Wednesday 5 February 2014 for Periods 5 & 6 and Friday 7 February 2014.
Students submitted their homework (a three-paragraph description of the first two panels of the student's selected comic and the transition between those panels)at the beginning of class. They were directed to staple the comic on top of their descriptive paragraphs.
Mr. Stone discussed an overview of the Big 6 model for information problem solving. He described how the paper the students will be writing this quarter jointly for religion and English would follow this model.
Student read and discussed Section 25 of Diana Hacker's A Pocket Style Manual. Mr. Stone explained three aspects of posing a research question: choosing a narrow question, choosing a challenging question, and choosing a grounded question.
As students considered Section 25a, how narrow to focus to their research topic, Mr. Stone explained that the paper will be a seven-paragraph paper.
In considering Section 25b, Mr. Stone noted that the joint research paper the students will be writing will be an expository research report. He stated that most research papers are persuasive in nature and the chosen topic should typically be debatable. The current assignment is expository in nature. The students' primary questions should provoke interest, but in this case, not debate.
In discussing Section 25c, Mr. Stone emphasized the students' reports should be factual, grounded in fact and not speculative.
On Thursday, February 5th, Mr. Stone will not be in class. He will be working on editing the school's accreditation document. A substitute will supervise students as the begin reading about first century Palestine in general or explore more specific topics using classroom laptops to read links through this blog.
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