Monday, November 25, 2013

11/26

Warm-up:  Write a reflection about your essay.  What score do you expect to earn?  Why?  What challenges or pleasures does writing argumentative essays provide?

Classwork: turn in essays and check glossaries; group project designing an ideal education system

Designing a Perfect Education System

Objective:  To design a flawless system of education that will meet the needs of students and accomplish the goals of society.

Process:
1.  As a group, discuss what flaws in our current education system you identified in your essays and come up with solutions for fixing those problems.
2.  Discuss what you think the goals of education are and what student needs you think education must meet.
3.  Come up with a plan to meet these needs and accomplish these goals.
4.  Write, draw, create a chart, or draft an outline, etc. that reveals the major tenets of your educational system.

Rubric:
Your project must include
1.  A statement of the goals that your system will accomplish.
2.  An explanation of what your schools will look like, do, teach, provide, etc.  You must have at least 6 distinct ideas that clarify how your system will operate differently than the current system.
3.  At least 3 of your ideas about education must be designed to help solve the problems you addressed in your essays.
4.  Your ideas should be presented in writing/drawing/etc. in a way that is appealing and understandable.

Scoring

6 distinct traits         (4 pts each, need at least 6)             _________________/24 pts
3 fixed problems       (4 pts each, need 3)                         _________________/12 pts
statement of goals                                                                 _________________/5 pts
pleasing presentation                                                           _________________/4 pts


Total                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       ________________/45pts  

Homework:  Study A-O terms; test on 12/3

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