW!
b. April 8, 10, and 14: Computer lab to work on PPP
c. April 16 to 22: PPP in front of the class (sign-up sheet available next week)
c. April 28 to May 24: Present your PPP to your Academy Leader
d. May 27 to 30: FINALS!
Today, you will begin working on your PPP in the computer lab. We will be back in the lab on Thursday and hopefully on Monday. If you need to finish your senior project work still before you start your PPP, please do that!!
If you already have your PPP complete or are working on it at home, you will be given extra credit work to do in class.
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