EXPOSITORY 10: THE SUMMER-FALL-WINTER TRANSITION

Expository 10

Will require reading of an online document to prepare for the project.  (This is a Project Based Learning activity).

Read the article "Tips for Catching Fish in the Fall" by Linda and Larry Dozard
URL: http://www.prairiestateoutdoors.com/index.php?/pso/article/fall_fishing_tips/

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT - The only comments posted on the blog will be clarifying questions for this project.  Reading of other student's questions and the answers I and others will offer, will help you to complete the project effectively.  Remember to put your Name/Date/Hour in the blog question.

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The majority of this assignment will come to you as a hard copy document.  It will contain an Essential Question.

This is a difficult challenge and will require your small group to work together and independently to complete the task on time.  Some research will be required out of classroom time.

Read its instructions thoroughly.  The end product will be a poster that can be displayed and could affect world hunger.  As you know, we are entering a season where not many people have enough to eat.  Hard economical times are everywhere - and people must learn to help themselves and others in many situations.

Your end product will be copied/photographed and posted on a web site I have developed for this purpose - where the world will have access to it - but will not know who you are (in effect it will be anonymous).  You will use technology to create the poster - which still means that you can create artistically and transfer to a electronic media.

EXPOSITORY 9: Slavery

"In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing." Frederick Douglas, 1835

Instructions:
     1.  Read the Text Silently (3 minutes)
     2.  Using the corresponding handout - write out the text (2 minutes)
     3.  T4 the Text (5 minutes)
     4.  Using the corresponding double-entry log - research the quote and how it was used. (15 - 20
minutes)
     5.  Develop a Lesson Learned statement (not just a repeating of the
          quote  - nine words or less) (10 minutes)
     6.  Develop the Lesson Learned statement into a Topic Sentence (5 minutes)
     7.  Use this Topic Sentence as the first sentence of your written response below (2 minutes)
     8.  Write an expository response using the research data - that provides the quotes purpose and how it was used.  (Three paragraphs - each paragraph 5 - 7 sentences - single spaced)  (20 min)
     9.  Print your Name/Date/Hour at the beginning of your written response.
   10.  Copy and Paste your Expository Response from either Pages or Open Office to the text box.
   11.  Before you submit - select 'anonymous' - then submit (you may have to fill out a signature certification box)

NOTE:  If we exceed our time - the remaining work must be completed before the next class time - at home.

EXPOSITORY 8: Forever Young

"Our Constitution is to be celebrated not for being old, but for being young." Ronald Reagan 1986

Instructions:
     1.  Read the Text Silently (3 minutes)
     2.  Using the corresponding handout - write out the text (2 minutes)
     3.  T4 the Text (5 minutes)
     4.  Using the corresponding double-entry log - research the quote and
          how it was used. (15 - 20
          minutes)
     5.  Develop a Lesson Learned statement (not just a repeating of the
          quote  - nine words or less) (10 minutes)
     6.  Develop the Lesson Learned statement into a Topic Sentence (5 minutes)
     7.  Use this Topic Sentence as the first sentence of your written response below (2 minutes)
     8.  Write an expository response using the research data - that provides the quotes purpose and
           how it was used.  (Two paragraphs - each paragraph 5 - 7 sentences - single spaced)  (20 min)
     9.  Print your Name/Date/Hour at the beginning of your written response.
   10.  Copy and Paste your Expository Response from either Pages or Open Office to the text box.
   11.  Before you submit - select 'anonymous' - then submit (you may have to fill out a signature certification box)

NOTE:  If we exceed our time - the remaining work must be completed before the next class time - at home.

EXPOSITORY 7: Hunted

"Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791

Instructions:
     1.  Read the Text Silently (3 minutes)
     2.  Using the corresponding handout - write out the text (2 minutes)
     3.  T4 the Text (5 minutes)
     4.  Using the corresponding double-entry log - research the quote and
          how it was used. (15 - 20
          minutes)
     5.  Develop a Lesson Learned statement (not just a repeating of the
          quote  - nine words or less) (10 minutes)
     6.  Develop the Lesson Learned statement into a Topic Sentence (5 minutes)
     7.  Use this Topic Sentence as the first sentence of your written response below (2 minutes)
     8.  Write an expository response using the research data - that provides the quotes purpose and how it was used.  (Two paragraphs - each paragraph 5 - 7 sentences - single spaced)  (20 min)
     9.  Print your Name/Date/Hour at the beginning of your written response.
   10.  Copy and Paste your Expository Response from either Pages or Open Office to the text box.
   11.  Before you submit - select 'anonymous' - then submit (you may have to fill out a signature certification box)

NOTE:  If we exceed our time - the remaining work must be completed before the next class time - at home.

