Senior Project, week 1

Goals for end of week:

1. Create graphic organizer and send to Mrs. Rose.
2. Choose a topic.
3. Create a list of mentors.
4. Make contact with at least one mentor, or at the very least have a script / email draft created.

Monday

• Article
• Handbook

Tuesday

• In small groups, read until page 211.  
• Start brainstorming (on paper / computer) for your topic, central question, and mentors.  When you think that you are done, share it with me.  You will need to either take a picture of it (if it is on paper) or a screen shot of it.  You can do this by either printing the screen, or taking a snip of it (go to the "Start" menu.  Find the "snipping tool" - it might take a few minutes the first time.  Select what you want to take a picture of, "save".)  If this is confusing to you, ask another student.  When you have this part done, email the picture to me.  I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Wednesday

• Finish the brainstorming if you need to.  You should be brainstorming, topics, questions, and mentors.  Use the phone book if you need to, or email me if you need help.
• Check out the Contract Building activity.  We will do this in class on Monday, but start thinking about what to put for the various sections.  (You can start now if you want, but just remember we will do it again on Monday.)

Thursday - Friday
The Senior Project "Help Board" is up and running!!  Don't forget to start adding questions and looking for questions that you can help answer!

• Review the Contract Building activity we completed in class yesterday.  Fill out the form at the end of the document.  
• In small groups, start brainstorming goals and rewards for those goals.  We discussed this yesterday.  (Example, all students turn in the final drafts ON TIME AND COMPLETE of part 1 of the research paper, and Mrs. Rose makes the class a cake / brownies / cookies, etc.).  Put your ideas here.
• Finish the brainstorming if you need to.  You should be brainstorming, topics, questions, and mentors.  Use the phone book if you need to, or email me if you need help.
• Once you are done with the brainstorming and you think you have an idea of what you are going to do, start your journal.  We read about it yesterday, but re-read the first steps of the journal if you need to (Our class chapter / textbook, pages 210-211).  Please create this in a Google Doc and share it with me. (trose@ctachargers.org)  Again, as discussed yesterday, if you want to do this on paper, in an actual journal, that is fine.  You will need to keep track of the journal though for the entire trimester.
• Start researching to be sure that you have a central question that you can answer!  Again, we discussed this in class yesterday.  You might have a great topic and project idea, but you may need to do some research about the topic in order to create a central question to research.
• You should now start looking for and making contact with a mentor.  Remember that you cannot send emails nor receive emails from anyone outside of CTA from your Chargers email.  If you are emailing, please have at least 2 people read over what you wrote.  If you are calling, please create a script and again, have at least 2 people read over what you wrote.  Make sure that you are clear in what you need from them.  Read the mentor section of the handbook, and email me if you have questions.  Use the phone if you need to, but you need a script and to ask Mr. Washington for permission.  DO NOT CALL FRIENDS TO CHAT.
• Once you have all this done, read pages 211 - 217 in your chapter.  This part of our chapter is on sources.
• You will be creating your note cards in  a Google Presentation (each slide is a different note card.)  You can use actual note cards, but you are responsible for keeping track of them.