Please arrive tomorrow ready to rehearse your entire POL!
9th Grade TPOL Questions
Spring 2011
Personal Connections and Adult World Connections:
1. Which project did you have the most personal connection with this year? Why?
2. What have you learned (skill, lesson, or knowledge) this year that will be most helpful for you in the future?
3. What project or projects have you done this year that have inspired you to want to learn more? Explain how you were inspired.
4. How has your attitude toward learning changed this year?
5. What connections have you made this year between what you have learned in your classes and your own personal experiences outside of school?
6. How have your learning and experiences at AHS this year changed the way you see the world?
7. What work from this year would you like to look back on and remember when you are a graduating senior?
You as a Student and a Learner
(Your Work and Your Work Habits):
1. What is most important change that you have made as a learner this year?
2. How have you taken an active role in your education this year?
3. What piece of work that you’ve done this year are you proudest of? Why?
4. If you could go back and refine one piece of work this year, what piece of work would you refine and how would you refine it?
5. If you were the teacher, what comments would you make about your work habits?
6. What might you want next year’s teacher to know about your work habits?
7. What is the most difficult thing you have done this year? Why was it difficult, and how did you deal with that difficulty?
8. How has group collaboration helped you as a student?
Reflecting on Yourself and Our Model of Education
(Project Based Learning and our Student Culture)
1. What would you say to an incoming 9th grader about how to succeed in project based learning?
2. How have any of the habits of heart and mind helped you be successful as a student or person?
3. How has a relationship with a faculty member helped you be more successful in school this year?
4. How has the work in Advisory helped you grow or change as a student, as a friend, and as a citizen?
5. Project based learning is a different model than traditional models of education. Explain how Project based learning has influenced your learning and your production of work.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
EXHIBITION PREP
Take down posters! Take home cachivaches!
Exhibition Work:
1. Plant Fact Sheet
2. Research Abstract
Homework: Please come tomorrow with your exhibits ready for refinement!
Exhibition Work:
1. Plant Fact Sheet
2. Research Abstract
Homework: Please come tomorrow with your exhibits ready for refinement!
Friday, April 29, 2011
1. TEA Paragraph Exercise
Identify these elements of the paragraph: Topic, Evidence, Analysis.
For some in the movement, the more urgent problem is environmental: the food system consumes more fossil fuel energy than we can count on in the future (about a fifth of the total American use of such energy) and emits more greenhouse gas than we can afford to emit, particularly since agriculture is the one human system that should be able to substantially rely on photosynthesis: solar energy. It will be difficult if not impossible to address the issue of climate change without reforming the food system. This is a conclusion that has only recently been embraced by the environmental movement, which historically has disdained all agriculture as a lapse from wilderness and a source of pollution.1 But in the last few years, several of the major environmental groups have come to appreciate that a diversified, sustainable agriculture—which can sequester large amounts of carbon in the soil—holds the potential not just to mitigate but actually to help solve environmental problems, including climate change. Today, environmental organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Working Group are taking up the cause of food system reform, lending their expertise and clout to the movement.
From:
Pollan, Michael. "The Food Movement, Rising." New York Times Review of Books 05 May 2012.
2. Annotated Bibliography Due
3. Welcome Sharon! Plant Exhibition Requirements.
Homework: First Draft Due Monday
Identify these elements of the paragraph: Topic, Evidence, Analysis.
For some in the movement, the more urgent problem is environmental: the food system consumes more fossil fuel energy than we can count on in the future (about a fifth of the total American use of such energy) and emits more greenhouse gas than we can afford to emit, particularly since agriculture is the one human system that should be able to substantially rely on photosynthesis: solar energy. It will be difficult if not impossible to address the issue of climate change without reforming the food system. This is a conclusion that has only recently been embraced by the environmental movement, which historically has disdained all agriculture as a lapse from wilderness and a source of pollution.1 But in the last few years, several of the major environmental groups have come to appreciate that a diversified, sustainable agriculture—which can sequester large amounts of carbon in the soil—holds the potential not just to mitigate but actually to help solve environmental problems, including climate change. Today, environmental organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Working Group are taking up the cause of food system reform, lending their expertise and clout to the movement.
