Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Capstone Reflection Instructions



Capstone Reflection Guide
DUE FRIDAY,  MARCH 1
            The reflection is a one-page, typed, double-spaced paper talking about what you learned during this experience of helping MIFA to aid the hungry and impoverished of Memphis. You should talk about what you did during this time, what you learned, how you felt while completing the project and how it will affect your life in the future.
            This is a very informal, personal paper – think of it as a one-page, typed journal entry (DO NOW). You should use words like “I, me, my, we, our, us,” and any other personal pronouns. This is just you talking about how you felt during the process and what you learned about yourself and other people.

RECOMMENDED QUESTIONS
One-page, typed, double-spaced
What did we do as 8th graders for MIFA?
What did you learn as you went through the project?
How did you feel while you helped the poor and hungry of Memphis?
How did the project change the way you view the poor and hungry?
How did it change your perspective in life?
How do you think this will affect your life in the future?
What can you do in the future to help even more?


Don’t stress too much about this! It’s EASY! You’re basically explaining your feelings. Pretend like you walked into class and the DO NOW was
“What did you learn most about during Capstone and how did it make you feel? How did it change your perspective on hunger and poverty? Explain yourself.”

You must turn this into me on Wednesday (OR BEFORE!) on a flash drive!
Save your paper as “First Name Last Name Reflection,” for example “Ty Peterson Reflection.”

If you have any questions, my email address is lowe.kbms@gmail.com

Friday, February 15, 2013

Make-up Work for 3rd Quarter

As progress reports went out, many students and parents were unhappy with their grades, so I am attaching all of this quarter's assignments to the website so you can do your missing assignments and still turn them in for a late grade.

WRIGHT'S LAW INTROSPECTIVE
Watch this video and answer the following questions in a complete, thoughtful manner.
New York Times: Wright's Law Video

Questions:
1. What from this video stuck out the most to you?
2. What did I learn from this mini-documentary?
3. How can I apply these lessons into my own life?


"DO THE WRITE THING" CHALLENGE

All across America, students like you are rising to the challenge of doing something to end violence among young people. The Challenge gives middle school students an opportunity to examine the impact of violence on their lives and communicate in writing what they think should be done to change our culture of violence.

In your writing, you must answer the following three questions:

1.      How has violence affected my life?

2.      What are the causes of youth violence?

3.      What can I do about youth violence?

Writings that do not address these questions will not be advanced in the judging process.

You may write either a(n):

a.       5-paragraph essay (500 – 1,000 words)

b.      Short story (fiction or non-fiction; 500 – 1,000 words)

c.       Poem

·         Sonnet, Free Verse, Ballad, Narrative are acceptable; no haikus!

·         Must have a rhyme scheme, unless you choose free verse

·         Must be at least 20 lines (you choose the number and length of the stanzas; can be longer)



Entries must be typed or written VERY NEATLY with no mistakes.

Entries must be your original work, plagiarism will not be tolerated!

You need to answer ALL of the questions posed above because entries that don’t address those questions won’t even be judged. The judges will be looking specifically for entries that focus on the problem of youth violence, but more specifically, entries that actually have a plan for how to begin solving the problems of youth violence. The more original your ideas, the more chance you have of being judged highly. 


3 BIBLIOGRAPHY SOURCES
Students were required to find 3 sources on poverty (Internet or books) and create a bibliography entry for those sources. The guide for creating a bibliography is on this website (a few posts down).


CITATION EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Text Citation
1.      What is the first thing you write for a book entry? You must include punctuation!
2.      If I am TYPING a title, what do I have to do to it?
3.      What comes after the title and period?
4.      Where do you find the publisher of the book?
5.      Where does the colon go?

Web Citation
6.      If I’m handwriting the title of the web page, what do I have to do?
7.      What can we usually find in the top, right-hand corner of the web page?
8.      How would I write this date correctly? Include the abbreviation of the month! February 23, 2012
9.      If I can’t find the author of the web page, what do I do?
10.  Why is it important to include the date of creation for a web page?

Vocabulary
11.  What does parity mean?
12.  Use parody correctly in a sentence.
13.  Use administration correctly in a complete sentence
14.  Define squalid.
15.  Use taboo in a sentence

Argument
16.  Who is the best sports team in the world?
17.  Why should the district get rid of the dress code?
18.  If you disagree with someone’s argument or opinion, give an example of how to correctly show that you disagree with that person.
19.  Why is youth violence such a problem in Chicago?
20.  What program did the authors say was the reason that Milwaukee youth violence went down?

Vocab Two
21.  What does it mean to advocate?
22.  Use impediment correctly in a sentence
23.  Use amass correctly in a sentence
24.  Use to covet correctly in a sentence. You may use it in any tense (past, present, future)
What does hypothetical mean? 

CAPSTONE T-SHIRT DESIGN
As part of the Capstone project, you need to submit a design for the Capstone t-shirts that will be used to create a marketing campaign for our fundraising efforts for MIFA, the MidSouth Food Bank and the Salvation Army.

You may draw the outline of a t-shirt or get a blank t-shirt template online and draw your ideas for what you would want the shirt to look like.