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Learning Strategies final 2011

1. Watch then video of “The Story of Stuff”.

Story of Stuff

After you’ve viewed the video, answer these questions.
1  What is your reaction to this story? Why?
2. What surprised you? (!)
3. What did you have questions about?
4.What were you skeptical about?

5. What important points did you identify?
6. What do you think was Annie’s purpose in creating the video?
7. How effective was she in presenting her arguments? Explain.
8.  How effective was she effective in… Giving you information?

• Getting you to take action?
• Helping you make decisions?
• Helping you solve problems?

9.  Then discuss with a partner what points the video tries to make and decide if the video did this effectively. Why or Why not?

10.  Choose to complete one of the following assignments AND create a rubric or marking scheme of some sort to use to evaluate your finished product. You may work with a partner. I have provided an example of a rubric below to inspire you.

Create

advertisement for the video

brochure or pamphlet about The Story of Stuff

poem about The Story of Stuff

song about about The Story of Stuff

a comic strip about about The Story of Stuff

4. Submit your finished product and the marking scheme.

All successful people have certain things in common. These are

• self awareness
• goals
• perseverance
• self-advocacy
• emotional support

1.  Define each characteristics.

2.  Create a poster about one of the characteristics. Include

a quote about the characteristic
a definition of the characteristic and examples of it
a picture that illustrates it

3.  Write  a paragraph about how you display or could display this characteristic in you life. Make sure you edit for mistakes. Ask someone to look it over to catch those mistakes you don’t see.

4.  Print everything and submit it to me.

Image via Wikipedia

YouTube – Michael jordan become legendary commercial eyes (XVid MPEG-4 Codec)

YouTube – Michael Jordan ‘Maybe It’s My Fault’ Commercial (XVid MPEG-4 Codec)

YouTube – Michael Jordan _ Failure

1. What 3 main points is Michael making here?

2. In two separate paragraphs, tell me  how can you use Michael’s advice in your life

• at school
• outside of school

So far in the course you have set goals. That’s the first step on the road to success. There are a number of qualities all successful people share. We are going to explore these next.

1.  The first quality is perseverance. What is perseverance?

2. Watch the short video about Nick and explain in a paragraph  how he is an example of “When the going gets tough, the tough get going”.

3. Research project about Nick.

Create a Powerpoint report about Nick. Include all the things you think we need to know about Nick’s life.

1. Fill  out a form that you create that asks the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and WHY about Nick

2. Gather your information including images or pictures. Use the school’s data bases and  online resources and cite them in your project using APA format. 

Use your agenda for examples of APA formatting. Remember the data bases are more reliable than the www resources so be aware. Use at least 4 resources.

3. Next,  type out your information onto a word processing document.

4. Cut and paste your typing and add your images into PowerPoint.

5.  Present your slide show project  to the class .

Evaluation-  Rubric