Weekly Current Events!

Hey class! I would like to expand your knowledge using stories regarding local, state, national and global events.

Every Tuesday, you will have a current event due. You must use the current event paper plan every week. You can find this sheet on my web page!

You may use Internet or print sources but the only guidelines is that each week you use a different source. (Ex, NY TIMES , www.tenbyten.org)

Questions? Email me!

5 months and counting...

Wow! 5 months until you graduate! Can you believe it? You will soon be off to college and thinking about what you want to major in! That is where I come in! I am here to help!

1. Go to http://www.collegeboard.com/student/csearch/majors_careers/index.html
2. Scroll down a bit and click on the link titled: “Hottest Careers for College Graduates”
3. Check out the top 10 lists of occupations. They are sorted by the level of education required (Graduate degree, Bachelor’s degree, Associate’s degree)
4. Choose 2 careers from each level of education and document:
1. Summary of the career
2. Summarize each of the following for that career:

i. Are you ready to

ii. It helps to be

iii. Make high school count

iv. Did you know

v. Outlook, compensation

5. Next, click back to http://www.collegeboard.com/student/csearch/majors_careers/index.html
1. Click the link “Majors that Fit”
2. Read this page and notice the personal qualities on the chart. Follow some of the links to certain majors.
3. Find 2 personality traits that you think match you the best. And click on the majors that match with the trait. Document the following:
4. Summary of that career
5. Summarize each of the following for that career:

i. Are you ready to

ii. It helps to be

iii. Make high school count

iv. Did you know

v. Outlook, compensation

6. Notice the related careers and majors on the left of your screen…are those careers/majors of interest to you. Why or why not?

Dell Scholars Program

The Dell Scholarship is now OPEN!

Go to http://www.dellscholars.org/ and answer the following:

1. Give me 3 facts from the "Learn More about App" link

2. What does it ask you to do?

3. Document at least 2 questions from the link that says "Last Year's Application Questions"

4. What is the criteria for this scholarship?

IS THIS FOR YOU? DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES? I THINK YOU DO!

College freshman advice

Hi Guys n Gals,

I have created a Wallwisher wall. It is a simple web page where we all can post and view our messages easily.

So simply go to http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/collegeadvice and post your message there.

You may be wondering, what you are posting? Good question! Your job is to find 3 pieces of advice from adults who have been to and graduated from college. You are to ask them the following question:

What is one piece of advice you would give to a recently graduated high school senior entering their first year in college?

After you have 3 pieces of advice from 3 different adults, choose the best one and post it to Wallwisher for your peers to see!

Make sure you double check for spelling and give credit to the person whose quote you are sharing. Also, put your first name on your post-it so I can give you credit. Duh!

You have until tomorrow at 1:50pm to do this! Happy Posting!
Mrs. Ash

Also,

Read the article found here: http://www.economist.com/node/21525840 and answer the following questions on your own paper! Yes, your own paper...not on the blog. Be prepared to discuss your answers tomorrow!

1. Define: exonerate, upshot, subsequent, illicit, obscure, naïve, jurisdiction, corroborate
2. What is the difference between a confession to cops and a guilty plea?
3. What do experimenters think their studies show about the ability to get people to falsely plead guilty? Are the studies a good test of this question? Why or why not?
4. Do you think you would ever plead guilty to something you hadn’t done? Have you ever done this?
5. Why do you think people in the ALT key experiment were more likely to confess if another person claimed to have seen the transgression?
6. What are some reasons to allow police to pretend to have proof of a person’s guilt? What are some reasons to ban this practice?
7. Is it a good idea to allow police to pretend to have evidence of someone’s guilt to get that person to confess? Would it be a good idea if people were highly unlikely to falsely confess to a crime?
8. What are the reasons a detective might want to tell a suspect that DNA or fingerprint evidence has been found but not yet analyzed?
9. “Though a lot of jurisdictions require corroborating evidence, in practice self-condemnation is pretty damning.” Why does self-condemnation hurt a defendant so much even if the jurisdiction requires other evidence to convict?
10. Which is more important, making an innocent person doesn’t go to jail or making sure a guilty person doesn’t go free?
11. What effect should a confession have? What if the defendant later takes back the confession?
12. Could an innocent person ever be made to believe that he or she was guilty?

SAT cheating scandal: Are stakes getting too high for college admission?

Hey class! I would love to know your thoughts on this breaking story.

Six high school students in Great Neck, N.Y., are facing misdemeanor charges for allegedly paying $1,500 to $2,500 to Samuel Eshaghoff to take the SAT for them. Is the pressure to succeed too great?

Directions--> Read the following story and answer the following questions:

1. Should this be handled in the courts or in the school system in Great Neck? Why or why not?

2. Do you think the stakes are too high for college admissions? Why or why not?

3. Maturely, comment on another student's response. Do you agree with them, why or why not, did they make you think of something you hadn't previously though of, etc....

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2011/0928/SAT-cheating-scandal-Are-stakes-getting-too-high-for-college-admission

Scholarship Search

Check out the scholarship search @ collegboard.org

Go to: http://apps.collegeboard.org/cbsearch_ss/servlet/scholarshipsearchservlet?SS_ACTION=DB_SEARCH&pageIndex=0

Here is what you will see. Once here scroll down and click the start link. It looks like this one:

Start

Start putting in personal info in the first tab then click next. Follow the directions from here on out. Find 3 scholarships that interest/match you!

Article response 9/13

After reading the article titled: On College Forms.... answer the following questions on the blog and comment on at least one of your peer's answers. Responses due by Thursday @ 10pm.

1. Define: racial heritage, dilemma, anonymous, identity, affirmative action, imperative, diverse, onus, corroboration
2. Is it right for the Department of Education to require colleges to collect racial information?
3. Why do some students refuse to list their race out of protest?
4. According to the article, the intent of affirmative action is to help disadvantaged minorities, not those who are well off. Why don’t they want to help minorities who are not poor? Why don’t they want to help poor non-minorities?
5. How could colleges target help at minorities who are poor? How could they target help at poor people, generally?
6. The article also states that affirmative action is intended to “redress the nation’s long history of discrimination [against minorities] in higher education, but also to provide students rich opportunities to learn from peers who bring various backgrounds to campus.” Would offering advantages to someone who is half-white and half black help achieve this goal? Would offering advantages to white Jewish students? Asian students?
7.
a) Why was a woman’s French great-grandfather born in Algeria? Why was the consensus that she couldn’t qualify as African-American – was Algeria not really part of Africa when the French ruled it?
b) Why did College Confidential posters respond differently to her than to the other woman who was part African-American, part Asian-American?
8. “I’d be giving them information, not saying, ‘Do this,’ wink, wink.” Is there really a difference?
9. What does Rice really mean when it asks about “the unique life experiences and cultural traditions"? How could you write an effective essay about this?
10. “Rice knows that however much it emphasizes that students should be guided by the honor principle…some will seek to stretch the new definitions to their own gain.” If the rules allow a mixed-race person discretion, how will people make their decisions? Is it wrong of them to give answers that benefit themselves?
11. Are people who “stretch definitions” violating the intention of the programs? If so, what is that intention?
12. Should there be affirmative action? Explain your answer.