Thursday, April 28, 2016

1st period peer-edited first draft of Thesis

3rd and 4th periods prepped for AP test

UPCOMING DUE DATES:

TUESDAY, MAY 10: 2nd draft of Thesis *
WEDNESDAY MAY 18: Final draft thesis and portfolio

* this is a revised due date (the original due date was Friday May 6, which is the day of AP Euro test, which many students are taking.)

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

1st period: Issue Group

3rd and 4th periods: Finish reading sample theses and completing the worksheet
                                 Peer-edit 1st draft of thesis

DUE DATES: Friday, May 6: 2nd draft of thesis
                        Wednesday, May 18: Final draft of thesis (and portfolio)

Friday, April 22, 2016
Today's Agenda:

1st period: Finish reading and discussing sample theses. Practice AP test.

3rd period: Read and discuss sample theses

4th period: Issue Group

DUE on  TUESDAY APRIL 26: 1st draft of thesis

1st period Issue Group articles:

ttp://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/syrian-refugees/salopek-text
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/28/why-the-us-should-welcome-syrian-refugees-commentary.html

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-syrian-refugee-lesson-for-liberals-1447719595

Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Today's Agenda:

1. Get Outline stamped and checked off
2. Read sample thesis essay together and discuss it and how well it uses the "Claim-Evidence-Commentary" model that we got last period. Discuss the organization of the thesis.
3. In small groups, read and analyze an additional thesis (see me for this material if you were absent)

REMINDERS: First draft of the thesis is due on Tuesday, April 26

                         4th period should be prepared for an issue group on Friday, April 22

Here are the articles for the issue group for 4th period on Friday, April 22

Pro AI: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/future-of-artificial-intelligence/

Neutral: http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai.html

Con: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/03/08/ai-could-kill-all-meet-man-takes-risk-seriously/

Monday, April 18, 2016

1. Hand in Annotated Bibliography
2. Get handout on how to outline your thesis and discuss
3. 1st and 4th periods got essay #3 returned to them
4. Do practice AP Timed Write (Okefenokee)

DUE DATE: Wednesday, April 20: Outline of thesis

These are the articles for the standardized testing issue group (period 3) 

Con article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/study-says-standardized-testing-is-overwhelming-nations-public-schools/2015/10/24/8a22092c-79ae-11e5-a958-d889faf561dc_story.html

Neutral article: http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2014/0403/Debate-over-standardized-testing-is-focusing-on-the-wrong-questions 

Pro article: http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-submission/2011/08/01/stop-war-against-standardized-tests

We did not have AP English this week (April 11-15) because of SBAC testing.

DUE DATE:

MONDAY, April 18: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Today's Agenda:

1st period: Issue Group

3rd period: we did research in class and will have the Issue Group on Thursday

4th period: Issue Group

REMINDER: you need to be researching and reading articles about your author/books. The Annotated Bibliography is due in less than 2 weeks (April 18).

NOTE: the OSLIS username is "port" and the password is "oslis"

Friday, April 1, 2016

1. Thesis project launched: review this packet 
2. Thesis calendar handed out and reviewed
3. Annotated Bibliography explained and assigned (see pages 8-15 in thesis packet)
4. Demonstration of how to conduct research

DUE DATE: Monday, April 18: Annotated Bibliography

ISSUE GROUPS ARE ON TUESDAY, APRIL 5 

1st period issue group articles:

Informative: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14432401 

Against: http://0-ic.galegroup.com.catalog.multcolib.org/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=OVIC&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Viewpoints&limiter=&u=multnomah&currPage=&disableHighlighting=true&displayGroups=&sortBy=&source=&search_within_results=&p=OVIC&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010930210

For: http://0-ic.galegroup.com.catalog.multcolib.org/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=OVIC&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Viewpoints&limiter=&u=multnomah&currPage=&disableHighlighting=true&displayGroups=&sortBy=&source=&search_within_results=&p=OVIC&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010930211

3rd period issue group articles:

Neutral:

http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=GALE%7C00000000LVXO&documentId=GALE%7CPC3021900106&mode=view&userGroupName=p1841&jsid=078d40d7bbe0401ed25e9fe4ef60263f

Pro:

https://www.change.org/p/the-advantages-of-legalizing-marijuana

Con:

http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/marijuana/the-harmful-effects.html

4th period issue group articles:

Negative:

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/07/09/social-justice-issue-we-can-sink-our-teeth-factory-farming

Neutral:

https://www.meatinstitute.org/index.php?ht=d/sp/i/47465/pid/47465

Positive:

http://www.dailynebraskan.com/opinion/nold-meat-industry-benefits-economy-human-body/article_f0088822-5b0d-11e3-b8e6-001a4bcf6878.html