Re-read pages 171-176
Write the following essay using the guideline provided. You must have TWO body paragraphs (i.e. Two supporting ideas). The paper is DUE ON MONDAY, APRIL 25!!!
How have past treaties failed to meet the needs of First Nations people?
Make sure you can identify which specific sentences accomplish each of the objectives outlined above for both the introductory paragraph and the body paragraph.
***A reminder... Unit 4 reading should now be complete. Pop Quizzes are possible!
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Global Warming Essay
The following is an essay assigned for Monday, May 2, 2011. It should be three pages typed and double spaced, Times New Roman 12 point type.
Is global warming a man-made problem that requires a change in behavior or is it a politically invented lie designed to force people to change behaviors that have little to do with the earth's temperature?
Is global warming a man-made problem that requires a change in behavior or is it a politically invented lie designed to force people to change behaviors that have little to do with the earth's temperature?
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The Essay
Over the last number of days, you have written an in class essay and you have been working on the objectives for each part of the essay. Below is a summary of the class notes for this section:
The essay assignment typically comes in two forms -- a question or a directive.
for example:
What is the most important characteristic required to be successful in school? (question)
Discuss the most important characteristic required to be successful in school. (directive)
The most important thing to remember when writing the essay is to make sure you understand the question and answer the question directly.
Below you will find the objectives we discussed for the introductory paragraph (in order of importance - NOT appearance):
1. Answer the question (thesis statement)
2. List of supporting ideas (evidence which will serve to prove your thesis)
3. Introductory statement (this is the first sentence in your essay)
Next, you will find the objectives for the body paragraphs (in order of appearance):
1. Topic sentence (from your list of supporting ideas and relates to thesis)
2. Supporting details (logically prove why the thesis is true... between 5-7 sentences)
3. Transition sentence (make the connection from the present supporting idea/topic to the next supporting idea/topic)
Finally, the objectives for the conclusion are as follows:
1. Restate the thesis
2. Expand on the thesis (original thought)
Also...
Don't forget the scoring rubric (in the network pick up folder). You will need this as we move forward.
Good luck on the test. See to it all project work is handed in. We will start writing essays next week.
The essay assignment typically comes in two forms -- a question or a directive.
for example:
What is the most important characteristic required to be successful in school? (question)
Discuss the most important characteristic required to be successful in school. (directive)
The most important thing to remember when writing the essay is to make sure you understand the question and answer the question directly.
Below you will find the objectives we discussed for the introductory paragraph (in order of importance - NOT appearance):
1. Answer the question (thesis statement)
2. List of supporting ideas (evidence which will serve to prove your thesis)
3. Introductory statement (this is the first sentence in your essay)
Next, you will find the objectives for the body paragraphs (in order of appearance):
1. Topic sentence (from your list of supporting ideas and relates to thesis)
2. Supporting details (logically prove why the thesis is true... between 5-7 sentences)
3. Transition sentence (make the connection from the present supporting idea/topic to the next supporting idea/topic)
Finally, the objectives for the conclusion are as follows:
1. Restate the thesis
2. Expand on the thesis (original thought)
Also...
Don't forget the scoring rubric (in the network pick up folder). You will need this as we move forward.
Good luck on the test. See to it all project work is handed in. We will start writing essays next week.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Global Warming - Fact or Bunk?
Today we started watching the two programs you will use to construct your first essay. The first program is, "An Inconvenient Truth." We will follow this with, "The Great Global Warming Swindle." You are to be making notes for yourself which will help you to keep track of the specific arguments for and against global warming as a man made development. Afterwards, we will look at constructing an essay and then you will write an essay taking a position on this issue based on your analysis of both arguments.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Welcome Back... Here's Your Homework (and Your Test Date)
Today we reviewed Unit 3, chapters 9,11 and 13. For Tuesday, please be sure to be able to answer how you would incorporate the terms associated air masses and their movements to the web we discussed for Chapter 11. Also, you may begin making your list of terms to study from for the test.
We will continue on with the review of chapters 10, 12 and the connecting study on glaciation.
The Unit 3 test date will be Thursday, April 14, 2011.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Unit 3 Long Term Project
Today and Wednesday, you were introduced to the Unit 3 Long Term Project. You will be expected to pick a topic out of Unit 3 approved by me and prepare a web-authored, research-based presentation. The presentation must include images, and links to at least eight web-based sources of information and contain 2500 words. THE PROJECT IS DUE MONDAY, APRIL 11.
