Posting on Turnitin.com

Ladies y Caballeros,

Please upload your Practice Historical Investigations to the turnitin.com website. These should be these same documents your turned in to me in hard copy form on Wednesday or Thursday (8 or 9 April).

Please go to the website and login for your appropriate class:

If you are in Period 1 US history 3 Honors (IB HOA), your CLASS ID is "2691147", and your ENROLLMENT PASSWORD is "republic".

(**PLEASE NOTE that you DO NOT need to use quotation marks, nor capitals, for the ID or password.**)

If you are in Period 2 US History 3 Honors (IB HOA), your CLASS ID is "2691148", and your ENROLLMENT PASSWORD is "republic".

If you are in Period 5 US History 3 Honors (IB HOA), your CLASS ID is "2691150", and your ENROLLMENT PASSWORD is "republic".

Please use only your FIRST and LAST NAME (as I know it) as your username.

As I mentioned before break, I'd like you to please post your PHI before the end of Spring Break (11:59pm, 19 April 2009).

Thank you for your work so far this year. Enjoy some well-deserved time off with family and friends.

Take care,
Mr. Todd

Snapshot PowerPoint Project & Citations

SPARTANS,

Overall you guys are doing a great job in the library. Although the research assignment is relatively easy, please do not underestimate it because that is when you will needlessly lose points. There are a few very basic things that I have seen in your projects so far that are cause for concern because they will cost you points if not done correctly:

1) Wrong fonts

2) Wrong order of slides

3) Putting words on the picture slide (DO NOT DO THIS)

4) Incorrect source citations

Three things that I want you to get from this assignment, besides the information, are: following directions, further developing research skills, and citing sources properly. Please NOTE that in any citation, the second line and any others that may follow the first should be indented. (The formatting for the blog does not show this properly for some reason.)

I'm not sure how much clearer I can be about these directions. If you have forgotten, please remember now.

Here are some citation tips from Landmark College (on the resources handout I gave you last semester!) that Zach Began and Kelsey Stafford pointed out:

WEB PAGES

Basic Format for a Web Page

• Author, Institution, Company, or Organization Responsible for the Web site (if available). (Year, Month Day web site was last updated). Title or description of page. Retrieved Month Day, Year you visited the web site, from Name of site: URL (address of web site)

• Author: Sometimes the person or group responsible for the web page is hard to determine, but it’s important that you figure it out. Check the top and bottom of the web page. Then check the top and bottom of the home page. Then look for a link like “About.” A library staff person would be happy to help you discover who the author is.

• Date last updated: Check the beginning and end of the web page for this date. If no date is listed, write “(n.d.)” for “no date.”

• URL: IMPORTANT: You don’t need to cite each page you use from the same web site - just cite the main page that all of your web pages have in common.

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IMAGES

Basic Format for an Electronic Image

• Author (Role of Author). (Year image was created). Title of work [Type of work], Retrieved Month Day, Year, from Name of site: URL (address of web site)

Basic Format for an Electronic Image (No Author)

• Title of work [Type of work]. (Year image was created). Retrieved Month Day, Year, from Name of site: URL (address of web site)
  

Basic Format for an Electronic Image (No Author, No Title, No Date)

Many images found on the Web are of this category, but you should still look for this missing information: try clicking on the image, and/or looking at the bottom of the image.

• [Subject and type of work]. Retrieved Month Day, Year, from: URL (address of web site)

Specific Examples

• Kulbis, M. (Photographer). (2006). Men pray [Photograph], Retrieved April 12, 2006, from Name of site: http://accuweather.ap.org/cgi-bin/aplaunch.pl

• Japanese Geisha [Photograph]. (2006). Retrieved April 10, 2006, from Name of site:
  http://www.bergoiata.org/fe/divers28/10.htm

• [Untitled photograph of a baby chimpanzee]. Retrieved April 12, 2006, from Name of site: perso.wanadoo.fr/jdtr/struc/chimp3.htm

Option 5 Questions: UPDATE

SPARTANS,

Copy editor extraordinaire Taimi Jacobson has spotlighted my proclivity for errors and discovered that Number 11 in the Option 5 questions contains a mistake. Number 11 should read, "Explain Woodrow Wilson's Moral Diplomacy."

Also: I wish you all a happy new year. I hope that 2009 will be a year of learning, positive growth, and fun for all of you.

Avoiding giraffes and sloths at the Staten Island Zoo,
Mr. Todd

Additional Research Opportunities posted

SPARTANS,

The third candle has been lit and the Additional Research Opportunities optional assignment has been posted. As indicated on 18 December, the assignment is posted on www.schoolandteacher.net on our class page on the calendar date 19 December. Check it out and read CAREFULLY.

Buena suerte,

Mr. Todd

Additional Research Opportunities, Option 5, PHI Research

Season's Greetings, SPARTANS,

I hope all of you are enjoying your break. I am working on posting your "Additional Research Opportunities" (ARO), as well as your Option 5 Vocabulary on schoolandteacher.net within the next couple of days.

Remember that if you are planning on pursuing any of the ARO, you need to contact me first for approval. Additionally, any ARO must relate to the IB HOA curriculum, specifically Options 1-7 (up to the Great Depression, roughly 1929-1939). If you visit a museum, you must save and include your admission ticket. If you do not follow these directions, you risk not earning any credit for your work. I explained all of these requirements when I introduced this assignment, but I want to make sure you remember them.

If you did not get the chance to submit to me your ONE Practice Historical Investigation (PHI) Plan of Investigation/research question, please do so as soon as we return from break, or email me over break. I will do my best to respond as promptly as I can. You should be doing research over break a bit, as well. Remember, the next DEADLINE is January 13.

Pace yourself on your work, and enjoy your time off from school.


Happy holidays,

Mr. Todd

Weekend HW and Cam Library meeting

SPARTANS:

Remember that your homework for the weekend is to familiarize yourself with Chapters 23 and 24 in The American Pageant. I do not expect you to read every word, but know the subjects of the chapters and sections.

Also, in review: we are meeting at the Camarillo Public Library at or before 3pm today, 7 December. The library is near the hospital and police station in Camarillo, on the end of Las Posas where is loops around near Lewis Road.

Here is a website: http://www.vencolibrary.org/

Click on "Camarillo Library" then scroll all the way down to the "Directions" section for a map.

We will meet in the community room, inside the double brown doors inside the library. There should be a sign. We are meeting with Ms. Alyson Kaye.

See you there (or on Monday),
Mr. Todd

Update for Midterm: Cover Letter & Resume

SPARTANS,

Check out our page on schoolandteacher.net. I have posted some more detailed directions for your midterm and attached the "Action Verb List" (for you to download/print) in case you lost the copy I gave you several weeks ago.

I hope you all had a safe and fun weekend.

Surprised by Secretary Powell,
Mr. Todd