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NEW Senior Video - post by FRIDAY May 8th!
Script and directions
Post your video clip to this folder


SENIOR VIDEO!
Music Clip Segment
Picture Uploads baby pics, etc
Capstone Project:
MM Requirements/Overview
ET MECH Requirements/Overview
Industry Contact Information Form *(complete by January 31)

Capstone Video Requirements
*(complete and upload before May 10th)
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Capstone Video Evaluation Form
*(form to be completed by Industry Contact before May 22nd)

RESEARCH PAPER SUBMISSION WINDOW is OPEN from WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25th through SUNDAY, MARCH 29th at 8:00PM
​www.turnitin.com
IMPORTANT: As of Monday, March 23rd - essential communications from me will come through Schoology. Use your UCS email to log in and your classes will automatically be there. 
RESEARCH PAPER!
​Organizer and Structure Guideline


Sample MLA style Research Paper
MLA style SAMPLE paper
EDITING DOCUMENTS:
1st draft checklist and peer revision doc
2nd draft style and peer revision doc
RESEARCH PAPER!
Research Paper Expectations UPDATED TIMELINE!!!!

Capstone Research Paper Resources:
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Research Project Planner

MLA Formatting and Style Guide
Citing Common Sources MLA
MLA In-text Citations: The Basics
MLA Formatting Quotations
MLA citing Electronic Sources
Using Tables, Figures, Pictures in MLA  
Using Citation Generators Responsibly
MLA Works Cited Page: Basic Format
SAMPLE Works Cited Page

