Tara ,'Storyteller'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My goodness, that sounds awful, Hec.
I am also amazed that a) I swear my mother never checked with me about my homework (except band, because she had to sign that I practiced)and b) I always turned everything in on time and c) that seems like a HUGE project for 8th grade. The biggest thing I did for eighth grade was a 10 page handwritten paper on Rabies!
Basically I will be spending the week working with him on this paper, typing it up and keeping him on task.
School is so much more work from the parent side of things than it ever was for me when I was in school.
c) that seems like a HUGE project for 8th grade.
Yes, this. My kids haven't had any projects this involved, including my HS senior.
I remember the odd paradox when I was in high school. People a generation older would lament about how the public education system had really gone downhill since they were in school, but what I was doing in high school they had done in college. It seems like that now too, the education system is supposedly terrible, but kids do such sophisticated things in school. Maybe the education system is just more uneven than ever.
Hey, Teppy! You remember that marked-up version of a speech that Obama was looking at? You can download a high-resolution copy of the photo here: [link]
That sounds like a crazy project, Hec. Was he supposed to be doing stuff throughout the year that contributes to it?
Why is it, in an org full of people who escalate via cc when it's completely unnecessary, the one time someone gives me a critial piece of information that she's the expert on, she doesn't reply all??
Cereal: Obama looking at awesome things.
CJ is in the middle of a huge project and I am having to keep checking his progress because there is so much to do. They have been reading about Utipia's in his Language Arts class - Brave New World, 1984...
For their project, they have to create their own Utopia and create a wiki page online with the constitution, mission statement, flag, social structure, government structure and so on. I think there were at least 16 things. And the wiki tool they are using is a PAIN. Not intuitive at all.
Then, once they get the wiki pages set-up, the teacher will present each one, anonymously, to the class. If the class votes that your Utopia isn't viable, you have to start over.
If the class votes that your Utopia isn't viable, you have to start over.
Is any Utopia truly viable?
I know! Seriously.
But I have to say, the boy is one of us. He named his Utopia - Serenity Valley.