Period 6 Surveys

Skewes- Residential Choices

Wilt/Avendano/Barerra- Stress

Clementson/Quezadas- School Start Time

Sedgwick/Antonio/Giebink- Financial Education

Harden/Lesic- Athletics

Cuevas/Burns-Lewis- Mental Health

Gardner/Smith- Early Hours

Pimentel/Nieto- Phones/Video Games

Period 3 Surveys

Freeman- Social Media

Smith- Drug Use

Cannon/Vales- Stress

Santos/Myers- Couples Age

Morwood/Bauer- Stress

Eisenmann/Fritzges- Drugs and Academics 

Klinger/Collins- Lack of Education

Ebbah/Musial- Alcohol/Drug Addiction

Badet/Teixeira- Under Age Drinking

Eagle/Haynes- Phone Addiction

Carey/Dukes- Screen Time

Sables- Sleep

Manning/Melendez- Stress

Allen/Adams- School Shooting

Faulstich- Stress

Balalio/Kupiec- Social Media

Part 2 and 3 of Final Project

Creating a Google Form for your survey:

- Go to google.drive (make sure you are signed into your school account)

- At the top left of the screen click "New", scroll down to "More"

-Select "Google Forms" (with Purple Square)

Part II

Notes on Research Topic  

Sample Notes 

Drug Addiction Sample Notes

Part III 

Choose a format to present the problem, evidence, causes, effects, and your solutions

• Letter of Proposal for more funding

              example Letter of Proposal (sample Letter & Rubric included)

• Feature article

                sample feature article on anorexia

                   

• Brochure (with the following elements  in the chart Below)

                         example brochure & educational quiz (cyberbullying)

• Infographic (digital poster)  (with the following elements  in the chart Below)

                      example infographic healthy eating

                    

                       Design your own infographic at canva.com

• Powerpoint   (with the following elements  in the chart Below)

                           example educational powerpoint (teen temptation)

• Video  (with the following elements  in the chart Below)

Your project should include

Problem / Issue of Concern Question you are exploring & Definition and / or  description of the problem Who is affected (statistics) reasons for choosing (why is this important to investigate)	Evidence & Research Extent of problem To what extent is this an issue? (statistics) Reasons / causes / influences to this problem (data and research ) Effects: short & long term effects on students (physical, mental, psychological, effect on community, other…)	Conclusions… Next Steps …. Creative Message:Why is this information important to know? What specific steps do we need to take? Recommendations? Why? What is at Risk if we don’t take these steps?
Visuals (graphs, pictures, pie charts,statistics in large font)	Personal Reflection (on back) What did you research answer? What questions are left? What would you do differently?	Works Cited list see example

Final Examples of projects

Final Research Project on Sleep

Final Research Project on Stress

Final Project Infographics

Final Project Outline

Whole Project Outline assignment linked here

Final Project: Design Your own Research Project (include proposal, survey, analysis of data results, informative educational piece)

Part I  

1. Choose problem  / issue of concern Sample Issues that might be worth exploring

Project Submission Form - Do NOT submit form, write down answers on a separate document and share with me  zmith@sandi.net

2. Creating Your own survey

Questions to help you design your survey and / or interview

ore tips on types of questions to ask

Good / Bad survey questions

Share with me your survey link -Due Sunday the 20th

3. EVALUATEYOUR OWN SURVEY (Monday the 21st for Period 3 and Tuesday the 22nd for Period 6) 

4. Take each others surveys on Wednesday for 3rd Period and Thursday for 6th Period. Send them to me at the beginning of the block schedule period and I will link them to the blog. We will help each other gather data.

Survey

School Survey

This survey will be used for your end of the unit project.

Quantitative vs Qualitative Data

2.  Quantitative Data vs. Qualitative Data (pre - project)

Find a team of 2

1. Review the Academic Honesty Quantitative Data

Academic Honesty Qualitative Data 

2. Collaboratively write about the data with your team Writing about Data

Quantitative data is information about quantities; that is, information that can be measured and written down with numbers. Some examples of quantitative data are your height, your shoe size, and the length of your fingernails.

Qualitative data / research is a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, including in the social sciences and natural sciences, and market research, business, and  non-profits.