Thesis Statement

Monday 3/9 ----> Friday 3/13:
Research your topic. Find, Review, and Evaluate a variety of sources
Friday 3/6/20:
Checkpoint #1: Thesis Statement DUE. 
TED Talk by Tim Urban: Inside the Mind of a Procrastinator
Thursday 3/5/20:
Thesis Statements! See links above
Wednesday 3/4/20:
Read and analyze three poems:
"Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
Tuesday 3/3/20:
"The Sun" Poem Analysis Assignment DUE
Research Paper Assignment (see link above)
Caption This! Activity
Monday 3/2/20:
Read "On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil 
Listen to Poetry Unbound Podcast: "A Poem about What Grounds You"
Read "The Sun" by Mary Oliver
Poem Analysis Assignment on "The Sun" by Mary Oliver
Friday 2/28/20:
Research Proposals DUE
"He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" -William Butler Yeats
Thursday 2/27/20:
Snow day
Wednesday 2/26/20:
Snow day
Tuesday 2/25/20:
Notes: Poetry Terms
"What You Missed that Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade" by Brad Aaron Modlin
Listen: Poetry Unbound podcast - "A Poem for What You Learn Alone" from 1/27/20
Monday 2/24/20:
Research Proposal DUE THURSDAY
TED Talk: "How to Motivate People to do Good for Others"
Friday 2/14/20:
Final Reflection 
Capstone Research Proposal Due Thursday, February 27th
Research Paper Assignment with Time-Line
Thursday 2/13/20:
Final Runs!
Wednesday 2/12/20:
Project Work Day
Tuesday 2/11/20:
Project Work Day
​2nd Trial Run
Reflection #4
Monday 2/10/20:
Project Work Day
Friday 2/7/20:
Project Work Day
First Trial Run
Reflection #3
Thursday 2/6/20:
Project Work Day
Wednesday 2/5/20:
Project Work Day
Reflection #2
Tuesday 2/4/20:
Project Work Day
Monday 2/3/20:
Project Work Day
Reflection #1
Friday 1/31/20:
ARTICLE: Cutting Through the Complexity: A Roadmap for Effective Collaboration
Video: The 7 Keys to Creative Collaboration
TED Talk, by Jim Tamm: Cultivating Collaboration: Don't Be So Defensive!
Thursday 1/30/20:
Midnight in Paris Golden Age Fallacy Theme "Power Paragraph"
Parallel Structure Practice
Project Planning Time 
Wednesday 1/29/20:
Finish Midnight in Paris
Cube "build day"
Tuesday 1/28/20:
Watch Midnight in Paris
Project Planning Time
Monday 1/27/20:
Research Assignment DUE
Watch Midnight in Paris
Project Roll-Out
Friday 1/24/20:
Complete the Who Was? Research Assignment - Due MONDAY
Thursday 1/23/20:
Read the Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Answer Reading/Analysis Questions
Wednesday 1/22/20:
Brainstorm cross-curricular project theme ideas
A Portrait of the Artist Questions with small group discussion
Tuesday 1/21/20:
2nd Semester begins
Who Was? Research Assignment - Due Monday 1/27
Wednesday 1/15 - Friday 1/17:
No CSI 
Home School Exams
Friday 1/10 - Tuesday 1/14:
​Exams
Thursday 1/9/20:
Exam Review/Prep
Subject-Verb Agreement Exercise FOUR
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Exercise FOUR
1984 Test Your Knowledge Quiz from The Guardian
1984 Review Test from Sparknotes
Antigone Review Quiz from Sparknotes
Wednesday 1/8/20:
Begin exam review
Tuesday 1/7/20:
Animal Farm Film
Subject-Verb Agreement Exercise THREE
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Exercise THREE
Monday 1/6/20:
Animal Farm Film
Thursday 12/19/19:
Animal Farm Allegory Notes (PowerPoint)
Allegory, Fable, Satire in Animal Farm NOTES
Subject-Verb Agreement Exercise TWO
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Exercise TWO
Wednesday 12/18/19:
Continue pRojEcT Presentations
​Subject-Verb Agreement Exercise ONE
Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Exercise ONE
Batman creates a mobile phone-based surveillance system to visualize the entire city of Gotham
Tuesday 12/17/19:
The pRojEcT is DUE
Presentations
Colbert Report: "Truthiness"​
Monday 12/16/19:
The pRojEcT Part 3 RUBRIC
Projects DUE TOMORROW
"Truthiness" 
Friday 12/13/19:
The pRojEcT Part 3 RUBRIC
Projects DUE Tuesday, 12/17
Thursday 12/12/19:
Power Paragraphs Due Today via Turnitin.com
The pRojEcT Part 3 RUBRIC
Wednesday 12/11/19:
NPR: There's a New Kind of Inequality
Vox: Why Every Website Wants You To Accept Its Cookies
Tuesday 12/10/19:
Theme statements due
Power Paragraphs due via turnitin.com by Thursday evening
Monday 12/9/19:
Amazon Privacy Notice
Theme Statements Due by TOMORROW
"How Liars Create the Illusion of Truth" 
Friday 12/6/19:
Why Privacy Matters TED talk by Glenn Greenwald
1984 THEME PROJECT
Thursday 12/5/19:
1984 Part Three Questions DUE
Socratic Circle
Evaluation/Reflection Due Tomorrow
Wednesday 12/4/19:
Read
Tuesday 12/3/19:
Sesame Credit
The Lottery (short film 1969)
The Late Show - China's Social Credit System
Vice News - China's Social Credit System
NBC News - Social Scoring
Time - How China is using "Social Credit Scores"
Fast Company - Silicon Valley's Building a Social Credit System
Wired - How the West got China's Social Credit System Wrong
Monday 12/2/19:
Meow Meow Beans episode of Community
Part THREE Reading Questions (pp. 225-298)
Orwellian Definition
Socratic Circle Thursday!
Tuesday 11/26/19:
The Week: Against the Smart Home (opinion)
Brainpickings: Existential Maturity and What Emotional Intelligence Really Means
1984 Reading QUIZ Parts 1 and 2
