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Senior Project 2013

Senior Project 2013. Awesome. Being Smart. Being Scholarly. Memorizing. Thinking. Academic Best. Personal Best. Follow Curriculum. Follow Interests. Hints at What Your Grade Will Be. Hints at What Your Future Will Be. Involves Playing it Safe. Involves Risk Taking.

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Senior Project 2013

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  1. Senior Project 2013 Awesome

  2. Being Smart Being Scholarly Memorizing Thinking Academic Best Personal Best Follow Curriculum Follow Interests Hints at What Your Grade Will Be Hints at What Your Future Will Be Involves Playing it Safe Involves Risk Taking Relies on Knowing Answers Relies on Asking Right Question

  3. Finding the right question Topic: Beauty Question: Do magazines promote unhealthy images of beauty? Question: Would you be willing to become extremely ugly physically if it meant you would live for 1,000 years at any physical age you chose?

  4. Revolving Research

  5. It’s neither I disagree It’s both I agree They Say

  6. Group Activity • For each magazine article, identify: • The topic • The focus question

  7. So What? Who Cares? “The problem is not necessarily that the speakers lack a clear, well-focused thesis or that the thesis is inadequately supported with evidence. Instead, the problem is that the speakers don’t address the crucial question of why their arguments matter.” Graff and Birkenstein, They Say, I Say

  8. Group Activity Prioritize the 5 questions from most relevant to least relevant

  9. What explains teenage behavior? If the end of white America is a cultural and demographic inevitability, what will the new mainstream look like and how will white Americans fit into it? Will technology be a form of tyranny or will it free us from tyranny? Will it upend democracy or strengthen it? Can parents harm their children by doing too much? How on earth does anyone propose to assign a number to something as complex as a college or university?

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