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Tuesday / Thursday March 18th / 20th

Rough Draft of Thesis is due Thursday, 3 April

Tuesday and Thursday of this week was divided between preparing for Congressman Earl Blumenauer's visit; finishing King Korn, and a counseling presentation for Juniors.

All students were to complete a Message Triangle for a question or concern that they wanted to share with Rep. Blumenauer.

Students were to turn in a completed note taking graphic organizer on King Korn.

All students have recieved back their outlines and model sections if they had turned them in.

3rd Period Thursday we met with Congressman Blumenauer.

Have a great break!

Tuesday/Wednesday and Thursday/ Friday 18-21 March

This week students turned in their Progressive Era Essay's. Periods 4,5, and 6 completed a self evaluation of the essay that was turned in with it.

The class focused on the study of America's history of war fighting for the week. Students were to complete their maping of American Wars, and then wrote several paragraphs addressing the questions:
What do you learn about America from this map? About American History? And about the History of American Foreign Policy from this map?

There were lectures on how warfare changed from WWI to WWII and modern day.

The class heard a lecture on American Aircraft Carriers which each cost 6.5 million dollars a day to operate.

Have a great break.

Monday, March 17th

Students received grade print outs.

Model sections that were turned in on time were returned.

Outlines were collected from students..

The rough draft of the entire thesis is due on April 3rd.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, 18 March students must submit a question, comment or concern, that they would like to share with Congressman Blumenauer during his visit on 3rd period Thursday, 20 March.

Students in 2nd period were given notes to give to their third period teacher about missing 3rd period.

Students were once again asked to attend tutorial if they are having trouble or missing work.

Students should bring thesis work to review in class after finishing King Korn tomorrow.

During class Mr. Zartler used student work to demonstrate common problems with thesis sections and how to fix them. He reminded students that they have taken notes on editing marks in the past. He added the note "TSMS" which indicates that the topic sentence and the evidence in the paragraph are mismatched.

Tuesday, 11 March & Thursday 13 March

Drafts of one "model" section of the thesis were due, and collected.

Mr. Zartler gave lessons on how to create an outline from note cards.

Mr. Zartler checked off studetns who had done the note taking assignmnet.

An outline of the thesis completed to the paragraph level is due on Monday, 17 March.

On Tuesday 18 March, a question, comment, or concern to be shared with Representatvie Blumenauer is due.

The class has watched about an hour of the documentary King Korn. A complete graphic organizer is due to Mr. Zartler on 18 March.

Earl Blumenauer will be visiting with Food and Culture and Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture students 3rd period on 20 March in the choir room. All students should attend.

Monday, 10 March

Class began with a review of the overall structure of the thesis, and the importance of key words being used to show organization. Key words from the Hypothosis (thesis of the paper) should be repeated in the section thesis statements; key words from the section thesis statements should be repeated in paragraph topic sentences (but paragraph topic sentences won't necessarily include key words from the Hypothosis.

The first "model" section of the thesis is due tomorrow, Tuesday, 11 March.

The class spent most of the period reading, analyzing and discussing the following new story Farm Bill Reflects Shifting American Menu and a Senator’s Persistent  students took notes on questions about the issues and on their agreement or disagreement with the polocies presented in order to prepare for Congressman Blumenauer's visit on Thursday the 20th.

Important due dates:
Thursday, March 20th during 3rd Period Congressman Earl Blumenauer will be visiting Grant's Food and Agriculture classes. There will be an "In-School Field Trip."

Tuesday, March 18th students will need to provide a question or concern, and data to back up the question or concern to present to Rep. Blumenauer.

Next we continued our studying of industrial food production.

We read and discussed this Op-Ed piece by  Nicholas Kristoff "Is That Sausage Worth It?".
We discussed Bovine Spongifrom Ecephalopathy/ "Mad Cow Disease" and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. We compared "Market Forces" and "Legislative Solutions." We discussed proposed "Ag-Gag" laws.

There was a lecture on how note cards are used to create a well organized thesis.

Students had time to organize their cards for the first section. The class was reminded to use topic sentences that share key words with the section thesis.

Tuesday, 4 March

Students had their working hypothesis and 25 notes (on note cards) checked.

Students were given the following due dates an exhorted to put not just the dates in their planners, but specific times and places to meet these dates:

12 notes on one topic / section of thesis: Thursday 6 March

First section of thesis: Tuesday 11 March

Approximately 50 notes (on note cards) 13 March.

The class did an exercise to identify topics for sections of the thesis.

The class viewed episode 1 of Farmed and Dangerous  to kick off the Corporate and Industrial Foods issues section of the class. The class took notes on issues related to corporate and industrial food production raised in the program. These notes will be useful when later in the spring Congressman Earl Blumenauer comes to Grant to discuss these and other issues.

Mr. Zartler also indicated that after the spring break the class would be honored to have Apricot Irving teaching a unit on food writing and memoir curtesy of Writers in the Schools.

Monday, 3 March

Class was built around students understanding due dates for the thesis, being clear on work that should have been turned in already, and learning new skills for the research paper.

All students who had not yet turned in the Restaurant Review were told to attend tutorial on Tutorial on Tuesday, 4 March. (These students were previously told to attend tutorial on Tuesday or Wednesday 25/ 26 February.

Re-search Meta-Cognition Exercise
Class began by writing about the researching process. Students then shared and considered in small groups what lessons about how to do research they could take from previous successes and failures.

Students then had time to work on a draft of their working hypothesis.

Students were reminded that 25 notes (on note cards) are due on Tuesday.