Setting Up Your Project

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Setting Up Your Project

• SOUL Project Guidebook

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Semester Plan
Take charge of your learning each month!
SAMPLE
January
Example Absent Fathers (Awareness Commercial)
Your Plan
Musical Analysis (History of Hip-Hop research
article)
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Planning Chart
Choose a Topic
Musical Analysis
Identify a Problem
Hip-Hop comes from a combination of other musical
genres.
People arent aware that...
Each group-members problem should be slightly
different
to make sure EVERYONE does her part!!!
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Planning Chart (contd)
Create a Solution
Write an article for the Red Gold (school paper)
To increase awareness, I will...
Design your Assessment
(List your 3 Focus Standards here)
Writing 1.0
RDG 2.3
RDG 2.5
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Assessment Rubric
Decide how you will GRADE YOURSELF!
I can establish a clear THESIS and support it
throughout my work.
My THESIS is unclear and I provide little support
for it.
I have no THESIS.
Writing 1.0
I cannot generate a research question.
I can generate 1-2 research questions.
I can generate 3 research questions
Reading 2.3
I can take an idea from what Im reading and
analyze it, evaluate it, and elaborate on it.
I can SUMMARIZE what Im reading.
I can take an idea from what Im reading and
analyze it only.
Reading 2.5
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Planning Calendar
In SOUL, YOU tell me what YOURE going to do each
week
Read 1st article, take notes
Read 2nd article, take notes
Read 3rd article, take notes
Read 4 articles gather notes
Set a weekly GOAL
SSR
learning how to set short and long-term GOALS in
the process!
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A Few Ground Rules

• Enter the classroom and get to work
• unless otherwise directed.
• Just sitting there is ALWAYS wrong.
• Contribute to a working environment.
• You have about 20 hours for each project
• think about what you should have to show for
  that much work time!

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SOUL is a fun place

• to WORK HARD!!!