A2 Project

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  in this video, I'll be going over what you're A

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  to project is about for English and social studies.

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  I'll be helping you with some topics you can choose

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  from. How to gather your information on.

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  I will go over the expectations or the rubric of

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  your project.

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  So let's begin by taking a look at what the

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  project is about.

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  So obviously you can see all of this information on

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  the project page.

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  For your project, you will be delivering an informative presentation

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  related to our social studies.

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  Topic of the environment and global warming are explanatory.

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  Writing Classes have prepared you for being able to explain

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  the topic to an audience.

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  So here are the steps that you're going to go

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  through. Number one.

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  You're going to choose your topic.

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  I will show you the options in a second there

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  on a content block called Topics to choose from.

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  Then you are going to write an explanatory essay about

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  the topic you choose from.

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  Obviously, your essay should have four paragraphs, as as we

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  have done earlier with our explanatory writing classes, introduction to

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  body paragraphs that follow peel model and a conclusion.

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  Thirdly, you will create a Power Point presentation, which includes

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  the information from your essay.

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  But because it's a power point, you'll just be drawing

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  information from the essay.

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  You're not rewriting it onto Power Point slides, you summarizing

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  it and preparing for what you will present to your

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  classmates and to me.

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  Lastly, just once you finished with all of the content,

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  you need to be able to make sure you're adding

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  media or images to your power point.

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  It should look attractive as part of your grade goes

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  to the effectiveness of your power Point presentation.

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  So here's everything that you have to dio.

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  Choose a topic, write the essay, create the power point

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  based on the essay, and make sure you make the

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  power point attractive with pictures and things like that.

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  Okay, let's check out the topics you can choose from.

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  So as you know, we've been talking about global warming,

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  pollution, the negative effects of human behavior to the environment.

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  So some of the topics that I've chosen are extinct

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  extinction of animals.

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  What is it?

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  Why is it happening?

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  What can we do to help water pollution again?

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  What is it?

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  How does it affect us in the environment How can

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  we decrease water pollution, air pollution?

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  Same thing.

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  Another suggested topic is deforestation.

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  What is deforestation?

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  How does it affect us?

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  What can we do to help?

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  My last suggested topic is the importance of being concerned

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  about global warming as young people today.

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  And if you choose this topic, make sure to use

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  Greta Thornburg as an example.

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  All right.

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  Now, if you really want to do your informative presentation

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  and explanatory essay about another topic that we have discussed

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  in class like noise pollution or land pollution, that's okay

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  to just let me know beforehand.

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  Okay, Now I'm gathering your information to collect information on

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  your project.

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  You can obviously refer to our social studies national books,

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  the Living Together books, pages 1 79 to 1 95.

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  Cover that whole unit.

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  So, depending on what topic you chose, it is somewhere

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  in those pages.

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  But of course, you'll probably want to do extra research

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  on Dhere.

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  Some suggested websites that I'm giving you because they're very

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  reliable. So in explanatory right?

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  And we do have to do some external research beyond

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  our textbook.

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  And we always talk about how plagiarism is not allowed

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  no copying from the Internet.

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  This is something you already know, but I do need

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  to stress on it.

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  So here are some of the the suggested sites.

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  You can use them as a search engine.

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  Just search whatever your topic is into any of these

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  sites. There's National Geographics for kids NASA, climate kids, The

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  Jordan Times.

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  If you would like to talk about pollution in Jordan,

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  there is Time magazine for kids online and pizza.

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  Kids saving the animals if you'd like to talk about

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  extinction, so make sure we're avoiding websites like Wikipedia or

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  something that seems unreliable.

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  Alright, Now onto your rubric, this is how you will

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  be graded.

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  So this is a project that integrates English and social,

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  but you will be graded separately for each.

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  So for the English part, I'm focusing on the explanatory

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  s a part of this project organization that's four marks

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  their word choice.

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  We're constantly talking about using strong synonyms instead of weak

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  words. So that is also out of four conventions and

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  sentence structure the grammar side of this development of ideas

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  and elaboration.

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  That's for.

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  And of course, the actual presenting, speaking and listening skills

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  is also out of four.

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  So the total and the English part of this project

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  is out of 20.

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  The social studies part you are graded five marks on

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  content and knowledge of your topic.

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  Effectiveness of power point.

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  Does it include images?

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  Logical order of information.

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  That's five.

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  And your research skills are you.

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  Do you have a final slide at the end to

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  tell me what sources you used If you copied from

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  the Internet, God forbid, if you plagiarize, you would get

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  a zero.

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  In that case, all of the information, as I mentioned,

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  is on this, you see page and you can contact

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  me at any time if you have any questions.