Agenda 9/19

Please put annotations on your desk to be checked. I'm checking Ch.22-25 today!

Research Tips (5) 

• Tip #1: Find websites with a specific word in the title by starting with “intitle:”
• intitle:death penalty

• Tip #2: Use quotation marks around phrase to find results with that exact wording.
• "death penalty in California"

A Google a Day Exercise (5)

• In teams of 2 or 3 and play a Google a Day. 
• Use today's research tips!
• You have 5 minutes and you earn points for how quickly you are able to answer the questions correctly, so work as a team. 

Research the death penalty (25)

• find one credible online resource 
• complete Got Credibility form 
• add facts to your Death Penalty Debate Prewriting Doc (*Remember: use parenthetical citations after quotes)
• Reference OWL Purdue site for citation info

Set Up Your Passion Blog (20)

• Click here to view the Google doc that walks you through setting up your blog. 
• Sophomores are the experts on this. Use them!
• Don't forget to fill out the information form with your blog info, so I can easily find it. 
• IMPORTANT: The URL you enter into the Google Form needs to be the unique URL you created when setting up your blogger site. If I don't have the correct URL, I cannot assess your work and you will receive a zero. 

Begin Your Blog! (15)

• Write your first blog by introducing yourself and the topic of your blog. This initial blog will tell your readers what can expect from your blog. 
• Upload a picture of yourself (If you don't have a photo on your desktop, you can take a selfie with your phone, email it to yourself, save the picture to the computer, then upload it to the blog. This will personalize your blog.) If you'd prefer not to use your own photo, then take an original picture that symbolizes your topic (i.e. picture of running shoes for a blog on jogging; picture of a guitar for blog about music, picture of food item for cooking blog, etc.) and upload that. 
• Write between 150-300 words. Use paragraph breaks and other conventions of English please. Although the TONE of a blog is more informal and fun, people will be turned off by blatant grammatical and sentence structure errors. 

*Returning sophomores continuing the same blog will want to do a welcome back blog to let their readers know what's been happening since they last blogged.

StudySync FDR Inaugural Speech Assignment - Due date has been extended to Tuesday
If you finish the activities above, feel free to return to the StudySync assignment! The more you get done here, the less you have to do for homework.

Read and annotate TKAM pages 241 - Chapter 26 (10)

Storytime (10)