AP CAPSTONE Seminar Week 2.5: 11/3-7

AP Seminar Schedule 10/3 Reminders: Bring printed source to class all week ● laptops all week ● Bring two copies of body Paragraph for Tuesday ● “Home Front USA” and following sections on Wednesday ● Draft research question for individual paper, due next Monday Objective: to create a thesis from a research question Essential Question (EQ): How do we treat disease and diseased persons? NEW RESEARCH QUESTION: “What should the US Government have done to prevent the spread of Ebola into this country?” Read out: “Things we could do” class notes Collect new articles and discuss any new relevant information Read out topic sentences and group based upon content of topic sentence Each group produces a single topic sentence Bring topic sentences to the whole class to create a thesis statement HW: Draft a paragraph based upon your assigned topic sentence and bring TWO copies tomorrow

AP Seminar Schedule 10/4 Reminders: Bring printed source to class all week ● laptops all week ● “Home Front USA” and following sections on Wednesday ● Draft research question for individual paper, due next Monday Objective: to create a thesis from a research question Essential Question (EQ): How do we treat disease and diseased persons? NEW RESEARCH QUESTION: “What should the US Government have done to prevent the spread of Ebola into this country?” Workshop paragraphs with a partner Main Question: “Do we need to revise the thesis?” Discuss revising thesis as a class Draft a single paragraph as a group Email the paragraph to me when finished (you may not finish today)

AP Seminar Schedule 10/5 Reminders: Bring printed source to class all week ● laptops all week ● “Home Front USA” and following sections on Wednesday ● Draft research question for individual paper, due next Monday Objective: to create a thesis from a research question Essential Question (EQ): How do we treat disease and diseased persons? NEW RESEARCH QUESTION: “What should the US Government have done to prevent the spread of Ebola into this country?” Draft a single paragraph as a group Email the paragraph to me when finished (you have a maximum of 40 minutes) Combine and revise the three body paragraphs as a class I email the new draft to all of you WWZ Discussion HW: Read all of the paper that we have so far and write a paragraph explaining where the argument should go from here and what questions we should still be asking.

AP Seminar Schedule 10/7 Reminders: Revise Paragraphs for Monday Objective: to create a thesis from a research question Essential Question (EQ): How do we treat disease and diseased persons? NEW RESEARCH QUESTION: “What should the US Government have done to prevent the spread of Ebola into this country?” Check that you have done editing and paragraph Discuss Paragraph revisions create outline for revisions assign revisions to group members Discuss things that need to be in the conclusion HW: Revise your individual paragraphs, incorporating any new sources,