PORTFOLIO 18.2: WALLS OF DIFFERENT KINDS.

Portfolio # 18
Visit the article: "World of Walls: How 65 Countries have erected fences ... " available HERE.

• Watch the videos, visit the links, read the texts, etc.
• WORK IN PAIRS. Write a reflection in your portfolio (2 paragraphs EACH>>> Student A/ Student B/Student A/ Student B). 
• You MAY inlcude all/any of these questions:
• What shocked you most?
• Why did you read one specific section?
• Did you know that there were so many walls all over the world?
• What is the impact of walls on local population?
• Are these barriers useful? For whom?
• Have you ever heard of these fences?
• Do you think that in the future they're going to be pulled down?
• Are they an innovative strategy?
• Embed the map/infographic.
• You may paste the 4 paragraphs on the BODY of your entry, it could be a GDOC linked to part of the text, YOU CHOOSE.

DEADLINE: November 5th

stella

PORTFOLIO 18.1: WALLS

Portfolio # 18.

TED has also included WALLS among its talks. Watch them HERE.

• Take ONE Ted Talk from the playlist
• Summarize it in one or two paragraphs. Add a last paragraph with your opinion/impression. 
• Embed the chosen Ted Talk in your portfolio AND your paragraphs.

ONE OF MY FAVOURITES: "Don't ask me where I'm from, ask me where I am a local."

DEADLINE: November 5th.

stella

PORTFOLIO 17. Arguments and Counterarguments: Capital Punishment.

VIRTUAL CLASS October 2nd

PORTFOLIO 17

PORTFOLIO

• Go back to the VIDEO on Capital Punishment and write a LIST of ARGUMENTS and COUNTER ARGUMENTS  present in the source.
• Paste this list on your portfolio (if you want to paste a TABLE, first draw in in WORD and then copy/paste it)

DEADLINE: October 9th.

stella

WRITING ASSIGNMENT in class.

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OCTOBER 1st: WRITING ASSIGNMENT IN CLASS

PORTFOLIO 16 & WRITING TERM TEST.

Go to THIS SITE and go though the tasks in OPINION ESSAY related to whether criminals should go to prison. These are PREREADING, DURING READING and POSTREADING tasks.

PORTFOLIO 16

• paste/embed everything onto your e-portfolio.
• Watch the video and past it o your portfolio. Write  aSHORT DESCRIPTION of the contents of the source>>be careful with PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE!!!!

WRITING TERM TEST: Date: October 1st

STELLA

PORTFOLIO 15: Essay Gender Diversity in Education.

                              
VIRTUAL CLASS: September 18th
PORTFOLIO #15.

Work with a PARTNER.
Go through the material in THIS LINK. Read the "essay that suggests reasons for and solutions to a problem": WOMEN IN SCIENCE. Work with the prereading, during reading and after reading activities.

PORTFOLIO:

• Open a SHARED DOC and write an ESSAY following these suggestions.
• Title: Gender diversity in Education
• Make sure 
• you have  included the instructions, suggestions from the site, 
• have paid attention to the macrostructure of the text (MOVES!!),
• paragraph organization (TOPIC SENTENCE, Thesis statement, etc),
• cohesion and coherence (LINKERS!)
• specific vocabulary,
• AMONG MANY OTHERS.
• Write the 5-paragraph essay and EDIT it.
• finally, paste EVERYTHING (links, excercises, vocabulary lists, ...everything that you consider worth) ON YOUR E-PORTFOLIOS.

DEADLINE: October 1st

NEW book available here.

 Click on the book cover to acces the source.

PAPER FOR THE TERM TEST.

Please, bring a COPY of this text for the TERM TEST: Albach, P (2015). "Academic Freedom: International Warning Signs" in  International Higher Education, (24). Retrieved from: https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ihe/article/view/6938..

stella