All but two students sent me their "posts" by the 9:00 P.M. deadline. I've put all the "posts" which I have received onto the blogspot. I have even received one "student response" to a partner already. (Your responses to your two partners are due no later than 9:00 P.M. on Tuesday evening.) IF YOUR PARTNER is one of the people who hasn't sent me his/her "post" yet, continue to check the blog. I'll post them as soon as I receive them.
A FEW IMPORTANT TIPS and REMINDERS:
1) Reread the directions on the blogspot carefully. Be sure you know what the next step is and when it's due. ARTICLES! That part of the assignment is due for ALL STUDENTS, whether your class meets or not on Tuesday.
2) Reread the RUBRIC carefully. The rubric is IN the directions, and it informs you how I will be assessing your work on this assignment. In case you forgot about the RUBRIC, go back and examine it now. Be sure that when you "respond" to your partners' "posts," you understand how points will be assigned.
3) READ through all the "posts."
4) Remember that you must respond to your assigned partners, but you may also respond to other classmates according to the guidelines.
5) In addition to taking note of the ideas people are offering in their "posts," take note of other things about this online writing as well. Think about and notice the following aspects of the "posts" as well. I'll be asking you to comment on these things during this upcoming week.
a) the writing style used by the student authors
b) the types of resources people sought and used
c) the way people organized their comments
SENIORS:
Important New BLUE Message From the Instructor...
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU TRY TO POST YOUR COMMENTS. FOLLOW THESE BLUE DIRECTIONS when posting your comments:
Important New BLUE Message From the Instructor...
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU TRY TO POST YOUR COMMENTS. FOLLOW THESE BLUE DIRECTIONS when posting your comments:
1) Instead of trying to post your comments at the bottom of this page,
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO ME IN AN E-MAIL using the following e-mail address:
SEND YOUR COMMENTS TO ME IN AN E-MAIL using the following e-mail address:
ann.moeller@nuacs.com
2) I will take what you send me, and I will post it onto this blog.
3) BEGIN YOUR E-MAIL to me by using the heading shown below.
_____________________________________________________________
To: AM
From: Abby D. (Use your first name and the first initial of your last name.)
Topic: ____________ (hazing, concussions, or neutering pets)
2) I will take what you send me, and I will post it onto this blog.
3) BEGIN YOUR E-MAIL to me by using the heading shown below.
_____________________________________________________________
To: AM
From: Abby D. (Use your first name and the first initial of your last name.)
Topic: ____________ (hazing, concussions, or neutering pets)
Then, begin your comments.
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
4) PLEASE TYPE YOUR COMMENTS INTO THE e-mail itself. DO NOT put your comments into an attachment. (I am asking that you NOT use an attachment because if you are using a software that is not compatible with the software on my computer, I might not be able to open the attachment. PLEASE, type your comments directly into an e-mail. BE ACCURATE. CHECK YOUR WORK BEFORE YOU SEND IT TO ME.)
5) AFTER YOU HAVE SENT ME THE e-mail, CHECK YOUR e-mail and watch for my "reply." I'll send you a reply e-mail so that you know if I received your work.
6) TO READ THE COMMENTS OF THE OTHER STUDENTS:
Come to this blog address and click on "comments" at the bottom of the "green" assignment directions below. Then you can read what your classmates have written.
5) AFTER YOU HAVE SENT ME THE e-mail, CHECK YOUR e-mail and watch for my "reply." I'll send you a reply e-mail so that you know if I received your work.
6) TO READ THE COMMENTS OF THE OTHER STUDENTS:
Come to this blog address and click on "comments" at the bottom of the "green" assignment directions below. Then you can read what your classmates have written.
Search for the comments you need to "respond to" from your two assigned classmates.
7) WHEN YOU GET READY to write your "responses to classmates," FOLLOW THE SAME PROCEDURE you used when you sent me your first "comments."
7) WHEN YOU GET READY to write your "responses to classmates," FOLLOW THE SAME PROCEDURE you used when you sent me your first "comments."
SEND your "responses" TO ME IN AN e-mail. I will post them to the blog.
SENIORS, PLEASE E-MAIL ME IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS.
AM
Assignment number one:
STEP: 1) Select ONE of the following topics. Do some reading. Do some thinking.
Mentally, form some of your own questions about the topic.
a) neutering pets (restrict your research to dogs and cats in the United States)
Should it be required? What would a person have to do to be exempt from
the requirement? What would improve if it were required? Would that matter?
Why or why not?
What is the history of this? What are the facts and statistics available about it?
b) hazing (restrict your research to college and high school hazing in the United States)
Should there be a penalty for people who have information about the hazing and do not
come forward with it? Should there be protection and support for those who speak up?
Should adults who are aware of it and do not report it (especially those in hired positions)
be penalized? Should the activities where hazing occurred be discontinued for at least
one season? What message is sent to the students, adults, and community if no
consequences are given? What message is sent about bullying if consequences are given?
What is the history of this? What are the facts and statistics available about it?
c) concussions
(restrict your research to college and high school sports in the United States)
What are the long-term risks?
