A tree with prayer flags on the Great Wall of China at Mutianyu. It was quite an experience to climb up to this point! There are multiple students studying an aspect of a Chinese revolution for their historical investigation. Photo taken in 2014.
Dear class,
I have to say, I am pretty disappointed with where many students were at today in terms of the peer review on the historical investigation. Well over half the class was missing big aspects of the paper, which means there is a lot of work ahead this weekend! Here's what we did today in class:
I have to say, I am pretty disappointed with where many students were at today in terms of the peer review on the historical investigation. Well over half the class was missing big aspects of the paper, which means there is a lot of work ahead this weekend! Here's what we did today in class:
Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 20: I can explain the impacts of nationalism and revolutionary movements.
Communication LT 3: I can effectively use the conventions of writing.
Research LT 1: I can develop and refine a research question or topic.
Research LT 3: I can responsibly and accurately cite sources.
Critical Thinking LT 2: I can explain connections between events, issues, problems and concepts.
Knowledge LT 20: I can explain the impacts of nationalism and revolutionary movements.
Communication LT 3: I can effectively use the conventions of writing.
Research LT 1: I can develop and refine a research question or topic.
Research LT 3: I can responsibly and accurately cite sources.
Critical Thinking LT 2: I can explain connections between events, issues, problems and concepts.
Soundtrack: "You've Got A Friend" by Carole King and James Taylor. Selected for today because a good friend doing a peer review helps a lot, and I wanted everyone to know I was going to try to help as much as possible to get you in a position to be successful on this project. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 4/9/15:
News Brief - Broden
Peer Review
Work Time
Conferences
Work Time
Conferences
Homework: Read the blog! Final draft (printed copy) of Historical Investigation is due next class. Next news brief: Tandra.
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News Brief: Broden had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: CNN.com - Iran: No signing final nuclear deal unless economic sanctions are lifted. We discussed what this might mean for the nuclear deal, which needs to be agreed to in full by June 30, as well as it being a potential roadblock for where each country is. We also talked about the story of a man in South Carolina being shot in the back by a police officer - the video of the incident came out and the officer is being charged with murder.
We also watched VICE News for the day, before moving on.
The next news brief was assigned to Tandra.
Peer Review: Today's class was supposed to be focused on getting as many good peer reviews on your historical investigation as possible. Here was the sheet I passed out in class for people to use.
Work Time: The rest of class was devoted to working on review or doing whatever possible on the historical investigation. Here is the final assignment, again, if you need to look at it:
We also watched VICE News for the day, before moving on.
The next news brief was assigned to Tandra.
Peer Review: Today's class was supposed to be focused on getting as many good peer reviews on your historical investigation as possible. Here was the sheet I passed out in class for people to use.
Make sure that you look to correct spelling and grammar, as well as the format issues!
Work Time: The rest of class was devoted to working on review or doing whatever possible on the historical investigation. Here is the final assignment, again, if you need to look at it:
And here is an example of a historical investigation done by another student, which might help with formatting. The OPVL/Part C is different in this student paper, so ignore that aspect.
Conferences: As students were working on review, I called each student in the class up to talk about where they were at, what support was needed, what changes I saw needed to be done, or in some cases, just asking what in the world has been going on for the last month, since there was so little productivity to be seen. For many students, there is a LOT of work over this weekend to be done.
As always, if you are confused about what to do, please email me or comment and I would be happy to help. I suspect at this point most students know what to do - they just wanted to put it off until the very last moment to get it done. Well, that moment has arrived. Work hard this weekend, please.
As always, if you are confused about what to do, please email me or comment and I would be happy to help. I suspect at this point most students know what to do - they just wanted to put it off until the very last moment to get it done. Well, that moment has arrived. Work hard this weekend, please.
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