In future days, I will lay out some more specific parameters and a scoring guide to direct you in your work. However, for now you just need to be thinking about some topic possibilities and immerse yourself in the web design tutorials we have done.
What follows is a summary of what we did and what you need to know:
You learned about the basic structure of an html document at the site below:
http://www.ironspider.ca/basic_html/structure.htm
Remember, each web page you create will be made up of html code. The process for making a web page involves two applications -- a simple text editor (Notepad) to DO or write the page and a browser (Explorer) to VIEW the page.
To create a web page, simply complete the following steps:
1.Go to the Ironspider site above.
2.Scroll down and copy the html code in the box at the bottom of the page.
3.Open Notepad and paste the html code you just copied.
4.Add your own text and other html elements in the title tag and the body.
5.Save in Notepad in your My Documents folder, BUT REMEMBER to change the file extension to .html
6.Go to your My Documents folder and open your new html file to view it.
7.To update or make changes, remember to save in Notepad and reload in Explorer.
Key Things We Learned ...
•To make a hypertext link (your page to a website) use the tag structure at the link below...
http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/html.html#hyperlinks
•To make a hypertext link (your page to another one of your pages) use the same structure as to a website, but simply put the name of your html file in between the quotation marks where you would have put the web URL...
•Remember, to do the hypertext link as described above, you need to have two html documents that you have created! You learned how to insert an image onto your web page by using the IMG SRC tag. See the link below for a detailed description of your options in working with an image.
http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/html.html#images
•You also learned you could make the image clickable or a hyperlink by inserting the image tag in the area where you would normally put text for a hyperlink.
Below you will find some helpful tutorials:
http://www.2createawebsite.com/
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
This one is good for reviewing some of the do's and don'ts of website design...
http://www.homesteadconnection.com/WebSiteDesign.html
By Thursday, you must select a topic and have it approved by me!!! So give it some thought before you get to class.
In future days, I will lay out some more specific parameters and a scoring guide to direct you in your work. However, for now you just need to be thinking about some topic possibilities and immerse yourself in the web design tutorials we have done.
What follows is a summary of what we did and what you need to know:
You learned about the basic structure of an html document at the site below:
http://www.ironspider.ca/basic_html/structure.htm
Remember, each web page you create will be made up of html code. The process for making a web page involves two applications -- a simple text editor (Notepad) to DO or write the page and a browser (Explorer) to VIEW the page.
To create a web page, simply complete the following steps:
1.Go to the Ironspider site above.
2.Scroll down and copy the html code in the box at the bottom of the page.
3.Open Notepad and paste the html code you just copied.
4.Add your own text and other html elements in the title tag and the body.
5.Save in Notepad in your My Documents folder, BUT REMEMBER to change the file extension to .html
6.Go to your My Documents folder and open your new html file to view it.
7.To update or make changes, remember to save in Notepad and reload in Explorer.
Key Things We Learned ...
•To make a hypertext link (your page to a website) use the tag structure at the link below...
http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/html.html#hyperlinks
•To make a hypertext link (your page to another one of your pages) use the same structure as to a website, but simply put the name of your html file in between the quotation marks where you would have put the web URL...
•Remember, to do the hypertext link as described above, you need to have two html documents that you have created! You learned how to insert an image onto your web page by using the IMG SRC tag. See the link below for a detailed description of your options in working with an image.
http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/html.html#images
•You also learned you could make the image clickable or a hyperlink by inserting the image tag in the area where you would normally put text for a hyperlink.
Below you will find some helpful tutorials:
http://www.2createawebsite.com/
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
This one is good for reviewing some of the do's and don'ts of website design...
http://www.homesteadconnection.com/WebSiteDesign.html
By Thursday, you must select a topic and have it approved by me!!! So give it some thought before you get to class.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Unit 3 Questions
The following are the questions that were assigned today for Unit 3:
p. 85 1-3,6a and b
p. 86 1
p. 92 1-11
p. 97 1-5
p. 104 1-4, 7, 10, 11
p. 110 1-5
p. 120 1,3,4,6
p. 133 1,3-7, 9,10
p. 149 1-6
p. 158 1,3,5,6b,8
We will begin going over these questions on Tuesday.
p. 85 1-3,6a and b
p. 86 1
p. 92 1-11
p. 97 1-5
p. 104 1-4, 7, 10, 11
p. 110 1-5
p. 120 1,3,4,6
p. 133 1,3-7, 9,10
p. 149 1-6
p. 158 1,3,5,6b,8
We will begin going over these questions on Tuesday.
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