EXPOSITORY 6: Life

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Nathan Hale, before being hanged by the British, September 22, 1776

 Instructions:
     1.  Read the Text Silently (3 minutes)
     2.  Using the corresponding handout - write out the text (2 minutes)
     3.  T4 the Text (5 minutes)
     4.  Using the corresponding double-entry log - research the quote and
          how it was used. (15 - 20
          minutes)
     5.  Develop a Lesson Learned statement (not just a repeating of the
          quote  - nine words or less) (10 minutes)
     6.  Develop the Lesson Learned statement into a Topic Sentence (5 minutes)
     7.  Use this Topic Sentence as the first sentence of your written response below (2 minutes)
     8.  Write an expository response using the research data - that provides the quotes purpose and
           how it was used.  (Two paragraphs - each paragraph 5 - 7 sentences - single spaced)  (20 min)
     9.  Print your Name/Date/Hour at the beginning of your written response.
   10.  Copy and Paste your Expository Response from either Pages or Open Office to the text box.
   11.  Before you submit - select 'anonymous' - then submit (you may have to fill out a signature certification box)

NOTE:  If we exceed our time - the remaining work must be completed before the next class time - at home.

EXPOSITORY 5: Curious

"The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men."  Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775
 
Instructions:
     1.  Read the Text Silently (3 minutes)
     2.  Using the corresponding handout - write out the text (2 minutes)
     3.  T4 the Text (5 minutes)
     4.  Using the corresponding double-entry log - research the quote and
          how it was used. (15 - 20
          minutes)
     5.  Develop a Lesson Learned statement (not just a repeating of the
          quote  - nine words or less) (10 minutes)
     6.  Develop the Lesson Learned statement into a Topic Sentence (5 minutes)
     7.  Use this Topic Sentence as the first sentence of your written response below (2 minutes)
     8.  Write an expository response using the research data - that provides the quotes purpose and
           how it was used.  (Two paragraphs - each paragraph 5 - 7 sentences - single spaced)  (20 min)
     9.  Print your Name/Date/Hour at the beginning of your written response.
   10.  Copy and Paste your Expository Response from either Pages or Open Office to the text box.
   11.  Before you submit - select 'anonymous' - then submit (you may have to fill out a signature certification box)

NOTE:  If we exceed our time - the remaining work must be completed before the next class time - at home.

EXPOSITORY 4: Influence

"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave." Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Convention, 1775

Instructions:
     1.  Read the Text Silently (3 minutes)
     2.  Using the corresponding handout - write out the text (2 minutes)
     3.  T4 the Text (5 minutes)
     4.  Using the corresponding double-entry log - research the quote and
          how it was used. (15 - 20
          minutes)
     5.  Develop a Lesson Learned statement (not just a repeating of the
          quote  - nine words or less) (10 minutes)
     6.  Develop the Lesson Learned statement into a Topic Sentence (5 minutes)
     7.  Use this Topic Sentence as the first sentence of your written response below (2 minutes)
     8.  Write an expository response using the research data - that provides the quotes purpose and
           how it was used.  (Two paragraphs - each paragraph 5 - 7 sentences - single spaced)  (20 min)
     9.  Print your Name/Date/Hour at the beginning of your written response.
   10.  Copy and Paste your Expository Response from either Pages or Open Office to the text box.
   11.  Before you submit - select 'anonymous' - then submit (you may have to fill out a signature certification box)

NOTE:  If we exceed our time - the remaining work must be completed before the next class time - at home.

EXPOSITORY 3: Cement and Blood

THE TEXT:  "The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American."
Thomas Jefferson, Writings, No Date

Instructions:
     1.  Read the Text Silently (3 minutes)
     2.  Using the corresponding handout - write out the text (2 minutes)
     3.  T4 the Text (5 minutes)
     4.  Using the corresponding double-entry log - research the quote and
          how it was used. (15 - 20
          minutes)
     5.  Develop a Lesson Learned statement (not just a repeating of the
          quote  - nine words or less) (10 minutes)
     6.  Develop the Lesson Learned statement into a Topic Sentence (5 minutes)
     7.  Use this Topic Sentence as the first sentence of your written response below (2 minutes)
     8.  Write an expository response using the research data - that provides the quotes purpose and
           how it was used.  (Two paragraphs - each paragraph 5 - 7 sentences - single spaced)  (20 min)

NOTE:  If we exceed our time - the remaining work must be completed before the next class time - at home.

Expository 2 - Essential Liberty

THE TEXT:  "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin, 1759
       
Instructions:
     1.  Read the Text Silently (3 minutes)
     2.  Using the corresponding handout - write out the text (2 minutes)
     3.  T4 the Text (5 minutes)
     4.  Using the corresponding double-entry log - research the quote and
          how it was used. (15 - 20
          minutes)
     5.  Develop a Lesson Learned statement (not just a repeating of the
          quote  - nine words or less) (10 minutes)
     6.  Develop the Lesson Learned statement into a Topic Sentence (5 minutes)
     7.  Use this Top Sentence as the first sentence of your written response below (2 minutes)
     8.  Write an expository response using the research data - that provides the quotes purpose and
           how it was used.  (Two paragraphs - each paragraph 5 - 7 sentences - single spaced)  (20 min)

NOTE:  If we exceed our time - the remaining work must be completed before the next class time - at home.