Idea for paper (see presentation- http://boingboing.net/2010/02/19/school-district-admi.html) , thesis (due Thursday, preferably), intro paragraph (due Friday, according to the Smith Plan), outline (due Monday), Smith suggests that we have our idea for negative/positive tomorrow, grammar
The grammar sentences for this week are:
- some of my friends bought me a ticket for the concert
- ben a former student earned a prestigious teaching scholarship
Monday grammar work (picture at bottom of page):
- some- indefinite prn., of-prep., my-possesive prn., friends-n., bought-av., me-prn., a-art., ticket-n., for-prep., the-art., concert- n.
- ben- N., a-art., former-adj., student-n., earned-av., a-art., prestigious- adj., teaching-participle (verb acting like adjective ending in -ing or -ed), scholarship-n.
Tuesday grammar work (picture at bottom of page):
- Some- subject (of my friends)-prep. phrase, friends- object of prep. phrase, bought-verb, ticket- direct object, (for the concert)- prep phrase, concert- object of prep. phrase, me- indirect object
- ben- subject, (a former student)- appositive phrase, student-object of appositive phrase, earned- verb, scholarship- direct object
Essay- See pictures at bottom of page
- Make a google doc with the columns: learned, haven't learned, where are we going?
- Smith wants connection from 1984, Little Brother, and modern day.
- Modern day- see link on Smith's presentation for great example that you can use
- You can have a moving attention getter (see presentation-http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-sea/)
- give examples of your topic
- BE CREATIVE!
- Look at posters to get ideas
- Organization
- 1st body paragraph- learned or not learned (positive or negative)
- 2nd- not learned or learned (negative or positive)
- 3rd- where are we going (negative or positive)
- The order in which you present the paragraphs will determine the mood of your essay.
- Pick one topic from both categories and have 3 examples for it.
- What have we learned?
- Fighting Oppression
- 1984- Winston and Julia
- LB- Marcus and Ange
- Modern- Egypt, Jordan, Crimea
- "How do you cite a video?" Easy Bib
- What haven't we learned?
- Balance between individual and government powers
- 1984
- LB
- Modern
- Where are we going?
- Government will always triumph
- Government will squash individualism
- Pull it around with solutions
- education
- acceptance of our roles
- What have we learned? (1984, LB, Modern)
- When citizens join together, they have a lot of power.
- To fight oppression
- If we let them, the government will continue to take more.
- We shouldn't trust everything that we hear.
- To celebrate differences and individuality
- To stand up for what we believe in
- Your rights can only be taken away if you let them be.
- Playing the game of school/life
- "Easy way out"
- How to effectively manipulate technology
- The government is active in our lives.
- Youth has a large role.
- Paranoia has increased.
- We must continually change.
- What haven't we learned? (1984, LB, Modern)
- How to balance technology and life
- Balancing individualism and government powers
- The importance of privacy to the people
- That we choose who is in power
- Balancing privacy and security
- Loyalty to beliefs and values
- War is not peace
- The value of our freedom
- You don't know a good thing
- Where are we going? (3 Moderns)
- surveillance
- personal rights
- anti-individualism
- Govt. will always triumph.
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