Learning target:
Greetings! You'll have time the next two days in class to start working on your senior project. Out of class, there are various responsibilities that you should be working on for our group project. I will pass back your individual assignment sheets to help keep you on track. Pay attention to the listed deadlines for each task and plan your time accordingly.
NOTE: I decided to keep the visit to Navajo Prep on Tuesday evening. If you are able to go, we will leave at 4:30 p.m. from Animas, have dinner in their cafeteria, and return by 7:45 p.m. We will be talking about the 1872 Mining Law, discussing and perhaps demonstrating how to do the batik river mural, and figuring out how best to integrate their work into what we have planned. They have been studying the river since last summer and so will have a good amount to share as well. I anticipate another get together between our two schools before the event.
While you get started on senior project stuff today, I will be on my way back from meeting with folks in Farmington to try to secure a venue. I'll give you an update once I return. Here are some things to work on during first hour.
1) Review the 10,000 Foot Overview document on senior project and the Senior Project Presentation of Learning explanation. Write down any questions that you have about what's happening when for this whole project odyssey. We'll start with these questions during second hour. The POL document talks about a Personal Learning Plan. We'll get into this tomorrow, but I'm sharing this document with you now so you can look at it.
2) Fill out the worksheet that is sitting on the chair. Note that there is a front and back. The back is a survey to help me gauge where you are in the topic defining process.
3) In pairs or small groups, review the How to Write a Research Question document and the Strong Research Questions from Past Years document. Work together to take the unfocused research questions at the end of How to Write a Research Question and turn them into clear, focused, and complex questions worthy of a semester's research.
All of the things you need are posted on the new Senior Project page under the Humanities 12 tab.
If you finish all these things, you can start working on your individual assignment for the river event.
I'll hopefully be back by 9:30 and will give you an update on logistics for the event. I'll answer the questions you'll have and we'll go over your answers on the research question worksheet
Homework due Tuesday, November 10th
Work on your individual assignments for the group project. If you're in the art group, work on your art piece. If you're in the event group, start drafting description of the event for publicity. If you're in the 1872 mining group review the position of your assigned elected official, help build your presentation on the 1872 law, or read some of the article links I sent you on Friday.
- We can describe the requirements and basic timeline for senior project and POL preparation
- We can name three topics that maybe, potentially spark enough interest in me for my senior project
- We can list potential research questions and action project for these topics
- We can refine a general research question to something that is clear, focused, and complex enough to 10-20 page paper
Greetings! You'll have time the next two days in class to start working on your senior project. Out of class, there are various responsibilities that you should be working on for our group project. I will pass back your individual assignment sheets to help keep you on track. Pay attention to the listed deadlines for each task and plan your time accordingly.
NOTE: I decided to keep the visit to Navajo Prep on Tuesday evening. If you are able to go, we will leave at 4:30 p.m. from Animas, have dinner in their cafeteria, and return by 7:45 p.m. We will be talking about the 1872 Mining Law, discussing and perhaps demonstrating how to do the batik river mural, and figuring out how best to integrate their work into what we have planned. They have been studying the river since last summer and so will have a good amount to share as well. I anticipate another get together between our two schools before the event.
While you get started on senior project stuff today, I will be on my way back from meeting with folks in Farmington to try to secure a venue. I'll give you an update once I return. Here are some things to work on during first hour.
1) Review the 10,000 Foot Overview document on senior project and the Senior Project Presentation of Learning explanation. Write down any questions that you have about what's happening when for this whole project odyssey. We'll start with these questions during second hour. The POL document talks about a Personal Learning Plan. We'll get into this tomorrow, but I'm sharing this document with you now so you can look at it.
2) Fill out the worksheet that is sitting on the chair. Note that there is a front and back. The back is a survey to help me gauge where you are in the topic defining process.
3) In pairs or small groups, review the How to Write a Research Question document and the Strong Research Questions from Past Years document. Work together to take the unfocused research questions at the end of How to Write a Research Question and turn them into clear, focused, and complex questions worthy of a semester's research.
All of the things you need are posted on the new Senior Project page under the Humanities 12 tab.
If you finish all these things, you can start working on your individual assignment for the river event.
I'll hopefully be back by 9:30 and will give you an update on logistics for the event. I'll answer the questions you'll have and we'll go over your answers on the research question worksheet
Homework due Tuesday, November 10th
Work on your individual assignments for the group project. If you're in the art group, work on your art piece. If you're in the event group, start drafting description of the event for publicity. If you're in the 1872 mining group review the position of your assigned elected official, help build your presentation on the 1872 law, or read some of the article links I sent you on Friday.