Week 11: March 10-14

Well, after this week, you will have accomplished one of the main goals of your graduation project: completing your Oral Presentation. After you have presented, you should be working on your final paper, incorporating comments/suggestions from your panel, and also finishing your web portfolio.

Week 10: March 3-7

Practice, practice, practice makes perfect!

This week, you will be presenting twice to get feedback on your presentations. These practice sessions will be scored using the same rubric that your panelists will have when you present.

Your weekly progress grade for this week will reflect how well your practice sessions go.

A schedule of practice sessions is available here.

Week 9: February 25-29

This week, you should be completing your final presentation. This includes finalizing details of your tangible product and preparing any slideshows, videos, etc. that you will be showing to your panel.

Presentations should provide your panel answers to the following questions:

1. Why did I pick this topic/project? This should give your panel an idea of why you are so passionate about your topic. If you changed topics, or if your idea evolved over time, you may also want to include that information.
2. What did I learn about my topic? This part of the presentation is a demonstration of your knowledge and should indicate that you have gained expertise in your topic. You should include information from your research and notes, your interviews, the key terms that you defined and any other information that can show the depth of your knowledge on the subject area.
3. What did I do with what I learned? Finally, you need to show your panel what you did for your tangible project and be able to explain the connection between your research and this final project. Here is where you should share websites, video, images, brochures, pamphlets, visual aids, and any other evidence that shows what it is that you did over your two trimesters of work.

Your presentation can be organized using your Electronic Portfolio, a PowerPoint slideshow, or in any other format that clearly organizes the information that you are going to share with your panel.

A rubric for the presentations is available on the Dashboard, and a schedule of when you are presenting is available here.

Week 8: February 19-22

Draft 2 of Literature Review due on Friday, February 22!

This week, we will focus on learning about properly using in-text citation for your second drafts. Research should be done, because you will be focusing on preparing for your presentations beginning next week.

Week 7: February 11-14

This week, you should be looking at your papers and making the necessary edits. As I meet with you this week, I will be looking at your papers and your plans, and seeing where you are with your work in preparation for parent conferences.

I will also be schedulinng the dates for your presentations.

Week 6: February 4-February 8

Now that most of your first drafts are done, start looking towards planning your presentations and finishing up your projects.

Presentation week is a little over a month away!

Week 5: January 29-February 1

This week you should be finishing up your first rough draft. You should get 2 edits for this paper before it gets turned in--one by a peer and one by a teacher.

Sources should be cited using parenthetical citation format, and a works cited paper should be attached (at least 5 websites, one book, and one article).

Further instructions are in your folders and on the Dashboard.