What is the history of this? What are the facts and statistics available about it?
IF YOU HAVE DONE A SPEECH, A PAPER, OR A PRESENTATION of any kind on one of the three topics above, select one of the other choices.
STEP: 2) Find and download articles on this topic.
(at least 2 articles from reliable sources)
YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO TELL THE INSTRUCTOR
EXACTLY WHERE YOU FOUND THE ARTICLES AND HOW YOU FOUND THEM.
WRITE THIS INFORMATION DOWN IN YOUR NOTEBOOK AND BRING IT TO
CLASS on Tuesday, September 7. The instructor is "assessing" how you
handle an online assignment.
STEP: 3) Read the articles. Highlight important passages from the articles. Write some
notes to yourself in the margin regarding your thoughts about the article and the
highlighted portions. When you are done using the articles, WRITE YOUR NAME
ON EACH ARTICLE and hand it in. (Articles must be handed in at Room 216 no
later than 8:00 A.M. on Tuesday, September 7.)
STEP: 4) Before handing in the article, create your "post." Write at least 200 words
explaining your ideas about the topic. TAKE A STAND. Use at least one quote
from at least one article and explain why you agree or disagree with the author of
the article. YOU MUST "cite" your source. You must give ALL the necessary
information about the source so that your readers will know where the information
came from.
WHEN YOU HAVE WRITTEN YOUR "post" and edited it, click on "publish post."
YOUR POST will appear online. (Before you click on "publish post," check to be
sure that you have fixed any errors in typing, spelling, and punctuation. You want your "published" work to be accurate.
In the Star Tribune article entitled "What Message Are We Sending?," 6C, p. 7, August
29, 2010, Pat Harrington wrote, "In the end, the important thing is this: The school
district must send a message to the youth and adults of this community that hazing is a
form of disrespect that cannot be tolerated - ever. This is an Atticus Finch moment. If
adults fail to say 'absolutely not' to hazing, how can those same adults ever hold their
heads up and look their children in the eye again?"
THE LINE LEADING INTO THE QUOTE tells the reader EXACTLY WHEN and WHERE
the quote came from.
AGAIN: Your "post" is what you type up. It tells the readers (your classmates and your instructor) what you believe / think / feel about this topic. The "post" you put online should be 175-225 words in length.
POST your first original written commentary no later than 9:00 P.M. on Sunday, September 5.
By 9:00 P.M. on Tuesday, September 7, you must post a "response" to each of your two partners. Each of your responses must be 75-100 words in length. You need to comment SPECIFICALLY on an idea that the other student(s) discuss. Your "response" may include comments about why you agree or disagree with ideas, questions that came to you as you read, or new thoughts you want to bring up for discussion because of something a classmate wrote. If your response is "general and empty," your score will reflect that you did not follow the directions.
RUBRIC: Below you will find a list of what the instructor will be looking for when
assigning "points" (credit in the grade book) for this assignment.
student found, downloaded, and handed in at least two articles
student highlighted and wrote some "margin comments" on both articles
student posted a personal comment about ONE of the three choices of topic (a,b,or c) -
the posting met deadline (9:00 P.M., Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010)
student met the length requirement for personal posting (175-225 words)
student met the length and deadline requirement for responding to specific ideas in the posting of each of his/her TWO partners (9:00 P.M., Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 - 75-100 words each)
student demonstrated clear, accurate use of Basic Standard English
student demonstrated his/her ability to give more than just a "brush over" of the topic based on previously held ideas; all the student's online writing (both the personal posting AND the response to two classmates) demonstrated that the student author did research and used the ideas in those articles to form some ideas and comments
ONE MORE THING...
Get busy on this right away. Do not wait until the last minute. If you have trouble, e-mail the instructor and CLEARLY ask your questions. If you miss the deadlines for this online work, you cannot use "I did not know how to do the posting" as an excuse. Get busy ahead of time so that if you have trouble following the directions you have TIME to get your questions answered.
This is an important assignment. We will be doing some online work in this course. Learn now how to do it. Do it well. I predict that you will like this kind of "online discussion." Become familiar with this skill. POST-SECONDARY work almost always requires some form of online discussion work now. I want you to be ready.
RESEARCH - WRITE - RESPOND TO OTHERS' WRITING...
BE READY FOR YOUR FUTURE.
8) At the beginning of the "response" you write to each of your class partners, please use the format shown below:
______________________________________________________________
To: Abby D. (Use the classmate's first name and the first initial of the last name.)
From: Ethan R. (Use your own first name and first initial of your last name.)
Re: _________ (hazing, concussions, neutering pets)
Then, begin your response comments.
______________________________________________________________
SENIORS, PLEASE E-MAIL ME IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS.
AM
Assignment number one:
STEP: 1) Select ONE of the following topics. Do some reading. Do some thinking.
Mentally, form some of your own questions about the topic.
a) neutering pets (restrict your research to dogs and cats in the United States)
Should it be required? What would a person have to do to be exempt from
the requirement? What would improve if it were required? Would that matter?
