Hello and welcome to a ridiculously short class recap!
I am guessing that I am going to spend way more time writing this blog post than we actually had in the whole of class today, due to the senior assembly going WAY over time. Because of this, we had roughly 20 minutes in class together, and I really had to condense (or eliminate) a lot of things that I wanted to do. Such is life! Follow along, let's go!
Essential Questions: How does conflict arise and in what ways have various people responded? How did the concept of nonviolence develop and become implemented?
Soundtrack: (Would have been) "We Can Work It Out" by The Beatles. Lyrics here. Because most of you were already in the class during the assembly period, it turned out to be pretty pointless to play the song as a soundtrack. It is a great one though!
AGENDA 6/5/09:
News Brief
Who Was Gandhi?
Homework: E-mail either Mrs. DeFrance (audra_defrance@beavton.k12.or.us) or me (luke_fritz@beavton.k12.or.us) so that we can give you advice on how to revise your paper to be turned in on Tuesday, to be graded!
This was the revised homework - we would have used the class time today to go over each paper with you, but there was simply no way to have this happen in the time that we had left. If you are at all concerned about your paper (and really, your final grade in the class), please e-mail one of us and we will help you out!
News Brief: We talked about the enormous lightning storm that happened in Portland last night! It was certainly something to take notice of. I was inside watching the NBA Finals. Good times.
There was a really scattered news brief today, but I want to specifically mention that I showed this clip to the class, about how President Obama tried to create some sort of peace in the Middle East through getting people to come together - your assignment for the Israeli-Palestinian unit too!
This was at the end of the President's speech in Cairo, Egypt yesterday. You can watch a clip of President Obama talking specifically about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the speech here. Good stuff. You can watch the entire speech as well as click on a link for a transcript to read here: WhiteHouse.gov - The President's Speech in Cairo: A New Beginning.
Cameron asked why we never hear any news about Australia. Well, that is partly because nobody brings in articles related to it, but partly because there really is not that much to Australia outside the main cities. However, here is an article about something interesting happening in the country: CNBC.com - Australia Escapes Recession ... For Now.
Maritza, if you could bring in a news article for next class, that would be great. Thanks!
Who Was Gandhi? I apologize that I really had zero time to set this up well, but we ended the class by watching a short biography of who Gandhi was and what his philosophy of nonviolence was about, which can be found here.
We had to scrap pretty much everything else, but the main points of the class were these: E-mail your paper to either Mrs. DeFrance or myself. President Obama had a speech in the Middle East talking about exactly the same stuff we talked about in class. Gandhi tried to get independence for India from Britain by using the tactic of nonviolence.
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Whew! Yes, that took me a while. Still, I hope you enjoyed class! Have a great weekend and let me know how I can be helping you out! See you for the second to the last time on Tuesday! Ahh!
hey mr.fritz
ReplyDeletei still can't get the mail send out
Hay
ReplyDeleteWhat's "The Old Man" ?
And you guys actually want us to e-mail my paper in when i'm done ? so like your pre-grading ?
sweeet
i'll do that later
thanks
see ya
-Stone
Amanda,
ReplyDelete"The Old Man" was the title of a TV episode we were going to watch if we had time in class on Friday. Obviously, we did not.
Yes, we want you to send us your paper so that we can ask you to do revisions before turning it in for real on Tuesday.
Hsuan-Ting,
ReplyDeleteCan you just copy and paste the text of your paper in an e-mail, instead of attaching the file?
If all else fails, you can post it to the blog and I will not approve it to the comments, but I will be able to read it myself and give you feedback.
Sound good?
I gave Maritza a really good research topic/question that i'm really interested in and i don't know if she's doing it or not.. Plus, i kinda want to change mine.
ReplyDeleteSo, did she do hers on something like clothing indicating social classes or stereotypes or representing a country, 3 from around the world ?
something along those lines
Amanda,
ReplyDeleteI do not know what Maritza chose to do - she has not sent me her paper yet. I would say that it is probably a bad idea to change your research question at this time, unless you haven't done any work on your paper.
Yah i know, but i haven't really got that into it. Plus, i'm not interested in it at all and it's hard to find 3 articles. I just keep confusing myself..
ReplyDeleteAnd with the other topic i can like it, it's fun, and there's more options to go about it.
so should i go for it? Just maybe change it more than what i told her so that they aren't the same.. just both having to do with a country's clothing style ?
Amanda,
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like that question would be pretty difficult to research and write about in two days as well. However, please do what ever you think is best for you in getting this done with.
Hsuan-Ting,
I have both of your comments, and will look at your paper in more detail later tonight. Thanks for sending it to me!
Sorry for having to ask again
ReplyDeleteI didn't get that rubric/ formatting paper on how you wanted the paper structured
so you think you could repeat it for me ??
i kinda have, you know, the basics but not everything
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteBasically, here is what we want:
Introduction, telling the reader your research question and thesis.
Body paragraphs: one introductory sentence, two concrete details (either quotes or facts from your sources), a commentary on those details, and a concluding statement for each paragraph - these can be more than one sentence, but the structure should be the same.
Conclusion: telling the reader what the paper just said, with the research question and thesis again.
Hsuan-Ting,
ReplyDeleteSorry for getting back to you so late. If you would like to come in at lunch tomorrow and get some more specific feedback, please do, but basically, I think that you need to do some more citing of your sources inside the paper - for instance, where did you get this information?:
"Many words in English we use today like “egg,” “sky,” “skull,” “lift” and “take” are from the ancient Vikings who were from Denmark, Norway and other northern countries."
Other than that, I think you can probably make your thesis statement a little more clear in the introduction - how are you going to answer your question?
Thanks for sending it to me!