Senior Project, week 7

Goals this week: Complete first 2 paragraphs of "Letter to Judges" and part 2 of your I-search paper.

Monday 

1. Start "Letter to Judges"
2. work on part 2 of paper
3. work on presentation

Tuesday

1. Class meeting - progress updates
2. work time

Wednesday

1. practice speeches tomorrow
2. work time

Thursday

1. Practice speeches

Friday

1. work time

Senior Project, week 6

Monday - Tuesday

1. Part 1 turned in?
2. Find 3 sources, take notes
   
3. Work on part 2 of your paper. Look at your central question.  How can you answer it?? 
• What is your central question?
• What were the results of your search?
• Write a thesis statement based on your results.
• Support your thesis with data (Cite all facts!)
4. Start working on the introduction of your presentation!!

Wednesday

LIBRARY

Thursday

1. Yearbook dedication page
2. work on part 2, presentations
3. meetings with Mrs. Rose

Friday

1. review Monday's agenda
2. part 2, presentations
3. Practice speeches - May 1 (next Thursday)
4. meetings with Mrs. Rose

Senior Project, Week 5

Monday

1. Part 1 turned in?
2. Find 3 sources, take notes
   
3. Meetings with Mrs. Rose!

Tuesday

1. Dedication page
2. e-parchment
3. sources with notes
4. Meetings with Mrs. Rose!

Senior Project, week 4

Monday

1. Inference, slide
2. Turn in rough draft

Tuesday

1. Inference post test
2. research for part 2 of paper

Wednesday

1. Have you turned in your pictures?
2. READ YOUR EMAIL
3. Find at least 3 sources.
4. Edit part 1 of your paper.

Senior Project, week 3

Monday

1. Inferences - slide 3
2. Sifting through the Data (assessment tomorrow)
3. Work on part 1 of paper --> 
• Attention grabber (for example, why did you choose this topic?)
• What do you already know about your topic?
• What is my topic/central question/project/mentor/etc.? 
• What do I hope to learn from my research/ project/mentor?

Tuesday

1. Inferences - slide 5
2. Sources
3. I-search, part 1
4. Update portfolios

Wednesday

1. Inferences - slide 6
2. doc
3. Info-graphics
4. Group Collaboration

Thursday

1. Inferences - slide 7
2. Write down your inferences on this document.  Today, just find your name and write as many inferences as you can about the situation.  Why would the dog be barking?  Just like yesterday, comment on at least one person's inference.  (If you do not know how to do this, see someone who was here yesterday.)
3. Have you been updating your journals?
4. Work on editing the first part of your I-search paper.  Remember that you should have the following questions answered:
• Attention grabber (for example, why did you choose this topic?)
• What do you already know about your topic?
• What is my topic/central question/project/mentor/etc.? 
• What do I hope to learn from my research/ project/mentor?
5. Start researching to answer your central question.  Do not forget to create source cards for each source you find.  Source cards need to have:
• Name of source. 
• MLA citation information  (Check Senior Project Documents or Easybib.com for help.)
• Links to the document (optional)
• Any notes that you take from this source.
• Any quotes that you may want to use from this source.

Senior Project, week 2

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.
5. Have Topic Approval Form turned in.
6. Have Parent Topic Approval Form turned in.
7. Begin Part 1 of I-Search paper

Monday

1. Class contract
2. Goals
3. Topic form
4. Find / make contact with mentor.

Tuesday

1. Class contract?
2. Are we on track for this week?
3. Topic form (New form in Microsoft Word OR Google Doc.)
4. Find / make contact with mentor. 
5. Fill out Mentor Approval Form once you have found a mentor and he/she has agreed to work with you.
6. Now, the Parent Approval for Mentor Form

Wednesday

1. Inferences
2. Class contract?
3. Are we on track for this week?
4. Topic form (New form in Microsoft Word OR Google Doc.)
5. Find / make contact with mentor. 
6. Fill out Mentor Approval Form once you have found a mentor and he/she has agreed to work with you.
7. Now, the Parent Approval for Mentor Form
8. Let's start our papers!  Complete the Sifting Through the Data modules, from 21 Things 4 Students.
• Michigan eLibrary How to Video

Thursday

1. Can you solve the mysteries?
2. Finish all items from Wednesday
3. Start I-Search, part 1.
• What am I doing?  (Topic? Central Question? Project?)
• What do I hope to learn?

Friday

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.