As you prepare for your internship immersion, please answer the following questions:
1. What are you most excited about in regards to your immersion experience? Why do you feel this way?
2. What are you most concerned about (what causes the most stress) regarding immersion? Why do you feel this way?
Please answer each in as much depth as you can--I am so very interested in learning about how you'll be doing out in the "real world"!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Honors Blogs
Literature:
Choose three main characters from your book.
Find pictures or create pictures of what you believe that they look like. You can draw a picture or use a picture from any online source, as long as you cite your work.
Write a character sketch that answers the following questions for each character:
1. What physical presence does the character have? Include height, weight, size, physical fitness, posture, etc.
2. Describe the characters further visual details. Include hair, eyes, face, teeth, scars, tattoos, etc.
3. What distinguishing items does the character wear? Include clothes, jewelery, shoes, and any other physical item the character keeps with him/her.
4. What distinguishing behavior does the character have? Include habits, preferences (music, food, literature, etc.), speech (sayings, stalling words, etc), and demeanor.
5. What is the characters role in society? Include his/her job, hobbies, and uses of time.
6. What is the character's religion or philosophy? What beliefs does he/she hold? How does this create or mitigate internal conflict within his/her psyche?
7. What do others in the book say about the character?
8. What connections does this character have to history, established religion or the world beyond the book?
9. What does the character's name suggest? Authors rarely (if ever) name characters at random. What could the name symbolize? What evidence do you have for this?
10. How does the character develop during the plot? How does he/she change?
Now, look back at your answers to these ten questions. What patterns do you notice about each character? What conclusions does this lead you towards?
History
Analyze the responses of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration to the problems of the Great Depression. How effective were these responses? How did they change the role of the federal government? Use the documents and your knowledge of the period 1929-1941 to construct your essay.
Good luck and have fun!
Choose three main characters from your book.
Find pictures or create pictures of what you believe that they look like. You can draw a picture or use a picture from any online source, as long as you cite your work.
Write a character sketch that answers the following questions for each character:
1. What physical presence does the character have? Include height, weight, size, physical fitness, posture, etc.
2. Describe the characters further visual details. Include hair, eyes, face, teeth, scars, tattoos, etc.
3. What distinguishing items does the character wear? Include clothes, jewelery, shoes, and any other physical item the character keeps with him/her.
4. What distinguishing behavior does the character have? Include habits, preferences (music, food, literature, etc.), speech (sayings, stalling words, etc), and demeanor.
5. What is the characters role in society? Include his/her job, hobbies, and uses of time.
6. What is the character's religion or philosophy? What beliefs does he/she hold? How does this create or mitigate internal conflict within his/her psyche?
7. What do others in the book say about the character?
8. What connections does this character have to history, established religion or the world beyond the book?
9. What does the character's name suggest? Authors rarely (if ever) name characters at random. What could the name symbolize? What evidence do you have for this?
10. How does the character develop during the plot? How does he/she change?
Now, look back at your answers to these ten questions. What patterns do you notice about each character? What conclusions does this lead you towards?
History
Analyze the responses of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration to the problems of the Great Depression. How effective were these responses? How did they change the role of the federal government? Use the documents and your knowledge of the period 1929-1941 to construct your essay.
Good luck and have fun!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Outstanding Blogz
What blogs are out there with outstanding examples of:
1. Economic advice to Barack Obama?
2. Literary Analysis?
3. Historical Writing?
4. Anything else that makes blogs great?
Quote examples for each and explain why you picked them! Show us and tell us what makes them great!
This is due at 11:59:59 on 2/17
How Progressive was the Progressive Era?
How progressive was the Progressive Era in American history?
Things to consider (choose some, not all!):
* Constitutional Amendments?
* Workers & Working Conditions?
* Imperialism?
* Civil Liberties?
* Conservation?
* Democracy?
* Freedom?
Make sure that you take a stand and establish a judgement, comparison in relation to a specific standard.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Happy Birthday Charles Darwin!
In honor of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday, please read this editorial. Feel free to supplement this editorial with any other information or timely articles.
