Senior Project 2013Awesome
Memorizing Thinking
Academic Best Personal Best
Follow Curriculum Follow Interests
Hints at What Your Grade Will Be
Hints at What Your Future Will Be
Involves Risk TakingInvolves Playing it
SafeRelies on Knowing Answers
Relies on Asking Right Question
Being Scholarly
Being Smart
Finding the right question
Topic:Beauty
Question:Do magazines promote unhealthy images of beauty?
Question:Would you be willing to become extremely
ugly physically if it meant you would live for 1,000 years at any physical age you chose?
Revolving Research
I agree
It’s bothI disagree
It’s neither
They Say
Group Activity
For each magazine article, identify:
•The topic•The focus question
So What? Who Cares?“The problem is not necessarily that the speakers lack a clear, well-focused thesis or that the thesis is inadequately supported with evidence. Instead, the problem is that the speakers don’t address the crucial question of why their arguments matter.”
Graff and Birkenstein, They Say, I Say
Group ActivityPrioritize the 5 questions from most relevant to least relevant
How on earth does anyone propose to assign a number to something as complex as a college or university?
Will technology be a form of tyranny or will it free us from tyranny? Will it upend democracy or strengthen
it?
If the end of white America is a cultural and demographic inevitability, what will the new
mainstream look like and how will white Americans fit into it?
What explains teenage behavior?
Can parents harm their children by doing too much?