5 Minute Presentation Assignment - Mr. Hartmann

You will prepare and give a presentation to your classmates based on your self-evaluation and your research into a specific career. The speech must be 5-6 minutes long and you will be evaluated on both content and delivery.

Approach:
Based on your thoughts on your future at this point, choose a career to research. You will explore the career from several angles as you conduct research and then write a speech where you will make a claim about whether or not this career appears to be a good fit for you.

Research:
Compose 5-10 questions you will need to answer before writing your speech. Here are some examples:
What types of people work in this field?
What kind of secondary and post-secondary education and or training is needed?
How competitive is this field?
Is this career stressful?

The Speech:
Your speech must include a discussion of your interests, strengths, weaknesses, goals etc.
Make connections between the discussion and the career you have chosed to reseach. Describe the career in detail. Discuss what type of person would be right for this career and why you do or do not fit this career choice.
This speech will contain both informative and argumentative content.

Research, outline, write, and rehearse your speech. You may use speaker's notes, but you may not read your speech.

Due date: Friday, November 11, 2010.

Some helpful places to find information:

CareerPath - this website has a free career test you can take

Payscale - information on how much different careers pay- info on top job fields

Gale Student Resources - using this database you can look up information on different careers - type the name of the career you want to research in the subject bar

Genetic Disorders

Use the following links to answer questions about genetic disorders and problems in pregnancy.

During your research, look for anwers to the following questions::

Who is effected?
When does this appear?
What is the method of inheritance?
What is the effect?
What is the treatment?

Cleft lip and palate

Clubfoot

Color Blindness

Cystic Fibrosis

Diabetes

Down Syndrome

Hemophilia

Huntington's Disease (Chorea)

Hydrocephalus

Marfan Syndrome

Muscular Dystrophy

Sickle cell anemia

Tay-sachs Disease

Cerebral Palsy

Thalassemia

Toxoplasmosis

Spinal Bifida

Solar System - Planet Project

Please use the following links to obtain information about the planets in our solar system

National Geographic

New World Encyclopedia

Nasa

Mars

Mercury

Earth

Neptune

Uranus

Saturn

Venus

History of Aviation Project

You will complete a newsletter assignment using MS Publisher

To Complete this assignment you will choose any person, moment or machine from Aviation history and re-create a front page of an imaginary newspaper from that specific date.

Requirements:

Your newsletter must contain the following:
One page
Historically accurate date
Lead Story
Secondary Story
One photo per story
Two other graphics throughout the newsletter
Table of contents

Your newsletter should be formatted using the following guidelines:
Times New Roman, 12 point font
Single spaced paragraphs
Spelling and grammar will count
Your name will appear only at the top of each story as the author of the story

Use the following sources to help complete your project:

Gale Student Resources in Context -

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/nysl_li_lbhs?db=SUIC

Biography Resource Center -

Aviation History - Online Museum

Century of Flight

HistoryNet - Aviation

HistoryCentral - Aviation

NASA

Mrs. Filloramo - 12AP

Nickel and Dimed
- Lincoln-Douglas Style Debate Procedure

Instructions for Research

Each group must back up all claims with evidence. Some evidence must come from the book, other evidence must come from research. Each team must submit a minimum of 10 documented sources from online sources and/or textual sources. These sources must be formally cited on a Works Cited Page.
In addition, all team members must hand in a type written copy of their work.
All assignments must include parenthetical citations.

Please explore the following databases for information on this project:

Opposing Viewpoints

Gale Student Resources

Global Issues in Context

Biography Resource Center

Ms Davis - Social Issues Research Issues Pds 1&9

Social Issues Research Paper



By using print sources and the links to electronic resources listed within this post and in the green along the side of this blog, you will locate information regarding your topic to use in your research paper.

The following resources can be found on the right-side of this blog:

Topics - a good place to start!!!!

CQResearcher Username: beachhs Password: long

A Healthy Me Website

Teen Health and Wellness Username: lbhs Password: health

CDC- Center of Disease Control - good place to get statistics!!!!

SuffolkWeb

You can also use this link for research. Click on the link for E Resources on the left. Then scroll through the databases listed and choose Points of View. You will need to use the barcode: 21248001400456 and the password: jordan. In this database you can search through the listed topics or type in your topic and search the articles available.

Othello Research Paper - Ms. Frishman

Your Assignment: You will complete a four-page research paper in which you use your primary source (Othello) and two approved and valid secondary sources (scholarly articles) in order to prove your thesis statement true. Choose one of the essay topics given, then construct an arguable statement around it.
Your paper must be in MLA format.

Shakespeare Online
Overview of the life and work of Wm. Shakespeare - glossary, critical analysis of plays

AbsoluteShakespeare
Information on the man and his work includes quotes

Literature Resource CenterThis resource is a database that contains information about different works of literature and literary criticisms and analysis.To search, you can use the name of the work (Title), the author's name (try last name, first name) or you can try to search by a literary theme or issues that the author used in the work