WEEK 9 -
LAST LITERATURE CIRCLES & LIFE OF PI ESSAY
Do the following survey after you have had a long and hard look at the assignment page and rubric.
"Clash of Civilizations" article
Play the above file in iTunes, WinAmp or your phone's music player prior to you reading the article, or while you are reading it.
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Ms. Melissa's Library Presentation |
REGARDING LITERATURE CIRCLES
I was happy with the amount of learning people did in Wednesday and Thursday's class, and there was a lot to cover. We did not have enough time afforded to us for me to properly go through Literature Circles, for you all to get the feedback I think you badly needed, so I am pushing back the Final Literature Circles for Tuesday. The class average is a Level 2 for Literature Circles. A great deal of it has to do with people not trying, but then I think there are a few who are trying, and still missing the mark, and I want you to do the very best you can. Monday's class will facilitate (hopefully) a chance for you to once and for all have a very good execution/ attempt at the Literature Circles activity. Remember, it is because of that activity you got the chance to go through the whole book again, and have the ideas and messaging engrained in your mind, without you having to do it 100% alone.
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BLENDED LEARNING ON FRIDAY
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HOMEWORK DUE FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014
GOAL/ OBJECTIVE: I want to see that you know HOW to apply an academic journal/ secondary research to an argument in order to successfully support a thesis.
AT THE END: I will see how you were able to:
- Read and do research in an academic journal
- Properly see how you can use evidence from that journal
- Create, and write out an argument to support a thesis
- In that argument, you write clearly and grammatically correct
- In the argument, you have pieces of evidence from both the book and the journal
STEP 1: Download the article through Google Scholar titled, "Clash of the Civilizations?" by S. P. Huntington. You now all have background knowledge on the items mentioned in the article, so you should read it with a bit more ease than before, now.
STEP 2: Create an Evernote file and title it RESEARCH ATTEMPT LOP, and put it in your shared ISU Research Log Notebook.
STEP 3: Read and take notes on the first nine pages of the article. You are reading it with the intention of finding information in it that will support the following thesis:
In Yann Martel's "Life of Pi", the protagonist successfully practices the religions of Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity concurrently because he is doing so in isolation from other believers, also known as a community.
STEP 4: Above in the yellow is your thesis, now after reading the article, ask yourself if you see any points in the article that could support the above thesis, and create an argument.
STEP 5: Now fill out a RESEARCH SUBMISSION FORM making sure that you:
i) Write the argument down in the first box (where it says "What argument is this for")
ii) Do the proper MLA citation of the resource
iii) Summarize ONLY the points that relate to your argument from the article in the large white space (in point form notes, not in "copy and paste"). When finished, place this file (as a Doc file) into the EVERNOTE note you created in Step 2.
STEP 6: Now open a new Word document file, and write out a full paragraph that would represent your argument for the thesis above.
AT THE END: I will see how you were able to:
- Read and do research in an academic journal
- Properly see how you can use evidence from that journal
- Create, and write out an argument to support a thesis
- In that argument, you write clearly and grammatically correct
- In the argument, you have pieces of evidence from both the book and the journal
STEP 1: Download the article through Google Scholar titled, "Clash of the Civilizations?" by S. P. Huntington. You now all have background knowledge on the items mentioned in the article, so you should read it with a bit more ease than before, now.
STEP 2: Create an Evernote file and title it RESEARCH ATTEMPT LOP, and put it in your shared ISU Research Log Notebook.
STEP 3: Read and take notes on the first nine pages of the article. You are reading it with the intention of finding information in it that will support the following thesis:
In Yann Martel's "Life of Pi", the protagonist successfully practices the religions of Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity concurrently because he is doing so in isolation from other believers, also known as a community.
STEP 4: Above in the yellow is your thesis, now after reading the article, ask yourself if you see any points in the article that could support the above thesis, and create an argument.
STEP 5: Now fill out a RESEARCH SUBMISSION FORM making sure that you:
i) Write the argument down in the first box (where it says "What argument is this for")
ii) Do the proper MLA citation of the resource
iii) Summarize ONLY the points that relate to your argument from the article in the large white space (in point form notes, not in "copy and paste"). When finished, place this file (as a Doc file) into the EVERNOTE note you created in Step 2.
STEP 6: Now open a new Word document file, and write out a full paragraph that would represent your argument for the thesis above.
STEP 7: Now that you are finished, place this file in the same Evernote note as mentioned in Step 2, and also please place the file of the actual journal in the same note. At the end, your Evernote file will have 3 NOTES IN IT.
ALL DUE FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 8TH.
ALL DUE FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 8TH.
PLEASE DO:
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