Part THREE Reading Questions (pp. 225-298)
Monday 11/25/19:
NY Times: How the Collapse of Local News is Causing a National Crisis
Part Two Questions due tomorrow
Reading Quiz Tomorrow
Friday 11/22/19:
TED talk: Small Rockets by Peter Beck
The Atlantic: The Dark Psychology of Social Networks: Why it feels like everything is going haywire
The Washington Post: Uber Plans to Start Audio-Recording Rides for Safety
Brainpickings.org: Kahlil Gibran on Silence, Solitude, and the Courage to Know Yourself by Maria Popova
Thursday 11/21/19:
1984 Part One Socratic Circle
​Part One Reading Questions DUE
Part TWO Reading Questions - Due Tuesday
Wednesday 11/20/19:
Propaganda
The Ministry of Truth and the Internet
​Reading part one
Socratic Circle TOMORROW
Part One Reading Questions DUE TOMORROW
Tuesday 11/19/19:
1984 part one reading day (with hot chocolate)
Monday 11/18/19:
1984 Part One Reading Questions
TEDed Video: How to Recognize a Dystopia
TED Talk: Zeynap Tufekci -- "We're building a dystopia just to get people to click on ads"
Friday 11/15/19:
Omelas Analysis "Quiz" 
Thursday 11/14/19:
Read Ursula LeGuin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"
Omelas Says, Means, Suggests Chart
Wednesday 11/13/19:
Read Kurt Vonnegut's "2BRO2B"
Dystopia NOTES
Essay Assignment - Due Tomorrow
Tuesday 11/12/19:
No School. Snow Day
Monday 11/11/19:
100,000 Thank You's
Friday 11/8/19:
​Theme Assignment and Says, Means, Suggests Chart Due TODAY
Thursday 11/7/19:
3rd grade Carnival Game Surveys
Read Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"
Theme Assignment and Says, Means, Suggests Chart
Wednesday 11/6/19:
TEDxDetroit
Live stream at www.tedxdetroit.com
Monday 11/4/19:
3rd grade Carnival Game Surveys
Watch The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 
Monday 10/14/19 - Friday 10/18/19:
Project Work Days - see above for details about the English portion
Friday 10/11/19:
Carnival Game Project "Roll Out" - see above
Thursday 10/10/19:
Lawrence Lessig's TED talk on Money and Politics 
Wednesday 10/9/19:
"On Tragedy" from Aristotle's Poetics
Close reading exercise from Antigone -- corruptive influence of Money? 
Tuesday 10/8/19:
Character PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Wednesday 10/2/19 - Monday 10/7/19:
Visual Character Analysis Sketch PROJECT
Tuesday 10/1/19:
Antigone Socratic Circle
SC Evaluation/Reflection DUE Tomorrow
Monday 9/30/19:
​​​Antigone Discussion Questions -- Due by Tuesday
Antigone Socratic Circle TOMORROW
Friday 9/27/19:
​​Antigone Discussion Questions -- Due by Tuesday
Antigone Socratic Circle next week Tuesday
Thursday 9/26/19:
Finish reading Antigone
Antigone 
Discussion Questions -- Due by Tuesday
Socratic Circle Tuesday next week
Read: "You Don't Need a Title to be a Leader" by Mark Sanborn
Wednesday 9/25/19:
Read Antigone
Tuesday 9/24/19:
List and discuss Creon's leadership traits from Oedipus the King
Introduction and back story to Antigone
Monday 9/23/19:
TEDed Video on Kurt Vonnegut
Personal Essay Evaluation - Evaluate your in-class essay from week 2
10-Point Grading Rubric
Friday 9/20/19:
SC Evaluation/Reflection DUE TODAY
Crash Course: Oedipus the King
TED Talk by Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work
Thursday 9/19/19:
Socratic Circle discussion
Evaluation/Reflection DUE TOMORROW
Wednesday 9/18/19:
Oedipus the King Discussion Questions DUE TOMORROW
Socratic Circle TOMORROW
Tuesday 9/17/19:
CSI Counselor Mrs. Struck class visit -- college applications/transcripts/common app/naviance 
Monday 9/16/19:
Finish Oedipus the King
Discussion Questions - Due Thursday
Socratic Circle Thursday!
Friday 9/13/19:
​Continue reading Oedipus the King 
Thursday 9/12/19:
Oedipus the King
Choose roles. Read! 
Wednesday 9/11/19:
Share original riddles
The story of Oedipus... building background
The Riddle of the Sphinx 
Tuesday 9/10/19:
Riddle me this...
"The Microsoft Riddle"
Riddle assignment: craft an original riddle to share with the class tomorrow
Monday 9/9/19:
Impromptu in-class essay The Fall of Icarus
Friday 9/6/19:
College Essay Analysis Assignment DUE
TEDxDetroit
TED Talk: "I Love America" by Amer Zahr
Thursday 9/5/19:
The College Essay -Tips from the Princeton Review
Essay Writing Tips from the University of Michigan
"The Naked Truth" Collection of College Essays Compiled by the Chicago Tribune
College Essay Analysis Assignment
Wednesday 9/4/19:
Letter to Mr. Feldkamp DUE
Guided Writing/Discussion: Hopes, dreams, and/or expectations for CSI culture, pathway class, and English class this year. 
​Tuesday 9/3/19:
Welcome back
Letter to Mr. Feldkamp (Due Tomorrow! One page minimum)​
1984 Audiobook​​


CSI Carnival Games Project:
English Portion

MLA Formatted Research Paper SAMPLE

​RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH: 
​​Age Determination Guidelines from the CPSC
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)​
Toy Age Labeling Article from the Journal of Pediatrics
​Works Cited 
Turnitin.com Class Codes:
1st hour: 
Class ID: 22749530
Enrollment Key: CSIperiod1
2nd hour: 
Class ID: 22749575
Enrollment Key: CSIperiod2
3rd hour: 
Class ID: 22749631
Enrollment Key: CSIperiod3
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