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Summer projects are a great way for students to stay sharp during their long hiatus from school. The summer should be a time for students to relax and explore their passions without having to worry about schoolwork too much. But they should still have a few projects to do over the break so when they get back to school ...
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 I believe these projects should be teacher designed
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so they stick to the curriculum the teachers want to teach
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so students can get used to their new teachers assignments before the year starts,
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and so the students can have more structure.
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Teachers should design summer projects so they can follow their curriculum as close as they want
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If the projects were designed by students, they might not cover what the teacher intended to cover. In fifth grade, my teacher told us to do a project on whatever we wanted. The only guideline was that we had to present our findings to the class in some way. The variety of the projects was immense. However, this did no...
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Summer projects should be a way for students to get used to the type of work they will be doing with a certain teacher in the future
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If the students design their own projects, they will not be introduced to their teachers style of assessment until the beginning of the year and will have a harder time on the first few assignments in that class. My ninth grade history teacher was very different compared to any teacher I had before. The first project h...
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If teachers create summer projects, rather than students, it gives the students much more structure which is vital for kids, especially at a younger age
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It is important for kids in elementary and middle school to have the leadership of a teacher to rely on. At that age, I hated when teachers gave us total freedom on projects because I would not know what they expected me to do. I needed them to guide me and tell me what the expected out of me, then I would go achieve t...
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However, in high school, it is better to give students more freedom because in their careers they will not always have someone telling them what to do every step of the way and they will have to think for themselves
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But, it is not smart to give students complete freedom as they will have someone who wants something specific out of them when they get a job. For example, when I got my first job at an ice cream store I had to figure things out myself as I went, but I could not just do whatever I wanted. I had a task to complete that ...
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Summer projects are great for students and teachers alike, but should be teacher-designed because that way it is easier to follow a specific curriculum, it gets the students used to the teaching style of their new teacher, and it gives students more structure in general. All these reasons are very helpful for students ...
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In this essay I will be writing a detailed argrument convincing enough for others to join the Seagoing Cowboys progam.
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Soon after his high school graduation, his friend invited him to join the program. Luke thought about it and decided to sign up with his friend after he realized it was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Luke knew that it was hard work, but he learned about all hard work on his aunt Katie's farm.
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This all changed his life, but for the better.
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Luke has gone to his first trip for Greece. While he is there he finds beautiful landmarks such as when he saw the castle in Crete and the Panama Canal. He had explored Greece, and seen the Acropolis in Greece. Luke has also taken a gondola ride in Venice,Italy. Bomberger has also had much fun on these trips where he a...
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The "Seagoing Cowboys" sure learned a lot from these trips.
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For Bomberger this has made him appreciate his life more. He has hosted many international students and exchange visitors for this reason. All of his overseas trips have taught him his value and how luck he is. The "Seagoing Cowboys" was more to him than an aventure. It was a life lesson.
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Although the school system has advanced quite far in recent history, there are still plenty of clear problems with the way children receive their education. Many students are constantly stressed out and are not truly learning the material because of it. Additionally, each student may have a different learning style, so...
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The recent innovation of FACS (Facial Action Coding System) can be utilized by schools to vastly improve the way children are educated.
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Many issues with the education system could be improved upon, if not completely eradicated, with the use of facial recognition technology within classrooms
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As mentioned in paragraph 6 in the article, FACS can be used to recognize when a student is confused. Schools could take advantage of this technology to notify teachers when a student is struggling with material, and help them get back on track. This would allow teachers to adapt their teaching style to best suit each ...
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Furthermore, all different ages of students today are constantly stressed out with the massive workload that is forced upon them each day. One of the many consequences of this is that the students may not actually be learning the material beceause of how focused they are on the responsibilities they have for other clas...
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The potential of this technology is huge, as it could be used to improve every student's life, both inside and outside of school. If schools were to have the ability to help students with any material they don't understand the first time and asist them in coping with or eliminating stress, it would make the experience ...
Concluding Statement
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Despite the conditions on Venus, the author suggests that studying Venus is a worthy persuit.
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He supprts his idea by showing the reader how important Venus's surface is
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He also talks about why scientists are still curious about Venus and why Venus's history can be important geographically.
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Long ago Venus was very earth like
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Venus had a surface of rocky sediment and included familiar features like valleys and mountains. The planet was also largely covered with oceans
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in hopes of venus returning like its older self, scientists are looking into a way to explore the planet
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but with its challenging conditions scientists are looking into more options rather than sending humans which could be disasterous and wouldnt be very safe in those unimaginable conditions. The author goes in depth as to way scientists are trying to find an alternative to sending humans. With ther conditions of Venus i...
