Thursday, April 2, 2009
Your Break has SprUNg!
Final Grades are up. I made a column for "Romo Adjustment" so the online gradebook would match my physical copy (including extra credit, participation, negatives, etc. If you'd like me to email you your final grade (sometimes the portal is off), send me an email with "Surprise Me" in the subject line.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
final fUN
NO FINAL TEST...for anyone...however...
If someone asks me if there is a test, what is on the test, when the test begins, or why we don't have a final test, guess what? I'll give you the meanest, most difficult test imaginable. Rely on your peers. Read, listen to, and follow directions...but internalize them as well. Meditate if you have to. Trust yourself!
Now go make sure you have a GREAT paper...
If someone asks me if there is a test, what is on the test, when the test begins, or why we don't have a final test, guess what? I'll give you the meanest, most difficult test imaginable. Rely on your peers. Read, listen to, and follow directions...but internalize them as well. Meditate if you have to. Trust yourself!
Now go make sure you have a GREAT paper...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, pUNk?
Anyone know who said that? This is it...the LAST post about the essay due Thursday. And nothing I write is new - it's been written before...and will NEVER be written again...
The essay should embed your answers to the 6 questions - maybe not answering all of them. Remember the "Pennies a Day" review? You had 13 questions and used your answers in a statement - not ALL answers, but many of them. For YOUR Nation's Position Paper, emphasize what is important to YOUR nation. If it needs help in achieving one or two MDGs, focus on those. If it hates them all, explain why. I have proofread a few essay samples - every one was different, yet every one was perfect. Understand?
Tomorrow will all be about Colonialism and you'll have to show me your Africa "packet" from chapter 21 (?), I believe. I will also give you some last-minute instructions about what should be on the BACK of your essay (a list of your sources). On Thursday, I have decided to follow one of two possible tracks...
Both tracks will have you each write a statement about your efforts and achievements thus far (regarding Model UN). You will argue why you deserve more credit than your partner. You will also explain why your partner may deserve more credit than you. After reading one-another's statement, you'll give each other a point value out of 100 SHARED points. One person can earn 60, while the other earns 40. The catch is your grade will be out of 65 points. Someone will be short-changed, unless you both agree to 50 points and a grade of C (75%). If both are deserving of an A, I will determine that based upon your statements and my inquiries.
Then you will take a 50-question test.
Or there will be no test.
It all depends on how many more already-answered questions I am asked or annoying "what are we doing today?" interruptions. I have the test already entered. It includes questions from Darfur, Star Trek, Africa as a whole, Model UN, country locations, and even a little bit of econ thrown in for good measure. So, go ahead...make my day. Ask me questions that I have already answered numerous times. Fret over things you should already know. Or - simply pay attention, learn, do your best, help others, and be kind...then I'll let you go with no final exam. Deal?
By the way, Miss Sars might be this girl.
The essay should embed your answers to the 6 questions - maybe not answering all of them. Remember the "Pennies a Day" review? You had 13 questions and used your answers in a statement - not ALL answers, but many of them. For YOUR Nation's Position Paper, emphasize what is important to YOUR nation. If it needs help in achieving one or two MDGs, focus on those. If it hates them all, explain why. I have proofread a few essay samples - every one was different, yet every one was perfect. Understand?
Tomorrow will all be about Colonialism and you'll have to show me your Africa "packet" from chapter 21 (?), I believe. I will also give you some last-minute instructions about what should be on the BACK of your essay (a list of your sources). On Thursday, I have decided to follow one of two possible tracks...
Both tracks will have you each write a statement about your efforts and achievements thus far (regarding Model UN). You will argue why you deserve more credit than your partner. You will also explain why your partner may deserve more credit than you. After reading one-another's statement, you'll give each other a point value out of 100 SHARED points. One person can earn 60, while the other earns 40. The catch is your grade will be out of 65 points. Someone will be short-changed, unless you both agree to 50 points and a grade of C (75%). If both are deserving of an A, I will determine that based upon your statements and my inquiries.
Then you will take a 50-question test.
Or there will be no test.
It all depends on how many more already-answered questions I am asked or annoying "what are we doing today?" interruptions. I have the test already entered. It includes questions from Darfur, Star Trek, Africa as a whole, Model UN, country locations, and even a little bit of econ thrown in for good measure. So, go ahead...make my day. Ask me questions that I have already answered numerous times. Fret over things you should already know. Or - simply pay attention, learn, do your best, help others, and be kind...then I'll let you go with no final exam. Deal?
By the way, Miss Sars might be this girl.
Monday, March 30, 2009
UNder the gUN
Hah - got two of them in there! I may cut the blog next quarter - I am getting comments and emails asking me questions that are UNnecessary if you follow the blog. Assignments, upcoming activities/tests, etc. are always posted here. Please do not waste your time - or mine by asking me things you can find out by simply going back and re-reading the blog.
Final exam - Thursday. What will it cover? Maybe the world nations. Definitely NOT the bodies of water. Maybe it will be about MDGs. Perhaps there will be some things about Darfur. Everything from the past quarter is fair game. See - that is what a "final" is about...it measures whether or not you have been keeping pace with class expectations. A "final" should not be about learning for the first time. A study guide should not be necessary. You have the blog, assignments, etc. Use them.
IN class today, we are watching a film about Ghana and how difficult it is to move from undeveloped to developing to developed nation status. Is the IMF bad? What about the World Bank? The video was partly financed by a religious group, but the questions asked by the main participant (Robert Beckford) are valid. If you missed class or want to share it, go here.
Feel safe and secure? Not anymore...
Final exam - Thursday. What will it cover? Maybe the world nations. Definitely NOT the bodies of water. Maybe it will be about MDGs. Perhaps there will be some things about Darfur. Everything from the past quarter is fair game. See - that is what a "final" is about...it measures whether or not you have been keeping pace with class expectations. A "final" should not be about learning for the first time. A study guide should not be necessary. You have the blog, assignments, etc. Use them.
IN class today, we are watching a film about Ghana and how difficult it is to move from undeveloped to developing to developed nation status. Is the IMF bad? What about the World Bank? The video was partly financed by a religious group, but the questions asked by the main participant (Robert Beckford) are valid. If you missed class or want to share it, go here.
Feel safe and secure? Not anymore...
Sunday, March 29, 2009
UNpopular Vision, but True
Back in '06-'07, a man by the name of Peter Schiff made some interesting comments on the news-channel circuit. As head guy at Euro Pacific Capital Inc., a Connecticut-based brokerage firm, he predicted a recession - albeit a useful one. If interested, watch and share:
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