Social 30-1
You wrote your Unit 1 Final Exam today. You will get the results of this unit exam back on Tuesday. On Monday, you have your Unit 1 In-Class Position Paper, which is one of the types of written response assignments you will be expected to write for Part A of your Diploma Exam. I gave you the essay sheet at the end of class, you are allowed to prepare notes on the bottom quarter of this sheet and bring it with you into the Blenheim Room on Monday. The notes must be hand-printed/hand-written and can only be below the line clearly marked on the essay question sheet. Here is the text-based source:
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
As always, the essay question will be the same throughout the semester:
To what extent should we embrace the ideological perspective(s) in the source?
Use this weekend to prepare ideas, arguments, specific and detailed evidence to support your position. You are not allowed to write the essay ahead of time or anything like that, but prepare for it. Use the essay outline sheet that I have e-mailed to you, and start organizing your essay. Go back over the "Recipe for Success" as well and make sure that you follow the checklists of what needs to be in each paragraph of your essay (particularly that first paragraph). Good luck!
Martin Luther King Jr.Social 10-1
You wrote your World Geography Test today, and I marked it while you were doing your work for the rest of the period. You'll get the results of this test back next week. Your Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, although my expectation is that these have already been completed. I gave you some more class time today to work on key terms and questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet, you should probably have the Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions finished already as well. This is the weekend when you should be working most of the work on your Illustrated Concept Map Assignment, which is due on Thursday, September 18th. Don't put off working on this project, it takes a lot of time to do it right.
Upcoming Important Dates for Social 10-1 Students:
- Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, September 14th
- Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday, September 16th
- Illustrated Concept Map Assignment is due on Thursday, September 17th
- Chapter 1-2 Quiz is on Friday, September 18th (please see study guide below)
Chapter 1-2 Quiz Study Guide:
1. Study your Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms
2. Review the case studies from the textbook in Chapters 1 and 2, specifically the Metis, the Francophones, the Hmong, and the Maori
3. Be prepared to answer any of the "Questions for Inquiry" from Chapters 1 and 2 (they are on the following pages: p.9, p.14, p.20, p.29, p.35, p.39):
- How does globalization affect economic aspects of people's lives?
- How does globalization affect social aspects of people's lives?
- How does globalization affect political aspects of people's lives?
- What is the difference between individual and collective identity?
- What is the relationship between identity and language?
- How does cultural exchange shape people's identities?
4. Make sure that you can answer the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet for these chapters.
12 comments:
Hello, Mr. Gilchrist
For the Illustrated Concept Map Assignment, the pictures that are pulled from the internet are supposed to be referenced. Can the pictures just be referenced with their web address because most of the times the pictures are pulled from google images after clicking on "see full size image" and there is no artist name there.
Hello, Mr. Gilchrist
For the Illustrated Concept Map Assignment, the pictures that are pulled from the internet are supposed to be referenced. Can the pictures just be referenced with their web address because most of the times the pictures are pulled from google images after clicking on "see full size image" and there is no artist name there.
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Using the URL alone isn't proper referencing! If you use Google image search the URL of the image is not Google, it's the website where the image is hosted. So, in other words, let's say you search for "Firefox logo" on Google images, and you get several results from Google, you open up an image that you like by clicking on "See Full Size Image", you should then see the image by itself with a white background. Look at the address bar, this is where you will get the URL for that image. Next, you will need your student handbook/agenda, and look at the section in the handbook on citations and references (it's on about page 16 or so, check the table of contents for the exact page). You will probably need to use the "Internet No Author" format for most images found on the Internet, unless the photographer/illustrator has taken credit for the image. I hope that helps.
Thanks a lot for the information about the image referencing. This helps a lot.
Thanks
Hello, Mr.Gilchrist
Do I have to reference the pictures if I screen shoot them? For the referencing, according to the student handbook we have to italicize the title. The photo's title is the name we saved it under. right?
Thanks
Mr. G,
How much detail do you want for each word on the mindmap? Like just the definition or with extra information?
Because mine is more about the pictures, since it's a visual concept map. Is it okay if I explain more in detail in the written description? Thanks!
Mr. G
Can the definitions be from the textbook or from websites such as dictionary.com?
Mr. Gilchrist,
If people from your 30-1 class do poorly on their position papers, will you be willing to help them with their writing skills during tutorial time, or is writing something we should already know from Social 10 and 20?
Hello, Mr.Gilchrist
Do I have to reference the pictures if I screen shoot them? For the referencing, according to the student handbook we have to italicize the title. The photo's title is the name we saved it under. right?
Thanks
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It depends on what you are doing screenshots of. If you find an image on the Internet and do a screenshot of it, you still have to do a image reference for it. You can give the image a simple title, and then italicize it.
Mr. G,
How much detail do you want for each word on the mindmap? Like just the definition or with extra information?
Because mine is more about the pictures, since it's a visual concept map. Is it okay if I explain more in detail in the written description? Thanks!
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It depends on how you want your concept map to look. You need to define each of the terms in the box on the assignment sheet, but you don't have to define your examples (for example, G8 could be an example for political globalization; you don't have to define G8). The text on the concept map itself should explain interconnections (those are the linking words), then you can go into greater detail in your written description.
Mr. G
Can the definitions be from the textbook or from websites such as dictionary.com?
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You can use the definitions from the textbook (you will have to reference it anyway) and/or you can use other sources, for example, dictionary.com (make sure you reference the website generally, not for every word).
Mr. Gilchrist,
If people from your 30-1 class do poorly on their position papers, will you be willing to help them with their writing skills during tutorial time, or is writing something we should already know from Social 10 and 20?
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By 30-1 you should have written a few position papers already. You should have written 1 or 2 in 10-1 (there was greater emphasis on the 3 source analysis writing assignments in 10-1) and written at least 2 position papers in 20-1 (excluding the final exam, which would have been your third essay). I gave you the weekend to think about this essay, to plan things out. You were given the essay text-based source and question in advance so you could prepare and so you wouldn't be at a disadvantage as compared to other 30-1 classes (in other words, they were given the source two days in advance, so you were as well). By 30-1, there is a certain expectation about writing ability. We've told students to not talk 30-1 if they weren't confident in their ability to write essays (I know I've harped on it). If you're given the essay topic/source two days in advance, the expectation is that you write an outstanding essay. For your next essay, you might only get the source a day in advance, and on the third essay you won't get the source in advance (just like your Diploma Exam). I can help you in tutorial, but I'm not a miracle worker. If you don't have the writing chops to be in a 30-1 class, you shouldn't be in the class. I'm being very honest and realistic here. But most students in 30-1 are bright enough to work this out with two days notice and write a very good essay, otherwise they wouldn't be in 30-1. For 30-1 students, there is a certain expectation of their abilities. It's not a question of "I'll just work harder this year, I can do better if I just try harder." It's not always about working harder, sometimes it's about ability. If you don't have strong writing skills you should think about your options. In 30-1your ability to write counts for 50% of the Dipoma Exam mark (in other words, 25% of your overall course mark). If you're not confident in your ability to write, you might be in the wrong course.
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