**ATTENTION ALL: DUE TO WEATHER, TUES. 12/12 is now the Shop With a Panther Day! If you are involved with this event and will not be in class, please know we will keep working on completion of SRPs through WED. 12/13 and the DEADLINE THURS. 12/14!!
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PLEASE have your Chromebook or personal laptop with you in class THROUGH THURS. 12/14 as we work in class toward completing the SENIOR RESEARCH PAPER (SRP), worth 30% of your final course grade!
**UPDATE: BY WED. 12/13, YOU ALL SHOULD BE WELL BEYOND SRP CHECKPOINT #2 and working on "FINAL COMPLETION" of the body of your SENIOR RESEARCH PAPER!!**
--be prepared each day THROUGH THURS. 12/14 in class to keep typing/writing, and I'll let each of you know about REVISION OF WHAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN AND FINAL COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS!!!
FYI, FOR A GRADE IN YOUR FOLDER WED. 2/13, BY THE END OF CLASS for a SRP PROGRESS CHECKPOINT GRADE, students should have completed the FOLLOWING TASKS FOR GRADED CHECKPOINT #2 AS OUTLINED DAILY IN CLASS and placed in their folders and/or shared w/me via Google Docs for assessment:
**FOR THE TWO WEB/ONLINE sources and the ONE PRINT SOURCE GIVEN TO THEM BY ME IN THEIR FOLDER WED. 12/6 for their SRP PRINTED/placed in their provided folders: BASIC 8th ed. MLA CITATIONS WRITTEN OUT for practice on each source somewhere
**ALSO, RE: each of the minimum THREE SOURCES, make sure they are all READ/HIGHLIGHTED for their SRP COMPLETION
**completed typing the SRP TOPIC MEMO w/THESIS STATEMENT COMPLETED on the SRP SHARED DOCUMENT
**started and well into working on completing CORRECTLY/ACCURATELY THE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY of their min. THREE SOURCES on the SRP SHARED DOCUMENT after the memo
**at this point after completion of CHECKPOINT #2, they are also ready to start COMPOSING THEIR SRP paragraph by paragraph, with the THESIS SENTENCE THE LAST SENTENCE OF THE FIRST PARAGRAPH
ATTENTION ALL: DUE TO WEATHER, TUES. 12/12 is now the Shop With a Panther Day!*If you are involved with this event and will not be in class Tuesday, PLEASE DROP BY MY ROOM BEFORE YOU LEAVE CAMPUS TUESDAY TO GET THIS INFO AND/OR ASK QU's!!! PLEASE BE PREPARED for the MAJOR GRADED INTO THE WILD DISCUSSION THAT WILL NOW TAKE PLACE WED. 12/13!! (*info/reminders below ***and more about the rest of the week in class TBA...)
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**UPDATES!!! ATTENTION! FOR CLASS WED. 12/13:
For Into the Wild, be ready for a FORMAL/GRADED STUDENT-LED 'ROUND TABLE' DISCUSSION TITLED:
"WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT CHRIS McCANDLESS?"
- from INTO THE WILD, the theories Krakauer presents in his last chapters RE: McCandless's death vs. YOUR OWN interpretations and thoughts/evaluation
- NEWEST THEORIES of what killed McCandless from various news articles published in the last 4-5 years (assigned below to each of you)
- **FAMILY ISSUES that contributed to Chris leaving home (via your reading excerpts of his sister's memoir THE WILD TRUTH)
**Savannah, Matti, Haley
"Why Are We Still Talking About Chris McCandless?" -Mother Nature Network (MNN), July 2015
**Brooke D., Josie
"What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About Chris McCandless" -Alaska Commons, 2013
**Delaney, Hannah, Zoe
"Krakauer's Wild Theory About McCandless Gives Short Shrift to Science" -Alaska Dispatch News (ADN), 2013
**Jonah, Brooke P., Courtney
"Into the Wild Author Tries Science To Solve Toxic Seed Mystery" -NPR, May 2015
**Ian, Mary, Hope
"How Chris McCandless Died: An Update" -The New Yorker, Feb. 2015
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**REMINDER FOR THE LAST TWO DAYS OF THE SEMESTER:
--don't forget to bring your CLASS BINDER and your copy of INTO THE WILD with you to class, please, as I will be taking them up!
--I'll also be getting any misc. papers and/or grades back to you as well as starting to add up all your extra credit pts. prior to your EOC score
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