UPDATED ASSIGNMENT LIST

After some consideration, I've decided to revamp your assignment list.

Some of you received e-mails back from me with suggestions for your paragraph. If you did, please have the new one ready by this Friday. Oct 24th

Your rough draft Biography is due next Friday Oct 31st

Your "list of resources" (ie..bibliography) will be due Nov. 7th in time for the Expo.

This will give each of you time to do a little more reading on your person, to collaborate if you are on a team and by the time of Expo, you'll have most of your raw materials for your project pulled together.

Have a great week!
Mrs. Gayer

Assignments!

Okay folks,
By cob (close of business) tomorrow, your paragraph on "why" you picked your topic is due.

The main theme of the paragraph should tell a perfect stranger why you selected your "person". It should say why, of all the people in the world, you thought this person was interesting enough to devote months of research into their lives. What is it about this person that is interesting to you, and why do you think this person could be interesting to others.

I plan on posting everyone's paragraphs on the blog, but don't worry, I'll do any necessary copy-editing for grammar and spelling.

Mrs. Gayer

M. Antoinette stuff

Found these M. Antoinette sites
please view them WITH your parents.

Excellent start - the pbs site
http://www.pbs.org/marieantoinette/

Gobs or portraits
http://www.batguano.com/VigeeMAgallery.html

Good life summary & resource list
http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/France/MarieAntoinette.html

Children, Obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right...

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,439624,00.html

I didn't know this was a possibility.....yikes!

A Nigerian father has taken his “lazy” 20-year-old son to an Islamic court for refusing to participate in productive activities, asking that he be imprisoned, the state news agency NAN said Friday, Reuters reported.
"He is not listening to words and he is bringing shame to my family,” Sama'ila Tahir, a market trader, told NAN. “I am tired of his nefarious deeds. Please put this boy in prison so that I can be free."
Tahir claims his son dropped out of school and is in a gang, Reuters reported.
Siding with Tahir, the court sentenced the young man to six months in prison and 30 strokes of the cane for being disobedient.

Research, Research...Focus

Hey, everyone!

I heard your general information presentations went quite well. Congratulations!

For this week, I need each of you to bring in ALL your materials, references, ideas for project, etc. I am going to sit with each of you (As there are 6 projects, that comes to 10 min each). We will disucss a roadmap to where you want to take your project, what you plan on doing.

Rough drafts of all projects will be due by Expo. They don't have to be completely perfected, but they must be "good".

While I am talking with each person, the others are to be reading, discussing their projects with each other and getting ideas, critiques, etc..

We will do a lot of this between now and the end of co-op.

Mrs. Gayer