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- 2. Learning Targets Do Now: ● I can understand my roles and responsibilities for the senior expedition. ● I can identify my support team for the senior expedition. ● Write down your major questions concerning the Senior Expedition. Large Group
- 3. Grapple I can understand my roles and responsibilities for the senior expedition. I can identify my support team for the senior expedition. ● What IMPACT do you want to make?
- 4. Focus I can understand my roles and responsibilities for the senior expedition. I can identify my support team for the senior expedition. How can ONE student make a difference? ○ Archimedes Alliance ○ Wear Orange ○ Gardeners ○ Teens Making a Difference
- 5. Focus I can understand my roles and responsibilities for the senior expedition. I can identify my support team for the senior expedition. ● Components of the Senior Experience: ○Fieldwork ○Product ○Research paper ○Exhibition and portfolio ○Reflection ○Peer Evaluation
- 6. Focus I can understand my roles and responsibilities for the senior expedition. I can identify my support team for the senior expedition. The senior expedition counts 20% of your English IV course grade. It is your final exam in English IV.
- 7. Focus I can understand my roles and responsibilities for the senior expedition. I can identify my support team for the senior expedition. What is Fieldwork? ● Practical work conducted by a researcher in the natural environment, rather than in a laboratory or office. ● Site-based consulting ○ example: you are interested in water infrastructures - you ask series of questions surrounding what they do, how they do it, and how often it is evaluated / updated.
- 8. Focus I can understand my roles and responsibilities for the senior expedition. I can identify my support team for the senior expedition. What is a Product? ● Lead a seminar ● Participate in a local campaign ● Build an online campaign (website and social media) ● Create a letter-writing campaign ● Make a physical product ● Service hours
- 9. Focus I can understand my roles and responsibilities for the senior expedition. I can identify my support team for the senior expedition. How is a Product Different From Fieldwork? ● Fieldwork should inform your product - it should help you make sense of what you decide to do. ○ Example: • You asked questions to an SCEG and/or canal worker (fieldwork). • You worked service hours by handing out bottles of water to flood victims (product).
- 10. Focus I can understand my roles and responsibilities for the senior expedition. I can identify my support team for the senior expedition. What do I do for my research paper? ● Choose an arguable and researchable topic - based on your fieldwork & your product. ● Use narrow topic to formulate a position statement: ○ Re-evaluating a city’s water infrastructure yearly should be mandatory. ● You will create an annotated bibliography to evaluate credible sources surrounding your topic. ● The 4-6 page argumentative paper is completed in English IV ● It counts toward the Senior Experience and as a grade in your English IV class.
- 11. Focus I can understand my roles and responsibilities for the senior expedition. I can identify my support team for the senior expedition. What is my Exhibition? ● 8-10 minutes presentation with a five-minute Q & A. ● Include a multimedia presentation component (movie, slide show, etc.) to showcase your senior expedition. ● You will coordinate the date, time, and location for the exhibition and invite your adviser, one community member, and one additional teacher ● Students are required to attend 3 peer exhibitions and evaluate each performance and senior experience.
- 12. Focus I can understand my roles and responsibilities for the senior expedition. I can identify my support team for the senior expedition. What is the Personal Reflection? ● A reflection based on your growth and experience with this exhibition. ● Your personal reflection will be 2-4 pages. What is the Peer Evaluation? ● An evaluation based on 3 peer exhibitions. ● This is a separate summative grade.
- 13. Application I can understand my roles and responsibilities for the senior expedition. I can identify my support team for the senior expedition. ● What IMPACT do you want to make? ● Choose a topic and product that interests you. ● What fieldwork will inform your topic?
- 14. Debrief I can understand my roles and responsibilities for the senior expedition. I can identify my support team for the senior expedition. Do you have any questions?
- 15. Next Steps I can understand my roles and responsibilities for the senior expedition. I can identify my support team for the senior expedition. ● Complete your topic & product proposal - this is Due Oct. 30.