Today I handed out a major assignment that you will work on and present information on every Wednesday. An overview of it is below. For tomorrow, you need to create a map of your area and answer a series of questions to do your first presentation tomorrow (find out the population of your region, major exports, major imports, political situation, major issues, type of climate).
Social Studies 10-2: The Globalized World
Student Assignment: Current Events
INTRODUCTION:
A required part of social studies is for students to be aware of, and understand the significance of, current events. This assignment will encourage improved understanding.
INSTRUCTIONS:
For this assignment, each student will act as a news reporter. Each reporter must provide a brief oral report once a week (on Wednesdays), providing news of the important events in the region to which they were assigned. Students are expected to submit hard copy news reports to the bulletin board in the classroom (TBA). Following are the news bureaus:
· The Alberta Bureau:
· The Canada Bureau (excluding Alberta):
· The United States Bureau:
· The Central America Bureau (Mexico on down)
· The Europe Bureau -
· Asia News Bureau -
· The Africa Bureau -
· The Middle East Bureau -
· The Australia, New Zealand and Oceania Bureau
Each reporter should emphasize political/economic and social globalizing events, but should also include stories from some of the other categories listed.
CATEGORIES:
· Political/Economic and social news (including conflicts, conferences, events)
· Natural and Man-made Disasters/Weather
· Popular Culture (relevant performing arts, sports, etc)
This is a major assignment. You will be quizzed, not to mention that it is an expectation that you refer to a current event as a case study in all essays.
EVALUATION
Each reporter will be given an evaluation sheet that is to be kept in their portfolio and filled in by the teacher after each week’s class presentation. The mark will be added up roughly half way through the course and at the end of the term. It will then be recorded as a major assignment. If you lose the sheet, your mark WILL be affected (and it has happened). It is your responsibility to ensure it is where it is supposed to be.
1. Presenting information /5
2. Demonstrating sufficient knowledge and understanding of the events recorded /5
3. Providing an interesting, creative report /5
4. Contributing printed information to the bulletin board /5 = /20
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