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Senior Project 2013 Awesome

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Senior Project 2013Awesome

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Memorizing Thinking

Academic Best Personal Best

Follow Curriculum Follow Interests

Hints at What Your Grade Will Be

Hints at What Your Future Will Be

Involves Risk TakingInvolves Playing it

SafeRelies on Knowing Answers

Relies on Asking Right Question

Being Scholarly

Being Smart

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Finding the right question

Topic:Beauty

Question:Do magazines promote unhealthy images of beauty?

Question:Would you be willing to become extremely

ugly physically if it meant you would live for 1,000 years at any physical age you chose?

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Revolving Research

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I agree

It’s bothI disagree

It’s neither

They Say

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Group Activity

For each magazine article, identify:

•The topic•The focus question

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So What? Who Cares?“The problem is not necessarily that the speakers lack a clear, well-focused thesis or that the thesis is inadequately supported with evidence. Instead, the problem is that the speakers don’t address the crucial question of why their arguments matter.”

Graff and Birkenstein, They Say, I Say

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Group ActivityPrioritize the 5 questions from most relevant to least relevant

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How on earth does anyone propose to assign a number to something as complex as a college or university?

Will technology be a form of tyranny or will it free us from tyranny? Will it upend democracy or strengthen

it?

If the end of white America is a cultural and demographic inevitability, what will the new

mainstream look like and how will white Americans fit into it?

What explains teenage behavior?

Can parents harm their children by doing too much?