Please TYPE and complete your essay over the Winter Break. When you come back, you MUSt have your essay (2-3 pages in length). Also, make sure you have a WORKS CITED PAGE and copies of all the sources you used in your essay (you must have a minimum of THREE SOURCES).
Use your notes and the worksheets I provided to complete your essay ACCURATELY!
Good luck.
Checklist: Essay – Checklist – NEW
Rubric: Essay – Rubric
Outline: Essay – Outline – NEW
Please prep for your essay by filling out the worksheet. By doing this, and the research necessary to complete it, you will have a lot of your essay completed before the Winter Break. Good luck!
Students can enjoy the weekend. They may also re-do their first Reading Log homework on the article “Growing Up Digital” if they want due to not having followed directions and earning a lower grade than they possibly could have received. That re-do, with the original will be due on Monday, February 13th.
Otherwise, they will have an essay to write over the Winter Break. So, enjoy the weekend free of homework.
Please read the excerpt from The Winter of our Disconnect (READ ACTIVELY – highlight and mark up the text). Then answer questions 1-4 in four or more sentences each. Also, be sure to use a quote for each answer!
Finally, write a journal entry where you go “a day” without modern digital technology like cellphones, ipods, video games, the Internet, social media and TV. See the handout below for more.
HW: HW – Winter of Our Disconnect – Focused Reading Log
Reading: Winter of our Disconnect
Please follow the directions from class and on the handout to complete a reading log for the article, “Growing Up Digital.” Be sure to MARK UP/HIGHLIGHT the article, with ten or more symbols. Be active as you read. Then, TYPE a reading log for the article – use the symbols and answer the questions. You must use information from the article to support each answer – so, in other words, provide QUOTES!
If you lost the article, here is the link:
ARTICLE:
The New York Times Upfront, Vol. 143, January 31, 2011: “Growing Up Digital”
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f013111_digital
HW: HW – Growing Up Digital – Focused Reading Log
Reading Log Symbols: READER RESPONSE LOGS
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