Ms. Pienta's Page of Random Power of One Comments
February 27: Research Journal: In terms of your subject, what qualities enabled him/her to make a difference, what forces worked against him or her, and what drove him/her to overcome powerful social institutions to change the world as he/she did? See rubric below for scoring.
DUE Sept. 29: The brilliant Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle advanced the idea that history is shaped by the deeds of extraordinary men and women. This idea runs counter to the assertions of Karl Marx and others that history is made by impersonal economic and social forces.
Look at SEVERAL of the links below and find one woman, one living person, and one other of your choice, and then respond with a paragraph for each on your personal WIKI page including the following:
1) Who was this person (claim to fame)?
2) What surprised, didn't surprise, or interested you about this person? Why?
3) Did this person have possibilities as a Power of One subject for research?
*Your entries will be graded according to the posting rubric on the homepage of the wiki. This is a Power of One grade.
LINKS
100 Important Women in History
100 Most Important Women in World History
30 Women of Achievement
Time 100: Heroes and Icons of the Last 100 Years
500 Most Important People of the 20th Century
Biography Channel
Heroes of History
Time Person of the Year since 1927
The Top 100 Influential Figures in American History
Revolutionaries: 15 People Who Changed the World (most living)
Summary of "Name Name"
This chapter was about (Name), who wrote (Title of Work), in The 100
Most Influential Books Ever Written by Martin Seymour-Smith. (First
sentence summarizes first paragraph, second sentence summarizes second
paragraph, etc., throughout the chapter.) In conclusion, (sum up why
the person and the book he/she wrote is in this book).
POST on the Yahoo Group site by midnight on Monday, October 16.
Ms. Pienta
Power of One Source Requirements
FIFTEEN (15) sources are required (source cards and notecards taken
from them).
At least one-third (1/3) of your sources MUST be from books and/or
periodicals. These may be obtained online, but they clearly must be
those types of sources.
No more than two-thirds (2/3) of your sources can be websites, and they
must be TRUSTED websites.
You must at have at least one primary source of any type (publication,
audio, visual, interview, etc.). A primary source was either produced
BY your subject or ABOUT your subject during the time he/she was alive.
If you have questions about your sources, please see Ms. Pienta or Ms.
Smith.
DUE December 21: Research Journal--Now that you are actually locating and looking at viable sources, what do you see at the greatest challenge to your project?
DUE January 8: Complete fifteen (15) bib/source cards in correct format and twenty-five (25) notecards from any number of sources to hand in. Have a rubber band around them and your name on the back. See Research Links below for examples of the three types of notecards. TOPICS FOR NOTECARDS: Here are some suggestions for topics for your notecards: Biography (i.e. family background, parents, childhood, education, marriage, locations, movement, people/influences/mentors, accomplishments, work, life events, death--these could be sub-topics); Economics (influence on); Government/politics (influence on); Culture (influence on); Technology (influence on). You might think of other topics, but the idea is to NOT have a million different one, but to have "categories."
Due Jan 6: What is the most interesting thing about your research so far? What have you learned? What are you thinking? What excites you about it?
Due December 16, 23, and 30: For the next three weeks, while you are reading A Tale of Two Cities, you will also post at least two research journal entries per week here. (To see what your journal entries SHOULD be like, see Asher's and Jed's journal entries. We are looking for depth of thought here.) You should begin to look seriously for sites that will support your research and answer your research question. Focus and stay on your topic.
Due December 9: When you get your research question approved and returned, you should add it to your Wiki page near the TOP, right under your title. Make sure it's visible, i.e. with a box, special color, size, or whatever you like. Secondly, you will need to have another journal entry sometime during this week, before Friday, the due date. Keep up the great work!
Due December 16: Evaluate Web Pages. This tutorial and exercises will help you to evaluate the quality of information you find on the Web. Go to this site from Widener University and click on Evaluate Web Pages Tutorial. Go carefully through it and take notes on the characteristics necessary for a valid website. Keep these in your binder for your research. Make sure your own sites you are finding meet these criteria!
If you were unable to view or hear the Widener tutorial on website evaluation, you can view it as Powerpoint here: Powerpoint
ASSIGNMENT--Final project for Night(Holocaust memorial) due on May 22 or 23 ASSIGNMENT--Power of One Powerpoint presentations will be held in the Information Center on June 7 for ALL Honors 10 students during the first two blocks of the day. You are expected to make up any assignments you miss in other classes.
Be sure to post your corrected THESIS statement on your Wiki page under your research question!
DUE February 8: Research Journal: Post a quotation either BY or ABOUT your subject. Be sure to tell who said or wrote it. Then, explain why you chose this particular quote and what it reveals about your subject. See rubric below for scoring.
DUE February 7: Complete twenty-five (25) bib/source cards in correct format and one hundred (100) notecards. TOPICS FOR NOTECARDS: Here are some suggestions for topics for your notecards: Biography (i.e. family background, parents, childhood, education, marriage, locations, movement, people/influences/mentors, accomplishments, work, life events, death--these could be sub-topics); Economics (influence on); Government/politics (influence on); Culture (influence on); Technology (influence on).
DUE January 31: Research Journal--Post your "I AM" poem at the top of your WIKI page, above your justification. Be sure it has NO errors!
February 11: Research Journal-- Tell a short interesting story about your subject.
February 22: Research Journal: In terms of your subject, what qualities enabled him/her to make a difference, what forces worked against him or her, and what drove him/her to overcome powerful social institutions to change the world as he/she did?
