For our time in the lab today, each team will work together to complete the Smart Search Planner. Work together on the hard copy version I give you first. When you're done with this, have your "captain" upload a copy to Google Docs, share it with your teamates (and me), then the team can split up the duties of completing the online document. It should go quickly if you share the work. Now you'll have access to this no matter where you are.
Once you're done with the planning, I'd like you to access ProQuest and begin your research. The goal is to find 8-10 resources that help you answer the larger research question and smaller subtopic questions you've identified in your planner. Read the articles critically, keeping in mind that in your Annotations of these sources are just that: a critical summary of the source with a description of how you plan to use it. Please understand the difference between a mere summary and an annotation.
This Annotated Refereces assignment is due next week, on Wednesday in class. Please consult the rubric. There's no excuse for NOT doing well on this if you follow these guidelines.
Finally, a word about the dreaded "note cards". I'll give you the option of doing this in a digital document (like a Word document) or on note cards. I know this seems tedious, but it is a step in scholarly research that you need to be familiar with. I'll dispense with the 40+ requirement ... as long as I see good evidence of critical note taking ... as long as you still identify the category (HO, CTP, CD, WC) and type of use (paraphrased or direct quote). Deal?
By the way, here's the link to the overview we did in class the other day: MST Research Overview
A digital classroom space for Mr. G's CHS MST Pre-AP English 10 class
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Project Survey & Propaganda/Media Literacy Portfolio
Greetings, Magnetos.
We have two tasks today. The first is to take a survey of all the project ideas that were submitted so we can get a sense of the most popular ideas and form teams. Since many of you know already the team and project you'd like to do, some of this may be moot, but I ask that you do it authentically, nonetheless. It's a simple 5 point scale. Instructions are below for how to access it:
Secret word is “talktome”
10th Grade MST Research Topics Survey 2011
The second assignment for us today is to apply our understanding of rhetorical strategies and devices by compiling a digital Propaganda/Media Literacy Portfolio. We'll use our blogs for this, which will allow you to hotlink to video and static images that you can cite as your examples. I'll explain this more in class, but the link to the assignment is below. Disregard the references in it to alternate forms. You will be doing this digitally as a single blog post. The due date for this is Wed night of next week.
Propaganda/Media Literacy Portfolio Assignment
We have two tasks today. The first is to take a survey of all the project ideas that were submitted so we can get a sense of the most popular ideas and form teams. Since many of you know already the team and project you'd like to do, some of this may be moot, but I ask that you do it authentically, nonetheless. It's a simple 5 point scale. Instructions are below for how to access it:
Secret word is “talktome”
10th Grade MST Research Topics Survey 2011
The second assignment for us today is to apply our understanding of rhetorical strategies and devices by compiling a digital Propaganda/Media Literacy Portfolio. We'll use our blogs for this, which will allow you to hotlink to video and static images that you can cite as your examples. I'll explain this more in class, but the link to the assignment is below. Disregard the references in it to alternate forms. You will be doing this digitally as a single blog post. The due date for this is Wed night of next week.
Propaganda/Media Literacy Portfolio Assignment
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Project Ideas!
This is due by 5PM on Thursday in an email to Mrs. Dean. Please CC Mr. Wright and me:
1.Using at most 3 sentences, tell enough about your proposed project so your classmates and teachers will have a good idea what you want to do:
2.Please give us a working title to your proposed project:
This will count as a Seminar/Research grade for the English class (20 percent for the category).
Friday we will take a survey of the ideas and try to find out which is most popular. From that we'll form teams on Monday.
1.Using at most 3 sentences, tell enough about your proposed project so your classmates and teachers will have a good idea what you want to do:
2.Please give us a working title to your proposed project:
This will count as a Seminar/Research grade for the English class (20 percent for the category).
Friday we will take a survey of the ideas and try to find out which is most popular. From that we'll form teams on Monday.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Feed catching, etc.
OK, so we've set up our blogs, now we want to be able to easily follow certain content using something called RSS (really simple syndication) feeds and a web based program called a "feed catcher (or aggregator)". We'll be using Google Reader and possibly some other tools of your choice that will easily allow you to subscribe to RSS content.
Once you've subscribed to all the class blogs (chsfirstnamefirstletteroflast.blogspot.com), I'd like you to navigate to Sparknotes Summary/Analysis of Act I.i and review what we read on Tuesday, including the analysis section of the summary. Sparknotes in my mind should never substitute for your reading of something, but it's a great way to refresh and read some analysis/literary criticism of something we've read. I'll purposefully direct you there from time to time.
When you've finished the reading of that section, use your blog to create a new post. Call it "Caesar Act I.i Reflection". What I'm curious to hear about in your post is how the setting of Caesar and Shakespeare's Elizabethan world relate to today. We've recently considered the role and power of place. What the author of the analysis suggests in the last sentence is that, despite the historical place and chronological gaps between Rome, Elizabethan England, and today, the so called "masses" always tend to be easily whipped up into a frenzy and motivated by those who know how to motivate people.
To what degree is that an accurate characterization of today's general public, the plebes, if you will? Does place in this case take a back seat to the people in power and the means by which they control the people? Is the author correct in saying that "the play is remarkably prescient" of what's going on today? Use your observations, knowledge of current events, your reading, etc. to support, refute, or qualify your stand.
When you're done with your response, use the feed catcher to see who has new pubished content and go read their responses. Once you've done that, comment on at least 3 posts from 3 different blogs. Fin.
Once you've subscribed to all the class blogs (chsfirstnamefirstletteroflast.blogspot.com), I'd like you to navigate to Sparknotes Summary/Analysis of Act I.i and review what we read on Tuesday, including the analysis section of the summary. Sparknotes in my mind should never substitute for your reading of something, but it's a great way to refresh and read some analysis/literary criticism of something we've read. I'll purposefully direct you there from time to time.
When you've finished the reading of that section, use your blog to create a new post. Call it "Caesar Act I.i Reflection". What I'm curious to hear about in your post is how the setting of Caesar and Shakespeare's Elizabethan world relate to today. We've recently considered the role and power of place. What the author of the analysis suggests in the last sentence is that, despite the historical place and chronological gaps between Rome, Elizabethan England, and today, the so called "masses" always tend to be easily whipped up into a frenzy and motivated by those who know how to motivate people.
To what degree is that an accurate characterization of today's general public, the plebes, if you will? Does place in this case take a back seat to the people in power and the means by which they control the people? Is the author correct in saying that "the play is remarkably prescient" of what's going on today? Use your observations, knowledge of current events, your reading, etc. to support, refute, or qualify your stand.
When you're done with your response, use the feed catcher to see who has new pubished content and go read their responses. Once you've done that, comment on at least 3 posts from 3 different blogs. Fin.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Digital Immigrants vs. Digital Natives
For many of you in this class, you are what techies refer to as "digital natives". The digital revolution in communications that started in the 1990s is something that you've grown up with. You were born into this world. So called "digital immigrants" are people, like me, who have migrated to this from our old ways. Though I'm fairly comfortable in this world and have been mostly naturalized into it, most of your parents and teachers, however, are not ... but they are probably in some part of the process (some kicking and screaming) of being forced into this new, digital world.
Post a quick response/comment to this idea and share either your story of citizenship in the digital world, or perhaps an interesting story or anecdote about a digital immigrant you live with and their journey to the new digital frontier. This might include a time when you fully realized you were a native to this technology and many of the people around you weren't.
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