Honors seminar II
Week of 4/27-5/1:
Video overview
Google Doc assignments
Paul: Becoming a Fairminded Thinker
Media Source Blog Project!
Week of 4/20-4/25:
Video overview
Google Doc assignments
Paul: Becoming a Fairminded Thinker
Media Source Blog Project!
Passion Project Outline
Week of 4/13-4/17:
Video overview - please watch!
Google Doc assignments
TedTalk: Daniel Kahneman, "The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory"
Passion Project research chart (due Monday, 4/20 at 10 am)
Become a Fairminded Thinker (pp. 1-7 due Wednesday, 4/22)
- Submit 2-3 media sources you would be interested in reviewing by Wed AM (4/22)
Week of 3/23-27:
Overview of work
TedTalk (due 3/25)
Passion Project research chart (due Monday, 3/30)
Submissions for NPR Podcast Challenge:
"The Talk"
"Fake News"
"The Jukebox"
"A House Divided"
"Grade Obsession"
2020: The Epidemic Podcast
Podcasting:
News: NPR Up First
Podomatic home + DiMatteo sample
Online Voice Recorder (free online recording)
NPR Student Podcast Contest!
NPR Podcast Submission form: each group must make a copy, complete, and return to me by 3/27!
History + Podcasting:
James Loewen on Code Switch: episode + transcript
American History Quiz
"Lies" Uncovered: PBL 1 (Jan. 2020)
Revisionist History:
1.4: "Carlos Doesn't Remember"
--YES program website
1.5: "Food Fight"
--NYT Opinion: "No College Kid Needs a Water Park to Study"
--NYT: College Access Table, 2017
--WaPo: Colleges Slashing Prices
1.6: "My Little Hundred Million"
--WSJ: "Giving to Colleges Jumps 7% to Record $46.7 Billion"
Student podcasts on American History books:
The Alienist and Murder in the White City
Lafayette and the Somewhat United States and Theodosia
The Revenant, Jesse James, Cold Mountain, and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
The Man in the High Castle, Ragtime, and The Worst Hard Time
The Black Dahlia, 11/22/63, Cat's Cradle, and Black Against Empire
College Research Project!
CRITICAL THINKING
Considerations for pp. 6-11 (4/8/2019) -- please MAKE A COPY then fill in and share with me!
Class-created Fairmindedness Rubric (For 4/12: please choose 2 peer blogs to review and score, and be sure to explain why the post scored what it did. Share the completed rubric and explanation with me by Sunday, 4/14 at midnight.)
Class-created FM Rubric 2.0! (posted 5/15/2019)
Fairmindedness post-assessment (posted 5/20/2019)
Video overview
Google Doc assignments
Paul: Becoming a Fairminded Thinker
Media Source Blog Project!
Week of 4/20-4/25:
Video overview
Google Doc assignments
Paul: Becoming a Fairminded Thinker
Media Source Blog Project!
Passion Project Outline
Week of 4/13-4/17:
Video overview - please watch!
Google Doc assignments
TedTalk: Daniel Kahneman, "The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory"
Passion Project research chart (due Monday, 4/20 at 10 am)
Become a Fairminded Thinker (pp. 1-7 due Wednesday, 4/22)
- Submit 2-3 media sources you would be interested in reviewing by Wed AM (4/22)
Week of 3/23-27:
Overview of work
TedTalk (due 3/25)
Passion Project research chart (due Monday, 3/30)
Submissions for NPR Podcast Challenge:
"The Talk"
"Fake News"
"The Jukebox"
"A House Divided"
"Grade Obsession"
2020: The Epidemic Podcast
Podcasting:
News: NPR Up First
Podomatic home + DiMatteo sample
Online Voice Recorder (free online recording)
NPR Student Podcast Contest!
NPR Podcast Submission form: each group must make a copy, complete, and return to me by 3/27!
History + Podcasting:
James Loewen on Code Switch: episode + transcript
American History Quiz
"Lies" Uncovered: PBL 1 (Jan. 2020)
Revisionist History:
1.4: "Carlos Doesn't Remember"
--YES program website
1.5: "Food Fight"
--NYT Opinion: "No College Kid Needs a Water Park to Study"
--NYT: College Access Table, 2017
--WaPo: Colleges Slashing Prices
1.6: "My Little Hundred Million"
--WSJ: "Giving to Colleges Jumps 7% to Record $46.7 Billion"
Student podcasts on American History books:
The Alienist and Murder in the White City
Lafayette and the Somewhat United States and Theodosia
The Revenant, Jesse James, Cold Mountain, and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
The Man in the High Castle, Ragtime, and The Worst Hard Time
The Black Dahlia, 11/22/63, Cat's Cradle, and Black Against Empire
College Research Project!
CRITICAL THINKING
Considerations for pp. 6-11 (4/8/2019) -- please MAKE A COPY then fill in and share with me!
Class-created Fairmindedness Rubric (For 4/12: please choose 2 peer blogs to review and score, and be sure to explain why the post scored what it did. Share the completed rubric and explanation with me by Sunday, 4/14 at midnight.)
Class-created FM Rubric 2.0! (posted 5/15/2019)
Fairmindedness post-assessment (posted 5/20/2019)