Week+1

The goal of this week is to continue to critically think about the world around us through issues that will ultimately affect and influence your futures. In addition, this week's readings will set you up for writing an expository essay at the honors level. Remember: An expository essay's purpose serves to explain, describe, give information or inform.

This week we will tackle the issue of technology. Technology has a major influence not only on education, but the function citizens within a society. It influences on the way we think, act, love, and has repercussions in what we post and flood the internet with about ourselves. Technology has shown to expand knowledge and create opportunity, but has shown to destroy life and diminish mankind. This has left the debate about technology and its place within a society. As technology can aid man in their quest for greatness, the true can be said about its aiding in the downfall of mankind. Your job is to read your group's set of articles and viewpoints and compile a wikispace that will explain and inform readers in order for readers to make a more "consciousness" decision.

Students will have two jobs: a job that pertains to the wiki and one that pertains to a writing product.

Wiki Jobs Each group member will have a job that will strictly relate to updating the wikispaces appearance. Here are the following jobs:

Editor The job of the editor is to make sure that everything runs smoothly in the creation and maintainance of the group's wikispace. You are in charge to make sure everything is up to date and that every Monday the wikispace is ready for final viewing for a grade. The final accountability falls to this position and if the group does not finish, it falls into your lap. You create dates and manage everyone's work. You upload all final products to the website. You make proofread everyone in your group's work before final submission. You will report to Mr. Shingler and Ms. Cochrane for any questions during our bi-weekly meetings before or after school.

Assistant Editor and File collector This job is to make sure that your Editor has all the information readily available and in case of their absence, you take on the responsibilities of of the Editor. You over see the wikispace developers and make sure that everything is up to date. You will collect all the information from the article collectors and give to the Editor, or Wikispace Developers. If the editor needs you to take on some of their responsibilities, you do so in order for your group get the grade. You will be a part of the conferences with your Editor and you will back them up and make sure you support your Editor in any way needed.

2 WikiSpace Developers You are responsible for the physical appearance of the wikispace's site for your group. You are in charge of making sure the site is professional using your creative insight for the appearance. You must make sure that the site is easy to navigate for Mr. Shingler and Ms. Cochrane to retrieve your work. It is your job to give your Editor and Assistant Editor up dates to the wikispace that you make because they are responsible for reporting to Mr. Shingler and Ms. Cochrane during conferences.

2 Supplemental Article Collectors and MLA Specialist You are responsible for supplying 2-3 additional articles for your Editor and Wikispace developer to help further inform your audience of the topic for each week. Moreover, you are the MLA Specialist because each week your articles that you gather will need to have a Works Cited. You will make sure your Editor's will have all of this information by the due date that they set for you.

Part II: Student Products Each student (outside of the wikispace duties) will produce the following documents from their assigned article that Editors will collect in a folder and post on the Wikispace (talk with Wikispace Developers on how this will look physically):

Key Concept Sheet Point of Analysis Sheet Post final draft of In class essays

Period 3 Groups