Week 6 Expository Comp

Day	Class Work	Homework
Monday Print weekly syllabus by Tuesday, October 19th beginning of class time for 100 extra credit points( No credit after that date. Remember to put your name on your paper.)	Activity  11 write summary and complete Peer response And Reading Circles/AIT Group work	Amnesty Catch Up day Complete any missing work Begin draft of Topic 2 for Senior Project Paper Due Monday 10/25
Tuesday	Activity 12 Reading Circles/AIT Group work Activity 14	Activity 13
Wednesday	Activity 15 Use brainstorming, informal outlines, quickwrites or webbing/clustering to arrive at your argument You may use these to write your essay.	Activity 16
Thursday Mr. Genut will be the guest teacher. School and class rules will be strictly enforced! Achieve the honorable!	Activity 17 Timed in class essay. Fully respond to the prompt in Activity 15. This first draft should reflect the writer’s best effort at creating a convincing argument.  The writer needs to write the essay using notes from the pre-writing process.  Staple your notes behind ( activities 15, and 16) your draft!	Draft of Topic 2 for Senior Project Paper Due Monday 10/25
Friday	Citation Maker Lesson Draft of Topic 2 for Senior Project Paper Due Monday 10/25	Draft of Topic 2 for Senior Project Paper Due Monday 10/25

Instructions for the Methodology Section

Review this link first:Writing the experimental report: methods, results, and discussion

The purpose of this section is to describe your research design and the method of data collection. You should tell the reader how you are doing your research and why you adopted these particular methods.

The methodology section should include:

1)    A general description of your participants – who, where, and when did the study take place - change names of cities and participants to protect privacy

Example: The study took place in a suburban area near a large southeastern city

Try to describe things that you think are important about the study.

2)    A description of the research design (quantitative or qualitative) procedures used and why you used them.

You should discuss whether your study addresses descriptive, relational, or causal questions.  

3)    A description of the instruments used and their reliability/validity (if possible).  The instruments include things like tests, surveys, and interviews (including a list of interview questions). Copies of the instruments themselves must be included as appendices of your Senior Project. Don't forget that you must have the copy of your Senior Project Consent Form Waiver and Release Form signed.  This form can be found in the Senior Project Survival Guide.

4)    A concept map ( graphic organizer/block diagram) that outlines your methodology and/or the data collection process is often very helpful to include for the reader. It may also help you plan your physical project!

5)    A brief description of how the results will be organized and presented.

The methodology section is often one of the shortest sections of a research paper. Try to be thorough but succinct. In this case, it may be completed 1 page ( 3 paragraphs) of writing( This does not include your questionnaire, interview, or survey questions, which must be attached on separate sheets of paper). 

Week 5 Syllabus ( Print for 100 bonus points)

Day	Class Work	Homework
Monday Print weekly syllabus by Tuesday, October 5th beginning of class time for 100 extra credit points	Activity 1 and 6	Activity 7   pp 42 Vocabulary Test on Wednesday on Activity 7 words Draft of Discussion of research methodology for your Senior Project due next Monday!
Tuesday	Activity 8	Study for Vocabulary Test on Activity 7 words.
Wednesday Mr. Genut will be the guest teacher. School and class rules will be strictly enforced! Achieve the honorable!	Vocabulary test on Activity 7 words (10 minutes) Sentence Fragments and Run-on exercises (30 minutes).	Activity 8 Complete any of the sentence fragment and run-on worksheets that you did not finish in class. The worksheets will count as part of your class work grade.
Thursday Grade window opens (first progress report marks are entered).	Activity 9 Reading Circles/AIT Group work Considering the Structure of the Text	Activity 10
Friday	Activity  11 Reading Circles/AIT Group work	Draft of Discussion of Research Methodology for your Senior Project due Monday!

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Work 4 Class Work and Homework ( Print weekly syllabus- Good for 100 extra Credit points Offer expires October 5 at beginning of class)

Day	Class Work	Homework
Monday Print weekly syllabus by Tuesday, October 5th beginning of class time for 100 extra credit points	Finish First Draft of Essay Begin second draft Notice: Any Senior whose Letter of Intent has not been accepted must meet with Dr. Cohen after school today.  If you are still having grammar and mechanics ( punctuation issues) please go to LACER. The Grade window opens on the 7th if you project has not been accepted you will get a failing mark! Also your 1 ½ page Introduction must have been turned in or you willing also get a failing mark!	1. Second Draft Persuasive Essay Due Tuesday 2.  Senior Project 1st Topic Body Paragraphs are due Monday October, 11th ( 1 page that follows your introduction).
Tuesday	Peer review of 2nd Drafts Using handout rubric rubric, Fast Food Essay rubric page 32, and Complete steps Activity 21 Revising the draft	Activity 22 And Use Rubric page 32 Final Draft due Check grammar and punctuation
Wednesday	Activity 23 Going for the Look, but Risking Discrimination by Steven Greenhouse Unit 2 Activity 1 pp. 41	Unit 2 Activity 2 and 3 pp 41
Thursday Grade window opens( first progress report marks are entered) .	Activity 4 pp41	Activity  5 pp.42 Senior Project 1st Topic Body Paragraphs are due Monday
Friday	Activity 6  pp. 42	Activity 7   pp 42 Vocabulary Test on Monday on Activity 7 words  Senior Project 1st Topic Body Paragraphs are due Monday

Another reason for your Senior Research Project

Universities are places where facts are made. Research is a collaborative process, so scientists need lab assistants, humanities researchers need library aides and graduate students need all the help they can get. A curious, competent undergraduate can always find work assisting a researcher.

Regardless of the field and the specific project, helping them helps you. The obvious benefits are new skills and invaluable experience. But there is also something powerful in seeing how the right experimental or analytical approach can sort through a mess of observations and opinion to identify real associations between phenomena, like a gene variant and a disease, or a financial tool and the availability of credit. With a window into the world of research, you will find yourself thinking more critically, accepting fewer assertions at face value and perhaps developing an emboldened sense of what you can accomplish.

Most important: research experience shows you how knowledge is produced. There are worse ways to prepare for life in an information age.

— AMAN SINGH GILL, Ph.D. student in the ecology and evolution department at Stony Brook University

Class Work and Homework Week 3

Day	Class Work	Homework
Monday	Activities 13 and 14 Briefing on afterschool Tutoring and computer services	Redraft Letters of Intent As needed.  See example in Pages 16 and 17 in SEnior Project Pathfinder Guide. You must get my approval for your project.  It is strongly recommended that students still struggling with the grammar and syntax issues get additional help from UCLA students in Library or Room 603 Staff after school. Description of Physical Project Due Wednesday See Pages 12-14 in Senior Project Pathfinder Guide
Tuesday	Review Exercise 14 and 15	Exercise 16
Wednesday	Exercise 17 Generate Thesis for your timed Essay	Read Exercise 18 Instructions
Thursday	Review Exercises 18 and 19	Exercise 20
Friday	In class timed essay: Exercises 18-20 in practice in Expo Comp Text	Twenty Index Cards with Facts, Statistics, Statements from Authorities/experts, and 1 personnel example/anecdote  on your Senior Project Topic Due Monday Cards must be neatly written! Each student should be ready to give a 2 minute present in class. Grades based on Informative Presentation Rubric.