If it Were My Home

Please go to http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/ and choose a country that begins with the letter you've been given. Research your country and write a blogpost in the form of a journal or diary entry detailing your experiences in that country as an exchange student. Please include pics (they must include pics of people and homes / indoors).

100pts -- We'll present next class.

Language and Experience Project

You are to write a blog post of at least 750 words. This will be in a "Q&A" interview style and you are to interview someone who is currently in high school whose first language is not English. You want to learn about what it was like to learn English and what their experience has been like.

You should prepare at least ten questions in advance. Here are some examples: Was it difficult to learn English? In what ways have you benefited from learning the language? Do you still speak your primary language at home or with family and friends? Why / Why not? How did you come to go to school in the United States? What are some of the differences between an American school and a school in your home country?

The published interview is due Monday, Jan 10.

G-20 Conference Conferences

I want to do brief conferences with each of you to talk about your individual G-20 Conference grades. We'll discuss what you did that was great, what could improve, and talk about ways to improve public speaking and to increase skills in presenting material.

We will probably do half a class Mex presentations and half conferences for the next two class sessions.

Today

Human Geo: Please email me your PowerPoints or links to your Prezis. Then work on editing your research papers; I would like you to get together with two or three other folks and do peer review before you begin work editing. If you do not have your essay or are finished, please start collecting pictures of famous people / celebrities from Western Europe who do not look like the traditional stereotype of people from those countries with regards to ethnicity, race, religion, etc. Next class we start looking at immigration in Europe.

The following students need to get Google Docs to me ASAP:

Connor D.
Grace L.
Chris M.
Emma W.

Konnor D.
Meghan G.
Brendon H.
Erika L.

You all owe me Apartheid papers. If you've already added me as an editor to your Google Doc, please send me the link to your paper as for some reason you are not showing up in my list on Google.

Also, for everybody: I am going to make the last day before Winter Break the day final drafts and re-edits are due on those. You may earn up to full credit, but no credit will be available after that date.

Research Papers

As I am completing the research papers, I am commenting within the original Google Docs. So please, if you want to edit and re-submit, do that directly onto the Google Doc and then email me to let me know that you have re-submitted. You may receive up to full credit for edited drafts.

APA Format

Looking over the research papers. Lot's of problems with APA style. Those of you who did not cite sources using in-text citation at all need to re-do your papers; they have a grade of 60 in PS right now. Everybody should look over this document and edit your paper to be in compliance with the proper style. If you don't have specific page numbers (i.e. web page), just give author/editor/website name and date of publication: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/