January 22, 2018 - January 26, 2018 Weekly Agenda

 


Monday, January 22nd:

Final Presentations:

Ty, Gabrielle, Melany, Germain, Guadalupe: An oil corporation lobbyist advocating for off-shore drilling.

Ashley, Nick, Katherine, Jose, Jaylan: Advocates for rent control

For tomorrow: 

Please bring your ERWC book and grammar book to class.

Bring your ideas for slides tomorrow.

Tuesday, January 23rd: 

Tuesday, January 23^rd:

1^st Period:

ERWC

Page 33

“A Change of Heart About Animals”

1^st group: page 33, paragraphs 1 – 9

2^nd group: page 34, paragraphs 10 – 17

3^rd group; page 35, “Letters to the Editor in Response to ‘A Change of Heart About Animals’”

4^th group, page 36, “Hooked on a Myth” paragraphs 1 – 8

5^th group, page 37, “Hooked on a Myth”, paragraph 9 – 17

6^th group, page 38, “Of Primates and Personhood”, paragraphs 1 – 7

7^th group, page 39, “Of Primates and Personhood”, paragraph 8 – 12

Each person has to create at least one slide for each important idea in the article.

Each person has to present the slide that s/he created to the audience.

Each slide has to have a main idea, supporting evidence, and a visual.

1st group:  Henry, Leonela, Maybeline, Benedict	2nd group: George, Precious, Wendy, Monai, Noelia	3rd group: Kaelyn, Kenneth, Jonathan, Douglas, Alejandra, Johana
4th group:  Stephanie, Daylan, Kayla, Shobhana,	5th group: Ty, Melany, Germain, Guadalupe	6th group:  Ashley, Nick, Katherine C., Jose, Jaylan
7th group: Modi, Katherine Q., Cheyenne, Gabrielle

SLIDES FOR THE SENIOR PRESENTATION:

Each slide should have an interesting and relevant visual

Slide presentation should include charts, graphs, and/or statistics to support your claim

Each slide must have citation to indicate your sources

Each slide should have main idea with supporting evidence as bullet points only

An introductory slide with the title of your senior research

One slide per main idea

Slide(s) with bullet points supporting main idea

Slide(s) with charts, graphs, and/or statistics to support your claim

The information on the charts, graphs, and/or statistics MUST BE LARGE ENOUGH TO BE SEEN BY THE AUDIENCE!

Each piece of information must be cited on the slide

You may use photos of your work on the project product

You may use a video no longer than one minute of your project product

A final slide with either the answer to your senior project question or a remedy for a chronic social problem or a call to action

The last slide should be your work cited page.

            There should be a minimum of eight sources

            The citations should be large enough to see from the audience

Wednesday, January 24th:
Break into groups and begin working on your presentation.
Please be sure to read the entire article - even the parts you are not presenting!
We will begin presenting on Friday!

Please bring your ERWC grammar book (the spiral notebook).
"Rhetorical Grammar for Expository Reading and Writing", pages 1 - 8 will be assigned.
Activity 2,  3, 4, and 5 will be due on Tuesday, January 30th.

Thursday, January 25th: 
Break into groups to work on your presentation. Remember: each person must create a slide. The group presentation must include the following: slide(s) for the main idea(s), slide(s) for the supporting evidence(s) for each main idea, and slide(s) for the conclusion or call to action based on the evidence.  

For homework:
ERWC Grammar Notebook (spiral notebook)
Module 2
Pages 1 - 8
Activity 2: Correcting Run-On Sentences 1 - 8
Correct the run-on sentences by either using a period, a semi-colon, a comma and a coordinating conjunction, make one sentence a subordinate clause and join it with the main clause with a semi-colon and a common subordinating  word such as "because, since, when, etc."

Activity 3: Correcting Subject - Verb Agreement Errors 1 - 9
Write each sentence and correct them. Underline the subject and  italicize the verb. Make sure that the verb corresponds with the subject.

Activity 4: Combining Sentences 1 -  5
Combine the short choppy sentences into one sentence. Make sure that they are punctuated correctly and the subject - verb are in agreement.

Activity 5: Editing Student Work
Rewrite the paragraph, correcting the run-on sentences, and underline the subject-verb agreements.

This will be due on Tuesday, January 30th.

Friday, January 26th: 
1st group presented but without the slides - there was a glitch with the slides. They will e-mail the slides to me and present them on Monday:

Group #1:
Benedict, Leonela, Maybeline, Henry
Page 33; paragraphs 1 - 9
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Coco - able to learn 1,000 with American Sign Language