Tuesday - Feb 08, 2011

1st Per - Creative Writing:
2nd Per - Honors:

• Not in session today because of late start for snow.

3rd Per - 8th Grade:
Object of wisdom vocabulary game with whiteboards and vocab terms.  No homework.  Journals and vocab due tomorrow.

4th Per - 7th Grade:
We discussed in depth the ways to use Microsoft Word to format papers.  How to cite papers, when it is appropriate or not, and how to do the works cited page at the end.  Here are a few general hints and guidelines.

• Always double space lines in an essay.  It leaves teachers room to write comments.
• Always include a page number on each page.  This is easiest if you go to the "insert" tab at the top and choose the "Insert page number" option.  Bottom of the page is usually the most common place to put these.
• Cite anything that would not be common knowledge that you have used in your paper.  In general, this could include things like dates, places, people, events that are not commonly known to the general public. 
• you don't need to cite anything that is commonly known, or is your opinion about what you read. 
• IT IS BETTER TO HAVE TOO MANY CITATIONS IN YOUR PAPER THAN NOT ENOUGH!
• If you can't cite your source in your paper, you can't use the information in your essay.
• This paper is in MLA format, and should have a "Works Cited" page.  APA style papers (which you would use in a history, philosophy, psychology class) have a "Bibliography."  It's essentially the same exact thing, with the same exact information, but the formatting is different because it's a different style. 
• The Works Cited page should ALWAYS be on it's own sheet of paper. 

5th Per - 12th grade:
We went to the library to work on our Religious Philosophers paper.  You may not research a philosopher that somebody else is already doing.  Don't pick people who didn't start a religious movement.  For example, Plato is a well known philosopher, but he didn't have any religious impact on the world.  Buddah, on the other hand was both a philosopher and a religious figure. 

Here are the names of the philosophers you have chosen so far:
Brandon - Karl Marx
Zach - Lau Tsu
Jacob - David Hume
Porter - Confucius
Gary - Muhammed
Jonathan - Avicena
Rebecca - Zoroaster
Stormi - Martin Luther
Carlin - Ghandi

Journal and vocab due tomorrow.

6th Per - 10th Grade:
We began going through the Prezi's with your book authors.  The three I saw today were relatively well done.  The rest of you need to get on the ball and finish them so you are not late.  This is a 100 point assignment, so you can't afford a bad grade. 

Journal and vocab due tomorrow.