Monday, February 21, 2011

Rants and Research

Today you are delivering your 30-second RANT, of which you worked on in class last Friday.  A rant is a super-mini early version of your speech...kind of like training wheels.  You need a thesis, three reasons (topic sentences), and at least one fact.  The competition for best rant in the class happens today.

The rest of the day, and rest of the week we have the mobile PC lab.  We are doing research.  It is your job to find as many articles as you can on your topic during this time.  Your homework all week:  continue researching at home.

Homework:  By Wednesday (there are NO blocks this week) you need to have found, and have signed (by Mr. Stowell) three good articles that have information on your topic.  You will be passing those in with a Worksheet that asks you to summarize those articles briefly. 


DON'T FORGET TO EASYBIB AS YOU GO...OR IT WILL REALLY STINK LATER!!