We set up our Research assignment in Google Classroom by creating a doc, each, and typing the grading criteria (see a reliable classmate for the details), and I pointed out to them in Google Classroom > Classwork > Research topic: the Research Cheats doc (their instructions), the media chart, and the Miner Library (KCC) link to which you have access as a KCC student! (I distributed to students their usernames and ID #s -- if you were absent, see me.) There are loads of expensive expert sources at college libraries, and as a KCC student you can access all of that via Miner Library online for free! : ) We discussed college homework being an average of 2-4 hours a week per credit hour, and with this class being 3 credits, an average perhaps of 9 hours a week. However, some classes have more, some less, and it's usually in bursts of 1-3 a week punctuated by insanely busy project, test, or paper weeks of caffeine and no sleep. As you are on a high school schedule, however, I am keeping your homework at a steady, consistent pace, and keeping it under 4 hours a week...with an average of only 2. (In other words, the work with the Henretta text (white book) is a slow grind, but it could be worse.) ; ) Today was given as a momentary breather -- either use today to make good progress with the Chapter 4 reading and note-taking, or if you did that over the weekend (good job!), then today can be used for a full day head start on the research! The research is officially to start tomorrow in class with a bit of time also given in class on Wed., and the scoring criteria is set with those parameters (1 class period plus ~15 more minutes of another period of work time). So, a head start today really is a legit head start!
