Connections: What connections can you draw between the text and your own life or your other learning? Read the article "Teaching Kids to Kill" and describe any similarities or differences in the concepts.
Challenges: What ideas, positions, or assumptions do you want to challenge or argue with in the text? Concepts: What key concepts or ideas do you think are important and worth holding on to from the text? Changes: What changes in attitudes, thinking or action are suggested by the text, either for you or others?
Your
goal for responding to the posts of your classmates should be to add to the
direction of their responses by elaborating on the evidence they have given, or
to offer an alternative idea or concern. You do not need to weaken the
arguments in your classmates' blogs. You should be respectful
and polite. While you may offer an opposing viewpoint, please do so cordially. Your responses should be written
in a well-written paragraph of approximately five sentences.
Your work will be evaluated using the following criteria:
Initial Blog
Post
How well does
the blog post address the prompt?
Is the point of
the blog clear?
How well does
the blog provide the necessary context?
To what extent does
the student support his/her thoughts with references to the core text or
material?
How well does
the blog provide a space for response?
Response Blog
Post
How well does
the response address the issues raised in the earlier blog?
Is the point of
the response clear?
To what extent does
the response provide necessary content?
How well does
the responder support his/her thoughts with references to the text and the
initial post?
How well does
the response incorporate ideas or thoughts from the other person's blog?
Select a news article that is connected to our theme, War and Conflict. Link the article to your post. Summarize the article. Make a connection (text to text, self or world) and describe how the connection extends your understanding.
“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.”
