Work Due Week of May 27 - 30

3. Portfolio - due 052814 - link here

• 1. Table of Contents - you will get time to finish this in class. It must be printed in class.
• 2. Journal - 200 word, three paragraph minimum response to types of assignments, favorite assignments, and areas/units you enjoyed learning about
• about 5 students completed these portfolio steps in each class.

052714 - Complete the Test Question/Group performance survey - link here

052814 - Complete the SS Culminating Project Presentation with all student work that will appear in the final assignment. 

(This is an absolute due date for all student work for the project, necessary to earn the group grade. If a student does not contribute, that student will not earn the group grade, and the group grade will be computed and award to students who have completed all assignments on time.)

Class Schedule May 28/29 this week

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Class portfolio - write-up due 052814

Due 052814
1. Label your portfolio folder -

• tab - Last, First name - period of class
• Front:
• Social Studies
• Grade level
• Mr. Rodgers - Room 601
• 2013-2014

2. Table of Contents

• pick a minimum of a variety of 10 assignments that you liked to do, were favorites, or that you learned by doing. You may have up to 15 assignments
• You can include assignments that were just turned in or that you will turn in soon
• Title your portfolio - My Social Studies portfolio
• Make a list of assignments in order
• title (you can name the assignment based on the content or ideas)
• date or month
• you decide the order of assignments

3. Journal Reflection on portfolio

• Write at least 200 words about:
• Best type of work that you did in this class
• Favorite assignment, other than best type of work (1 - 2 different assignments)
• Something you enjoyed learning in this class, that was not necessarily tied to any assignments in the portfolio, but may related to portfolio assignments.

Test Questions and Group Performance Survey. Due Tuesday, May 26

Homework for Wednesday and Thursday night - Due next Tuesday:

Also, time to start building your group test - follow these steps - due next Tuesday:

1. Based on the materials YOU have researched,

2. Complete the following two-part survey: TEST QUESTIONS and Group Performance Survey,

PART ONE - TEST QUESTIONS:
each person must write

• 4 simpler questions that can be turned into MC or fill-in the blank type of questions
• 2 EQ questions about the same material. 
• EQ questions ask about a concept or process, and require a definition and 2 - 3 pieces of evidence/details to explain how that concept applies to history

Question content in relation to the group Slide Show:
3. the questions should cover elements shared in your group slide show that you contributed

4. each questions should cover a different area of information that you contributed or researched

5. all questions must reflect content shared in the slide show, since this is what all students will see

• if you have a question you feel is important, but the content is not in the slide show
• you must add the information and graphic to the slide show

PART TWO - Group Performance is self explanatory.

Substitute Plan for Wednesday, May 21

View class direction here

Scanned Project Work

All scanned maps, timelines, charts, and other graphics are in your group shared folder, in a new folder called scanned work. 

1. Make sure that you use as many student created graphics as possible.
2. Each graphic must have a text explanation.
3. If a graphic does not pass the minimum requirements for a quality assignment based on the groups standards, then the final slide show should not include such work.

• students can update, correct, or redo assignments that do not meet minimum requirements.
• the group can substitute internet graphics occasionally for such assignments.

4. The final slide show must include a sufficient number of student created assignments. 

5. If the slide show includes work that does NOT meet minimum requirements, then the slide show grade will lose points.

SS8 - Work for the week of 0519 to 052314

SS8 - all dates are DUE dates

0521 (period 6)/ 0522 (period 5) -
A. Complete First draft of the Group Slide Show (See Final Slide Show direction here)
1. Individually, each person must create slides for all graphics and their related text blurbs.
2. If a person is missing either a text or a graphic, for a slide, then that person must write the text or find a graphic for their written text.
3. Other materials, such as the Short Report or Travel Log assignment text can also be included (see below)
4. Since this is a first draft of the slide show, order of slides, final graphics, and uniformity are due on 052314 when the final slide show is completed.

B. Travel Log or Short Report:
In groups, students may choose to do a Travel Log OR a Short Report
1. 3 paragraphs
2. 300 - 400 words overall
3. typed in a gdoc: FirstLTrLog or FirstLShRep

Short Report directions
Travel Log directions

052314 -
A. Completed Slide Show (See Final Slide Show direction here)