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In conclusion the author uses good sources to back up his idea on why scientists should continue their work with venus.
Concluding Statement
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Some schools require students to complete summer projects to assure they continue learning during break. In doing this, students may be prepared for the upcoming year when they return to school from break. Many people believe that summer projects should be teacher-designed while others believe that they should be stude...
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Summer projects should be student-designed
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motivation,
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creativity
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productivity.
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Students would have more motivation if their summer projects were designed by themselves.
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Besides in the summer, students spend most of the year under the authority of their teachers. If the project they design is on their own terms, they would have more motivation to actually complete it. Since they are no longer under the school's rule during the summer, students may feel more motivated to do their projec...
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Summer projects should be student-designed so that students may express their creativity
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Without knowing it, teachers block students' yearn of creativity with their own preferences. If the summer project was teacher-designed, the teacher would provide a rubric that exemplifies the specific ways a teacher wants the project to be completed. In doing this, the teacher is not letting the student use their own ...
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The productivity that a student dedicates to a summer project would increase if the project was student-designed instead of being teacher-designed.
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Productivity heightens when the task is something one actually wants to be doing. If the teacher is somewhat forcing the task, it will make students back away from what they need to complete. Since the student them self is coming up with the project, they must have more motivation to do so which makes the entire proces...
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Motivation, creativity, and productivity would all increase if students' summer projects were student-designed. If students were able to use their own creativity to create a project to be completed in the summer, it would not only increase students' motivation and productivity during the completion of the project, it w...
Concluding Statement
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With summer break comes the joy of sleeping in and spending the day with friends, allowing students to be free from the stress that school may cause them. However, as students enjoy their freedom, they end up losing the knowledge they have carefully built up over the course of the school year. To combat this issue, som...
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Some may argue that student-designed projects are more beneficial,
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teacher-designed projects ensures that the project's purpose is fulfilled and that student can receive the help they need.
Position
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While it can be said that creating the project would allow the students to retain the information better, there is no guarantee that the information itself would be accurate. Any student can make a worksheet or an assignment based on what they have learned, but few can do it correctly. If student-designed projects are ...
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 The projects designed by teachers provide a safety net for their students, while the projects designed by students would be a gamble.
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Though it is important that students are able to successfully work on their own, their ability to collaborate with peers and help one another is extremely beneficial for them.
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Making students design their own project is not only extremely stressful, it also isolates them from other students and from help. Teacher-designed projects would be uniform, meaning every students receives the same project.
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It would allow them to look to classmates for help if needed, or to even work together as a unit to get the project done. The collaboration would lessen the burden on the students and would also let them enjoy their summer break. Creating their own projects would quickly become overwhelming for students, especially if ...
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The main goal of summer projects is to provide students with a way to retain everything they have learned and to be prepared for their next school year, regardless of who creates the projects. To best achieve this goal, teachers should be the ones who design the projects. Teacher-designed projects would provide everyth...
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Greetings ,my name is Generic_Name. I go to Generic_School and I'm a junior this year. I was just recenlty informed that some schools require students to complete a summer project in order for thme to contiue to learn. But now the questions arises, should said projects be student designed or should the teachers design ...
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I believe student designed projects are better
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students could develop working enviroment skills
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could make it relativly easy.
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By a show of hands who likes summer... because i sure do. Shouldnt summer be a time spent learning or accomplishing other activitys like learning to drive, learning to bake or even learning to maintain a source of income.
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Student designed projects would be easy and short something that could be done in a short time spand.
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Students know students best, plus it could develop skills for future planning
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course not all of them are going to be the same, some will be easy and others more challenging it can be a brand new experience for the students to design and for the teachers to look upon their ideas.
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Another side to look at is if a teacher designs a project soley online. What if i go to a place with no internet? How am i suppose to do so if i cant access the document? Well theres nothing i can really do
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if students design a number of different projects some could be on papar and others online that way I could get options on what I'd be ok doing.
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For example some could be just to "read a book" or some could even be creative like "draw a place you visited while over the break". Point is students have a greater imagination than teachers in most aspects and could make a varity or projects and not just stick to the same one for everyone.
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Now for a story. In my entire life ive only had one summer project and it was back in middle school. The goal was to just read a chapter book and then to write about it. That year i had read all 6 of the star wars books from "Phantom Menace" to "The Jedi Return". But i decided to write about "Revenge of The Sith" which...
