Katie

a value or idea that interests him/her--community a format for a product or performance that he/she wants to do--encourage students to get better citizenship grades a possible project--plan and put on parties to raise students' citzenship grades a possible mentor--I am not sure of a mentor at the time an audience--the students and teachers at Muir
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 * **Resources (formatted on easybib.com)**
 * **Language of the Experts**
 * **Proposal**

December 13, 2010 Muir School 4431 Mt. Herbert Avenue San Diego, California 92117

Dear Senior Committee,

This year is my first year in ASB. I am the Commissioner of Academics which means I help encourage students at Muir to raise their academic grades. I enjoy working with different people and promoting good grades. Along with academic grades, I believe citizenship grades are also very important. I plan to encourage students to raise their citizenship grades by creating a rubric for citizenship grades, for both secondary students and teachers. I also plan to put on parties that honor students who do well with their citizenship grades.

John Muir School molds their students into becoming 'Global Citizens.' In order to become a Global Citizen, we, as students, need to respect, encourage, and support others along with be responsible students. To help promote all of the above, I plan on rewarding students for their impeccable work by putting on parties, like Smarty Parties, for 'E' and 'G' students. In order for everyone to know what an 'E/G' student is, I will create a citizenship rubric for the secondary students and teachers. I am not sure of my mentor at this time. The audience will be the secondary students and teachers.

Our school mascot is a turtle, like The Turtle With The World On His Back. I will do research on this legend to help incorporate our mascot with the citizenship rubric and, possibly, the parties. I will also research other schools' citizenship rubrics and how they congratulate their students and promote good citizenship grades.

Sincerely,

Katie Timmons










 * Essential Questions:**

Which are most important: academic or citizenship grades? Make a Venn diagram and see how you might organize the points for a thesis based on this question. Is there a better solution to having good citizenship grades? This would give you a chance to look around at other schools... How can you defend having citizenship grades? The Paideia Institute considers this...

The best way to find out how to promote, evaluate, and reward good citizenship is 1. seeing why citizenship is important 2, comparing Muir's system to other schools, 3. looking at what Paideia institute has to say about citizenship.
 * Thesis**

4431 Mt. Herbert Avenue San Diego, California 92117 November 18, 2010

Dear Senior Committee,

I was diagnosed with arthritis, in both of my knees, at the age of four. My arthritis has not stopped me from playing soccer in elementary school and tennis in middle school and ninth grade. I have, however, struggled with these and other physical activities. I would like to understand why people like me, get arthritis, and what arthritis really is. This project will be a challenge for me because I will find the reason behind my physical pain.

Arthritis is a condition involving damage to the joints of the body. There are over 100 different forms of arthritis. The most common form, osteoarthritis, which is a degenerative joint disease and is a result of trauma to the joint, infection of the joint, or age. Other forms of arthritis are rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis. In my research, I will explore juvenile rheumatoid arthritis for I may have rheumatoid arthritis. I will be using the internet, books, and contacting doctors and nurses in this field. My mentor may be someone who had arthritis or knows someone who has arthritis, or someone who knows a great amount about arthritis.

I would like to have a walk-a-thon to raise money for a foundation that promotes research in arthritis. I will be selling tee shirts that I, or someone from Muir, will design, for a low price. I will be selling snacks, like granola bars, and water. The proceeds from the walk-a-thon, the tee shirt sales, and the refreshments will go towards this foundation. The walk-a-thon will be on a Saturday, at Muir, in the morning for a few hours. I will be planning the walk-a-thon for many hours. My audience will be the students of Muir and their families. The walk-a-thon will benefit the community by informing them about arthritis. I will plan to have the walk-a-thon in March of 2011.

Sincerely,

Katie Timmons

Arianna: This is really good. How do you plan on teaching your audience about the condition? Katie: The walk is merely a walk to raise money for a foundation; there will, hopefully, be pamphlets, explaining what arthritis is, provided by the foundation available. If I cannot get these pamphlets, I will create my own. Sarah: Do u plan on having an activity as well?? Katie: I am thinking of also having different booths like a face painting booth and maybe other game booths. Anne: Both projects you explored seemed possible...

Mr Loessel: This is a huge undertaking but very doable. I suggest you create a spreadsheet to keep track of the various elements of your project. Also you might want to consider a power point presentation, an informational interview with a doctor, nurse etc. And the walk-a-thon could be the culminating event that ties everything together.

 Specific topic + Attitude/Angle/Argument = Thesis
 * December 17 Thesis **

What you plan to argue + How you plan to argue it = Thesis


 * January 4 Map** (a map which illustrates your topic)


 * January 5 Works Cited** (at least two books, two database sources, two internet sources, one interview)

What is citizenship?
 * January 7 Introduction** (50 -100 words)

Why is citizenship important?
 * January 13 First supporting idea** (150-500 words)

Compare Muir's rules and results to other schools.
 * January 18 Second supporting idea** (150-500 words)

Paideia
 * January 21 Third supporting idea** (150-500 words)

Next for Muir?
 * January 25 Conclusion** (50-100 words)