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.
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