HW for Thursday, 5/29

1) Labor packet

and

2) Gallery Card, draft 1.

IRP due Thursday, 6/5!

HW for Tuesday, 5/27

1) IRP 6

and

2) Jane Addams/Settlement Houses Packet

HW for Thursday, 5/22

Suffragettes packet.

HW for Tuesday, 5/20

1) Complete the Hayes/Jackson Yellow Journalism and Muckraking packet.
2) IRP 5
3) Be prepared for a brief quiz on Thursday on Noah/Makia's Immigration material.

HW for Monday, 5/19

Today is your last day in class to finish your project/presentation.
Refer to the checklist (see Thursday's HW blog) and make sure you have completed all of the assignments.
ALL GROUPS must be ready to go by tomorrow, even if your group is not yet presenting.

HW for Thursday, 515

Final project checklist

Classwork and HW for Tuesday, 5/13

1. IRP 4


2. Thursday will be your last day to work on this project in class.

By then, you will need . . .
1) 2 articles (3 for the Suffragettes group) with accompanying worksheets to assign for hw.
2) A PowerPoint with at least 10 slides and a worksheet.
3) About 20 minutes of video with a viewing guide.
4) 5 discussion questions for the class.
5) A final quiz.

You and your partner should delegate responsibilities today.  Figure out what still needs to be done and make a plan for doing it.

HW for Monday, 5/12

Noah, Yazmin, Monica, Kevin -- re-take quiz 5.1

EVERYONE:

By tomorrow, your group must have . . .

1) 2 (or 3, for the Suffragettes group) articles with accompanying worksheets that you will assign as hw to the class.
2) Your video/video clips chosen and viewing guide completed.
3) At least 5 slides for your PowerPoint.

In class and for hw this week, you will finish your PowerPoints, create your discussion questions, and create the quiz.  Thursday we will randomly pick the order for the presentations.  Monday, 5/19, we will have our quiz, and Tuesday, 5/20, we will start the presentations.

Daily Warm Up for Thursday, 5/8

Please read the following tips before starting your presentation.

9 Presentation Tips for Students

Create Classroom Presentations Worthy of an 'A'

By Wendy Russell

1. Know Your Topic

Students usually want to charge right in and start using the presentation softwareimmediately. Do the research first and know your material. Think through what you will present before beginning the project on the computer. Creating the slide show is the easy part. The best classroom presentations are created by people who are comfortable with what they are going to talk about.

2. Use Key Phrases About Your Topic

Good presenters use key phrases and include only the most important information. Your topic may be vast, but choose only the top three or four points and make them several times throughout the presentation in the classroom.

3. Avoid Using Too Much Text on the Slide

One of the biggest mistakes students make in classroom presentations, is in writing their whole speech on the slides. The slide show is meant to accompany your oral presentation. Write in the form of jot notes, called bullet points, on slides. Use simple language and limit the number of bullets to three or four per slide. The surrounding space will make it easier to read.

4. Limit the Number of Slides -- for this project, 10 is a good number to shoot for.

Too many slides in a presentation will cause you to be rushing to get through them, and youraudience might end up paying more attention to the changing slide than to what you are saying. On average, one slide per minute is about right in a classroom presentation.

5. Layout of Your Slide is Important

Make your slides easy to follow. Put the title at the top where your audience expects to find it. Phrases should read left to right and top to bottom. Keep important information near the top of the slide. Often the bottom portions of slides cannot be seen from the back rows because heads are in the way.

6. Avoid Fancy Fonts

Choose a font that is simple and easy to read such as Arial, Times New Roman or Verdana. You may have a really cool font on your computer, but save it for other uses. Don't use more than two different fonts – one for headings and another for content. Keep all fonts large enough (at least 18 pt and preferably 24 pt) so that people at the back of the room will be able to read them easily.

7. Use Contrasting Colors For Text and Background

• Dark text on a light background is best. This combination offers the most visibility. Sometimes though, you may want a dark background for effect, to dazzle the crowd. In that case, be sure to make text a light color for easy reading in a classroom presentation.
• Text is often difficult to read on patterned or textured backgrounds.
• Keep your color scheme consistent throughout your classroom presentation.

8. Try a Slide Design Theme to Keep the Look Consistent

When you use a design theme, choose one that will not detract from your classroom presentation. Test it ahead of time to make sure that the text will be readable and the graphics won’t get lost in the background.

9. Use Animations and Transitions Sparingly in Classroom Presentations

Let's face it. Students love to apply animations and transitions every place they can. This will certainly be entertaining, but rarely will the audience be paying attention to the message of the presentation. Always remember that The slide show is a visual aid and not the objective of the classroom presentation.

HW for Thursday, 5/8

1) Noah, Yazmin, Kevin, Monica: Study for Re-take of Quiz 5.1 on Monday.  You will re-take it until you pass.
Makia: Be prepared for your first go at the quiz.


2) Make-up work.
You won't get this chance again.  Complete everything on your AA form this weekend, and make sure to also spend some time reading your IRP book.
We're halfway through the session, and interims go out Monday.

HW for Tuesday, 5/6

1) IRP 3 (see the folder under Resources to the right).

2) Quiz corrections (Doniece, Hayes) OR Study for test (re-take or first time) on Thursday (Miles, Makia, Yazmin, Kevin, Noah, Monica).

HW for Monday, 5/5

You must find 20 minutes (plus or minus a few minutes) of video on your topic to show to the class.  You and your partner(s) should discuss how you want to divide up the work.  I suggest you each choose a sub-topic (if you're doing women's suffrage, for instance, one of you can focus on finding a general overview, another can find clips about Susan B. Anthony, and another can find clips on the 19th Amendment).

You will show these video clips to me in class tomorrow, and you will, as a group, create the viewing guide that goes with them.

HW for Thursday, 5/1

1) Study for Monday's Quiz -- review the vocab, the transcontinental railroad, and present-perfect and past-perfect tenses.  Here are some links to help you review for the grammar section:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfect.html


2) By Monday, your group should have chosen the 2 articles that you're going to assign to the class, and you'll need a worksheet of some sort for each article.  I suggest that you and your partner discuss which 2 articles you want to assign and discuss what sort of worksheet you want to do, then each of you take responsibility for one of them.