Evidence
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I believe student designed projects would be better for its simplicity and for all the groups involved to get a new experience weather its the manner of grading or designing it. Wouldnt you like to have more time to enjoy your summer break or would you honestly prefer a harder time doing whatever the teacher mightve br...
Concluding Statement
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The author supports this idea
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because the article had stated that Earth,Venus, and Mars are our planetary neighbor.
Claim
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Venus has been a challenging planet for humans to study, despite its proximity. The thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide and highly corrosive sulfuric acid makes it difficult for spacecrafts to land on the planet. Scientist can't find out what they need to know about the planet. They want to know if the...
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The author also stated that scientists would need to get up close and personal despite the risks.
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a vehicle hovvering over Venus would avoid the unfriendly ground conditions by staying up and out. At thirty-plus miles above the surface temperatues would still be toasty around 170 degrees Fahrenheit, but the air pressure would be close to sea levels on Earth. many researchers are working on innovations that would al...
Evidence
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Simplified electronics made of silicon carbide have been tested in a chamber simulating the chaos of Venus's surface and have lasted for three weks in such conditions. Another way they are tying to study Venus is with old technology called mechanical computers. modern computers are enormously powerful, flexable, and qu...
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The authors last statment about motivating ourselves to go to Venus is striving to meet the challenge presented by Venus. Venus's value is worth gaining insight on the planet itself. also out of the human curiosity to know more about the plane. The travels on earth and beyond should be not belimited by dangers and doub...
Concluding Statement
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I know some people don't like to go to school and they just want to stay home and play video games or sleep. Rather than going to school, but your parents still force you to go to school. And teachers look confused and saying whats wrong with our students. And don't know what to do. And most teacher are tired of studen...
Evidence
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Professor Thomas Huang from the Beckham Institute for Advance Science at the University of Illinois and many more. Are working with this computer that can identify your emotion without showing them and they tested with famous painting the Mona Lisa and the results were incredible
Evidence
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the teachers can use this computer software on us so they can get some feedback and fix the problem why do students don't want to come to school
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I know this machine could be very useful
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to others schools
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and be useful to the cops or any force.
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By helping them what they are and justing getting to know a little something about the bad guy.
Evidence
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Do you belive the Face on Mars is made by aliens? The Face on Mars is a landmass on planet Cydonia or Mars.
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I beleive that the face is just a natural land form.
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The face was found around the 1990s by a ship named the Viking 1 in shearch for a possible landing sites for its sister ship the Viking 2. The face is about 2miles from end to end. A few days after scientists figured it was another Martian mesa NASA reveiled the photos to try to atract public atentin to Mars.
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People got the wrong idea about the face
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they thought that the face was a "bona fide" evidence of life on Mars. the face was everywhere it appeared in a Hollywood film, in books, magazines, radio talk shows,and even haunted grocery stores. In September 1997 the Chief scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program sent a [MGS] Mars Global Surveyor to take a pic...
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As I said befor I belive the face is just a landform on Mars. the mesa or butte forms on Earth to but Mars' land formations are larger that of Earth's in conclusen i hope this essay helped you see that the face is probaly just a landmark.
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Luke Bomberger worked two part-time job at the grocey store and at the bank. Then his friend invited him to go to a Europe on a cattle boat. It was hard for him to say no but Luke said yes it was a opportunity of a lifetime. World War 2 was over in the Europe,and many countrys were ruin. To help recover everything 44 ...
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There are many bad reasons why you shouldn't go Seagoing.
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One reason is you can get killed and be letf there like Luke almost died.
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Next reason is it's not fit for everyone such as not everyone would like to do this task.
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The last reason is you don't earn any money from Seagoing
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i know its a opportunity of a lifetime
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but think about it.
Rebuttal
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The places you can go such as Europe now thats kind of odd. Of why you you would go in a cattle boat fulled with people you dont know. I'm not saying I would turn down that opportunity but I would think about it for awhile. You dont know where you going to be next you may get a hint or something i wouldn't know but it ...
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Also what was the main reason why I took this opportunity. Was the main reason because it was opportunity of a lifetime. Think it over and find 3 main reasons why you took this opportunity.
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I understand why Luck did what he did. What im trying im trying to say here is why he crossed the Atlantic Ocean 16 times and the Pacific Ocean twice to help people affected by World War II. What I dont unnderstand is what was his main reason.
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To finish up my dissagrement of why someone like me or even you shouldent do this is, did he even help anybody becaue in the promt it didn't tell wither or not if he did. I would think that was that was the most important thing.
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Every planet is different and unique in their own way. Every planet is known for what they are and I'm going to talk about Venus.
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