*Bell Ringer: ACT Prep
(slide 2)
*Writer’s Workshop Time:
*Write this in
ACT Prep section
*ACT writing
practice– Information
Accessibility (explanation on next slide)
ACT WRITING PRACTICE PROMPT:
*Overall Prompt: At this moment in time, there is more information more
readily available to more people than ever before. Smartphones can instantly
provide directions to your destination, when even 10 years ago you had to look
up directions before you left and/or bring along a map. Researchers from all
over the world are able to pool their knowledge to advance their fields more
quickly. Many libraries have broadened their collections to include
subscriptions to online/electronic databases as well as printed works. Greater access
to information is generally seen as a positive advance, but what are the
consequences of making so much knowledge available to so many people? Based upon
the ever-increasing amount of information in the world and the ever-broader
access to it, it is worth examining the implications and meaning of easy access
to information in our lives.
Perspective One: With increased ease of access to information, we lose the incentive to gain knowledge ourselves. By outsourcing our memories of facts and other information, we are becoming less intelligent.
Perspective Two: Greater access to information allows us to avoid memorizing facts and, instead, use our brains for higher-level thinking. This efficiency leads to a more prosperous and progressive world for everyone.
Perspective Three: The more people who have access to more information, the greater the chances of collaboration and thus further advances in human knowledge. This is good because it pushes us toward new, unimagined possibilities.
Write a unified, coherent essay in which you evaluate multiple perspectives on the increasing accessibility of information.
Perspective One: With increased ease of access to information, we lose the incentive to gain knowledge ourselves. By outsourcing our memories of facts and other information, we are becoming less intelligent.
Perspective Two: Greater access to information allows us to avoid memorizing facts and, instead, use our brains for higher-level thinking. This efficiency leads to a more prosperous and progressive world for everyone.
Perspective Three: The more people who have access to more information, the greater the chances of collaboration and thus further advances in human knowledge. This is good because it pushes us toward new, unimagined possibilities.
Write a unified, coherent essay in which you evaluate multiple perspectives on the increasing accessibility of information.
*Collect ACT
essay
*Things I’m
looking for with this first essay: Intro –thesis (position on paper); Body
Paragraphs –topic sentences, supporting details, logical flow of ideas (w/in
and between paragraphs); Conclusion –restate thesis
*Expert group
work time –presentations start Thursday (except we need to present tomorrow in 4th block)!!
*Make sure you
have a note sheet for your classmates for the presentation
*Note Sheet
should highlight the most important portions of your presentation: What will
people need throughout the semester about your era (literary techniques,
literary terms, characteristics of the era, characteristics and beliefs of
movements and eras, etc)
*Give me one
copy and I will make a class set
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