A few students are working studying the revolution in Vietnam - the August Revolution. This is a picture on top of what was formerly known as Independence Palace and is now Reunification Palace in
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Dear class,
Plenty to go over today, because there is a whole lot due next class. No playing around: let's get to it. Read on and be sure to ask questions if you are confused!
Essential Questions: What brings people together? What tears people apart?
Soundtrack: "Survival" by Muse. Chosen for today because it was a song that played before each event at the Olympics. Check out the video! Hopefully, you will survive this assignment and "win" a good grade!
AGENDA 4/4/13:
News Brief
Part B Q/A
Computer Lab - N210
Homework: ***DUE AT THE START OF NEXT CLASS, ON MONDAY**
Part A: Research Question paragraph. This should already be done, before Spring Break. Even if you have handed your Part A to me in the past (or emailed it to me), I still want you to include a copy on Friday. If you don't have Part A done, this is how you will do it: Part A Paragraph Steps.
Part B: Your investigation of evidence. Remember, you need to have 4 sources. One of those has to be an in-person print source. Here is the template to help get you the information you need. Here is the overview of what to do in Part B. Again, you are just summarizing information from your sources (as to how they relate to your research question) and combining it into a 2-3 page paper. NOT your own analysis. That is Part C, which you are doing next week.
Part E: The bibliography of your four sources. This is the full citation for each source. Here is the MLA guide for this (the second page contains the information you need for Part E, the first page has the "in text" citations for Part B).
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News Brief: Today's news brief articles were brought in by Alyssa and Brennen. Here they are: ABCNews.go.com - UK Judge Jails Parents for Deaths of 6 Children and CNN.com - Experts defuse unexploded WWII bomb in central Berlin. Both of these are crazy stories (the first one in particular). Hard to believe that people are STILL being threatened by bombs dropped during World War II!
We also talked about North Korea and the current situation there, which seems to be rapidly advancing to a state of war with the world. Definitely something that will continue to be in the news.
We also talked about North Korea and the current situation there, which seems to be rapidly advancing to a state of war with the world. Definitely something that will continue to be in the news.
Part B Q/A: I tried as best I could to explain (yet again - this was the third class in a row that I've talked about what to do) how to complete the 2-3 pages of Part B. This is just a summary of what you found in your research. Make sure to cite your sources!
Computer Lab - N210: We went to the computer lab to work on Part B. Hopefully, everyone knows what you need to be doing!
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Please let me know if I can help you with anything! I know this is quite a lot of work. I am confident that you can do this.
Hi mr.fritz its me again :)
ReplyDeleteI typed out my Part B and double spaced it. It is one whole page and half on page two. Is that too short?
Hi Laura,
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Great work. Can you add a few more sentences? Maybe a nice block quote? Ideally, it should be 2-3 pages when you turn in the final draft later this month, but I understand if this first copy still has a little work to be added to it.
What was the Password and Username so we can log into the cite for OSLIS?
ReplyDeleteHi Alyssa,
ReplyDeleteUsername: beaverton
Password: oslis
http://secondary.oslis.org/find-information - Click on "High Schoolers" to log in. :-)
Hi mr. fritz i am having trouble typing this website in MLA format. Could you help me out? http://blog.glencoe.com/blog/2010/02/26/toussaint-louverture-haiti’s-hero-liberator/
ReplyDeleteHi Megan,
ReplyDeleteThat's a tough one, because there is no stated author! Let's see here. This is the MLA format for websites:
Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access.
I would guess the MLA citation for your source would be:
Toussaint-Louverture: Haiti’s Hero-Liberator. McGraw-Hill School Education Group, 26 Feb. 2010. Web. 7 Apr. 2013
I found the date that it was published by looking up at the website address. I hope this helps! :-)