7th grade Socratic Seminar and One Pager

Decide which of these 5 subjects you'd like to investigate further.  Open up Google Docs and share what you believe about that specific topic.  When you have a chance, take look at research out there for a closer look at the topics.


1) Should we ban 'Unhealthy Foods in School'?

2) Should cyber-bullying be treated as a criminal offense?


3)  Should cell phones be allowed in school?

4) What is better: Single Gender or Coed Schooling?

5) Should homework be banned in school?

Take the following quiz in order to see how well you know about Commas and Semicolons

Comma and Semi Colon pretest

After taking this quiz, check over your own Swing Vote paper.

Review how you did, and make a few necessary changes.


Choose a topic for our next Soc. Sem, and share your brief opinion about the topic on a Google Doc.**Also on this doc, please record how you did on the pretest, and what you think you need to work on in your writing.


1) Should we be able to eat 'Unhealthy' foods in school if we want to?

2) Should everyone (even criminals, children, illegal immigrants) be allowed to vote for President?

3) Should cyber-bullying be treated as a criminal offense?

4) What is better: Single Gender or Coed Schooling?

5) What is the most important issue facing our country: Immigration, Improving Education, or 
       Military?

Swing Vote Reflection- Due Tuesday- After Tues. is a 0

Would you be OK with someone like Bud having the deciding vote for president?  Support with three reasons of why or why not.

or

What do you believe are the biggest issues that our country? At least two of these issues should be referred to in the movie. The third can be one observed in our world.



** Use evidence, connections and reflection from your own life for this for both choices.

Study Skills Slide Show

For this project, you will be teaching others the usefulness of different Study Strategies...

For each slide, you must...

1) Share what the strategy is.

2) Include an image that relates to the strategy.

3) Give details of what the strategy means in your own words.

4) Give an example

This will be a 100 pt assignment.

Each Study Skill Slide is worth 20 pts.

You must include an introductory and a closing slide that relates to your presentation! (missing each of these is a loss of 10 pts.

Grammatical and Spelling errors are worth a deduction of 5 pts each, so be careful and proofread your work!!

On Monday, your presentation day, know your slides well- memorize and relate to them.  

Good luck, and have fun.

Click on the link below to make up your quiz.. this score will be averaged in with your original test.

AVID7- October Assessment Makeup