AP CAPSTONESEMINAR WEEK 2.5: 11/3-7

AP Seminar Schedule 10/3

Objective: to create a thesis from a research question Essential Question (EQ): How do we treat disease and diseased persons?

NEW RESEARCH QUESTION: “What should the US Government have done to prevent the spread of Ebola into this country?”

Read out: “Things we could do” class notes

Collect new articles and discuss any new relevant information

Read out topic sentences and group based upon content of topic sentence

Each group produces a single topic sentence

Bring topic sentences to the whole class to create a thesis statement

HW: Draft a paragraph based upon your assigned topic sentence and bring TWO copies tomorrow

Reminders: Bring printed source to class all week ● laptops all week ● Bring two copies of body Paragraph for Tuesday ● “Home Front USA” and following sections on Wednesday ● Draft research question for individual paper, due next Monday

AP Seminar Schedule 10/4

Objective: to create a thesis from a research question Essential Question (EQ): How do we treat disease and diseased persons?

NEW RESEARCH QUESTION: “What should the US Government have done to prevent the spread of Ebola into this country?”

Workshop paragraphs with a partner Main Question: “Do we need to revise the thesis?”

Discuss revising thesis as a class

Draft a single paragraph as a group

Email the paragraph to me when finished (you may not finish today)

Reminders: Bring printed source to class all week ● laptops all week ● “Home Front USA” and following sections on Wednesday ● Draft research question for individual paper, due next Monday

AP Seminar Schedule 10/5

Objective: to create a thesis from a research question Essential Question (EQ): How do we treat disease and diseased persons?

NEW RESEARCH QUESTION: “What should the US Government have done to prevent the spread of Ebola into this country?”

Draft a single paragraph as a group

Email the paragraph to me when finished (you have a maximum of 40 minutes)

Combine and revise the three body paragraphs as a class I email the new draft to all of you

WWZ Discussion

HW: Read all of the paper that we have so far and write a paragraph explaining where the argument should go from here and what questions we should still be asking.

Reminders: Bring printed source to class all week ● laptops all week ● “Home Front USA” and following sections on Wednesday ● Draft research question for individual paper, due next Monday

AP Seminar Schedule 10/7

Objective: to create a thesis from a research question Essential Question (EQ): How do we treat disease and diseased persons?

NEW RESEARCH QUESTION: “What should the US Government have done to prevent the spread of Ebola into this country?”

Check that you have done editing and paragraph

Discuss Paragraph revisions create outline for revisions

assign revisions to group members

Discuss things that need to be in the conclusion

HW: Revise your individual paragraphs, incorporating any new sources,

Reminders: Revise Paragraphs for Monday