Change in Plans

Due to some technical difficulties in getting tests printed out, the grammar skills assessment I informed the class of yesterday will be postponed until tomorrow.

In place of the test, what I would like you to do is look at the Supplemental English section of this blog and pick 2 of the 3 posted activities to do. Take a look at all three and then decide which 2 you would like to do.

These are activities designed to highlight specific interesting tools or concepts within the English Language that may prove useful for developing your skills in the language.

In each case I have provided instructions, but feel free to ask me questions of clarification if you need to.

As with the blog posts related to our rights study, these posts count towards your term 2 mark; the more detailed your posts are, the better you are likely to do. As always I expect your name to be a part of the post, and in this case also please indicate your group #:

               Example: Bob Smith
                               Group 02
                               A Review of Grammar Sites:

Remember I am asking you to do two out of the three options during today's class, so use your time well!

Oral Presentation Instructions (Rights Final)

Groups are already underway making PowerPoint presentations for the final assignment in our study of rights. The progress and brainstorming I have seen from most groups has been pretty good so far.

As per the instructions, you are expected to give an oral presentation along with your PowerPoint.

Since there are 8 slides to the PowerPoint, in a 4-member group each group member gets 2 slides.

The Oral will be a part of your Talk mark for term 2, but the written transcript will be a part of your written mark.

By doing well on this one assignment you can get 2 good marks for your term!

I have asked that each member of the group speak for about 2 minutes, which works out to about 250 - 300 words in your written transcript.

That's only 125-150 per slide.

Remember when writing:

1. You are presenting as a group, so make sure each person presenting transitions to the next smoothly to make your presentation flow together.
2. Write to engage your audience and get them interested, also write to inform: your speech is where your information and project planning should come through
3. Your speech is a major factor in whether your project will succeed in convincing judges to pick your project.

Rights Assignment steps 3 & 4

Final Rights Assignment

Group Project

Having completed steps 1 and 2 of the project by submitting your individual ideas for how to make a community in your life better, it is now time to proceed to the group project.

Step Three:

In the real Aviva Community Fund all ideas are posted online for the public to vote on.

In our competition we will be doing the same thing, except inside of  our classroom.

1) Every submitted idea will be posted in the classroom for students to read and look at.

2) You will have three votes to indicate what projects you think are worth working on.

Even if you really want to work on one project, you must still cast your other two for projects that you think are also worth looking at.

            Please indicate vote 1, vote 2 and vote 3 next to your name.

3) Once everyone has cast their three votes (or once time dictates that we must move on) the votes will be tabulated and the top six/seven projects in the class will be named.

4) These six projects will now become group projects. Groups will be decided based on who voted on the projects. People who wrote an idea get priority on their own project.

Step Four:

With Projects picked and groups made, your job is to turn your project into a winner. Each of the groups will create a PowerPoint and oral presentation illustrating why their idea is the one most deserving of winning the top prize.

The more visual, informative and interesting your presentations, the better you are likely to do. Remember that there's an organization in our competition that wants to see organized ideas before it gives away any money.

 I will show examples of good and bad PowerPoint projects in class to help in the creation of your presentation.

All group members are expected to participate in the Oral presentation, so make sure the work is being spread evenly. Conflicts between group members should be brought to the attention of the teacher.