From:
Pollan, Michael. "The Food Movement, Rising." New York Times Review of Books 05 May 2012.
2. Annotated Bibliography Due
3. Welcome Sharon! Plant Exhibition Requirements.
Homework: First Draft Due Monday
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Citations
Citation Magic!
1. Use the following format for your annotated bibliography:
Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma. Young Reader's Edition. New York, NY: Dial Books, 2009.
Homework: Annotated Bibliography due tomorrow!
1. Use the following format for your annotated bibliography:
Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma. Young Reader's Edition. New York, NY: Dial Books, 2009.
- In his groundbreaking bestseller, Michael Pollan explores America's "national eating disorder" and our culture's disconnection with its food sources. He reveals shocking truths about where our food comes from and what's in it. He looks at the question of eating in terms of the age-old "omnivore's dilemma"; that is to say: how is a being who is designed to eat a great variety of things supposed to navigate the question of food safety?
Homework: Annotated Bibliography due tomorrow!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
1. Group Critique: Thesis Statements
For each person’s thesis statement, discuss:
• Does it make a debatable claim about the topic?
• Does it state the obvious or something factual?
• Is it specific or general?
• Focused or vague?
• Is it stated clearly?
• Is it stated eloquently?
• Will there be sufficient evidence to make the argument?
• Does it avoid the first person? (“I think…” “I believe”)
• What can the author do to improve the thesis statement?
• What makes for a good intro?• How do we organize body paragraphs?
• What are some ways to conclude an essay?
4. Outline: Topic, Evidence, Analysis
5. Determine paragraph topics and decide what evidence and analysis/commentary belong with each.
For each person’s thesis statement, discuss:
• Does it make a debatable claim about the topic?
• Does it state the obvious or something factual?
• Is it specific or general?
• Focused or vague?
• Is it stated clearly?
• Is it stated eloquently?
• Will there be sufficient evidence to make the argument?
• Does it avoid the first person? (“I think…” “I believe”)
• What can the author do to improve the thesis statement?
2. What subtopics/main points have emerged about your big topic as you have researched? Or what other subtopics/points can you think of that you would like to continue to research?
3. Discuss: Structure of an Essay
• What makes for a good intro?
• What are some ways to conclude an essay?
4. Outline: Topic, Evidence, Analysis
5. Determine paragraph topics and decide what evidence and analysis/commentary belong with each.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Research Day
Continue Researching.
For Monday, everyone should come with a working thesis statement.
Homework: Thesis Statement due Monday. Keep researching.
For Monday, everyone should come with a working thesis statement.
Homework: Thesis Statement due Monday. Keep researching.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Research: Finding and Evaluating Web Sources
1. The Omnivore's Dilemma: closing remarks
How has reading The Omnivore's Dilemma affected your eating life? Where do you find yourself now in your own personal omnivore's dilemma?
2. Research: Finding and Evaluating Sources for Credibility
3. Wikipedia: tips for research
4. Turn in research proposal. Have personal conference with me.
5. Research Notes
Homework: The Omnivore's Dilemma final reflection due tomorrow. Keep researching...
How has reading The Omnivore's Dilemma affected your eating life? Where do you find yourself now in your own personal omnivore's dilemma?
2. Research: Finding and Evaluating Sources for Credibility
3. Wikipedia: tips for research
4. Turn in research proposal. Have personal conference with me.
5. Research Notes
- notecards? electronic document?
- citation information: use citation organizer!
- note major points that are relevant to your research
- paraphrase--do not cut and paste!
- put direct quotations in quotations
- annotate as you go: 2-3 sentence summary of each source for bibliography.
Homework: The Omnivore's Dilemma final reflection due tomorrow. Keep researching...