Tuesday, 5/6/08 - Testing Schedule (38 minute periods.)

 

Go Over Research Paper Requirements (Blue Sheet.)

Warm Up I. Click A if the question is a good research-type question. Click B if it is not.

1. How long does a joey stay in his mother's pouch before going out on his own?
2. How many rides have they had in the history of Disneyland?
3. Who's the best baseball player ever?
4. Why did Hitler single out the Jews?
5. Is eating chocolate bad?
6. What is chocolate?
7. Who invented the car?
8. Did Martin Luther King Jr. come from a big family?
9. What did Joan of Arc do to get burned at the stake?
10. Dolphins.

 

Warm Up II. Evaluating Sources - Below are 11 descriptions of sources for a research paper on the effects of diabetes. Copy the bold-faced parts, and identify each source as either P = Preferred Source, or LR = Less Reliable. (Be ready to explain why the Less Reliable ones are less reliable.) Click A if the source is a Preferred Source. Click B if the source is Less Reliable.

1. An entry in a medical dictionary published in 1973
2. An article published this year in a medical journal
3. A July, 2004 magazine article titled "Dealing with Diabetes," written by a doctor
4. A web page prepared by the American Diabetes Association
5. An autobiography of an actress with diabetes
6. A 1985 encyclopedia article on the causes of diabetes
7. An AMA* pamphlet called Living with Diabetes displayed in your doctor's office
8. An online chat room discussion for people who have diabetes
9. An interview with a doctor, published in the New York Times this year, about diabetes treatments
10. An interview, published in the LA Times this year, with a woman whose grandmother died from undiagnosed diabetes
11. A web page called diabetessucks.com.

 

*American Medical Association

Organization/Outline Practice
Each list below contains three different kinds of items. One describes the general category to which all the others belong. it could be called the theme. Three items are main topics. Each of these names a category of things or ideas. The rest are subtopics that belong under one or another of the main topics.

1. laboratory work, discussions, quizzes, kinds of schoolwork, written assignments, reports, tests, class activities, bubble tests, essays, debates, final exams, notes
2. July 4th, religious holidays, graduation, celebrations, Hanukah, anniversaries, national holidays, Labor Day, personal holidays, Easter, birthdays, Christmas, Memorial Day

Theme:
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II.
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III.
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