Wednesday, December 14, 2016

TAKE HOME FINAL for English 102 and English 1A ---Fall semester 2016

CHABOT COLLEGE—Fall 2016—Take home written exam—ENGLISH

In this class we investigated ideas about a dream school and about what matters to you when it comes to education; we learned about what is going on with the planet (Last Hours); we designed plans for a Sustainability Center; We met (briefly) Chris McCandless from Into the Wild. For this final assignment you will be bringing together these different elements of the semester to address this larger question:

1.     How do you see these different elements of the semester relating to each other? (this question asks you to synthesize, bring together the different things we did this semester. You don’t need to bring together ALL at one time, you can compare 2 things for example.)
2.     What does it mean to be educated in the 21st Century? (another way to think about this question is to ask yourself what you think we need to teach to students as we move into the future.)
3.     What did you take away from this semester?

These questions should have Rule of 3 applied. The goal is 7 to 9 paragraphs. You don’t need to do an intro. Think of this more like a final exam, that you can do at home.

You have a number of different sources you will be using to build this discussion.
Into the Wild, of course, is one. Another is Last Hours. Also keep in mind the different movies we watched.

Here is a partial list: High Tech High, World’s best Kindergarten, Jeff Bliss, Earthships, Story of Stuff, I teach my Neighbors’s kids, Crude Awakening,

Another source is Recycling the Gift. It has all sorts of ideas related to question 2.


You also have The Passion Project, a movie.


You need to integrate quotes from Into the Wild. You need to average 1-2 quotes per paragraph of the paper.  (Keep the “Rule of 3” in mind as a way to push your discussion.)

The page minimum is 4-5. Doing more is cool too.
The first draft is due on ____________________

The final draft is due on ___________________


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