Summer Reading Assignment for Early Scholars

Hi Again to all you Scholars! In the last post I asked that you sign up with the edmodo.com website.  You will need to do this soon but I am attaching your summer reading assignment here in this post so you all can access it.  Please reply to the post stating that you received the assignment.  You should also post again once you have gotten your copy of the book.  This assignment counts towards your grade when you return in September so it is important that you do not procrastinate. Please let me know how I  can help.

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Early Scholars Summer Reading Assignment

New Online Community for Early Scholars Class of 2015

Happy Summer to you Scholars!!! Please go to www.edmodo.com and join our group I created called EARLY SCHOLARS 2013.  Your code to join is y9rkyn.  Assignments will be posted on July 1, 2013

“What’s Your Type?”

Blood type is an important piece of medical data that is necessary should you be faced with an emergency that puts your life in danger.  Despite this fact many people do not know their own blood type.  Work with other team members to conduct a survey of people in your community and their knowledge of personal blood type.  You may also want to find out what other knowledge that your survey participants have about the science of blood as it relates to their anatomy and overall health.

·      Research your own personal blood type by speaking to parents and guardians.

·      Collaborate with 4-5 other classmates to determine what group you will survey.

·      Design your research questions and submit a draft to me for review.

·      Conduct your survey and collect the data.

·      Decide on a format to present both your quantitative (numbers) and qualitative (other interesting findings) data. There must be a written part to your presentation that provides explanations of the data.

·      Present your findings to your teachers and peers.

Due: Tues. April 30, 2013

Five Quarts: Reader's Response Journal

The author uses a historical perpective to discuss blood and the scientific advances that have occured in relation to understanding blood and our bodies in general.  Write an overview of about 4-5 different developments or advances that science has made on the subject of blood or hematology (the study of blood). Be sure to make specific text references to support your response. DO NOT POST YOUR RESPONSE HERE. EMAIL TO ME AT:  thirdcat.ca@gmail.com

Attention LIU Scholars, 

LIU's Discovery Day is scheduled to take place Wednesday, March 27, 2013.  This means there is only  a month to prepare your presentations.  Ms. Toussaint has informed me that the text you will focus on in your project is Fledgling by Octavia Butler.  Using the research papers that you wrote last semester and your overall understanding of this text, we should be developing our presentation around the ideas of sexuality, race, pedophilia, memory and the concept of blood.  

The question we aim to answer is : How does Butler take the ordinary and use it to provoke thought in her readers?

Your task: Re-visit your research papers and identify how your work connects to these themes for the project.  Also post any suggestions or ideas you have for our Discovery Day presentation. Please see me during the day with questions, comments or concerns.

It runs through your veins, the sight of it can make some squeamish or even faint, doctors require small amounts of it to learn more about your health, it is a metaphor for familial bond, it can play a leading role in a gory movie; it is blood all the same.  This is the subject of Five Quarts by Bill Hayes.  As we venture through this text together you will be asked to consider the subject matter of blood in a number of ways, not only as the author presents it but also its meaning in your own life and overall understanding of the world.  To begin this mainly digital and at times real-time conversation, I ask you to respond to the following prompt:  "When I think of blood I..."Consider this as a free-write prompt and allow your initial thoughts or ideas to lead to other ideas.  Also think about how personal experiences, ideas in popular culture and what you have been taught in and out of the classroom about blood.  Let your thoughts and ideas flow like blood (pun intended). Post your comment before Wednesday, Feb 13 and respond to the posts of at least two other classmates no later than Friday, Feb 15.