Challenge of the Mind

One of your classmates shared this site for making "word clouds";

it's FAR superior to the ABCya website.

When you go to the site, look under the gray bar that says "words" to the left and click 'import'. Paste the text of your paper here then play around until the "Word Art" is to your liking.

And don't forget Mr. Skipper dot Com/ Research for more help.

Taking notes: There are many methods for note-taking. In the future, your teachers won't care how you take notes, just that you do take notes. Some teachers will require you to use notecards. The previous link and this one give a good explanation of the process.

My goal is to make sure you're writing good summaries and paraphrase (and using quotes) and NOT just taking a source passage and changing a few words. Here's a six-page explanation. This PowerPoint/pdf gives a quick explanation.

To achieve that goal, you're going to copy your sources into a Google doc and use its comment function to record your notes, summaries, paraphrases, and quotations.

Encounters 6

Length:

4 pages (1,000 words)

Topic:

The Middle Ages

Sub-Topics:

- The Feudal System

- Two more from here

Elements in Order

1. Middle Ages Collage/

Cover Page* Examples

2. Student Biography (example)

- 200-300 words (30 pts)

- Grammar (10 pts)

- Voice (10 pts)

- 3rd person POV (10 pts)

I. Personal History (10 pts)

II. Hobbies, Talents, etc (10 pts)

III. Accomplishments (10 pts)

IV. Goals (10 pts)

)

3. Personal Collage* Examples

4. College Collage*

5. The Paper

Title Page

Introduction

Sub-Topic #1: Feudalism

Sub-Topic #2: Choose here.

Sub-Topic #3: Choose here.

Conclusion

Works Cited

6. Bio Poem: Example and Design

7. Research Poem (guidelines)

8. Shield: Examples

9. Diorama (rubric)

*PowerPoint is normally in landscape/ horizontal format. Use these directions to change it to portrait/ vertical. When you are finished, save it as a JPEG file.

Open PowerPoint > Design > Slide Size (far right) > Custom Slide Size > Orientation > Portrait > Width 8.5 > Height 11 > Ensure Fit > OK

In Google slides, the same thing can be achieved:

File > Page Setup > Custom > 8x10

Encounters 7

topic choices

Length:

5 pages (1,250 words)

Topic:

Companies named after

their founder

Sub-Topics:

Consult Wikipedia's outline