There are a variety of methods of data collection in qualitative research, including observations, textual or visual analysis (eg from books or videos) and interviews (individual or group). However, the most common methods used, particularly in healthcare research, are interviews and focus groups.

(Google)

Examine the Data

1. Writing about Data: Examining our own data and writing about it academically

• Find a team of 2 - 3 & Divide the following Data Analysis Questions
• Examine the following data on Academic Honesty Data with your team
• Answer the questions on one document that is shared with one person on your team.

Cheaters Still Rising

Today, you and (possibly) a partner are going to complete a SOAPSTone analysis chart for "Cheating on the Rise Among High School Students." Create a SOAPSTone chart (similar to the one pictured below) on a new document.

Text Component	“Cheating on the Rise Among High School Students”
Subject What is the subject or topic of the piece? What theme or big idea do you see? What is this piece about?
Occasion What event or occasion do you think caused the author to write this piece? Immediate event? Larger event in society / world that may have influenced?
Audience To whom is the author writing? How do you know?
Purpose What does the author want you to believe or understand? What is the purpose of the text?
Speaker What do we know about the speaker? How does his/her background affect his point of view on the subject? Education?  Roles in society? Beliefs? Values?
Tone What is the attitude of the speaker or writer as revealed by the choice of vocabulary? Tone words: academic, formal, informal, sarcastic, humorous, informative, reflective,  persuasive, casual, argumentative, passionate, cautionary, condescending, respectful,  etc.

THEN, you and (possibly) your partner will collaborate to write a rhetorical precis for the text. You may choose to work alone or in pairs. Please complete your precis on a single sheet of lined paper. Be sure both of you contribute your handwriting!

Below are a few supports and reminders:

Sentence 1:  Note the name of the author, the genre and title of the work, and the 

publication date in parentheses; a rhetorically accurate verb; and a "that clause" containing the major assertion or thesis statement in the work.

Sentence 2: An explanation of how the author develops and supports the thesis, usually in chronological order.

Sentence 3: A statement of the author’s apparent purpose, followed by an “in order to” phrase.

Sentence 4: A description of the intended audience, the relationship the author establishes with the audience, or both.

For you visual learners, here is a frame of what each sentence should look like:

And here are definitions for each part of the frame:

"Rise of the Cheaters"

Today you and a partner will be previewing, and then ultimately reading an article about academic honesty in America.


1. With your partner, one of you will open the document Cheating on the Rise

2. Whichever partner opens the document will need to name it, and share it with the OTHER PARTNER and with the Mr. Smith.

3. With your partner, complete the "Surveying the Text" (pages 2-3 of the document). Remember, you are only previewing the text at this point, not reading the whole thing. Also remember that you are taking notes on what your partner thinks, in the chart, based on your discussion.

4. Once you have finished surveying the text, you and your partner will read the text, "Cheating on the Rise Among High School Students."

Academic Honesty Survey

Finish yesterdays group reading assignment

Then we will complete another servery. This time it is relevant to you and our school

Today we are beginning a unit where we are going to study trends in academic honesty, cheating, and ethics among high school students. We will study some national and international trends, and compare them to trends we see at PLHS. Eventually, you will write about our findings. In order to collect the data that we are going to analyze, today you will take an anonymous survey about academic honesty.


Academic Honest Policy

Monday 5/7

Make sure to complete the Survey  (Due Today)

Since we just completed a unit, today would be a good day for a writing competition! Today's competition is going to give you the opportunity to practice your argumentative writing skills about a topic that interests you.

Follow the steps below:

1. Write as much as you can for 15 minutes in your English Journal about a current "hot topic" that interests you. Make a clear claim about your opinion on the topic, then support it with reasons and evidence. Not sure what to write about? Here are a few suggestions:

• Does technology make us more alone?
• What should be done to curb cyberbullying?
• What is more important: our privacy or national security?
• What should be done to prevent gun violence in schools?
• Is academic honesty a problem at our school?
• Should computers become the primary way that students learn in class?

2. Share with a group of 3 or 4. We will do this by CAREFULLY passing the Chromebooks.

3. Table groups will select the most successful.

4. I'll choose the overall classroom winner of the day!

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