Why or why not?
What is the history of this? What are the facts and statistics available about it?
b) hazing (restrict your research to college and high school hazing in the United States)
Should there be a penalty for people who have information about the hazing and do not
come forward with it? Should there be protection and support for those who speak up?
Should adults who are aware of it and do not report it (especially those in hired positions)
be penalized? Should the activities where hazing occurred be discontinued for at least
one season? What message is sent to the students, adults, and community if no
consequences are given? What message is sent about bullying if consequences are given?
What is the history of this? What are the facts and statistics available about it?
c) concussions
(restrict your research to college and high school sports in the United States)
Should there be a rule preventing any college or high school athlete from continuing play
for the rest of the sports' season is a head injury (concussion) occurs to that person?What are the long-term risks?
What is the history of this? What are the facts and statistics available about it?
IF YOU HAVE DONE A SPEECH, A PAPER, OR A PRESENTATION of any kind on one of the three topics above, select one of the other choices.
STEP: 2) Find and download articles on this topic.
(at least 2 articles from reliable sources)
YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO TELL THE INSTRUCTOR
EXACTLY WHERE YOU FOUND THE ARTICLES AND HOW YOU FOUND THEM.
WRITE THIS INFORMATION DOWN IN YOUR NOTEBOOK AND BRING IT TO
CLASS on Tuesday, September 7. The instructor is "assessing" how you
handle an online assignment.
STEP: 3) Read the articles. Highlight important passages from the articles. Write some
notes to yourself in the margin regarding your thoughts about the article and the
highlighted portions. When you are done using the articles, WRITE YOUR NAME
ON EACH ARTICLE and hand it in. (Articles must be handed in at Room 216 no
later than 8:00 A.M. on Tuesday, September 7.)
STEP: 4) Before handing in the article, create your "post." Write at least 200 words
explaining your ideas about the topic. TAKE A STAND. Use at least one quote
from at least one article and explain why you agree or disagree with the author of
the article. YOU MUST "cite" your source. You must give ALL the necessary
information about the source so that your readers will know where the information
came from.
WHEN YOU HAVE WRITTEN YOUR "post" and edited it, click on "publish post."
YOUR POST will appear online. (Before you click on "publish post," check to be
sure that you have fixed any errors in typing, spelling, and punctuation. You want your "published" work to be accurate.
In the Star Tribune article entitled "What Message Are We Sending?," 6C, p. 7, August
29, 2010, Pat Harrington wrote, "In the end, the important thing is this: The school
district must send a message to the youth and adults of this community that hazing is a
form of disrespect that cannot be tolerated - ever. This is an Atticus Finch moment. If
adults fail to say 'absolutely not' to hazing, how can those same adults ever hold their
heads up and look their children in the eye again?"
THE LINE LEADING INTO THE QUOTE tells the reader EXACTLY WHEN and WHERE
the quote came from.
AGAIN: Your "post" is what you type up. It tells the readers (your classmates and your instructor) what you believe / think / feel about this topic. The "post" you put online should be 175-225 words in length.
POST your first original written commentary no later than 9:00 P.M. on Sunday, September 5.
By 9:00 P.M. on Tuesday, September 7, you must post a "response" to each of your two partners. Each of your responses must be 75-100 words in length. You need to comment SPECIFICALLY on an idea that the other student(s) discuss. Your "response" may include comments about why you agree or disagree with ideas, questions that came to you as you read, or new thoughts you want to bring up for discussion because of something a classmate wrote. If your response is "general and empty," your score will reflect that you did not follow the directions.
RUBRIC: Below you will find a list of what the instructor will be looking for when
assigning "points" (credit in the grade book) for this assignment.
student found, downloaded, and handed in at least two articles
student highlighted and wrote some "margin comments" on both articles
student posted a personal comment about ONE of the three choices of topic (a,b,or c) -
the posting met deadline (9:00 P.M., Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010)
student met the length requirement for personal posting (175-225 words)
student met the length and deadline requirement for responding to specific ideas in the posting of each of his/her TWO partners (9:00 P.M., Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 - 75-100 words each)
student demonstrated clear, accurate use of Basic Standard English
student demonstrated his/her ability to give more than just a "brush over" of the topic based on previously held ideas; all the student's online writing (both the personal posting AND the response to two classmates) demonstrated that the student author did research and used the ideas in those articles to form some ideas and comments
ONE MORE THING...
Get busy on this right away. Do not wait until the last minute. If you have trouble, e-mail the instructor and CLEARLY ask your questions. If you miss the deadlines for this online work, you cannot use "I did not know how to do the posting" as an excuse. Get busy ahead of time so that if you have trouble following the directions you have TIME to get your questions answered.
This is an important assignment. We will be doing some online work in this course. Learn now how to do it. Do it well. I predict that you will like this kind of "online discussion." Become familiar with this skill. POST-SECONDARY work almost always requires some form of online discussion work now. I want you to be ready.
RESEARCH - WRITE - RESPOND TO OTHERS' WRITING...
BE READY FOR YOUR FUTURE.
