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You need: Paper to take notes on. Warm-up Skip 1 line. Write today’s date: 7 Sept. Your entry must be 100 words minimum.
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You need: • Paper to take notes on • Warm-up • Skip 1 line. Write today’s date: 7 Sept. Your entry must be 100 words minimum. • Choose an issue of importance to you—the issue could be personal, school related, local, political, or international in scope—and write an essay in which you explain the significance of that issue to yourself, your family, your community, or your generation.
Selecting a Topic Research Paper English IV 2008
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Off Shore Drilling cloning http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/topic/actionWin?limiter=AC+y&displayGroups=&query=&prodId=OVIC&userGroupName=&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=GALE%7CAAA000008417&scanId=&display-query=&mode=view
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Topics • Controversial issue: • offshore drilling • Two clear sides: • Offshore Drilling in Alaska Should Be Expanded • Offshore Drilling in Alaska Should Be Limited • NOT child abuse—Who could be in favor of child abuse? • BUT CPS is effective/ineffective in dealing with parents reported for child abuse • Limited to fit a short paper
Assignment • Find a topic of interest to you. • Determine that there are at least 5 articles on your topic. • Sign up for your topic with your teacher. • All topics are subject to the teacher’s approval. • Immigration and abortion will not be approved.
Type your name and class period at the top of a new Word document
"Offshore Drilling in Alaska Should Be Expanded." Offshore Drilling. Ed. Margaret Haerens. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010. Opposing Viewpoints. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 14 Aug. 2011.Insert table
"Offshore Drilling in Alaska Should Be Expanded." Offshore Drilling. Ed. Margaret Haerens. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010. Opposing Viewpoints. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 14 Aug. 2011.
6 September • Tell about a time when you had an experience that affected you emotionally. • 7 September • Choose an issue of importance to you—the issue could be personal, school related, local, political, or international in scope—and write an essay in which you explain the significance of that issue to yourself, your family, your community, or your generation. • 8 September • What do you consider to be your one major positive attribute? Elaborate.