DUE February 15: Research Journal: This week you are going to write on the Wiki page of your seat partner. Read their page carefully and respond to it with a posting that reflects on what you saw. You want to focus on what you feel is the essence of their person. Where does his/her greatness lie, in what you see so far? Also, feel free to include questions for them that come to you as you think about it. Total word length should be at least 250 words. Be SURE to sign your name to your posting.
RESEARCH JOURNAL DUE MARCH 19: Connecting . . . Look at the pages of some of your classmates. On at least ONE of them, post a COMMENT that is a QUESTION about their subject. Part II: On your own page, write a paragraph or more about a connection of any type that you found between your subject and someone else's. In what IMPORTANT way do you find them alike? (NOTE: Once someone makes a connection to your subject, you may not connect back to theirs. You must find another one.)
RESEARCH JOURNAL DUE MARCH 12: Ask him/her. If you could ask your Power of One subject ONE question, just one, what would that be? And why?
ASSIGNMENT DUE MARCH 12/13: One hundred (100)notecards, PLUS related source cards, PLUS your research question on a card. Be SURE that one of your sources is a PRIMARY SOURCE and that you have notes from it!
RESEARCH JOURNAL DUE MARCH 5: Who most inspired your subject to do what he/she did or become who he/she is/were? And how did the inspirational person do that? If you haven't found that yet in your research, you probably should look for it! Write a good paragraph on this subject.
RESEARCH JOURNAL DUE FEBRUARY 27: This is where I am . . . think about where you are in answering your research question. What do you know? What do you still need to know or find? How are you going to do that? Explain!
TOPICS FOR NOTECARDS: Here are some suggestions for topics for your notecards: Biography (i.e. family background, parents, childhood, education, marriage, locations, movement, people/influences/mentors, accomplishments, work, life events, death--these could be sub-topics); Economics (influence on); Government/politics (influence on); Culture (influence on); Technology (influence on). You might think of other topics, but the idea is to NOT have a million different one, but to have "categories."
FUTURE JOURNALS: Post a quote by or about your person that is significant. Why did you choose it?
Which other subjects were alive during the lifetime of YOUR subject? Did they know each other or OF each other? How do you know?
DUE March 27: Power of One Rough Draft, just the body, not intro, conclusion, or Works Cited (yet). UPLOAD it in a Word doc by clicking on FILES above and saving it in this format: RDLastname (Ex: RDJones). Your rough draft should be double-spaced with one-inch margins all around in 12-pt Times New Roman font.
DUE March 25: World War I links for All Quiet on the Western Front. Take some time to look at each of these three sites in order to get a full appreciation of this war. You will be asked to react to these sites in class.
The Great War
PBS interactive site covering all aspects of World War I http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/chapters/index.html
World War I: Trenches on the Web
An Internet History of World War I http://www.worldwar1.com/
World War One.com
The War to End All Wars http://www.firstworldwar.com/
DUE March 21: Power of One Thesis Statement should be posted on your Wiki page in place of your research question. No errors!
DUE March 11: Power of One Rough Draft Biography Section. Each time you use a notecard, you should insert a parentheses with the number of the source you used and the page (if it has one). This should be a hard copy to hand in during class.
DUE March 3: Power of One Outline: Have a complete outline of your Power of One subject ready for submission. It should be in ink on lined paper. To understand the form and format of the outline, look at all three pages of this site on Purdue University's OWL program. The parts are The Four Main Components of Effective Outlines, Why and How to Create a Useful Outline, and Sample Outline.
DUE April 23: UPLOAD revised Power of One rough drafts including conclusion. (Call it RDLastConcl) Before writing your conclusion, carefully read these directions and then follow them:
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I have reviewed and commented on all of the works cited pages that were uploaded to 'files' before noon today (May 14). You will benefit greatly by reading the comments and fixing the errors. The pages are saved as you titled them with the ending, "WITHCOMMENTS".
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DUE MAY 29: Power of One Presentations--all day in the room above Applebee's. See complete instructions (Honors10PPTProject-1.doc) and rubric (RubricforPowerOnePPT.doc) at these links and also in FILES.
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Projects must be uploaded to Ms. Smith’s laptop NLT 2:30 P.M. May 28th to insure that there are no technology problems on presentation day. You may email it to Kendra.Smith@eu.dodea.edu or bring it on a flash drive.
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DUE Friday, May 16: Your FINAL DRAFT of your Power of One research paper in hard copy! Follow all instructions for the paper as described in the OWL at Purdue link below under RESEARCH LINKS. Rubric for paper: RubricPowerOfOnePaper.doc
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DUE May 12: UPLOAD revised Power of One rought drafts with all parts including WORKS CITED as page of its own at the end of your paper. Entitle it (RDLastnameWorks). By this time, you should also have the paper in the correct format (title, header, pages) as indicated in the link below by Purdue OWL.
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DUE May 7: UPLOAD revised Power of One rough drafts with all parts INCLUDING corrected parenthetical citations. You will get complete directions on this in class. If you want me to look at and comment on ANY PART of your draft (remember, I did not correct all of it), put a COMMENT at the beginning of your paper directing me to that part or those parts you want me to look at. I am not the only one who can look at your paper. Use other people as resources!
DUE March 25: World War I links for All Quiet on the Western Front. Take some time to look at each of these three sites in order to get a full appreciation of this war. You will be asked to react to these sites in class.
The Great War
PBS interactive site covering all aspects of World War I http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/chapters/index.html
World War I: Trenches on the Web
An Internet History of World War I http://www.worldwar1.com/
World War One.com
The War to End All Wars http://www.firstworldwar.com/
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