Darwin was a famous scientist.... As humanities students (and humans), what responsibility do we have for the understanding of science? What role should scientific inquiry and scientific knowledge play in our own society? How should science influence our decisions, laws, and culture?
PS—Yes, I know that it's also Abe Lincoln's birthday, but I thought it might be interesting to change the subject a little, since we've already done so much with him... If you'd much rather write about Lincoln, that will work too.
PPS—Both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin had luxurious, beautiful, manly beards. And, so does your humanities teacher. Coincidence? Or is there a relationship waiting to be discovered?
This blog is due at 3:30 on Friday 2/13.
Darwin was a famous scientist.... As humanities students (and humans), what responsibility do we have for the understanding of science? What role should scientific inquiry and scientific knowledge play in our own society? How should science influence our decisions, laws, and culture?
PS—Yes, I know that it's also Abe Lincoln's birthday, but I thought it might be interesting to change the subject a little, since we've already done so much with him... If you'd much rather write about Lincoln, that will work too.
PPS—Both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin had luxurious, beautiful, manly beards. And, so does your humanities teacher. Coincidence? Or is there a relationship waiting to be discovered?
This blog is due at 3:30 on Friday 2/13.
Monday, February 9, 2009
If you were Obama's economics advisor... Part Two!
Post a second blog entry of economic advice to the president. In this entry, you should:
1. Revise & refine your ideas from the original post.
2. Increase the number of current events and historical references. You started with one current event and two historical references. Your second post will have a total of two current events and three historical references.
3. Make sure all historical and current events/references have direct references and evidence seamlessly integrated into the blog entry. Try to include a variety of evidence such as facts, figures, quotes, graphs, charts, pictures, videos, etc!
4. Cite all references professionally.
5. Organize your blog entry and present it professionally (this could mean as an article, an outline, etc. Just make sure that your ideas are logically and persuasively structured!)
This is due at 3:30 on Wednesday 2/11
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
If you were Obama's economics advisor...
Part one:
Imagine this: President Barack Obama has granted you thirty minutes of face-time in the Oval Office to discuss the problems with the American economy. You can discuss whatever you'd like, but you know he wants to talk about the economy and he needs your help! You can give advice, ask questions, and use your time however you'd like.
You can focus on any segment of the American economy that you want or you can consider the whole thing. The only rule is that your advice must be grounded in historical information (either taking "good" ideas and adapting them for today's world or developing new ideas and showing why they are "better" than the old ones). Your advice must make reference to at least one current event and at at least two historical events, laws or circumstances.
Good luck and please save our economy!
Part two: Post the time, location, and technology you are using for your mentor interview.
This is due at 3:30 on Friday 2/6
Honors Blog for 2/10
Honors Blog: This is due at 11:59:59 on 2/10/09
Please have an outline and/or draft with a thesis statement and possible pieces of evidence in class on Friday 2/6.
Literature: Describe how your author develops the theme of the novel through the use of three selected literary devices. Be sure to identify a specific theme and show the relationships and/or patterns in the use of literary devices in the development of this theme.
History: In a well-developed essay, describe how multiple factors in the late 1800's such as economics, military ventures, and populism culminated in the election of 1896.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
What makes a great interview?
Over the course of the next few weeks, you will interview your mentor (or another suitable, appropriate and interesting person at your internship) and produce a high-quality print interview that could be published.
With your reading & writing partner create three design principles for a great final product. For each design principle, give it a name, write a brief explanation (two or three sentences that show how to do it, what the design principle looks like in a final product, etc.), and show a professional, published example of this design principle in action.
Like this:
1. Design Principle Name: Two or three sentence explanation. Professional, published
example.
For each example, include a quote into your blog and provide a link to the whole interview.
This is due by 11:59:59pm on 2/3.
With your reading & writing partner create three design principles for a great final product. For each design principle, give it a name, write a brief explanation (two or three sentences that show how to do it, what the design principle looks like in a final product, etc.), and show a professional, published example of this design principle in action.
Like this:
1. Design Principle Name: Two or three sentence explanation. Professional, published
example.
For each example, include a quote into your blog and provide a link to the whole interview.
This is due by 11:59:59pm on 2/3.
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